Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Singaporean star goes to Sablayan


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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