Indian (TRP) Idol

Indian idol is supposedly the greatest reality TV hunt for the most talented singer in India...

The search is extensive ... if u have cared to catch few episodes....They pick people singing in marriages, galli-mohallas, cross-roads...anywhere, nation wide talent search as they proudly call...

But pore over few episodes & u would be forced to think, if talented singers is what this program is aiming at..!!

A lady comes in the show, sings really well and Annu Mallik gives the judgement - "There is an inbuilt crack in your voice. You are no very near the level of India Idol. We want the best."

Mr. Annu ji, I don't belong to a music background, but I can definitely say that she sung much better than most of the singers you selected last year. And just imagine the nervousness of the singer singing for the first time before 4 celebrated stalwarts of the industry..

Now, she departs weeping.....

I don't want to be too judgmental but the only reason I could see for her departure was not her musical talent but her not-so-pretty face, which seems to be the set criteria for Indian Idol selection ,at least for Mr. Annu Mallik, who I doubt gives more priority to persona than singing talent.

Next comes lady No 2...Before entering th stage, near the entry she starts imitating voices of birds .. She is also not Aishwarya Rai, but much more charming than the lady who supposedly had an inbuilt crack in her voice.

Annu ji is unceremoniously impressed by her talent. He starts to play tabla on table asks her to provide music by her talent to imitate birds. She follows..

The tabla-bird session continues for a while before the four judges (oh yea, there were hree other people in judge's seat) decide to finally make her sing..

She sngs : "Aaj rapat jaaye to hume na uthaiyo.."

Even before she completes the mukhada of the song, the judges, lost in charm of her bird-imitation talent decide to gie her thumbs-up.

What is it!! Singing talent search or Animal planet anchor hunt??

But at least the above two cases were related to singing...

Next

A country boy comes to the scene and starts making voices of opening doors, musical instruments....takes about 5 minutes to show his talent off...voice imitation talent again!!

A blind autistic girl (I agree she sung pretty well!!) comes to the scene and sings really well, but to no avail.... an emotional stunt I would assert.!! why waste her (and our) time if you don't intend to select her at all!!

A person comes and starts dancing for no reason!!

Husssain comes disguised as a singer & plays with the judges!!

Sonali Bendre, do I really need to remind you that its a 'singing' talent not 'acting' talent hunt? For gods sake, what are you doing here....?

Javed Akhtar can still be tolerated given his experience and his occupation of writing songs if not singing them but Sonali.. A cute face is not enough to decide the most talented singer of India!!
Plus, you have hardly contributed to any judgment except fot lip-sinking with Annu ji, once in a while and crying for that autistic girl!!

Of course, more drama is yet to come.....t he inevitable difference of opinion between the judges... unnoticed dancers, crying mothers !! blab, blab, blab!!



But, for god's sake..stop making animations around Javed Akhtar, we can clearly see his emotions anyway...and stop the stupid narrations "is ke bhavishya ke saath kya hoga, kya ye rote hue waapas jaayengi ya haste hue?"

Why don't you rather change the name of the program to 'Indian TRP Idol' instead of 'Indian Idol'

Singing competitions have always been there....Like Sa re ga ma, Antakshari...and we have seen hundreds of singers making their carriers by singing in those shows and gaining platform to enter the industry....but India Idol completely seems to have lost track!! you actually wonder if they are stuck with junkies or or they are actively searching for them..

P.S.: Of course, once in a while you can catch a few talented singers ... but given the enormity of junk you are exposed to, don't get surprised to miss them......


I haven't written in a very long time & the post above is a respite.