Wildcard Round: Himesh Reshammiya

Jai Matadi!

Originally posted by: ssk13809

Jai Matadi!

Jai Hindustan!

Everyone give Himesh 10s!

have some control ssk ji! you are a judge! 😆

Originally posted by: somone999

have some control ssk ji! you are a judge! 😆

Originally posted by: ssk13809

Himesh Reshammiya is a legend!

Aur agar apni baap ki aulod ho to usko high marks dehna!

please do not use such language, trust me it is not good to involve personal things.

I am a big big fan of one singer here, but i will never high-light my likeness for him, because as a judge it is not ethically correct to do so.

its my suggestion for you. Rest is upon you sir, as you like it. 😊

hope to see you doing an unbiased judgement here as well.

hhhmm... interesting choice!
On the part of singing, i would like to say that it is not effortless singing, i felt that the singer was struggling especially in the middle and lower notes.
Beauty to this song was stylized by the female singer's amazing renditions and another male singer also sang nicely. but coming back to judge the stated singer only, the repetition of the title made the singing monotonous, the throw was good but the voice seemed strained in parts of the song. however, the background high-notes were awesome given by the singer and complemented the mood of the song which came at the start and at the ending of the song.
the lyric-singing part was not a winner for me which constituted the main part of the song, does not leave an impact for me.
it is above average but overall from me this song will get a 7 out of 10.

It is a sad day when Naakesh Reshammiya is given a chance to compete as a singer with Shankar Mahadevan, Sonu Nigam and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. I can just hope, for the sake of my sanity, that Naakeshbhai doesn't actually enter the competition. Anyway, let's gulp this bitter medicine and get on...

Typical catchy Naakesh number - it's amazing what you can do with a few loop CDs, echo effects and pitch correction software these days.

Honestly, I clicked on the triangular play button with a preconceived notion of what the singing would be like. But Naakesh's aalaap raised my hopes from non-existent to quite high - his first note was clean and strong. Unfortunately that didn't last for long as Naakesh's naak, jiski wajah se unka thoda-bahot naam hai, kicked in and ruined everything.

There are two reasons why the nasality fails to impress me. Firstly and obviously, over nasality is just not nice to hear - it's unpleasant and irritating. Secondly, poeple who find high notes difficult and problematic add a nasal touch to make their singing a bit sharper, and thus stretch to the high notes. This is why you can hear kabaadis going nasal when they try to shout at a high pitch. Even great singers go nasal at high notes, but that is usually at higher octave ma's and ga's. Using your nose at notes lower than those is just an easy way out of actually singing the note. Naakeshbhai overemploys his nose, and that too at rather low notes.

The whole song has Naakeshbhai straining to reach his notes and his voice, which started clean in the aalaap, cannot cope. The tension in his vocal chords is evident when he sings 'Dil me hai armaanon ki sargamm' or 'Jazbon mein machi dard ki hulchull'.

The third point to be noted in nasal singing is that it is much easier to vibrate a nasal sound with precision than it is to vibrate a full-throated sound. Controlling the vocal chords precisely and quickly, as is done in a harkat, is much harder than simply controlling the nasal touch. Despite this, Naakeshbhai's harkats are shaky. It just sounds like he is vibrating his nasal voice whenever he can - without actually trying to hit any notes in particular.

As for voice quality, Naakeshbhai has none. To think that in a music industry that has produced great voices like Mukesh, Mahendra Kapoor, Mohd. Rafi, Kishoreda, Udit Narayan etc. we now have a Naakesh.

Since Naakesh is consistently nasal, he can't effectively sing words which require a nasal matra to be pronounced properly. So he sings 'jaaoon' and 'kar loon' without the little 'n' sound at the end - given the level of nasality used throughout the word, there is little more he can do to highlight that 'n' sound at the end.

The feel of the song is aggressive and depressive. There is nothing romantic about the singing style - it sounds like Naakeshbhai is in pain, even though he is professing his love for someone. Thankfully for Naakesh, the lyrics are tweaked to be vague enough so that they make sense as painful song, too.

I have said before that a 5 for me is when a relativelly simple tune is sung adequately. Unfortunately, Naakesh could not even reach adequate in my eyes.

I'll be generous and give him 4 out of 10.
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And after gulping that bitter medecine, it's time for a spoonful of sugar: time for an Udit song! Since this is a Himesh Reshammiya thread, I'll play HR's composition: 'Kyun Kisi Ko' from Tere Naam (lyrics by Sameer).

(the bass loop sounds a lot like the bass loop of 'Ishq Bina' in Taal)

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFB3tWWmTAw[/YOUTUBE]

I'll give it a 6.

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Get ready for another heated debate. 😉

Even I am disappointed with the wild card entry. I would have loved to have A.R. Rahman.

For those people who are giving this singing more than 5 marks, I would like to know what you consider 'average bollywood singing'. Remember, 5 is average BOLLYWOOD singing, not just the average of the general public.

By giving this more than 5, you are essentially saying that more than 50% of Bollywood singing is even worse than this. So please could you tell me what those more than 50% of songs are...