Originally posted by: akanna
In C07, all three finalists had pros and cons. In the beginning, I was hooked onto Poonam's singing - dont know what, but she remained my favourite till she was eliminated. And she had a lot more versatility than Aneek. On the day Raja sang Haji Ali, I got connected to him and then on, I supported him too. Aneek is a good singer, I agree, but I never felt him charismatic. Amanat was so good, a boy who is just 17 years old was singing with great voice already, and he had the stage presence too. I admit, after Ek Se Badkar Ek, I lost all the fascination I had for Raja, and his attitude was terrible. Aneek still has a loveable boy kind of charm.
I somehow cannot agree that Aneek is the all-rounder. When he sang Beegi Beegi (original by KK) on Ek Se Badkar Ek, I almost cried. Because I heard the same song sung by Debojit on C09 prior to that and he made me fall in love with that song and Aneek killed it. He was zero compared to Debo's rendition of that song. Another one was the Meri Maa song (original sung by Shankar? - he sang it on C09 once and that was superb) - Aneek sang that song quite bad - there was no feeling in his song and that too when he dedicated it to his mother. When Soumen sang MahiVe dedicated to his mother, it was very touching. So there are situations when Aneek did really good and he didnt do that good.
Comparing to C09, as I said above, some songs sung by Debo were really good, and the same applies to all but Asma. That being said, if we take only the girls, Vaishali has the best versatility and high quality voice and sur, followed by Prathibha. Yashita - no, only good for fast beat semi-western songs; in fact Mitika or Jenice would have done much more better than her for the same category. Asma - I dont want to even discuss her under a music topic! Among the boys, Soumen and Debo are good with many songs - Debo with deeply emotional ones and Soumen with high pitch ones. Zaheer - I liked Shujat more, no offense. Both Shujat and Faraz used to sing without nasal tone, same way like Amanat.
So that leaves Vaishali and/or Prathibha to be the all-rounder and I believe better than Aneek too. Poonam was better than Aneek IMHO, and so I think Vaishali and Prathibha are better than him this year.