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Meet
Sulagna Bhattacharya. This tiny tot, who incidentally has
parental roots in Northeast, is galloping high in the dancing
circuit of the culturally vibrant costal state of Orissa, that
too at the  tender age of eleven. Now residing at historical city
of Cuttack in Orissa, Sulagna is not only a profound Oddissi
dancer but she equally excels in Modern dance, much to the
amusement of her mother Shomani Bhattacharya, who hails from
Agartala, the capital city of the Northeastern state of Tripura.
Shomani herself was an acclaimed dancer at Agartala, until she
settled in
Cuttack
. Shomani has a cherished dream that her daughter would earn
fame in dancing, till now Sulagna has not only made her mother
proud but entire northeast.
This
highly talented dancer started her stage performance when she
was only four years old. From her very first performance she
started to draw praise. After that there was no looking back for
Sulagna. Success was writ large on her every stepping. Now
studying at class Seven, Sulagna's schedule remains packed up
with stage shows, TV programmes and Commercial advertisement
shootings. She performed more than fifty stage shows in
different cities in
India
both in modern and Oddissi style. She came to limelight after
winning a dance competition programme Boom Shaka Laka aired by ETV
Oriya. Later she became a household name in Orissa when she
won the 1 – 2 cha cha cha, a dance competition which set enter Orissa
rocking. She went on to win Oye
– Oye, another dance event on Doordarshan Oriya channel.
She has acted in numerous Oriya album and TV ads.
Back
at Agartala people are happy to know that a kid from their city
is scaling great heights in Orissa. Sulagna has also performed
at Agartala at a tender age, mesmerizing the audience then. Her
father Sujit Bhattacharya attributes her success to her Guru
Raghunath Dutta, a Presidential award winner. “I gave her the
initial lessons and then she went to Gururji, but I feel that in
her initial days the emphatic cultural atmosphere that she got
in Northeast has played a pivotal role in molding her into a
good dancer at a tender age." Sulagna's mother Shomani
Bhattacharya opined. Sulagna has already completed 3rd year in
Oddissi dance with 1st class distinction. Though she never took
her acting seriously, Sulagna made her presence felt in her
debut album Kunni Thakuro
, directed by famous Oriya director Bobby Islam. That followed
by Mitha Mitha Hasso.
Sulagna
said, “I just want to perform as I am doing right now and I
also want to perform at Agartala and rest of Northeast." As
Sulagna prepares to cope up with her busy schedule, she hardly
misses to listen to her latest musical craze Zubeen Garg, the
musical sensation from Northeast.
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