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It was a countrywide search and a mega promotion that spread
across all the channels in the Star Network, besides both
print and public hoarding campaigns. Finally, after a 45-day,
six-city search, Channel [V] announced yesterday its "chosen
5" to front the all girl Coke [V] Popstars band.
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GIRL POWER: (From left) Pratichee Mohapatra, Seema
Ramchandani, Neha Bhasim, Anushka Manchanda, Mahua
Kamat.
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The
five girls who get a shot at fame as India's Spice Girls
are Pratichee Mohapatra, Neha Bhasin, Mahua Kamat, Anushka
Manchanda and Seema Ramchandani.
Future episodes of Coke Popstars the series will see the
girls training in different areas like modulating their
vocal chords, fine tuning their dance skills as well as
a health and fitness regime. They will also undergo a complete
makeover so that their looks fit their profile.
The name of the group is yet to be decided and model Noyonika
Chatterji will manage the band. They
will spend several sessions in a studio recording their
album, which is due for release sometime towards the end
of May.
Javed Akhtar is writing the album lyrics and the music is
being composed by eight music directors including Jatin
Lalit and Sandeep Chowta, an official release states.
Their first live performance takes place in Mumbai on 26
April.
The Band:
Pratichee is a Mumbai girl, 24 years old. She has been trained
in Hindustani Classical music for over six years.
Delhi girl Neha Bhasin, 19, is a second year student doing
her Sociology honors. Her hobbies include dancing and writing
songs.
Anushka, is all of 18 and 'dead serious' about her career
as a musician. She has had little formal training in music
even though that did not stop her from learning to play
several instruments like the piano, guitar, drums and at
the moment she is trying to learn to play the flute!
Seema Ramchandani, 22, is from Pune and a postgraduate diploma
holder in school psychology. She comes from a musically
inclined family and likes all sorts of music from the romantic
Kishore Kumar to the rocking Led Zeppelin.
Mahua Kamat, 20, from Pune and in her Second year B.Com,
gave up a year to get into music. She has been training
in Hindustani classical music for a very long time. She
is greatly influenced by Alanis Morissette, the Cranberries,
Tracy Chapman, Dido and lot of R&B, hip-hop, for their rhythmic
beats.
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