Updates for 29-12-2005

Hi everybody,

This is the update for the elimination round telecast today(Thursday)....the show ended just 30 mins ago...n here I am!!!

The show kicked off with all the participants performing a song unknown to me.

Today's theme was BHANGRA.(N most of the songs that were performed r unknown to me...so I may make mistakes in writing the anmes of the songs) n Special Guest was someone from the ad-world--Parsun Joshi (I think).

The total votes for this week was nearly 60 lakhs!!!!!

Contestants from JAI HO gharana were called on stage.First was the result...on the "Public Meter"!

HEMACHANDRA got the green light...his vote percent was 13.9%. and HIMANI too got green with 18.71% votes....she was the top ranked among all participants....no surprises after her awesome performance of "Jiya Dhadak" last week.

Then came their performances.HEMA performed MUNDIYA TU BACHKE RAHE....he sang well considering that he had to sing a pure punjabi song. HIMANI was good with HULLE HULLA RE,but was a li'l casual perhaps, as pointed out by the Guest...that she sounded a li'l over confidant..mayb bcuz it was her own language.

Then came the YALGAAR gharana.

DEBOJIT said that people from NE had been complaining that the BSNL voting lines were jammed thru out the week, so he was a li'l tensed..n he got yellow....while NIHIRA predictably got green.. with 16.4% votes..she was the 3rd highest vote getter!!

Then came the performance of NIHIRA....she sang O KALA SHAKA LA(mayb)....she seemed uncomfortable n this wasn't her usual flawless performance....she even said that she was worried cuz "Mujhe punjabi nahi aati" to which ID commented that "Mujhe bhi nahi maloom Punjabi...lekin isi liye to yahan par aaye hain ki kuch na kuch sikh sake...yeh kabhi mat kehna ki Punjabi nahi aati hain"....this was echoed by the Guest....he said that u dont have to b an xpert in punjabi (or any other language) but u should have a feel for the roots of that language.

Then ROCK gharana came on stage.

VINEET got the green light n he had got 2nd highest share of votes this week(16.43%).UJJAINI and PARESH got yellow! HR promised that we would know who Vinit's love interest was in the final episode!

Then the performance....VINEET sang DIWANI MERI JAAN LAGDI .... he was good with his performance!! But we got to know that he had a bad voice today.

So the bottom three were DEBOJIT, PARESH n UJJAINI. They then performed b4 the final results.DEBOJIT sang ISHQ TERA TADPAWE....UJJAINI was very good in AJA SONIYA...n PARESH sounded good in DIL LE GAYI.

When SHAAN asked ID about the final 3 he said mayb the BSNL lines had been cut on purpose....when SHAAN asked HR bout his two participants in the bottom 3, ID interrupted n said that HR wasn't worried cuz "topiwala nahi hain yahan....agar topiwala hota yahan to tension hota unko....mujhe to lagta hain Himesh-ji ne hi BSNL ke line cut ki hain"....which HR denied!!!!

Finally, SHAAN called Mr. Joshi to come n declare who got the results. PARESH got cleared first...he had got 13.87% votes...n then DEBU was told he was still in with 13.77% votes....so UJJAINIwas eliminated cuz she got lowest votes....no % given but the actual votes registered for her was said to be 3,18,594 !

ID scolded DEBU for giving wrong info bout the BSNL lines AS also asked DEBU to concentrate on singing well n not get bogged down with all other stuff.....n retracted his statement saying "Yahan jo bhi hua sahi hua...or main isi liye khush hoon!!"

I guess the "sahi hua" comment had hurt UJJAINI cuz when she spoke she seemed pretty hurt n said that "Agar Ismail-ji kehte hain ki sahi hua to sahi-hi hua hoga..." ..she went onto thank the mentors...n even said that she wouldn't cry(it was her New Year resolution)...cuz "agar main roti hoon to sab kahenge natak kar rahi hoon"...n then came the most touching part of her farewell speech were she said that the only persons I am missin right now r Jatin-Lalit-ji...n she couldn't control her tears as she asked everyone to applaud JL. I guess this was a tight(if indirect) slap on HR's clean shaven(after so many days of stubbled look) cheeks...cuz he never made her(or even Paresh) feel a part of his Gharana. When AS said that she is a hard working girl n had performed well on several occassions...she even told him very sweetly that "Sir, agar yeh support do hapte pehle aap dete to mere liye achha hota"

The show ended with UJJAINI performing O SAKI SAKI RE.

BOTTOMLINE: UJJAINI out of Challenge 2005...HIMANI top ranked of the week.

Hope u enjoy this update!!!

WOW wht a update....

I felt liek i really watched teh show....

good keep it up 👏

Sumesh thanx.

And to all of u plz do write in what u think of the update.Thanx in advance.

thanks 4 the updates.

Hema n Debojit were best today!! 😃

Great update!
Kudos to Ujjaini for telling HR off. JL were her original gurus and HR never treated her like a shishya after she went into his gharana.
Good luck and much success to Ujjaini!

Greta job with the updates, sm_79 👏

Hi sm_79,

I was waiting for this update, after all the conflicting posts here. I really appreciate your giving us this information so quickly... (half an hour after the show ended!!)

AND thanks for a wonderful, unbiased update. It was just like watching the show 👏 👏 👏

Good Job!!

sm_79, thanks a lot for the wonderful update!!! I felt like I'm watching the show! 👏 👏

great update...thanks a lot. keep up the good work, it means a lot to people like us who dont have ZeeTv and get an idea about the show from updates like this..

Thanks sm_79 for the wonderful update. Ujjaini's exit part brought tears. I was so happy to hear her indirect shot at HR. HR has turned to be such a 'matlabi' person.

The update felt like I was watching the show as someone else mentioned. So pleased to note that Himani got the max number of votes. She was awesome. I have re-played her 'jeeya dhadak dhadak', I am not sure how many times since tuesday (here in the US). Her voice is so powerful and very rich. As Shaan mentioned, "Rongte khade ho gaye".

HIMANI KI JAI HO!!!