Mangalore: Multi-talented Poorvi Rao achieves big at small age
Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore
Mangalore, Jul 30: Multi-talented Poorvi K Rao has earned several feathers to her cap at a young age. A bundle of talents, Poorvi, a class 3 student of Mount Carmel School, has made achievements in dance, singing, fancy dress and several other fields.
She started learning dancing at the age of 2 and has bagged several prizes. She won her first big award in the ‘Champion of Champions’ competition, organized by Future Group at Big Bazaar in the year 2010. With this victory, she got a chance to become model for a cloth store ‘Costume Cottage’. Thereafter, her bag of achievements never stopped filling.
In 2010, she won the JC Princess crown at the JC Prince Princess competition held at Town Hall.
In 2011, she was awarded ‘Little Master Mangalore – 2011’ award at Big Bazaar. In 2011, she bagged the first place in ‘Shri Krishna Vesha Competition’ organized by Kalkura Prathistana held at Kadri Temple and bagged second place along with her mother in national level ‘Yashoda Krishna’ competition.
The judges lauded her dancing skills in the ETV dance reality competition ‘D’. She was one among the five contestants to reach the finals and performed Western, Bollywood, classical, semi-classical, Kathak and Tappanguchi. Presently she is hosting the show ‘Putaani Bataani’ in Sahaya TV. She was also featured in programmes on Kannada channels. She has participated in ‘Chinnara Chilipili’ Udaya TV programme.
Mangalore’s singing and cultural committee, Samatha Balaga Mangalore, Shaastri Pratishtana Kulai, Lions Club Mangalore, Subramanya Sabha Sadhana Mangalore, Oceans Friends Club Aakashbhavan, Kadri Friends Mangalore and other organizations have honoured her.
She was awarded the ‘Yuva Prathibhe’ award by Lions Club Mangalore in 2011-12. She has won more than 175 awards. Aamir Khan is her favourite actor, and she herself is called 'Choti Madhuri Dixit'. She is learning western dance from Boyzone Dance acadamey and is trained by Prathima Shreedhar for classical dance.