Former Shiva Boys student wins Mastana Bahar

He impressed the judges with the film song “Oh Re Piya”, beating nine other contestants in this contest.

Jaikaran became the 46th winner of this long standing television series, produced by Khayal Mohammed.

“Music is happiness, music is sadness, music is love and music is life,” Jaikaran said on winning this title. At this time he wants to pursue a BA degree in classical music in India while continuing to singing film songs.

He took home $25,000 from Sos Furniture and Appliances.

Satnarine Ramdeo placed second doing the song “Tumhi Ho”.

Ramdeo won $15,000 sponsored by Trinity Insurance Brokers.

Ishani Maharaj placed third with the song, “Sunhara hai Tu”.

She took home a prize package of $12,000 from Extra Foods.

UWI student, Reshma Roopnarine won the first prize of $10,000 from Indus Merchants for the pageant section.

Reshma thanked her parents Hemawatie and Rajindra Roopnarine for supporting her through Mastana Bahar.

“This was my first time in a pageant and as a model and I felt nervous competing with beautiful and brilliant finalists of this pageant,” Reshma said, adding that she is yet to come to terms with this win.

Second place went to Kailash Kallipersad and third place went to Shalini Soochit Mohammed who said it was a hard task finding sponsors for the talent show since the Ministry of Culture did not offer any prizes in 2016.

“Although we had to cut down on the prize money, we saw an increased amount of yong people coming forward and auditioning for this annual contest,” Mohammed said, adding that he plans to continue promoting culture through this series.