Frustrated with getting NO..NO from the costume dealers to get the desired costume, they looked towards India to get the costume. Two days left for the BOOGIE WOOGIE CONTEST, and there was no knock from the FedEx. Wishing with finger crossed and keeping the ears to the door for the FedEx knock, finally had a sigh of relief when late afternoon on January, 29, a day before the competition on January 30, 2010, FedEx announced the arrival of the costume which made Sumaali Chheda the winner of the Boogie Woogie senior category contest after rhythmically swinging in her yellow dress to the tune of HOTHO PE LEKE BAAT.

Isn’t it a coincidence to hear almost a similar story from the junior category?

Five days before the BOOGIE WOOGIE contest in Connecticut, persuaded by her dance teacher, desperately started looking for the costumes from costume stores. NOT GETTING WHAT THEY WANTED, it took 3 days to stitch at home the costume befitting the song SHARARA...SHARARA. The SHARARA girl Anishaa Mukherjee captivated the applauded audience with her enchanting movements to win the junior category to compete in the national finals in Chicago.
 
Connecticut is the first of the series of three competition sites. It was a tremendous success with participation of 21 talented youth with high caliber of performance. It was a fantastic show comprising of competitive and non competitive participants. The high light of the show was THE DANCING ON SKATES sensation Lakshmi Mansa who danced through the hearts of the audience with her spellbound performance on A.R.Rehman’s MAA TUJHE SLAAM... The top three winners in each category were:

Seniors - Somalee Cheddha (winner), Namrata Gannu and Amulaya Narayanan

Juniors - Anishaa Mukharjee (winner), Neha Garugu and Mansi Aghera

BOOGIE WOOGIE Television the longest running dance realty show on Sony Television has taken a leap ahead by extending the auditions to countries outside India.
 
BOOGIE WOOGIE was the first dance show format to hit Indian Television. It has been entertaining audiences over the past thirteen years. Hosted by Film and Television personalities Naved and Ravi, the highlight of the show is Javed Jaffery, who is the permanent celebrity judge.

BOOGIE WOOGIE has helped in the development of a lot of talent and opened the platform for participation to talented and aspiring dancers of all age groups, races and sex, in giving a chance to exhibit their talent. Many of them have gone onto to make some great careers in the field of dance.

Milan Cultural Association has been conducting this event in New England for the last two years. The next competition sponsored by India Society of Worcester, will be held in Marlborough, MA on Saturday, February 27th, 2010.  For information on this show, please visit www.iswonline.org or call Ragini Seth at 508-330-0884.

The final one will be held on March 13th, 2010 in Nashua, New Hampshire sponsored by India Association of New Hampshire. For information please visit www.ianh.org or call Prithvi Kumar 603-714-5707 or send an email to milanusa3@aol.com or call 860-657-4271.

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