16th edition of ‘Centunes’ conducted virtually

Nagpur: ‘Centunes’ is an annual musical programme conducted by Centre Point School, Wardhaman Nagar (CPSWN). It is organized every year to provide a platform to students from all age groups to showcase their talent. This year, being their 16th year of conducting Centunes, it was held online due to the Covid-19 pandemic, hosted by CPSWN and TORRINS.
This year, Centunes received international participation too, competing in Hindi solo and duet and English solo and duet.The responses were overwhelming, with 715 entries in different categories from places like Mason, Centennial and Seattle in the USA, Muscat, Oman and Ghana. The grand finale was conducted on January 15th and 16th, live on the CPS Facebook page.
The Hindi solo was won by Arya Shende from Bhavan’s BP Vidya Mandir (Khurd) with Shatarpura Chakraborty from Carmel Junior College, Jamshedpur and Shravani Khandale from St Vincent Pallotti, Nagpur as the first and second runners up. The Hindi duet was won by Naisha Singh and Rishan Chakravorty of CPS Dhaba, Nagpur. The team of Vihan Tarkunde and Atharva Agarwal from CPS International, Nagpur and the team of Manas Mankar and Emon Modi from Bhavan’s, Ashti, Nagpur were the first and second runners up. The promising talent in Hindi solo was won by Shreya Ashtankar of Narayana Vidhyalayam from Nagpur, and for Hindi duet the team of Aman Ali and Chaitiksha Pradhan from St Vincent Pallotti, Kamptee bagged the prize.
The English solo prize was won by Anouksha Rajwade from Mahindra International School, Pune along with Dhwani Bijoul from Samson Johnson Music Academy and Arindam Kanoria from CPS Katol Road, Nagpur as the first and second runners up. The English duet was won by the team of Avani Dhawankar and Ishani Deb from CPS, Amravati Road Bypass, Nagpur. Jiya Shah and Mihika Rathi, from CPS Wardhaman Nagar were the first runners up and Riddhi Vimakshi and Harshada Ganeshkar were the second runners up. The promising talent for English solo was won by Anya Mathew from Corpus Christi School, Nagercoil, India and the team of Pariniti Nikhade and Saili Bankar from Bhavans, Shrikrishna Nagar bagged the prize for English duet.