Udaya
Soundari, the actress-host from Singapore, is the latest celebrity guest who
came to Sablayan and experienced the places and faces this trailblazing town in
Occidental Mindoro has to offer. And who am I to refuse her begging to pose for
a photo with me. I am just kidding, of course!
Seriously,
Udaya and the rest of the television crew visited various places in town and
mingled with the people and immersed in some of our tourist spots last June 4
to 5, 2017. Unknown to the local folks that she rubbed elbows with, she is a heck
of a celebrity in Singapore’s Tamil TV history. Udaya is the first individual
to win three-layered awards in just a year in an annual ceremony which bestows
citation to artistes in a Singaporean Indian television called Pradhana Vizha.
The team from Asia-Medicorp, Singapore and Verite Productions visited the
Parola Park, the Apo Reef, Pandan Island and the Alangan Mangyan community of
Calamansian for video shoots. They all experienced riding the longest
island-to-island zip line in the world.
As
I have said, Udaya made it to the local Tamil TV history for she is the first
person to win three awards in one year in an annual ceremony which honours the
best in local Indian television. Never in the past Pradhana Vizha awarded more
than one winner since 2012 and our recent guest bagged three: Best Actress,
Best Host (Info-Ed) and Most Popular Female Personality in 2014. In retrospect,
Udaya got hit the magic pot in the TV industry in 2007 as a contestant on
reality TV singing competition Vasantham Star, in which the beautiful lass
shown in the picture above (with me) landed on the top 10.
But
not everything went smoothly in her career. She figured in a certain issue in
2015 and was side-lined for some time. But because she’s a big, big talent, figuratively
speaking, she was able to come back and continue to inspire aspiring artiste of
this generation. But that was already water under the
bridge and now diluted in high seas of detachment and impertinence.
Many
guests from all over the world considered Sablayan as the epicentre of economy
and politics Occidental Mindoro and home of true champions of sustained
ecotourism and participatory governance. Sablayan’s approach to tourism
development is not only limited to promotion of tourism areas. Enterprise
development is perceived as basic strategy towards empowering community members
to earn supplemental income from the tourist traffic through various economic
endeavours and income-generating approaches.
But
of course media projection is important especially if it is shown in other part
of the globe. That is the story the production is going to tell where Udaya
Soundari, the artiste par excellence, acts as program host whom in her heart
entertainment is a passion…
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(Photo : Pauline Licop Gilongos)
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