How true, Shankar mahadevan !! - Page 2

So, now Shankar Mahadevan learned that contestant should choose song of their choice. What did SM do when he was mentor, did he fight for contestants? Contestants are never given freedom of choosing songs, I dont know if we know about it or not. But definitely SM does not or pretending to be not knowing it. All these things are part of reality shows lingo.

Originally posted by: akanna

Yes, the channel makes the final choice, but then they select the song from a list of preferred songs for the contestant. They do that just to make sure that the same song is not sung by another contestant.. They do the same for DID too, so that no two dancers dance for the same song on the show.. So if the contestant is smart enough to make a good list of song selections before giving it to the producers, there shouldnt be anything to worry about... 😃

I think it is other way around, channel gives few songs to contestant to select from. If given choice a contestant will definitely choose the best which shuit him/her, if a contestant does not even know theie strength/weakness then he/she should not come to show. Nobody wants to commit suicide. Nothing special in what Shankar said, that is reality show lingo. Himesh had already said about it and even explained the importance of it by giving brilliant example of "Roti"

Give freedom to Ranjeet to choose the song, he will definitely select Pettiwala genre song in every episode, zaroorat pari to petti mein ghus kar gaaye woh.

Originally posted by: HakkaBakka

I think it is other way around, channel gives few songs to contestant to select from. If given choice a contestant will definitely choose the best which shuit him/her, if a contestant does not even know theie strength/weakness then he/she should not come to show. Nobody wants to commit suicide. Nothing special in what Shankar said, that is reality show lingo. Himesh had already said about it and even explained the importance of it by giving brilliant example of "Roti"

I could be wrong, but I said that based on some inside information.. In C07 and C09, I was told that the contestants need to give a list of songs to the producers each week, the songs they like to sing, and then the channel assigns a song from their list for each show... Again, I could be misinformed, but I like to believe it as it makes more sense... 😃 If the channel gives the song, then why would they give songs sung by multiple singers to solo singers?? And keep making ghazal singers sing ghazals, peppy singers sing peppy numbers, classical singers sing semi-classical songs, and so on?? Wouldnt they pick something out of their comfort zone so that they would be really challenged??

Originally posted by: Summer3

It is true that each singer has their own strong areas.

Unfortunately the contest here is about versatality so they have to be prepared to do all sorts of things, some of which are non singing too.

Shreya sang well but got voted out, could be party due to her inability to do drama.