Dance India Dance, India's most-watched dance-based reality TV show held its final round of auditions for eastern region in Kolkata on Wednesday.

The new season, especially for kids of ages 5 to 13, called Dance India Dance - Li'l Masters is slated to go on air from the first week of May on Zee TV.

Auditions are to be held in 13 cities across India and will continue till 7th April.

18 participants from all over India will ultimately make it to the dance floor.

So far the response has been amazing, according to Zee, and more than 1200 children turned out for the eastern region auditions alone.

The format of the show has also been slightly modified to suit the younger batch of contestants.

Sandeep Soparkar, Geeta Kapoor and Terence Lewis will return to the show as the Mentors and Mithun Chakraborty will again feature in the show as the Grandmaster.