MUMBAI: Hindi news channel Star News has launched the first of its kind reality show on news television called Star Anchor Hunt.

The channel will search for news talent in the country and the two winners - one male and one female - will get to be news anchors of Star News.

Contestants will have to register on the website StarAnchorHunt.com and selected candidates will be invited for audition rounds which will take place across 10 cities: Indore, Nagpur, Allahabad, Lucknow, Mumbai, Patna, Delhi, Chandigarh, Ahmedabad and Jaipur.

The contestants will be judged by Star News editor national affairs Deepak Chaurasia, actress Tisca Chopra and Chetan Bhagat - author of Five Point Someone (2004), One Night @ the Call Center (2005), The 3 Mistakes of life (2008) and 2 States-the story of my marriage (2009).