Material girl and pop princess Madonna is all set to adopt a girl child from India.

Madonna has chosen to adopt from India after getting frustrated with adoption procedures in Africa.She was also influenced by a friend while spending last New Year vacation in India.

The 50-year-old singer began searching for the right baby from the right orphanage with help from her friend, Bollywood choreographer Sandip Soparrkar, who last year became the first single male in India to adopt a child. Sandip met Madonna on her last visit when her agents got in touch with him to teach her some dance moves.

At that time she was much taken in by two-year-old Arjun, the adopted son of Sandip. “Madonna adored him and that’s when we got talking about adoptions”, said Sandip.
The singer and her director husband Guy Ritchie have two children of their own: Lourdes, 11, and Rocco, 7. Inspired by Angelina Jolie’s multi-cultural family, she began the process of adopting a male Malawian baby, David Banda, in October 2006.

But she had to go through a great deal of legal hassles while adopting David. So this time, she thought of India wanting to adopt a baby girl. A number of orphanages in Mumbai-Pune region have been sounded out.

Soparrkar became the India spokesperson for the US-based NGO, The Miracle Foundation, last month on Madonna’s recommendations. The two of them had had a chat in Jaipur about upgrading Indian orphanages to global standards.

The NGO last month opened its first Indian orphanage in Hutar village of Khunti, about 25km from Ranchi. Madonna is expected to visit the home, which now has 37 children, during her next India trip.