The following blog post is about my experience
regarding the Max Life iGenius Young Singing Stars event for which Blogadda had
selected me.
First of all, I would like to mention that Blogadda
had requested us to apply for attending this Max Life iGenius Young Singing
Stars event which was going to be held at Taj Lands End, Bandra on 17th
December 2014. Well, I was very excited to attend this event but I was not sure
that I would be selected to attend this event. Even though, I was not sure I
just applied for it and within a few weeks I got the mail from Blogadda and
they asked me to confirm my attendance for the event. Now, I was super excited and
this was the first time I would be visiting the Young Singing Stars Grand
Finale event. I confirmed by replying to the mail sent by Blogadda and I also
requested them to allow my sister along with me for this event. Within the next
two days they replied and said that they have taken special permission to allow
my sister along with me for this Grand Finale event.
My sister was not aware of this event and she at
first said that she is busy and she will not be able to come. Then, I sent her
an email showing that Blogadda had taken special permission for her and we both
could attend the event on 17th December 2014.
She was also excited by knowing that Salim Merchant
and YouTube Superstar - Shraddha Sharma were going to perform as well as judge
all the young singing stars in this Grand Finale Event. At last we both
confirmed and we planned to attend this event together. On that day, just
before leaving the room, I got a call from my mom and she said son there’s an
alert being declared in India so are you going for this event. For few
moment’s, I was thinking on what to do. I replied to my mother that nothing
wrong is going to happen. Well as we all know, the alert was being declared
since because the Army Public School and Degree College in Peshawar, Pakistan
was being brutally attacked by Taliban. Every nation and every human being on
this planet was shocked on how some freaks can kill the innocent children’s and
we all condemn this school attack.
In this way, I said that we should not get scared of
moving freely around any city and I was determined to attend the Young Singing
Star’s event at Taj Lands End Hotel. Me and my sister gathered at Dadar station
and ventured to the venue. On that day, there was a lot of rush and the city of
Mumbai is always over crowded during the peak events. At last we go down at
Bandra Station and from there we reached the venue at 7.20 pm. During this
time, I got a call from Mr. Anand Yadav who is a Marketing Strategy and
Campaign Manager of Blogadda. I said that we are heading towards the event and
we will be there in just 10 or 20 minutes.
At first, I thought, we are late for this event and
would not be allowed to enter. But to my surprise, I and my sister were allowed
inside the hall and the function was being delayed by one and a half hour. Mr. Anand asked us to have a seat and we were
waiting for the show to begin. I was looking around to guess some bloggers to
whom I have met only through the internet by means of reading their blogs. Well,
I reckoned a few but they all were busy with their groups so I decided not to
disturb them. I found another guy who was seated just behind me and I asked him
whether he is a blogger. He said, “Yes, I am a blogger and my name is Awanish
Dwivedi”. In this way, he joined us and in the mean time announcement was being
done that the Grand Finale is just going to start.
At the start of function, Manasi Scott greeted to
all the audience present for the musical event and she took the opportunity to start
by singing a song. It was a terrific start of the event and we saw the jury
members Mr. Salim Merchant, Miss. Shraddha Sharma and Mr. Devraj Sanyal seated
on the first row. After a few minutes, we also saw Mr. Shantonu Mukharji (Shaan) who is a well known Indian playback singer.
We all showed our deepest condolence by offering one
minute silence for the children’s and victims who died in the Peshawar attack
in Pakistan. Shaan left the event few minutes after the inauguration
and Blogadda was able to have an interview with him right after his exit from
this event. Watch it below:
After this Shraddha Sharma was being invited on the
stage and she performed 2 to 3 songs and it was great to experience her voice
talent in a live performance. The band group present for this musical event was
awesome and Shraddha also said that they are doing amazing work to make this
music event lively.
Now it was the time to cheer for Salim Merchant to
perform but he was really heart by the incident that took in Army Public School
and Degree College in Peshawar. So he did not sing much to entertain us but he
dedicated a song showing his deepest condolence to all the victims who lost
their lives.
After this the Young Singing Stars Grand Finale has
actually begun and for this competition 2 winners were going to be selected. Of
these two, one would be from junior and other from the senior group. Both of
the winners would get a singing contract from Universal Music India.
In this way, first round which was of all junior
singers started and they showed an introduction video of each contestant where
we saw a ton of confidence in each one of them. I remember the contestant names
as Abhinav Kumar, Arpita Basnet, Shereya Basu, Ashish Kumar Patra, Shivan
Ahuja, Kanika Kapoor, Anuja Panchal, Shereyomi Chatterji, Shaurya Saxsena,
Shraddha Shree and Vanika Kapoor.
Well, we could not wait till the end of the show as
it was getting late so I and my sister we both decided to leave the show. As
soon as we came out, Mr. Anand Yadav had asked us to have food before leaving.
I was totally unaware that we would also be given a buffet dinner. We had the
dinner in a jiffy (watch the dinner pics at the end of this post.) and we again thanked the organizers and left the musical
event. It was a wonderful music event at the Taj Lands End.
Dinner Pics:
