Finally an announcement from the program coordinator regarding the missing contestants. It seems (correspondent was not informed) Jalpari has back from the Jal and Raju Kabi officially gone missing. It's a tough luck for the Alaap Gharana. Now a new candidate will be selected and will join the Alaap gharana by 14th of December. There was little bit of confusion regarding a particular rule set for this selection and a candidate of the gharana and one supporter of the same gharana seen exchanging views on this rule. Finally Alaap Mentor made herself available in the forum and gave her inputs regarding the selection process she said, "Raju's non-availability is blow to my gharana, and he was having great potential. Anyway hope that the replacement will be as good as him or who knows the candidate may do better than Raju. Take inspiration from Dada Ganguly. Regarding the rule, no comment from my side, by the way, who said newbies are not regular members of the forum. Anyone can take part in the selection process."
One gharana, which is keeping all strategy secret till now and not giving any public view, is the Sur Sangam Gharana. The mentor has mysteriously unavailable from the screen. Reliable sources informed the correspondent that the mentor is providing training to the candidates in an undisclosed location and with a music director. The correspondent is not sure about the music director but sure about who is not; no prize for guessing. It's a universal truth regarding the mentor.
There are lots of activities going on, in other two gharanas as well. Bandish Gharana becomes center of attraction and center of speculation too. The program coordinators (except Universal Bro') are publicly announced their support to this gharana and they could successfully motivate a few more supporters to this gharana. Some other supporters are stating it as partiality and looking with suspicious eyes. But coordinators are not paying any attention. Though a recent development hinted at a change in the support base from the program director, which was largely influenced by gang commander (Don gang). Confirm reports are awaiting. Dhanush Gharana, oops, Jhankar Gharana, still talking in terms of war, arms and ammunition. They are considering the musical contest as a battle and preparing in a military way. The correspondent is still wondering who has given them the Dhanush in this musical contest.
So the war trumpet is about to blown. The supporters are evenly distributed except the Sur gharana. Do not write them of, the mentor is yet to appear in the fray and surely will be able to attain support from the members. It has seen (with inputs from Abhi), since challenge 05 to Lit champs, the participant supported by Appa, Jaya and Adi, won the competitions; now it will be interesting to see who will win this contest as this trio is supporting three different gharanas.
Edited by musicbug - 19 years ago