The country's first Indian Idol had the nation SMSing for weeks to make Abhijeet Sawant the Idol. Suddenly everyone wanted to be a singer and not just a mere actor. Amit Sana, Rahul Vaidya, Prajakta Shukre, Ravinder Ravi and Aditi Paul became talking points as every week the audience sat glued to their sets and voted one contestant out from this Sony reality show. Viewers had not seen anything like this before.