Odisha

None From Odisha Make It To Top 15 Of Indian Idol 13

By
Atmaja Mohanty

Bhubaneswar: Singers from Odisha Prabhupada Mohanty and Barnali Hota along with Ollywood playback singer Ananya Sritam Nanda could not make it to the top 15 of the 13th edition of popular singing reality show Indian Idol.

All three of them featured among the top 3o performers and got the golden ticket. However, none of them could make it to the top 15 in the theatre round.

Prabhupada sang ‘Chori Kiya Re Jiya’ from ‘Dabangg’ movie in the audition round. The winner of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L’il Champs season 1 in 2006, he was also among the top 12 contestants in season 5 of the same show, participated in many Odia singing reality shows, and has done playback for several Odia songs.

Likewise, Ananya impressed the judges with her fabulous rendition of AR Rehman’s ‘Hai Rama Yeh Kya Hua’ from the movie, Rangeela. She won the crown of India Idol Junior season 2 in 2015.

Barnali Hota could make it to the top 30 with ‘Thare Rahiyo‘ from the movie ‘Pakeezah‘. She was one of the top six contestants in the reality musical show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li’l Champs in 2011 and the runners-up of Dil Hai Hindustani.

The top 15 contestants selected in the theatre round include:

  • Navdeep Wadali (grandson of Wadali Brothers) from Amritsar,
  • Rishi Singh from Ayodhya
  • Sonakshi Kar (1st runner up Sa re ga ma pa lil champs 2017), Anushka Patra, Sanchari Sengupta, Senjuti Das, Bidipta Chakraborty, Deboshmita Roy and Pritam Roy from Kolkata
  • Chirag Kotwal from Jammu & Kashmir
  • Vinit Singh (famous playback singer and former Sa Re Ga Ma Pa contestant) from Uttar Pradesh
  • Rupam Bharnarhia from Punjab
  • Bunty Bhandaal from Ludhiana
  • Kavya Limaye from Vadodara
  • Shagun Pathak from Jharkhand
Atmaja Mohanty

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