After Style, Miditech's latest production for Star World is a curtain raiser on the channel's upcoming quiz show India's Child Genius. The curtain raiser consists of four shows of half an hour duration each, to be aired on consecutive Sundays at prime time starting from 18 April at 9 p.m.
The whole process of elimination and selection of 320 contestants who will appear for the actual quiz, from around 16 000 applicants across India, is done by esteemed jury members.
With quiz master Siddharth Basu providing an insight into the entire selection process, the curtain raiser will unfold the behind-the-scene happenings, and has the contestants' classmates, teachers and parents keep guessing about the final winner. Also, contestants are seen preparing for the great contest with positive energy, encouragement and support from family and school.
The hunt begins from up north New Delhi and Chandigarh, and follows to down south in Bangalore, Hyderabad and Hosur and even to the West coast covering Jodhpur, Mumbai and Pune to the far east including Kolkata, Jamshedpur and Bhubaneshwar.
The entire selection process and the quiz series is being handled and produced by Siddharth Basu's Synergy India Pvt Ltd.