Update for 24th November 2005
Today is the elimination day and the one with the lowest percentage of vote will have to leave.
The theme for the day is Pop songs.
All the participants started with Disco Deewane- good performance by all- can't say about the singing because I think this part is recorded stuff and not live.
The first gharana to be called on stage – Jai ho- Hema, Himani and Rajeev.
Hema was the second highest vote receiver last week and Rajiv was in the bottom three…will their fortunes change today…..Hema was the first one whose results were declared. After much suspense….he is safe and gets green light and his percentage of vote is 7.5%. Next is Rajeev and he is also safe and his percentage-8% Himani is smiling (I think she is confident) and gets5.8% vote to get green light.
Now the performance- Hema sings- Channa ve ghar aja (kunal ganjawala)….sings well but I think he did have some accent problem. Next is Rajiv and he picks a song which suits his style- Piya re, a nusrat song. Sings well and has got the feel right. Himani sings Rangeela mora dholna (shubha mudgal)- good throw of voice- well sung.
The next gharana is Dum- Sharib and Swananda- both get yellow card and sharib breaks down…controls himself after much effort.
Rock gharana is on fire.- vinit, Paresh and Ujjaini….vinit seems confident…the results…all are safe- the percentages- Vinit- 27.9% (the hightest), Paresh- 8.4% and Ujjaini – 8.6%.
Vinit sings Bulla ki jaani….and sings very well – I think he is got a bright future because he is learning at every stop- Himesh promises a song in the movie where Mithun's son Mimoh is being launched. Ujjaini sings Pari hoon mai (Sunita Rao)- I think she is coming back to her elemens and sang this song quite well…better than the original singer. Paresh sings Door se koi aaye (Strings- I think)- sings quite well but I did think some pronounciation problem came in.
Yalgaar gharana is the last one- Nihira, Debojit and Twinkle. Twinkle accepts that she thinks she will get yellow as her performance was not good last week. She gets yellow and is in bottom three. Nihira gets 8% vote and Debojit gets 13.4% vote.
Nihira sings Aika dajiba (vaishali)- not a very good performance- but ok by her standards. Debojit sings Tu…(sonu nigam)- bad singing- voice not consistent- I think he missed the beat also in couple of places- concentration too much on performance.
Now the contestants who are in bottom three perform.
Swananda sings Raat Shabnami (asha)- perfect singing- her voice is really quite like asha- I think it was one of the best performance of the evening.
Sharib sings Saiyon ni (junoon)- good singing- his kind of songs and he does very well.
Felt bad on seeing these two in bottom three.
Twinkle sings Made in India (alisha)- bad singing…trying too hard to sing like Alisha- BAD.
Before the results are announced, Jatin says that he is sure that swananda is out but she should not be as she is a very good singer. But he is right and Swananda is eliminated. Sharib get 5.5% vote and twinkle gets 4.7%. Swananda only gets 2%. She is quite graceful in defeat and says that she is not so sad about losing but sad about the fact that she will be no longer in this mahaul and will have to leave all of them…thanks everybody. Jatin says that they will also miss her a lot and she should send him a rakhi as she is like her sister.
I am not happy with the results – I think twinkle should have been out…but …..
