Article about JJWS: Telegraphindia

one of them will be crowned the singing superstar of india. watch it on jo jeeta wohi superstar every friday-saturday, 10pm, star plus

Rahul Vaidya

Strength: Soft romantic and classical-based songs

Drawback: High-pitched songs

Best performance ON JJWS: Haji Ali (Fiza)

Biggest Competitor: Vineet, Abhijeet TV track record:

Second runner up at Indian Idol 1

ALBUM: Tera Intezar (got a good response). His second album, tentatively called Mere Maula, is almost ready

PlayBack: Shaadi No 1 — Hello Madam and God promise (for Sanjay Dutt);

Krazzy 4 — Ek rupaiyya (for Irrfan);

Jaan-e-Mann — Kubool kar le

ANCHOR: A show called Jjhoom India

Trained under: Suresh Wadkar and Padma Wadkar

Abhijeet Sawant

Strength: Romantic songs, high-pitched songs

Drawback: Loud and racy numbers

Best performance ON JJWS: Yaari hai imaan mera (Zanjeer)

Biggest Competitor: Debojit Saha

TV track record: Won Indian Idol 1 title

Playback: Aashiq Banaya Aapne — Mar jaawa mit jaawa (for Emraan);

Jawani Diwani — Yaad teri yaad aati hai (for Emraan)

Care Of Footpath — Won a National Award in Kannada.

Yet to release films — Mumbai.com, a duet with Shaan

Albums: Aapka Abhijeet; Junoon

Trained under: Pandit Bhavdeep Jaipurwale

Acting debut: Lottery, which releases next year

Toshi Sabri

Strength: Sufi, high-pitched songs; distinctive voice quality

Drawback: Western music

Best performance On JJWS: re piya (Aaja Nachle)

Biggest Competitor: Myself, but would like Abhijeet to be with me in the end

TV track record: Star Voice Of India — Top 3

Ustaadon Ke Ustaad — 1st runner-up

Playback: Jannat — Chaar dino ka pyaar (in parts)

Summer 2007 — Jaage hai baad muddata ke…maula mere bhaag jaga dena

Zindagi Tere Naam — Iss tarah rooth kar (qawwali)

The Heroes — I'm the bloody hero (title track)

Trained under: My father Ustaad Akram Sabri, he is a famous qawwal

Vineet Singh

Strength: Soft romantic and high-pitched songs

Drawback: Kishoreda's songs don't suit my voice

Best performance On JJWS: Main jahan rahoon (Namastey London)

Biggest Competitor: Rahul Vaidya

TV track record: First runner up at Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005

PlayBack: Rocky — Dil rangle (for Zayed Khan)

Dil Diya Hai — Chalo dildaar chalo (Emraan Hashmi)

Good Boy Bad Boy —Aashikana alam (Emraan Hashmi and Tusshar Kapoor)

Nanhe Jaisalmer — Kesariya balma (Bobby Deol)

Dashavataram, the title song in three languages (Telugu, Tamil & Hindi) for Kamal Haasan

Trained under: During Sa Re Ga Ma Pa my mentor was Himesh Reshammiya and he's still my mentor

Harshit Saxena

Strength: Romantic and loud songs

Drawback: Serious on the sets, never smiles has limitations in raga-based songs

Best performance On JJWS: Ek hasina thi (Karz), Ruth aa gayi re (1947 Earth)

Biggest Competitor: I consider myself the biggest competitor. I would want Abhijeet Sawant to be a finalist with me in the Grand Finale

TV track record: Participated in Antakshari —The Great Challenge on Star One.

Runner up of Star Voice of India

Playback: Raaz 2 — Mukesh Bhatt's movie, Pritam's music.

Mere Khwabo Mein Jo Aaye, Lalitji's music and a duet with Alka Yagnik

Trained under: Ustaad Gulshan Bharti (Lucknow)

Debojit Saha

Strength: Romantic, semi-classical numbers

Drawback: Loud songs, since my throat may become sore

Best performance On JJWS: Thodi si jo pee lee hai (Namak Halal)

Biggest Competitor: Myself — I try to compete with myself and perform better than before every time. Also Abhijeet Sawant.

TV track record: Won Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005

Playback: Jimmy —Marhabba (for Mimoh Chakraborty)

Love.com for Bappida

The Flag for Lalitji

Album: Debojit (popular song My heart goes dama dama)

Trained under: Pandit Askaran Sharma (In Mumbai), Sri Deepak Bhattacharya and Amarendra Chakraborty (in Assam)

MANDIRA BEDI (HOST)

Mandira is happy that ABHIJEET SAWANT has never come in the bottom three so far. She believes Abhijeet's chances of winning the competition are "very high"

FARAH KHAN, VISHAL & SHEKHAR (JUDGES)

Farah feels DEBOJIT, ABHIJEET, HARSHIT and RAHUL can make it to the finals on the strength of their consistency. VINEET and TOSHI, she is afraid, have not been very consistent with their performances.

Vishal is backing ABHIJEET and DEBOJIT on the basis of performance, but feels that RAHUL is Mr Popular of the show and can pull it off.

Shekhar is confident that ABHIJEET will take home the Superstar crown

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