Javed, Ila Slug it out

Javed, Ila slug it out

Gurukul judges battle over favourite contestant

Reena Thapar Kapoor

This is not the first time that judges have been at loggerheads over a contestant in a talent show. Earlier, Ismail Darbar and Adesh Shrivastava battled each other on Zee's Sa Re Ga Ma Pa. Now, Ila Arun and Javed Akhtar are at loggerheads over a contestant on Sony's Fame Gurukul.

The youngster in question is Gurukul student Shamit Tyagi. Confirming news of her fall-out with Akhtar, Ila says, "I have been having arguments with Javed saab. We are sitting here to judge talent. The students at the Gurukul are not related to either of us. This is a responsibility that we have to take seriously. We cannot let personal likes or dislikes mar our judgement."

According to Ila, Akhtar never approved of Shamit and always discouraged him. "Our opinions don't match at all! I feel Javed saab always tries to go against my judgement. He has been running Shamit down without any valid reason. I understand that you don't always like everyone but you cannot use your personal feelings as a weapon to attack these kids," she adds. Apparently, Akhtar behaved in a similar manner with an earlier contestant named Kirti; the student was voted out in the second round. "Personally, I thought Kirti was a damn good singer but he was voted out by Javed saab who didn't like him."

The two have been squabbling quite openly on camera as well. "I have nothing against him," she snaps, "Javed saab is brilliant with words. I know he speaks really well, but his words demoralise the contestants. I'm not going to allow this to happen. I'll defend these students even if it means fighting with him."

The constant bickering between the two has reached a point where Ila has even threatened to resign.

Our arguments were increasing by the day. We disagreed over anything and everything, so I told him if he could not tolerate me then I was willing to quit the show."

On her part, Ila feels she has done the best she can for the show. She trains the students and has been with them for weeks now, "I'm a witness to their dreams. Javed saab comes just once a week. I'm with them every single day."

We tried to contact Akhtar to get his version of the story, but he was unavailable for comment.

Courtsey mumbai mirror

Jees cant beleive how immature every one has acted, well I always beleived when you sat to judge you left all your biase and were just impartial ,FG has become a joke , all due respect to Javed Akhtar immensely talented and thought he was sensible (Javed Sahab what would happen if your son was the one instead of the contestant and someone other judge behaved the way you did ) ,and Ila for heaven sake behave like a headmistress (this has become more of a fish market)

Thanks lilly for sharing. Wow Ila wants to quit, I dont think anyones going to stop her. I m just waiting for that day. Will throw a Pizza party for all foramites on her farewell day is a promise. 😃

Go Ila go and resign in they very first moment. pls.. 😃

[quote]He has been running Shamit down without any valid reason.[/quote]

Ila is right. For the first time, I agree with her.

As for Ila's resigning... I think everyone will be happy 😆 I can see where she's coming from in this article though, but she sounds very immature. Javed, of course, is no better. I agree when she said he is demoralising the students - Shamit in particular, I'd say. But in all honesty, their squabbles are very entertaining. She's being immature by suggesting to resign, though - not that anyone would complain, but still.

i totally agree with the fact that Javed was trying to run down Shamit the whole show. the poor guy was such a good singer and Javed was always so mean to him. Shamit was by far one of the best singers in gurukul and Javed always tried to demoralize Shamit. this was not right on his part and the fact remains that my family and i used to admire Javed but now, we hate his guts because we all loved Shamit's singing and hated the things Javed said to Shamit.
~*~Tina~*~