This review courtesy of xpresscoffee.
The show starts with Deepika Padukone making a guest appearance ( obviously to promote Chandini chowk to China )
In today’s gala , the contestants have to sing a song of one of their favourite singers whom they consider their idol.
Bhavya Pandit : Sings Asha Bonsle’s “dhaiya” from movie Karwan. Sings fluently and impressively and collects all the accolades from the judges.
Prasenjit Kosambi : Sings “Mein jahaan rahoon ” of Rahet Fateh Ali Khan from Namastey London. Does a good job.
Kapil Thapa : Sings Kunal Kanjawala’s “Tumse yun milenge” and sang pretty well.
Mohit Lalwani : croons Kishore kumar’s “ Woh hansini “ . Was good .
Seems like all the contestants are in full swing this week..
Torsha Sarkar : “bahon mein chale ao ” , the lata’s evergreen song is what she chose. Was good.
Bhanu Pratap Singh : Sings ” kal ho na ho ” . Well , it was bad. It was a weak performance of the day.
Rajdeep Chatterjee : “Sandese aata hai ” and steals the heart as usual. Man , here is a boy who sings real good but always ends up dangerously close to being voted out .
Sourabhee Debbarma : “Pyar hua chupke se ” Gets a red from Javed Akthar and Anu malik. I found the performance good but bit strained in the singing.
Remo Ghosh : tries Khailash Kher’s “Allah ka Bande ” . To be frank , I don’t like this kid in gala rounds when better singers are voted out. Was average performance.
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Saturday, January 10, 2009
Monday, December 15, 2008
Lovely Tullika Ganguly is out of Indian Idol 4
Tullika Ganguly, the spunky girl (like Ankita in the last season of Indian Idol) was expected to go far was sadly eliminated on Saturday night. She had the talent, the looks and the pizzazz to make it to the top but that was not to be. She took the elimination in her stride but backstage the tears filled up. Unfortunately her last performance left a lot to be desired and perhaps resulted in a lack of votes. "I don't think that one performance could have done that. There are so many male contestants who are not consistent in their performances yet they are still there," she pointed out Tulika with a lump in her throat.
The judges are still upset with the loss of a star performer like Ananya Mishra last week. Now with yet another performer like Tullika's exit, they are afraid that Indian Idol is losing its female contestants week after week. Tullika's ardent plea to the viewers is, "Please vote for the talented ones on the show. According to me they are Prasenjit, Rajdeep and Torsha."
The judges are still upset with the loss of a star performer like Ananya Mishra last week. Now with yet another performer like Tullika's exit, they are afraid that Indian Idol is losing its female contestants week after week. Tullika's ardent plea to the viewers is, "Please vote for the talented ones on the show. According to me they are Prasenjit, Rajdeep and Torsha."
Thursday, December 4, 2008
Indian Idol 4 contestants during Children's Day
On the occasion of Children’s Day, contestants of Indian Idol met the BECC street kids, and what followed was great fun and leg pulling!!
The gang of Indian idol 4 - Torsha, Ananya, Remo, Sourabhee, Bhanu, Prosenjit, Tullika, Shini and Rajdeep brought in Children’s Day celebrating music at BECC. The kids wanted to celebrate Children’s Day in a unique manner and what better way than to spend it in the company of adorable children… and to do that they headed to BECC, Bandra.
The gang of Indian idol 4 - Torsha, Ananya, Remo, Sourabhee, Bhanu, Prosenjit, Tullika, Shini and Rajdeep brought in Children’s Day celebrating music at BECC. The kids wanted to celebrate Children’s Day in a unique manner and what better way than to spend it in the company of adorable children… and to do that they headed to BECC, Bandra.
The contestants were greeted with a warm welcome from all the children who cheered and clapped at their entry. The kids instantly recognized a few of the Indian Idol contestants and said they regularly watched the show. So our smart contestants decided to throw a googly just to check their Indian Idol quotient - Bhanu Pratap asked the kids his name, and they all screamed in unison… Ishant Sharmaaaaa. Well if Bhanu became Ishant Sharma, then Remo was no less… became ‘chota chattri’. The kids sure made a few changes in all their nicknames but everyone seemed to have enjoyed all the fun and leg pulling!
The contestants were surprised to see the young kids groove, sing songs and mimic a few bollywood stars without any inhibitions; we heard them discuss that the next Indian Idol audition should be definitely held here to pick this talent. All the contestants enjoyed the experience of brightening someone else’s life and it was truly a Happy Children’s Day for them…
Three Cheers to all!
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Indian Idol 4 , Day 11 - 24th Oct 2008
Boy's First Elimination
This article has been taken from curlio.com since they cover the indian idol in a much better way and I feel like I am sitting in front of television watching the episode as I read their coverage.
Indian Idol 4 - Boys Face A Shocking First Elimination
Indian Idol 4 took a dramatic turn this Friday as the first four boys faced eliminations. The elimination episode was recorded live at the IBN7 Studio and the only people present were host Hussein Kuwajerwala, judge Anu Malik, and the 15 male contestants themselves.
The show began with a lengthy discussion on who should and should not be eliminated. All of the contestants were asked to vote who they thought should be eliminated this week. As expected, Remo Ghosh and Keshav Prasad received the most votes from their fellow contestants.
Back in the studio, Hussein asked Remo what he thought of them thinking that he should be eliminated. He replied that, "as far as that day’s performance is concerned, I think I should be eliminated. I don’t believe that I am not worthy of this competition. "
AM jumped in and asked him to not be diplomatic, but rather, to say what he feels. Remo said that they probably said that because they didn’t like my song. AM asked whether he thinks that he didn’t sing well. Remo responded that he didn’t think he sang that badly. Even judge Javed Akhtar thought it was good, as did AM. Remo didn’t think he should be in the Bottom Four.
Hussein then moved on to Keshav and asked him his opinion. Keshav said that he picked a tough song and challenged himself to sing in a different genre, something that even AM pointed out. And as far as I know, there are only a few here who have the ability to sing playback, even though everyone is a singer. There’s a different between an imperfect performance and imperfect singing. AM said that the competition is also about who handles the pressure well. All in all, Keshav said he tried his best and that he should not be in the Bottom Four.
Then Ali Hussein was asked what he thinks will happen. Ali was also unsure about who made what impact on the public in that minute and a half that they performed. He said, "I don’t think I should be eliminated so quickly because I can do better in the future."
(Deepa’s rant about Ali: He was one of my predictions for elimination this week, not because he didn’t sing well, but because of his attitude. He comes off as very arrogant in all of his interviews. In the theater round, he blamed his forgetting the lyrics on his partner. During his interview at the end of the show, he also said something along the lines of “my elimination will have such an impact that other young people will not make a career out of music.” Really? Please stop talking.)
Then we moved on to the very shocking Bottom Six. I’m going to cut through all the crap and just lay it out. I will say that AM was very, very upset at this list. He was shocked, hurt and frustrated.
The first person in the bottom six was…hold your breath…Rajdeep Chatterjee. Okay, WHAT???!!!! I am seriously shocked about this and am doing everything in my power to stay calm. This is the guy who basically had the best performance on Saturday, hands down. No one, and I mean NO ONE, would have ever predicted this. And it got worse.
Here, Anu Malik actually asked Hussein if he was sure. Hussein said that it was shocking but true. AM responded that he was very appalled and hurt, and that this was the worse thing anyone could do to Rajdeep. He is the find of Indian Idol. (This whole time, Rajdeep looks like he’s afraid to breathe less the public find fault with that, too).
Pranav Srivastava was in the Bottom Six. (He was also one of my predictions for elimination).
Ali Hussein was in danger. (Can I just say that I totally called this one?)
Anu Malik was still in shock, especially now that Ali is in the bottom. He had his own little rant about this, and for the first time, I actually felt bad for him!
The next person in the Bottom Six was Sourabh Mehta.
Parashar Joshi was announced in the Bottom Six. I’m sorry, come again?? Yes, Parashar wasn’t the best on Saturday, but he was not bad enough to get eliminated. This one was another shocker for me.
There was another rant from Anu Malik, after which Keshav was announced safe. (Uh oh!).
If I had been shocked about Rajdeep, Hussein’s next announcement sucked the life out of me. I think I became a ghost!
There was one spot left, and it belonged to either Prosenjit Kosambi or Mohit Lalwani. I had predicted Prosenjit to be eliminated, but at the rate things were going, I was convinced that Mohit was the one in the Bottom Xix. Anu Malik still couldn’t get past the fact that Keshav was safe and Rajdeep was in the bottom.
A very scared Prosenjit asked Anu Malik what else they can do to impress the people. Dance on their heads, came the reply from AM.
Then Hussein proved me right and announced that Mohit was in the bottom.
This may have turned me violent had I not kept reminding myself of Bhavin Dhanak from Indian Idol 3, who had the potential to make it big but got eliminated in the piano rounds. I’ve been comparing Mohit and Bhavin since the start of the season.
Mohit was too stunned to even sit down in his chair. Anu Malik didn’t even know whether to laugh or not.
So the contestants who were safe were Prosenjit, Remo, Keshav (still upsetting), Kapil Thapa, Sandeep Ubale, Bhanu Pratap Singh, Roshan, Kuldeep Singh Chauhan, and Charit Dixit.
Hussein asked Mohit what he thought and all he could say is that he tried his best. Anu Malik told Hussein that there is no way that Mohit or Rajdeep are eliminated because then we would lose a potential Indian Idol.
Rajdeep finally spoke and said that he never thought he would be out this early. He has been working day and night for this competition, and that only he knows how hard he is working. All that he has been focused on is singing and getting into the next rounds. The judges liked it but why the audience didn’t like it, he couldn’t say. Then, bless his heart, Rajdeep smiled. Poor Parashar couldn’t even say anything!
Finally, after much discussion, Hussein announced that Rajdeep and Mohit had gotten higher votes than the other contestants and were, therefore, safe. At this point, Mohit lost it and had to be consoled by Anu Malik.
So the four contestants to be eliminated were Parashar, Ali, Pranav, and Sourabh.
The rest of the episode showed the eliminated contestants going back to their residence and telling the female contestants. None of the girls thought that it was true – they all thought that it was joke. Much sadness ensued when they figured out that it was the truth.
The episode ended on a high note with Nirali Fauzdar, Tulika Ganguly, Bhavya Pandit, and Roshan doing a show in Ahmedabad, Nirali’s hometown. Anu Malik was there to support them as well.
Up tomorrow…the girls’ second piano round.
This article has been taken from curlio.com since they cover the indian idol in a much better way and I feel like I am sitting in front of television watching the episode as I read their coverage.
Indian Idol 4 - Boys Face A Shocking First Elimination
Indian Idol 4 took a dramatic turn this Friday as the first four boys faced eliminations. The elimination episode was recorded live at the IBN7 Studio and the only people present were host Hussein Kuwajerwala, judge Anu Malik, and the 15 male contestants themselves.
The show began with a lengthy discussion on who should and should not be eliminated. All of the contestants were asked to vote who they thought should be eliminated this week. As expected, Remo Ghosh and Keshav Prasad received the most votes from their fellow contestants.
Back in the studio, Hussein asked Remo what he thought of them thinking that he should be eliminated. He replied that, "as far as that day’s performance is concerned, I think I should be eliminated. I don’t believe that I am not worthy of this competition. "
AM jumped in and asked him to not be diplomatic, but rather, to say what he feels. Remo said that they probably said that because they didn’t like my song. AM asked whether he thinks that he didn’t sing well. Remo responded that he didn’t think he sang that badly. Even judge Javed Akhtar thought it was good, as did AM. Remo didn’t think he should be in the Bottom Four.
Hussein then moved on to Keshav and asked him his opinion. Keshav said that he picked a tough song and challenged himself to sing in a different genre, something that even AM pointed out. And as far as I know, there are only a few here who have the ability to sing playback, even though everyone is a singer. There’s a different between an imperfect performance and imperfect singing. AM said that the competition is also about who handles the pressure well. All in all, Keshav said he tried his best and that he should not be in the Bottom Four.
Then Ali Hussein was asked what he thinks will happen. Ali was also unsure about who made what impact on the public in that minute and a half that they performed. He said, "I don’t think I should be eliminated so quickly because I can do better in the future."
(Deepa’s rant about Ali: He was one of my predictions for elimination this week, not because he didn’t sing well, but because of his attitude. He comes off as very arrogant in all of his interviews. In the theater round, he blamed his forgetting the lyrics on his partner. During his interview at the end of the show, he also said something along the lines of “my elimination will have such an impact that other young people will not make a career out of music.” Really? Please stop talking.)
Then we moved on to the very shocking Bottom Six. I’m going to cut through all the crap and just lay it out. I will say that AM was very, very upset at this list. He was shocked, hurt and frustrated.
The first person in the bottom six was…hold your breath…Rajdeep Chatterjee. Okay, WHAT???!!!! I am seriously shocked about this and am doing everything in my power to stay calm. This is the guy who basically had the best performance on Saturday, hands down. No one, and I mean NO ONE, would have ever predicted this. And it got worse.
Here, Anu Malik actually asked Hussein if he was sure. Hussein said that it was shocking but true. AM responded that he was very appalled and hurt, and that this was the worse thing anyone could do to Rajdeep. He is the find of Indian Idol. (This whole time, Rajdeep looks like he’s afraid to breathe less the public find fault with that, too).
Pranav Srivastava was in the Bottom Six. (He was also one of my predictions for elimination).
Ali Hussein was in danger. (Can I just say that I totally called this one?)
Anu Malik was still in shock, especially now that Ali is in the bottom. He had his own little rant about this, and for the first time, I actually felt bad for him!
The next person in the Bottom Six was Sourabh Mehta.
Parashar Joshi was announced in the Bottom Six. I’m sorry, come again?? Yes, Parashar wasn’t the best on Saturday, but he was not bad enough to get eliminated. This one was another shocker for me.
There was another rant from Anu Malik, after which Keshav was announced safe. (Uh oh!).
If I had been shocked about Rajdeep, Hussein’s next announcement sucked the life out of me. I think I became a ghost!
There was one spot left, and it belonged to either Prosenjit Kosambi or Mohit Lalwani. I had predicted Prosenjit to be eliminated, but at the rate things were going, I was convinced that Mohit was the one in the Bottom Xix. Anu Malik still couldn’t get past the fact that Keshav was safe and Rajdeep was in the bottom.
A very scared Prosenjit asked Anu Malik what else they can do to impress the people. Dance on their heads, came the reply from AM.
Then Hussein proved me right and announced that Mohit was in the bottom.
This may have turned me violent had I not kept reminding myself of Bhavin Dhanak from Indian Idol 3, who had the potential to make it big but got eliminated in the piano rounds. I’ve been comparing Mohit and Bhavin since the start of the season.
Mohit was too stunned to even sit down in his chair. Anu Malik didn’t even know whether to laugh or not.
So the contestants who were safe were Prosenjit, Remo, Keshav (still upsetting), Kapil Thapa, Sandeep Ubale, Bhanu Pratap Singh, Roshan, Kuldeep Singh Chauhan, and Charit Dixit.
Hussein asked Mohit what he thought and all he could say is that he tried his best. Anu Malik told Hussein that there is no way that Mohit or Rajdeep are eliminated because then we would lose a potential Indian Idol.
Rajdeep finally spoke and said that he never thought he would be out this early. He has been working day and night for this competition, and that only he knows how hard he is working. All that he has been focused on is singing and getting into the next rounds. The judges liked it but why the audience didn’t like it, he couldn’t say. Then, bless his heart, Rajdeep smiled. Poor Parashar couldn’t even say anything!
Finally, after much discussion, Hussein announced that Rajdeep and Mohit had gotten higher votes than the other contestants and were, therefore, safe. At this point, Mohit lost it and had to be consoled by Anu Malik.
So the four contestants to be eliminated were Parashar, Ali, Pranav, and Sourabh.
The rest of the episode showed the eliminated contestants going back to their residence and telling the female contestants. None of the girls thought that it was true – they all thought that it was joke. Much sadness ensued when they figured out that it was the truth.
The episode ended on a high note with Nirali Fauzdar, Tulika Ganguly, Bhavya Pandit, and Roshan doing a show in Ahmedabad, Nirali’s hometown. Anu Malik was there to support them as well.
Up tomorrow…the girls’ second piano round.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Indian Idol 4 - Day 1 - 19th Sept 2008
Today is the starting day for Indian Idol 4 . As you all know Indian Idol is a reality show being aired on Sony Television which tries to find the next Singer cum Performer who will rock the Indian Public. The last 3 series failed miserably to find and CROWN the sensation who will drew the crowd but hopefully this time they will be lucky and a truly deserving candidate will win the Indial Idol tag and not some singer who wins by public favouritism.
At the starting we get to see Meiyang Chang and Deepali who were hot favourites in Last Indian Idol ie. Season 3. Seems like they are going to host the show this time.
There are 2 old judges and 2 new judges. They are Anu Malik and Javed Akhtar being the old ones and Sonali Bendre and Kailash Kher as new judges.
Judges for Indian Idol 4
1) Javed Akhtar
2) Anu Malik
3) Sonali Bendre
4) Kailash Kher
The 1st candidate to come for singing was absolute disaster. Somebody called Shahbaaz Kabir Khan who seems to be known as Kolkatta Shahrukh Khan came first and sang awfully and mimicking shahrukh and anu malik. The guy was fun to watch and he seems to be doing some business of T-shirts,jeans etc.
Few of the disastrous candidates were :-
1) Nandini Chakroboty
I think she was given a chance by judges as she was too nervous. Sonali objected to the special consideration given to her and I agree with sonali that there was no point in giving her extra chance.
2) Nishant Sherpa
He is into heavymetal and anu was impressed with him. Luckily no other judges was impressed with him and we avoided the last year debacle of having a rock star as Indian Idol 4.
3) Julius Kerketta
As soon as came he started excuses like he is having sore throat and he may not be able to sing higher pitches. And when he started I couldn't understand why he was making excuses. He doesn't even know how to sing.
4) Sreejitha Kar *
The judges were fed up with all the bad candidates coming up and Anu gives a big bhashan to candidates. Then comes sreejitha and she is the first candidate to get the coveted yellow ticket. The ticket to move to mumbai for further consideration. The entry ticket to Indian Idol 4.
5) Saurabh Das *
He was the 1st male to get the entry ticket.
6) Kiran Waiva *
7) Saurabh Ghosh
Don't remember about them but they were very bad singers.
8) Rajdeep Chatterjee *
Another guy to get the entry to Indian Idol 4.
There were many other candidates who got the entry but we aren't showed their names. We only get the glimpse of their performances.
A funny scene also happened which was aired on behind the scenes on Tata Sky. Hussain , famous TV serial actor appeared dressed like a mexican guy and started arguing with judges,especially anu and pretends to be some A J ken original name being Ajay but his friends call him AJ. The judges weren't aware that he is hussain and they try to find out his peculiar behaviour. Hussain could have really passed as a mexican tourist with all this peculian english accent. It was a fun to watch him.
Also judges were onto something and they teased each other like anything. Please go through the following video and you can understand how much I was laughing actually.
So this is the 1st day details about the Indian Idol 4 season and hopefully we will see some great drama, some great singers and good time-pass.
At the starting we get to see Meiyang Chang and Deepali who were hot favourites in Last Indian Idol ie. Season 3. Seems like they are going to host the show this time.
There are 2 old judges and 2 new judges. They are Anu Malik and Javed Akhtar being the old ones and Sonali Bendre and Kailash Kher as new judges.
Judges for Indian Idol 4
1) Javed Akhtar
2) Anu Malik
3) Sonali Bendre
4) Kailash Kher
The 1st candidate to come for singing was absolute disaster. Somebody called Shahbaaz Kabir Khan who seems to be known as Kolkatta Shahrukh Khan came first and sang awfully and mimicking shahrukh and anu malik. The guy was fun to watch and he seems to be doing some business of T-shirts,jeans etc.
Few of the disastrous candidates were :-
1) Nandini Chakroboty
I think she was given a chance by judges as she was too nervous. Sonali objected to the special consideration given to her and I agree with sonali that there was no point in giving her extra chance.
2) Nishant Sherpa
He is into heavymetal and anu was impressed with him. Luckily no other judges was impressed with him and we avoided the last year debacle of having a rock star as Indian Idol 4.
3) Julius Kerketta
As soon as came he started excuses like he is having sore throat and he may not be able to sing higher pitches. And when he started I couldn't understand why he was making excuses. He doesn't even know how to sing.
4) Sreejitha Kar *
The judges were fed up with all the bad candidates coming up and Anu gives a big bhashan to candidates. Then comes sreejitha and she is the first candidate to get the coveted yellow ticket. The ticket to move to mumbai for further consideration. The entry ticket to Indian Idol 4.
5) Saurabh Das *
He was the 1st male to get the entry ticket.
6) Kiran Waiva *
7) Saurabh Ghosh
Don't remember about them but they were very bad singers.
8) Rajdeep Chatterjee *
Another guy to get the entry to Indian Idol 4.
There were many other candidates who got the entry but we aren't showed their names. We only get the glimpse of their performances.
A funny scene also happened which was aired on behind the scenes on Tata Sky. Hussain , famous TV serial actor appeared dressed like a mexican guy and started arguing with judges,especially anu and pretends to be some A J ken original name being Ajay but his friends call him AJ. The judges weren't aware that he is hussain and they try to find out his peculiar behaviour. Hussain could have really passed as a mexican tourist with all this peculian english accent. It was a fun to watch him.
Also judges were onto something and they teased each other like anything. Please go through the following video and you can understand how much I was laughing actually.
So this is the 1st day details about the Indian Idol 4 season and hopefully we will see some great drama, some great singers and good time-pass.
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