By Ravi Karkera

Dammam, Sep 15: MASA celebrated its 6th Talents Contest among its members on Thursday, 6th September 2012 at Dammam. Highlight of the evening was the scintillating performance by the MASA kids, teens and seniors. It was after the long school holidays, most of the children prepared thoroughly by attending some dance classes back home in India to contest for the exciting and thrilling competition.

Judges had tough time in rating best performers in each category. The competition took place among various age groups in Singing, Fancy Dress and Dance category separately for Solo and Group. This year there was one more new category of ‘Extra Ordinary Talent’ was also added to the contest.

The event began with a welcoming the members and guests by the Entertainment Committee Head Narendra Shetty. The President, Management Committee members and various committee heads were invited on the stage to light the ceremonial lamp. President Ravi Karkera while welcoming all the members and guests thanked everyone for attending the event in large numbers and promised of displaying a memorable, exciting and rejoicing entertainment to be viewed to night. President also requested all the members to cheer up each and every participant to boost their energy in performing their best.

Judges of various contests were invited and introduced by Narendra Shetty and Jt. Secretary Naveen Bhandary. They were offered with lovely bouquets by little kids.  Judges were Messrs.  Vivek Kini, Bhagyalaxmi  Rai, Ronald Fernandes, Amrita D’ Souza and Santhosh Shetty (for Singing), Joey Fernandes, Puttaraju, Imran Karkala (for Fancy Dress and Extra Ordinary Talents), Dayanand Shriyan, Vidya Shetty and Nazleen Kaiser (for Dance). Before the contest began Mr. Santhosh Shetty briefed about the contest rules.

MASA management is proud of its members for contributing generously for the grand success of the events. Thanks to all the sponsors for their whole hearted supported and contributions. Various Sponsors of the evening were: Joseph Anil Fernandes, Richar D’ Silva, Sadashiv Poojary, Raqwani Company, Ravi Karkera, Dayanand Shriyan, Sanil Brothers, Yogish D. Poojary, Kudla Adventures, Shankar Billava, Madhav Amin, Praveen Shetty & Group, Chandrashekar Karkera, Edwin Martis, Babu Kotebettu, Santhosh Shetty, Eastern Arabia, Ahmed Gulam Beary, Usman Hosangadi, Shaikh Mohidin, Sadanand Poojary, Chandrasekar, Pradeep Kadekar, Viraj Kumar Shetty, Naveen Shetty (Kbr), Sharat Kumar , Sudhir Rai, Sunrise & Karavali Cricketers, Prajapath Nivas, Jaya Verma. Salim Puttur, Well Wisher, Richard Almeida (Kanoo), Abdul Azizi B and Mrs. Vidya Santhosh Shetty (medals)

Winners of the Contest:

MASA TALENTS 2012 CONTEST - WINNERS
  
SINGING SOLO - AGE GROUP ABOVE 10 TO BELOW 14

Vanessa Saldana FIRST
Prishita Poojary SECOND
Sheetal Sudarshan Sanil THIRD

SINGING GROUP - AGE GROUP ABOVE 10 TO BELOW 14

Kudla Adventures Jr. Group FIRST
SINGING SOLO - AGE GROUP ABOVE 14 TO BELOW 18
Prateek Poojary FIRST
Navya Shetty SECOND
Gremsy Sequeira THIRD

FANCY DRESS SOLO - AGE GROUP UP TO 6

Aaditya Viraj Shetty FIRST
Amanda Megan Dsouza SECOND
Rishon Fernendes THIRD

FANCY DRESS GROUP - AGE GROUP UP TO 6

Ishan & Purab Group FIRST

FANCY DRESS SOLO - ABOVE 6 TO BELOW 10

Tvisha Prakash Shetty FIRST
Shreya Satish Bajal SECOND

FANCY DRESS SOLO - ABOVE 10 TO BELOW 14

Poorvi Shetty FIRST
Prishita Poojary SECOND

FANCY DRESS SOLO - ABOVE 14 TO BELOW 18

Ashish Uday Sanil FIRST

FANCY DRESS GROUP - ABOVE 18

Kudla Adventures Sr. Group FIRST

EXTRA ORDINARY TALENT

Ibrahim Khadar FIRST
Ravi Karkera SECOND
Arnold Sequeira THIRD

DANCE SOLO - ABOVE 6 TO BELOW 10

Siya Chowta FIRST
Pratiksha N Karkera SECOND
Aditya Jitesh THIRD

DANCE GROUP - ABOVE 6 TO BELOW 10

Kudla Adventure Sub Jr. Group (Shreya Bajal & Arpita G. Shetty) FIRST

DANCE SOLO - ABOVE 10 TO BELOW 14

Spoorthi Sukumar Shetty FIRST
Prishita Poojary SECOND

DANCE GROUP - ABOVE 10 TO BELOW 14

Kudla Adventures Jr. Group FIRST

DANCE SOLO - ABOVE 14 TO BELOW 18

Deeksha Naveen Bhandary FIRST
Gremsy Sequeira SECOND

DANCE GROUP - ABOVE 14 TO BELOW 18

Prateek Poojary, Vineeth Mishal FIRST

SINGING GROUP - ABOVE 18

Kudla Adventures Sr. Group FIRST

SINGING SOLO - ABOVE 18

Farooque Bunder FIRST
Yashwanth Sanil SECOND
Mohammed Nooman THIRD

DANCE GROUP - ABOVE 18

Kudla Adventures Sr. Group A FIRST
Kudla Adventures Sr. Group B SECOND
Ibrahim & Party THIRD

Main highlight of the events were the traditional ‘Mosaru Kudike’ performance in the age group above 18 Fancy Dress Category by the senior members of MASA Kudla Adventures and ‘Tribute to Rajesh Khanna’ in the Dance category by MASA Kudla Adventures group A. Both were hilarious and mesmerizing act. The visiting parents of MASA member Mr. Mohd Farook and mother of Imran Karkala were invited to the stage and felicitated with shawls by MASA President Ravi Karkera during the course of the event.

A special thanks to Stany Mathias for arranging tasty evening snacks at an economical rate sponsored by M/S Al Manafa Transport Services.  Delicious dinner was supplied by Biki Restaurant.  Five Door Prizes have been drawn given to the lucky members which was sponsored by Richard D’ Silva of M/S Arabian Cargo.

Vote of thanks was presented by General Secretary Viraj Shetty at the end of the Dinner interval.

A splendid evening ended with a memorable note and indeed it was a thrilling, exciting and rejoicing evening as noted by the President.

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