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Best Performing Artist
Sonam Chourasia
  • Sonam is a Dancer, Choreographer, Singer, Piano & Guitar Player
  • Her music band "Koshish" was a finalist at John Lenon Song Writing Competition. This is one of the most prestigious song writing competition know around the world
  • She is Mystic India Dance Competition winner
  • She has performed at various events across multiple cities
  • She has recently performed at Dream Team Concert in Chicago
  • She has a YouTube Channel with over 10,000 subscribers and 3.5 Million views 
  • She has a Facebook page with over 21000 follower
  • She is an IT Product Manager by profession
Namita Dogra
  • TV Anchor for more than 8 Years
  • Interviewed almost all Bollywood Celebrities. From Asha Bhosle, Amitabh Bachchan, Shahrukh, Amir, Salman Khan to Ranbeer Kapoor
  • I have been working for Desi Junction as RJ for the past 4 years. Radio is as fun as Television.
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7nAewgOaJc&feature=share 
Riddhi Singh
Pankaj Chopra -Paul Chopra
  • Movie Actor - Worked in multiple Indo-American movies made in Chicago: "French Fries and Curry", "What the Pugg" and "The Arrangement" to name a few
    Stage Actor - worked in many Hindi plays for "Natya Bharti Group" in Washington DC. 'Kabira Khada Bazzar Mein - Written by Bhishm Sahni' and "Aashadh Ka Ek Din - by Mohan Rakesh" to name a few
  • Stage Artist/Comedian and can Mimic more than 25-30 Indian actors
    Performed in many Fund Raising events for some social or charitable causes in Virginia and Chicago - Chennai Relief Fund, Gujarati Samaj and FIA to name a few.
  • I was privileged to perform along with Salma Agha and Mahender Kapoor Ji and also in front of Mr. Kabir Bedi on India's 50th Independence Day in Washington DC where I played the character of Sardar Patel.
  • Also worked as RJ for more than a year for very famous Desi Radio program running in Chicago for many years.
  • By profession, I am Architecture Consultant in Information Technology field but I am very passionate for theatre/cinema/music and have a great sense of humour.
Ami Patel

Shreepaad Dave 

Noman Khan 

Noman has been performing in the Midwest for the past 10 years and entertaining the audience since 2006.
He owns and manage “Yeh Cheez Group”, which consist of many wings, such as “Yeh Cheez Dance Group”, “Yeh Cheez Modeling Agency”, “Yeh Cheez Cricket Team”, “Yeh Cheez Party Planning”, “Yeh Cheez Photography”, etc.
Noman also did an event called “Desi Winter Bash 2014” promoting all the talented local artist of Chicago.
Noman is a Great Entertainer, Emcee, Dancer, Cricketer, and Entrepreneur.
Despite of all this, he is a very humble and down to earth person.
He is a true example of an Entertainer and people in the community call him, Mr.
All Rounder. Noman has performed in over 150 shows.
Noman hosted the South Asian Carnival, which featured big celebrities, such as Shah Rukh Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Katrina Kaif, Kareena Kapoor, etc.
Noman also hosted the Chicago Indian Icon 2013 along with Shekhar Suman.
Noman played for United States Under 19 Central Zone Cricket Team.
He was the Captain of the team in his last year under 19.
Noman captains and own a cricket team called, “Yeh Cheez Cricket Team”, which has won many major champions.
To name a few, “Pakistan Times ACC Night Tournament 2012”, “ACC Night Tournament 2014”, American Cricket Conference Night Tournament 2016”, etc.
Ashley Singh 
-Was Top 14 on Zee SaReGaMaPA Li’l Champs North America in 2015
-Was Top 8 on Zee SaReGaMaPa Bangla Li’l Champs North America in 2016
-Performed solo at Madison Square Garden in New York City, for finale of Zee SaReGaMaPa Bangla Li’l Champs North America in 2016
-Her performance at Zee SaReGaMaPA Li’l Champs North America is can be seen at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzB3IbZlQmk  
-She also runs a youtube channel where she posts cover on indian and american songs. This can also be seen at:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQI4Wa71tuvSAFzNRw9-yfg  
-Placed 1st in Regionals for Business Professionals of America in the category of Digital Media Production
-Takes all honors and AP encore classes 
-Has been placed in Varsity Chamber choir at Waubonsie Valley High school
-Mains a 4.3 GPA while participating in 5 extracurricular groups (including Science Olympiad, Business Professionals of America, Tri-M, Una Voce, and Mosaic)
-Has done over 100 performances
 

Anip Patel

Roni Akurati
  • Roni 14 year Old, Young Hollywood actor. He debuted in award winning  Hollywood movie “Growing Up Smith” in lead/title role which was released in US on Feb 3rd 2017. It has received very good feedback, for his lead role as Smith “http://growingupsmithmovie.com/“. This movie was picked up as TIME magazine as movie of the week in its opening week
  • Roni’s acting has been appraised by several media including Chicago Tribune, LA Times, Daily herald, Sun times etc..  (front page coverage) http://teenplicity.com/growing-up-roni-akurati/
  • He has been acting in Hollywood for the past 5 years with an impressive resume at this young age. "http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4803098/“
  • He is been interviewed by more than 20 TV/News outlets across US and India. https://www.youtube.com/Roniakurati in the past few months
  • In the recent past he acted on several TV series, on NBC, Fox Network, Nickelodeon, Amazon and Yahoo original series
  • He acted along with Ben Stillar in Comedy Central TV
  • A standup comedian and performed at Hollywood Improv theater where Jerry Seinfeld started his career at. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiWr7-YH7qo
  • Won several community awards for his acting
  • Roni started acting at young age of 7 and became popular with his role as Tiny Tim in Christmas Carole at Goodman Theater Chicago. He was interviewed by all top TV news channels
  • Roni also played as Mowgli in Disney play “The Jungle Book” at Chicago and Boston theaters
You can find more about Roni at his Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/roniakurati/ or on Instagram/twitter @roniakurati

Tanay Ganga

Combining Bollywood and American Pop Music to highlight cultural similarities. 
Various performances and youtube videos - please click to watch it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ox4JwpNHKPA 

Pratibha Jairath

  • Singer with style and expression, Been performing  in Chicago and outlying suburbs
  • Organizer for theme parties like Diwali, Holi Valentine and NYE
  • Co founder of Chicago Indian Icon, karaoke competition
  • "Pratibha is a Co panelist for 'Desi View' on Comcast which gives opportunity to connect with people and discuss current issues
  • Pratibha believes in sharing ....She has always  helped  a number of friends in organizing their events including dance choreography and singing, planning the whole event etc. She is known as person who doesn't say no to any help needed by folks. Her passion is to bring folks together and she has done this with theme parties such as Holi, Diwali, Valentine and NYE.
  • She has done a few fund raising events. In recent Valentine party, she was able to raise close to $2700 for schools in India as Vidya Dan project by Ashika
  • Along with IEM team, she organized Chicago Indian Icon competition  which gave opportunity to lot of singers and motivated younger generation.  That also gave her a start in planning events and performing with celebrities like Bappi Lehri, TanuShree Dutta, Shekhar Suman,  Anjana Sukhani and so on
  • Pratibha has served on several committees such as UPA, Club of Indian Women, Lemont cultural committee and so on
  • She has Masters degree in Mathematics, has been project manager in IT and for past 15 years a business owner running 7  Great Clips shops on her own.
  • Pratibha's website below includes her dance performances and audio tracks of few of her dances.
  • Check out the website  www.PratibhaJairath.com