Mostly below 22, none of the team members are professional dancers. Their 26-year-old dance teacher Reddy said he also never had any formal training.

They had earlier danced to the tune of 'Sare Jahan Se Acha' and the audience and the judges -- Shekhar Kapur, Kirron Kher and Sonali Bendre -- were spellbound.

'We are practising for more than eight hours every day. We hope people of our state will send SMS votes for us in large numbers,' Reddy told IANS over phone from Mumbai.

Relatives, friends, corporate houses, social activists and sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik were among those to have launched campaigns in the past few days and appealed to people to vote for the group.