Other members of the prince group practing at the Amba Pua, the native place in Orissa
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Berhampur ( Orissa ) : Yes, Berhampur’s got talent. To the utter disbelief of the people across the country, the children of labour class people of Harijan Sahi of Ambapua village near Berhampur city have won the reality show ‘India’s got talent’ in Colors Channel.
The slum children most of them from the labourers family and some do work as a daily labourers have proved the world that even the slum children could, with conviction and hard work, achieve what the rich aspire to achieve it.
From a little known Danda Naacha troop, the children have excelled to perform the Dasaavatara with perfection before the well acclaimed judges, audience and millions of people across the country viewing the show live through the night of grand finale of the reality show on August 22.
Till, the semi final round of the reality show- ‘India’s got talent’, even the people of Berhampur city were not aware of such a group that could bring laurels for the city and the state of Orissa. But, after the semi final round when these children belonged to the Prince Dance Group trained by Krishna Mohan Reddy had reached at the final stage, good wishes started to pour and campaigning to garner support through mobile SMS was started and the people from all quarters had began to cooperate.
Starting from the district administration to the Chief Minister, from local institutions to the corporate houses, school and college students, local unions and organizations, even the handicapped people across the city had started campaigning to bag votes for Prince Dance Group through SMS.
Large hoardings had been displayed, large screen displays were arranged for the public view and specially, big screen displays were arranged in several locations including at Ambapua Harijan Street in the city on the night of grand finale of the reality show to watch it live.
Everyone was waiting for the moment of declaration. As time passed after the performances of 11 dance groups in the reality show, the heart and breath of the people of the city and the families of these children taking part in the show increased and all waited for the moment of glory and passed some anxious moments of their life.
Prior to the declaration of results, the views of the judges were unexpected particularly for the audience as the judges openly supported and wish for the success of these slum children.
Oscar winner Sekhar Kapoor of the ‘slum dog millionaire’ fame had then stated ‘I have never seen such a performance till date. Song, dance, choreography, and coordination everything was excellent. I don’t find proper words to express. I don’t understand who trained you people, where you had practiced…”. Kiran Kher, another judge of the show also openly wished for the Prince Dance Group of Berhampur, Orissa appealing the people to vote for this group through SMS.
Kiran said that in the performance of Dasavatara, And, Sonali Bandre was also excited enough to wish for this group stating their performance as ‘excellent’.
The announcers of the show then declared the three groups including the Prince Group that remained in the final stage. The people of Ambapua Harijan Sahi particularly the mothers of children who were taking apart in the show, were breathless and eagerly waiting for the moment as they had wished through these days by lighting the Akhand Deep at Kali temple of the village.
They even did not take the dinner, stated Sarada, mother of Munna Das adding ‘we never thought that our children would one day reach at such a stage to make Orissa and Berhampur proud in the country”.
When Rani Mukherjee declared the finale result announcing ‘and the winner is prince dance group, Berhampur Orissa’, everyone in Berhampur city and the people of Ambapua started celebrating.
The joy of mothers of these children were unexplainable as they had also started to dance like the little children, stated Sabitri, the mother of Santosh Das adding that they had waited for this moment and all started to dance along the children of the village.
Berhampur MP Sidhant Mohapatra who was present at the show said that these children were not slum dogs, but ‘prince of slums’. Even, Chief Minister Naveen Patanik had also congratulated these children over phone in the night of grand finale of the reality show on August 22.
Krishna, the master of Prince Dance Group, speaking to the Odishatoday.com over phone form Mumbai said that he was feeling great as he could bring laurels for the city and the children of labourers could do something for the state.
They thank all the people of the state as the people cutting across age, caste, religion and region had voted in favour their dance group. They would continue to dance and would try to place Berhampur in the world map by performing at international events, added Krishna.
Mmaster of the group Krishna who was responsible to gather, bring up and train these slum children through these years at Harijan street of little known village located at the end of Berhampur city in Orissa.
