{"id":8918,"date":"2010-12-02T12:03:47","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T12:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2010\/12\/02\/make-me-an-indian-soap-star\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T15:51:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T15:51:08","slug":"make-me-an-indian-soap-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2010\/12\/02\/make-me-an-indian-soap-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Make me an Indian Soap Star!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Hundreds flock to Birmingham for Star search<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"middle\" width=\"460\" height=\"377\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/IndianSoapStar02_460x340.jpg\"\/><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong\/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div><strong>BIRMINGHAM schoolgirl Shilpa Gupta may well have bagged herself a role in a top Indian soap \u2013 thanks to O2!<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The 16-year-old \u2013 in the main picture above &#8211; was one of hundreds who descended on the Bullring last month to take part in a nationwide hunt to find a British face for top Indian drama Pavitra Rishta. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>A total of 335 people auditioned in Birmingham \u2013 including Coventry\u2019s Geea Kaur Surpal (small picture above) &#8211; a model, dancer and radio presenter and wants to try for TV<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The competition coincides with the launch of O2\u2019s International Favourites \u2013 a dedicated deal for people who regularly call abroad. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cInternational Favourites is a great deal for the UK\u2019s Indian community who regularly call family and friends back in India,\u201d said Ravi Lal, Head of Voice &amp; Messaging Services at O2. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cIndian Soap Star is a unique and innovative way of engaging with this community and bringing them a once in a lifetime opportunity.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Following auditions, entrants will be narrowed down to a regional winner from each location, before the judging panel comprising representatives of O2 and Zee TV pick a final winner to be announced this month on the competition\u2019s Facebook page.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The winner and two friends will get a week of the full Bollywood treatment: return flights to Mumbai, a week\u2019s accommodation in a luxury hotel, spending money \u2013 all this on top of filming for the show!<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hundreds flock to Birmingham for Star search &#13; &#13; BIRMINGHAM schoolgirl Shilpa Gupta may well have bagged herself a role in a top Indian soap \u2013 thanks to O2! &#13; The 16-year-old \u2013 in the main picture above &#8211; was one of hundreds who descended on the Bullring last month to take part in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}