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Vodafone Thakadhimi has started on Asianet today (13-10-2007) at 8,30 pm.. The programme is considered as the largest Dance Realty show in India.

Inauguration of the show was done by the judges of the show, Vineeth, Gopika Varma and Lakshmi Gopalaswamy.

About the Show:
Open to participants between the ages of 15 and 30, the contest will have different segments to test the dancing prowess of the competitors. Prize for the winner is a Limousin car worth 75 Lakhs or Cash prize of 45 Lakh.

Thakadhimi Judges:
Vineeth is a famous dancer and film actor who has done a good number of performances in Malayalam and Tamil films. Gopika Varma is a great dancer of fame and she is doing stage performances in India and in many other countries across the world. She is a very good Mohiniyattam performer. Lakshmi Gopalaswamy is another judge. She is a beautiful actress and dancer and has done some very good roles in Malayalam films, one of her best performance was in the film “Njangal sandhushtaranu”. In that film she has done an excellent dance performance along with Bhanupriya.

Auditions:
A good number of auditions were done in many Indian cities and in US, Australia and many other countries to select 70 participants from 10,000 candidates. So the quality of performances is expected to be high.

First Episode:
The performance in the first round was so beautiful. All the contestants performed well. Priya Bhaskar from Delhi, Arun T G from Thiruvananthapuram, Chanjith from Calicut and Veena Babu from UK are selected to participate in the next round. Swathi from Kannur has been put into the Waiting List due to her faults in the first performance, a classical one.

Each participant has been given three performances and they are selected or put on the waiting list, on the spot according to their performance.