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  • Britannia India’s Child Genius enters Grande Finale

    Britannia India’s Child Genius enters Grande Finale

    MUMBAI: Star World’s Britannia India’s Child Genius would be concluding with the all India finals. The search for the smartest kid will end on 14 November, the Children’s Day

    One of the 12 will be crowned as India’s Child Genius. The Grande Finale will witness the toughest level of the questions and an increasing anxiety amongst the participants.

    Will these young geniuses succumb to the tremendous pressure? Will their perseverance pay off? Finally the tally will shrink to one and will decide who is the smartest of them all, informs a media release.

    The 12 participants who will be competing against each other in the includes G. Siddharth (New Delhi), Shubham Prakhar (Muzzafarpur), Jesika Hasmukh Haria (Mumbai), A.Rinitha (Tuticorin), Sanjith Gopalakrishnan (Chennai), Mayank Muralidhara Kowshik (Bangalore), Shubham Sanjay Kumar (Akhnoor), Anubhav Panigrahy (Bhubhaneshwar), Shachit Shankaran Iyer (Mumbai), Namita Porwal (Jaipur), Ronak Rajendra Nagori (Mumbai) and , Ashwath Rabindranath (Chennai).

  • Synergy to help Star find India’s ‘Child Genius’

    Synergy to help Star find India’s ‘Child Genius’

    MUMBAI: Star World is set to accommodate an indigenously produced show after a long time, to give the only desi produced programme Rendezvous with Simi Garewal currently on air, some company.

    Siddhartha Basu’s Synergy Communications will be back on Star by this April or May with a child talent hunt. Star officials however said the time slot and the exact date of launch of Child Genius is yet to be finalised.

    After the dud Neena Gupta anchored Kamzor Kadii Kaun that followed the blockbuster Kaun Banega Crorepati in early 2002, Basu and Star had stayed away from each other, although Basu did make University Challenge for BBC World mid 2003.

    Now, Synergy has been roped in to produce India’s Child Genius, a 27 episode TV quiz contest to find India’s brainiest child. The hour long weekly will have contestants answer questions on verbal and non- verbal reasoning, maths, science, natural world, geography, history, mythology, literature, comprehension, spellings, arts, English language and general knowledge. Apart from the title, prizes worth Rs 50,00,000 are at stake.

    Siddhartha Basu

    Provisional test centres have already been set up according to zones and the written selection test will be conducted on 8 February. Star has thrown open its website indya.com for applicants to download forms and apply online, the last date for which is 21 January 2004.

    Synergy founder and ace quizmaster Siddhartha Basu himself will anchor the proceedings.