5th May - Review/Discussions

The Baroda auditions started off with Shikha Jain. SHikha said she hasnt lost any of the competitions that he went to previosuly and exuded confidence. She sang "Bichde abhi tho hum … ". Udit ko bahut acha laga and Alisha agreed. Anu came up with the argument Koi bhi sur main gaaya tho use Mumbai le jaaye kya?! the voice need to rock … and said I am not very impressed … however she got the pass to Mumbai … Skhikha said she was afraid seeing Anu and "aisa dekh rahe the".

Next came Alpesh Soni. He took rumaal from Udit and sang "Zamaane ne kaha toote hue" Pathetic. Got few sarcastic wah wah's from Anu. Strong comment. Udiot said "Circus ke liye bahut ache hai aap". Alpesh ended his nightmare with how a god would bark if it were Rajesh Khanna, Dev Anand, Shah Rukh and Sanjeev Kumar.

Vijay Patel sang "Yeh dil aashiquana". Shook his leg quite a bit while singing. Anu said "Aapne aisa gaaya ki aapne sur ko hara diya". LOL. The poor guy didnt even understand the sarcasm and that he was infact master of the sur. Funny. Extra bits from not no mentionworthy singers like Aakash Rathod, Jaimim Parekh, Sunil Parikh. Thats it. Anu and team then decided to go out tell all the participants to pull up the socks since all of the people who sang were below stadard. Then came 3 Deviyan. Anu asked the contestant to wear the goggles she got. Then Anu wore em and so did Alisha and Udit. With the scene set Devika, Usha and her other sister tried their vocal luck. Alisha sings the same Kajra re intor and clearly shows how the sur and expression was missing. After all this the sisters wlaked off thinking it was an unfair affairl. God Bless em.
Sheena Raju is the one to watch. In trendy black dress Sheena sang "Sajnaa aabhi jaa". Anu was extremely happy that voice was resonating and Udit thought uski awaaz main kashish hai. Needless to say, welcome to Mumbai. Bhoomi Trivedi, Dhwani, Manali all come and go. The scene then shifted to Rajasthan where Mini get hold of one Dhannu Ram, makes him sing ( and he sings it well … sounded like a Rajasthani folk) and gives him a pass. Poor chap. Maybe he didnt get the way how these shows work. He landed up at the auditions shown later only to be rejected. Waht a waste of time and money. We always know II wouldnt encourage such talent. Why call em!? Looks like Mini was roaming around the streets a lot to find talent in Rajasthan, land of Sandeep Acharya. She finally finds a guy singing for a band n what looked like shaadi ka baraat. Another pass to come to auditions. I have seen the auditions happening at Hyderabad. It mnaked me angry how best of the singers were not even given the chance to appear before the final judges. And on the other hadn we have bunch of jokers, in the name of entertainment, are out beofre the judges only to face their sarcasm and dejection. Sigh.

Best scene from the Jodhpur auditions was Mini in local attire and speaking the slang and taking off on an oonth. Reminds me of my Pilani days. Our friednly neighbourhood Dhannu Ram landed at auditions and sand Tum ne na jaana from Chalte Chalte. Comments. Weak singing … hasne ka andaaz acha hai … Thank you very much. Poor guy. looked happy anyways that he cud come until there. Kuldeep Ojha, 22. Mere Aalaap that he took sounded good. He sang More Saiya. Anu said awaaz kisi se milti nahi hai, Udit said Indan culture barkaraar rakh rahe ho, Alisha said unique awaaz, gamak hai awaaz main aur Rajasthan ki khushbu hai. Chalo Mumbai for Kuldeep.

Anu was happy that they finished the auditions without a fight. I did notice that Anu. Was it because Javed wast there. Scene Kanpur. Usual routine of some people doing/attempting mimicry. People like Rajendar Tripathi doing a merciless killing of Dhoom title song (how the hell did he get to that stage). Like the comment though. Udit said besurapan sasta ho gaya. Kailash Kher was dumbfounded and said pehli baar aisa ajooba dekha hai. Funny.

Time for Ankita mishra, 17. She sang Koi mil gaya. She had the energy and the confidence. She also sang Tu Sirf mere mehboob meri mehbooba and said to Anu she became a bog fan of his after hearing this song. Interesting (there was a cut there) … when Udit was speaking she was kinda saying aa point pe aa jaayiye :-). Restless for the resul eh. And she gets the Yellow card.

Malik and co is so happy they get into a jamming session to make an Indian Idol song with lyric that goes like Ladja banega and Ladki banegi … apologies. Dont rememeber more than that. Customary Colgate Hasso Tho Khul Ke Haso. Time for Sunil Bhatia, 23 to create some laughs. Shiva Roshan Varma claimed he is classically trained from a Guru Mr. LK Pandit (apologies if the name is wrong) who is close friend of Kailash. He mudered the durbari and claimed on top of it yeh unke (judges) samajh se oopar hai … yeh kya hai hamaare saamne. Concluding part has a mother who is extremely angry that Anu Malik is not fair and spews vengence saying Anu singer bhi naho hai.

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