'08-09...10...11...????

I have heard and believed that only soap operas can last for 5-6 years but I think there's going to be a record break by a TV reality show called 'Airtel Super Singer' which started in 2008 and may go for another 2-3 years. A TV show's TSP soars based on the interest shown by people/its marketing strategy and this show is going to lose all its lustre for dragging the show with unwanted episodes like the one today. As everyone who watches may be waiting to hear who's the 4th contestant going to join the final show, they are dragging this with the judges wildcard round. People have already voted and why there is another wildcard round? Sigh....$%^&*. I could hear people murmuring (like me) 'Dei...Enda ipdi mega serial maadhiri javvvvaa iluthittu poreenga?'....

And now for today's show and my comments on it:
Vijay Narayan - There are so many great classic hits of Ilayaraja and this guy chose one mokkai song. I just forwarded his performance :)
Ranjani - If she's not selected for the finals, as everyone, I would think there's some politics that might have happened not to choose her. Hope that does not happen because she has a great voice when compared to other four contestants on the wild card round
Prasanna - I usually like his on stage perfomance and today it was OK but not great
Santhosh - Although there were few flaws and especially sodhappals in pitching, I liked his rendition
RaginiShree - It looked like someone asked her to read 'Swasame Swasame' lyrics and try few sangadhis in between to show that she knows music. The breaths in between each line - Only Ragini can do it. The beauty of the song was entirely lost. If judges dont give positive comments, Ragini might end up crying and hence all the judges said 'You are an excellent and promising singer'

If this show does not end in another 2 months (which is highly unlikely to happen but I saw some youtube comments saying this is going to end in June;)), I have made a resolution not to watch this show in future :) How many of you are with me? :)

- From a die hard music fanatic

Who's next???

I was a great fan of 'American Idol' in 2007 but this year, I have not watched much but I've been following the updates in the web part of the version. In 2007, I used to watch it for Sanjaya and deliberately wished to vote for him even though he was not a great singer when compared to the other top contestants of the show (being a desi, this was a way to show my patriotism ;)) And this year, it's for Anoop Dogg as he's popularly called...But he had to go out in the last episode because of the valuable comments from the judge Simon Cowell...So, my desi patriotism has come to an end for this year in terms of AI. Waiting for the next year's AI to see if someone like Sanjaya or Anoop shows up...Who's next???

The 'Thumb' rule

I am not a great lover of pattimandrams or debate programmes but a programme like Neeya Naana tilts me sometimes and I did watch one good episode of NN yesterday. There's one episode that I loved much - Mothers & Daughters. And this latest one is about siblings on how they were/are before/after marriage. The youngest side of siblings quoted that the old ones just change 'topsy turvy' and dont look at their family like they did before in terms of finance, relationship, priorities etc., The oldest side of siblings said that they attain maturity after marriage and gets involved with someone with whom they are going to spend their entire life with, which comes as their preference over others. It was a healthy conversation between both sides and most of the instances that people talked looked so realistic. I am not on one side in particular would be a very diplomatic answer if someone asks me to take a side and talk about it :) Although I would end up agreeing with few things from the younger side like distance in relationship between siblings that comes after marriage life, the expectations and the cute little fights and advices which stands like a 'moodiya thirai' and sounds like that happened in the last jenma, I would definitely take a place on the older side to talk about it. As every other elder one in that arena told, it's the maturity and the preference that changes which at sometimes lead to emotional drama and yearn for those little things like 'You should not take my shirt' or 'the pillow fights' :)

I enjoyed the show and the thumb rule is 'Whatever changes in life, changes will never change and life goes on and on'.

My Vote...

For the first time in this Super Singer show, I felt Ravi deserves to be in the winner spot. He was awesome when he rendered all the medley songs especially on the Udhaya Udhaya song, he was so emotive that anyone can feel the song from a true heart :) The song itself is a great one rendered by Hariharan. When Ravi was singing, it did not sound like he tried to imitate what Hariharan did but it was great to listen Ravi singing it and esp on the notes of 'Unnale..Thannale....'..WWWoowwwww...As always, I have a second spot to be taken by Renu in my voting system..Man, I love her voice. I have never found flaws in her singing so far. And for the third spot, I have Prasanna and Rohit in tie :) Have to see their performances in the upcoming episodes. Let's see whether my voting system clicks the right way (Enakku Sangeetha gnanam irukkanu therinju poidum?:)) Since this round induced me to listen to the song Udhaya repeatedly, I am providing the link here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyklQRnTFo0

IPL, Drooling factor and SK

While I was grazing through news today, I saw this face. Hmm..He's not Sharukh Khan as anyone would have guessed it from my title. This guy who was compering in the IPL matches and everytime I see him in TV or online replays, I used to drool thinking whoz this guy? None of my friends knew his name or his identity when I asked them and here he is now in the news site on doing a show about men :) Ha..ha..Then I started reading the details of his show out of curiousity. And I started remembering how smart he looked in his red shirt when he was anchoring the IPL match and conversing with Krish Srikanth. Being a fan of cricket, I would not have missed even one IPL match and when you have another factor like SK being the host of the highlights, I did end up in watching lots of highlights rather than the actual matches. And I did claim as the time constraint though :) BTW, SK is Samir Kochhar :) Now, it's all your duty to google him and find how he looks (esp. girls) Just be tall and well dressed...Tats my main drooling factor, sorry it's to be drooled upon factor :)

Dedicated to ????

It's not different or difficult to name a person whom you want to dedicate a song to. This happens in most of the satellite TV shows but seeing the Super Singer relationships episode moved me into a different zone. Although I see it with utmost interest every other day (passionate about music being a reason), this episode somehow makes me feel that everyone who has sung so far has done it very well. I could not even point out a person and say that he/she did badly. Is it the songs or the singers or their dedication to a person whom they wanted to, made a difference? Without a sense of doubt, most of them dedicated to their moms and gave them a gift which made them move into tears (moms can easily do it, u know? ;)) and I feel they deserve it. In few cases, it was a dedication to sisters. In some cases, it was friends and in some, it was relatives. I was wondering if at all this has happened to me, I would have been in a baffled situation. In most of the cases, it was only through my self motivation, I have done it. So, it would not have been a surprise if I had said 'It's me whom I wanted to thank and gift to' (though it sounds crazy). But if I was given a second option to choose a person other than me, I would have gone for this person who has motivated me atleast to some extent. It's Saranya, a friend of mine who I know only for 4 years. She encouraged me to sing in a wedding reception which was a futile attempt :) But she keeps encouraging me still without knowing the aftermath disaster :) Two days after her 2nd wedding anniversary, I would like to dedicate this song to her :) She was about to make an attempt on this song few days ago and hence I figured out this would be the song that she would have heard number of times recently and hence putting this as a dedicated one :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CApQcVAYWHs

Morph...

Kambli came and did a Kuthu
Irfan came and stood shy
Nikhil came and acted
Bhajji came and did a Bhangra
Sreesanth came and did it casually
Dinesh came and rocked

I watched it yesterday. Seeing these cricketers in a different form is not so interesting. It started it in the first show itself where they had difference of opinion. Poor gals...They were so great in dancing and looked good; And it has become a fashion nowadays that people doing without any reluctance in front of a big crowd...Bhajji did to SSen yday; Sangeetha did to Sanjay in other show; Rakhi did to Salman in DKD; What was that? Newspapers claim it as a proposal...And I am like, Pls..grow up!

Cricket Vs Dance

'Ek Khiladi Ek haseena' - I just saw this TV show promo in youtube. This show is about to be premiered in Colors TV (I did not know that there was one such existing) from Sept 26. It will be aired on Fridays & Saturdays at 9 P.M IST. What a combo to anchor - Wasim Akram and Sushmita Sen. And the six teams comprises of Sreesanth with Surveen Chawla, Harbhajan Singh with Mona Singh, Irfan Pathan with Ashima Bhalla, Dinesh Karthik with Nigar Khan, Nikhil Chopra with Barkha Bisht and Vinod Kambli with Shama Sikander. I don't know any of the lady pairs here except Ashima since she acted in a Tamil film with our PK Vijayakanth. As Sreesanth is a good dancer, it will be good to watch him performing here. But I am curious to watch one man here - Irfan Pathan as I am a great fan of him. Irfy, will you serve swingers in your dance too? ;) With a passion for cricket and dance, I am not going to miss this show. And here is the youtube promo video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V6ewCpKWns

F.R.I.E.N.D.S

Got the first season CD and I could not control my inclination towards watching it. I watch it during breakfast, lunch, after work, before work :) I love Lisa Kudrow's role and the way she has acted it...It's THE ULTIMATE :) F.R.I.E.N.D.S = F.U.N :))

Performances...

I don't know what should I call this as! Last week, I wrote a post about Maanada Mayilada dance show where I mentioned about Lokesh - my favourite contestant to emerge as the best performer. And he has got the best performer award this week :) That was an unanimous decision. And he deserves it.

Watched Super Singer show and was dumbstuck to see so many good singers in Chennai zone alone. My judging capabilities has grown so intense that I can say whether the person would be selected by just listening to the beginning lines and the shruthi that matches it. I was almost right in every contestant's try. And my favourite performer cum singer MKB is a contestant again in SS this year. I am hoping that he will atleast come till the final level this year. His forte is his performing attitude...

Keeping fingers crossed XXX...

Maanada Mayilada...

Having a passion for dance, I did not leave this show too...Have been consistently watching the show since the day of its inception this year. When I started watching the first show, I was like 'Whatz this title - Maanada Mayilada? Kevalama irukumnu nenaikiren' - This is what I told my roomie. Later, my interest in watching the show increased because of the theme and the variety the contestants show. 2 hours easily passes away...Today is one another day like that...I was totally engrossed in watching the Celebration round.

Although most of them dance well, I have my set of favourite contestants for different reasons. Among the male contestants, my vote goes to Lokesh. Being consistent in expression, attitude and dance (of course :)), he deserves to get the best performer award. He humbly accepts whatever comments are given by the judges. Among the female contestants, my vote goes to Priyadharshini. What a delicate dancer she is - To be frank, I used to think - Indha nelivu sulivellam epdi ivlo easya varudhu? ;) She never overreacts or over express herself...I like that :) Apart from all these, I should confess one thing that I am a fan of dancer Bala...:)) Whenever me and my roomie watch the show together and Bala appears on the stage, my roomie used to say - 'Ungaalu vandhachu' for which my response would be a smile with a full stop....:))

I miss my dance :((

Super Singer 2008

Got to know this from Chinmayi's blog.

Airtel Super Singer 2008 is coming soon and here is the entry form.
http://vijay.indya.com/specials/supersinger08/entry.asp