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Pune beats the rest of India to win the Coca Cola Speed Jamming Contest

 

MUMBAI: If believing in love at first sight, and being confident of charming your way into a complete stranger's heart is all that one needs to find the perfect date, then this principle seems to have worked wonders for Ashish Gaur and Poornima Pandit from Pune who after charming the judges with their dating skills, were announced as the proud winners of the Coca Speed Jamming Contest at the grand finale organised by Zoom, India's premier lifestyle and entertainment news channel on July 7th, 2007. The event enthralled everyone with thrilling performances and witnessed the ten finalists put their best foot forward to impress not only the judges but also each other with their attitude, humor and presence of mind. This is not the end yet! The lucky Pune couple is now geared up for their gala dinner date with Bollywood youth icon, Hrithik Roshan.

With an aim to popularize the concept of 'speed-jamming' across people from different cities and backgrounds in India, Zoom in association with Coca Cola had held auditions and regional rounds across metros that included Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Pune and Chandigarh.

The event with extremely talented participants set the mood for some tough competition and brilliant performances judged by the very suave Hrishita Bhatt, newcomer Geeta Basra and model-cum-actor Zulfi Syed. The final event of the Coca Cola Speed Jamming Contest was broken down into five rounds, one better than the other. The first round was the ice breaker Main Hoon Kaun round, an introductory round where in the participants had to introduce themselves in Bollywood style and Connect ho Jao was the second round which gave them the opportunity to interact with each other on a one to one basis.

The third round of the contest saw some cool jhatka's and matka's with the Aaja Nach Le round where the participants were enacting famous bollywood numbers

The Dress up and Buzzer rounds at the end made up for a lot of excitement since the contestants were paired to work together to dress up a mannequin in a stipulated time frame. The team that dressed up the mannequin the best scored the maximum while the buzzer round was a rapid fire round wherein the boys were asked questions related to the girls and vice versa.

With quality being the rule of the game than just quantity, Coca Cola Speed Jamming Contest saw an attractive mix of over five lakh contestants participate from all across the country.

Zoom has now decided to take the on-set experience to the masses by telecasting this entire journey of the Coca Speed Jamming Contest on Saturday, 21st July, 2007 at 9 p.m. Isko Dekho!

 
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