Mugdha Vaishampayan
Mugdha Vaishampayan (born 5 April 2000) is one of the finalists in the Marathi championship of "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi L'il Champs", which aired on Zee Marathi television between July 2008 and February 2009. She was referred to as "Little Monitor". In 2009 & 2010 Mugdha appeared in many stage shows and public events, and her career currently extends to music albums, playback for movies and TV serials, media commercials, reality show anchoring, promotional campaigns for leading Newspapers, and performing in her solo singing programs. Background. Mugdha was born in Alibag, the daughter of Bhagwan and Bhagyashree  Vaishampayan. Mugdha's ability to sing was identified by her father when she was 2 years old, and she received formal training in fundamental music from Sunil Mhatre, Sheetal Kunte, Anuradha Velankar and Bhagwan Vaishampayan. After her run in "Idea Sa Re Ga Ma Little Champs", her name became familiar to the residents of Maharashtra. The people of Konkan call her "रायगड कन्या" (Daughter of Raigad). Career. Television anchor. Mugdha was one of the anchor for Season 2 telecast of Music reality show "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi L'il Champs" on Zee Marathi. This schedule was telecasted during 2  August 2010 to 23 January 2011. Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi L'il Champs. In 2008, Mugdha first auditioned for "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi L'il Champs", a competitive music reality show produced Zee Marathi television channel. She became one of 50 finalists chosen from among several thousand age 8 to 14 children from Maharashtra, and ended as one of the top 5 finalists overall. On the show she was known as "The Little Monitor". During the course of the competition, Mugdha was awarded with the title "Raigad Bhushan" by Raigad Zilha Parishad and is one of the youngest  persons to have received such award from any elected Government body. Hindi serial. Mugdha was cast as a lead playback singer for daily soap "Kashi" being broadcast on NDTV Imagine This marked the first time she sang a Hindi song, as well as her first assignment as a playback singer on television. Her song was recorded in March 2010 and featured in several episodes as a theme song. Marathi films. In April 2010, sang a playback for Marathi films when Nandu Ghanekar offered her a song in Balaji Telefilm's first Marathi movie named Taaryaanche Bayt (} (The Island of stars ). Her song "Kamaal aahe" is the main song of the film which is getting released on 14-April-2011. Mugdha has also contributed to Marathi movie "Let's Go Back" where in June 2010 she sang "Bigi Bigi". She recorded the title track for "Let's Go Back" in July 2010. In May 2011, Mugdha recorded foot tapping title song for the movie "Ya gol gol dabyatala". This film was released in 2012. Mugdha contributed to Marathi Movie Chintamani released in 2014, she sang ″Kadhitari Kuthetari″ along with Amruta Subhash. She did major contribution as a playback singer in the film  Ubuntu which was released in September 2017. Brand ambassador. In November 2010, Mugdha became a brand ambassador for the "Jungle Book" contest of the Marathi daily newspaper "Lokmat", and has been cast as leading ambassador for the Marathi Home Calmanac "Kalnirnay" (). Commercials featuring Mugdha began airing in November 2010 on all Marathi Television channels. Public appearances. Mugdha has performed her art for events including