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"SINGARMANI" title winners 2007  
- Shyamhari Chakra in Mumbai 
e-mail: shyamhari@yahoo.com 
 

July 5, 2007 

Sur Singar Samsad, Mumbai has announced the names of the following winners of the Singarmani title for the year 2007, who performed in the 46th annual Kal-ke-Kalakar dance festival organized by Sur Singar Samsad in Mumbai from May 18 to 22, 2007. 

Dancers in the age group of 18 to 30 were invited to perform in this festival and as a special case a dancer from abroad above 30 was allowed to participate. Each dancer was allowed 25 minutes to perform and a jury comprising of dance gurus Rajashri Shirke, Jayantimala, Sandhya Purecha and Rabindra Atibudhi selected the Singarmani title winners who were required to score at least 80 percent marks in the test. 

Of the 51 dancers who were invited to perform (in solo, duet and trio), 41 performed and 34 were declared as the title winners. 
  
Bharatanatyam (7) 
Gauri Bhobe-Mumbai (Deepak Mazumdar) 
Jitendra Chaudhary-Mumbai (Guru: Vaibhav Arekar) 
Sweta Sharma-Bhopal (Guru: Shankar Hombal) 
Aishwarya Rajgopalan-Mumbai   
Pallavi Naik-Kulkarni-Thane (Mumbai)  
Gomthi Ramaswami-Mumbai (Guru: Padmini Radhakrishnan) 
Purnima Balasubramanium-Mumbai (Guru: Padmini Radhakrishnan) 

Kathak (15) 
Vishal Krishna-Varanasi (Guru: Mohan Krishna) 
Risika Mishra-Mumbai (Guru: Jayantimala) 
Anuj Mishra-Lucknow (Guru: Arjun Mishra) 
Richa Gupta-Delhi (Guru: Manoj Gangani) 
Sangita Chatterjee, New Delhi 
Simone Jhaveri-Mumbai (Guru:Sitara Devi) 
Rachita Salhotra-Mumbai (Guru: Sitara Devi) 
Molina Singh-Imphal (Guru: Chandi Singh) 
Smriti Mishra-Lucknow (Guru: Arjun Mishra) 
Amarasigha Dhanguja-Srilanka (Guru: Arjun Mishra) 
Mahua Sankar- Delhi (Guru: Vaswati Mishra) 
Anshul Dubey-Ghaziabad   
Vaishali Patil-Jabalpur   
Rahul Pawar, New Delhi  
Narendra Krishna Gangani, Mumbai 

Odissi (12) 
Debashis Patnaik-Bhubaneswar (Guru: Durga Charan Ranbir)  
Sonali Mohapatra-Bhubaneswar (Guru: Durga Charan Ranbir)  
Aparupa Chatterjee-Kolkata (Guru: Ratikant Mohapatra) 
Mitali Dev-UK (Guru: Sujata Mohapatra) 
Dhara Datta-Mumbai (Guru: Daksha Mashruwala) 
Lipsa Das-Bhubaneswar (Guru: Pitambar Biswal) 
Aurosmita Acharya-Bhubaneswar (Guru: Pitambar Biswal) 
Amrita Pattasani-Bhubaneswar (Guru: Pitambar Biswal) 
Sanjukta Dutta-Bhubaneswar (Guru: Bichitrananda Swain) 
Shaswati Garai-Kolkata (Guru: Sharmila Biswas) 
Minakshi Chandra-Mumbai (Guru: Sharmila Biswas) 
Priyanki Gupta-Mumbai (Guru: Sharmila Biswas).