Interestingly I was able to catch with the ad today on Sony Television for Boogie Woogie Chalo America 2009. The US Grand Finals for both juniors and seniors will be held on April 12th of this year. Sony Channel has been advertising it as “Raza.Com’s Boogie Woogie Chalo America 2009″ since Raza.Com is the key sponsors.
Mr. Patel had informed us regarding this grand finals earlier and we are glad to bring you details of it. Thank You Mr. Patel!
11 Participants that represents 11 states of America will be contesting for the final crown of Boogie Woogie America. The final contestants in Junior category are:
| 1. Arvin Batra - NYC | 2. Geetha James - Florida |
| 3. Luv Karia - Massachussetts | 4. Ambica Kalburgi - Washington DC |
| 5. Ananya Kar - Michigan | 6. Chitra Nidadavolu - Connecticut |
| 7. Sagar Patel - Los Angels | 8. Shivali Patel - North Carolina |
| 9. Akshay Savale - San Francisco | 10. Komal Sharma - Chicago |
| 11. Rhea Yadav - New Jersey |
In Seniors category the finalists are:
| 1. Athidi Guthikonda - North Carolina | 2. Urvi Khare - Illinois |
| 3. Natasha Malhotra - San Franscisco | 4. Becky Manappura - New Jersey |
| 5. Nishi Munshi - Los Angels | 6. Meera Thakrar - Massachussetts |
| 7. Kousaree Cheda - Connecticut | 8. Krithika Rajkumar - Michigan |
| 9. Surabhi Swarop - Washington DC | 10. Nikhil Sadhmani - New York |
| 11. Aniva Zaman - Florida |
The finals are going to be held at “The Meadow Club” on April 12th 2009 at 6 PM
Anyone can go to view the show and the tickets that are advertised are $20/- for Show Only and VIP, $50/- which includes dinner with Celebrities.
Pooja Batra is suppose to be the host for the show and another surprise factor is the singing sensation - Runa Rizvi of “Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na” fame.
The address for Meadow Club is:
2950 W. Gold Road, Rolling Meadows, IL 60008
Telephone: Shebani (815) 404-3803, Viresh (847) 566-2029, Rebecca (847) 640-3200 X 401.
There is also a website where you can view the above information: www.dhrishtimedia.com
All the Very Best to all the contestants and Have FUN Chicago!!
Do let us know how it went if possible!
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March 27th, 2009 at 9:36 am
Thanks Admin.
March 27th, 2009 at 11:20 am
You are very Welcome
March 27th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
admin r u going 2 chicago to c this show?
March 27th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
no sweetie… Chicago is too far for me.
April 2nd, 2009 at 8:57 am
The contestant from Michigan in the senior category is Krithika Rajkumar & not Radhika!!
April 2nd, 2009 at 9:15 am
thank you Megha for correcting.. i will update it right away
April 2nd, 2009 at 9:19 am
Thank You Admin!!
One more slight correction.. the junior category contestant from Michigan… her name is Ananya Kar & not Anmaya. Thanks again
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:37 am
i am so sorry for the spelling mistakes. appreciate ur correction a great lot. thanks a ton. will update ananya’s name right away.
April 2nd, 2009 at 12:01 pm
Thanks again, Admin!!
April 6th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
Who are the judges for the boogie woogie competition?
April 7th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Does anyone Who are the judges for this show?
April 8th, 2009 at 9:04 am
I have same question, Who are Judges?
April 8th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
friends, i dont know either … the thing is that everytime i try to find out they act so secretive i dont know why so i gave up on finding out who the judges are going to be for the show. to me it just doesnt make any sense that they are conducting boogie woogie in america and canada but cannot confirm on judges.. that is absolutely crazy… and also i do think having a show without the original judges would be just insane.. they shouldnt have conducted these competitions at all.. why sony is acting as if they are doing some favor on people in north america????? when i called to find out who the judges are, they went hush hush and said they dont know and for now all they can say is pooja batra and runa for america and pooja batra and raghav for canada are the ones that confirmed. now i seriously hope they are not going to judge the talent!!! neither pooja batra nor runa rizvi are dancers nor is raghav so i hope that sony gets their act together real fast and not let the above judge a dancing show.. i think its turning out to be more like a local show.
one thing should have been cleared from the beginning and that is either they should have waited till the time ravi and naved confirmed on dates and conduct the show or not have conducted at all. kids have really worked hard in both the countries and they do deserve to show their talent in front of the boogie woogie judges. anyway what i write or what u say will not be cared at all… big channels totally unorganised acts!!
April 8th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
i got same ans too. why cant they confirm on judges when finals r right around the corner? n i can b better judge then pooja, runa and raghav, admin ask them to invite me as judge
April 8th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
i have no idea why they cant confirm on judges when the finals is just 3 days away!! maybe they are scared that someone will kidnap the judges.. lol… they at least dont have to scared by me… all i can do is write… i told them i wont be in chicago or toronto so asked them to relax their thoughts from kidnapping… lol… they are silly!!! but one thing is for sure.. let them have this show without the judges, i sure bringing a blasting article
nd yes geeta i sure thing you would be better judge then the confirmed judges… u go girl!!
April 13th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
The U.S. finals in Chicago was AWESOME:)
The judges were Ms. Amrapali Ambegaonkar, Ms. Renuka Srinivasan who are both accomplished dancers & Bobby Moon who was a celebrity judge.
The celebrity host was Pooja Batra. The winner & runner-up in the junior category were Sagar Patel from Los Angeles & Akshaya Savale of San Francisco. In the senior category it was Becky Manappuram, New Jersey & Krithika Rajkumar of Michigan.
April 13th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
that is awesome news!! Thank you so much Megha!!
It would be great to congratulate both senior and junior winners… do you happen to have any pictures of them that you can provide me? I would love to put it on blog with congratulatory message.
Please write to me at sansuiboogiewoogie@gmail.com
April 13th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
oh my intuition was so wrong for the judges… damn me.. for the first time i was so off
April 14th, 2009 at 7:57 am
As Megha said, The U.S. finals in Chicago was fentastic.
Everybody enjoyed it.
Event went smoothly.
April 14th, 2009 at 11:19 am
thank you so much Ashvin… i am happy to know it went well.
any pictures to share pls?
April 14th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
BECKY’S MY NEIGHBOR! WHOO HOO BECKY!!!!
April 16th, 2009 at 11:35 am
Give me few days , I will send some pic. to post.
April 16th, 2009 at 11:44 am
All the participant were good, it was great show. Sagar is my son. we will keep you inform on next round as soon as we know.
Thank you all for great support.
April 18th, 2009 at 3:11 am
hi admin plz upload the all the song of hip hop sepecial ….plz plz plz all that song
May 3rd, 2009 at 2:45 pm
Hi Akshay Savale is my son.I have couple of pics .Will send it.
June 27th, 2009 at 11:44 am
hey boogie woogie was awesome. I was a contestent
June 30th, 2009 at 5:35 am
Thank you so much luv for letting us know.. appreciate your feedback
September 20th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
IS there a way to find out the next auditions date for adults boogie woogie chalo america…. Come’on please make this site clear…..
October 12th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Hey…can you please change “Kousaree Cheda” to “Kousanee Chheda”…it’s misspelled. thanks
February 5th, 2010 at 5:19 pm
The show was great!!! Hospiotality was wonderful judges(2 out of 3) were completely settled with the “PURE CLASSICAL” for Senior Category. It was a bit disappointing to see that the Boogie- woogie tradition was lost in judging for senior category. Hope SONY will realize that this dance competion originated from bollywood Hindi Film Dancing spiced with hip-hop and light entertainment. They should keep in mind the standard is now set by Indian TV shows like Dance India Dance or DPL etc. Interestingly other countries like Canada, UK, South Africa and Middle East had competitor’s and judges both non-classical based whereas North America is the only one brought classical talent .
I hope our classical competitor’s did win a place at International level. For Boogie-Woogie the judges should have knowledge and experience about what’s the current trend of bollywood dancing and how it is performed at international level. I respect and believe in conserving our culture and tradition by practicing classical dancing but it should not be mixed up with the modern entertainment industry.
I am looking forward to B & W Chalo America 2009 or 2010 .