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pmahesh, I agree with you on the girls to make to the final. But in boys, Debojit is certainly a very good singer.

Anybody knows the greencard winners of today's round?

just saw the second round last night. here in dubai, episodes are telecast one week late - moreover the telecast days are friday & sunday.

twinkle really surprised me yesterday. i normally do not like her - but what the judges said was completely true - she made a difficult song sound very easy. swananda sang very well too and it was really close. himabindu disapointed a lot.


amont the boys all three were okay. of course niladari got it right only the third time.

hey anybody knows how they are planning to have the third elimination round? are they going to make the same singers sing against each other, i.e. nihira vs raktima / viswas vs debojit, etc. or will there be mixing & matching? i think it is high time they mix up.

Originally posted by: kishore_bhakta

Thanks for the update, Pmahesh!

I am pretty sure that Vineet will get the green card on first shot and thus, remain as HR's FINAL DISCIPLE!!!! (HR will definitely put everything he has upon him) I think Himani will get the green card in the first shot.

The reds, I'm sure, will fall upon Joyeeta and Irfan. Knowing their singing styles, these will have to be given.

right you are, himesh wil be left only with vineet as the final desciple. joyeeta will be eliminated in the second round for sure. lets see how far vineet can go.

i also agree to your green card & red card assumptions.

Dont forget, there's a "Viewer's Choice" option as well. I think that with all the the hype and a certain amount of sympathy factor for his disability, Dilshad can rejoin the pack.
What say you, everyone?

Just saw the 2nd round where Dilshad and Himabindu got red cards. They were really graceful at the end, no rona dhona stuff...What is with Swananda and her husband, why are they giving so much of limelight to that...

The second day of the second elimination round for the third batch

Recap- The second elimination round for the third group started on Thursday where Vineet and Himani got green cards.

The judges are Kavita Krishnamurthy and OP Nayyar and the themi is songs from 2000-2005

Today's contestants-
Ujjaini and Sharib- Jatin Lalit
Irfan- Ismail Darbar
Joyeeta- Himesh Reshamaiya

The first contestant for the day was Irfan who sang Ae chand mujhe chandani ki kasam from Tera Jadoo Chal Gaya-
Good, controlled singing with lot of feel but whenever I listen to him, I think there is something missing. Any way he sang the whole song without any hitch. Very composed.

Mentors-
AS -Beautiful song and beautiful rendetion. Very good
JL- Though our contestants are up against irfan, we should give credit where it is due and irfan truly performed very well. Jatin said that if I was the judge, I would have definitely picked him.
Himesh- Kept on adding superlatives… in one work- "superb"


Ujjaini- Mause ki adla badli from Black (I must admit that I have not heard this song carefully earlier. But beautiful, difficult song- performed brilliantly. The song had lot of classical touch- Indian and western and ujjaini did very well. She sang with lot of emotion- perfect singing is the word. Surprise element in JL's gharana

Mentors-
Ismail- He said that he was lucky that he got to comment after such a beautiful song…and the singing was wonderful.
Aadesh- Aadesh said that with this kind of singing ujjaini can be a threat to nihira.
Himesh- Wonderful singing and said that ujjaini is a strong contender and will reach the finals.
Jatin lalit said that the whole credit for this song is to ujjaini because they did not quite agree to her song selection but she was sure that this song was different and will impress. And she prepared it herself.

Sharib- Mann ki lagan from Paap…sang well …lot of power – I thought he did slipped in couple of places and also his lower notes were not as clear but very powerful singing with good variation. Not trying to copy the original singer. Very good on higher notes

Mentors-
AS- Aadesh found the singing very good. He said that sharib had got him in dhun..which is the real sufiana singing...only few people can actually do like nusrat...
JL- Lalit said that today- one after the other all are performing brilliantly and it might be very difficult to judge them. Kavita K said that given a choice she would go away from here and make one of the mentors sit here. Jatin said that today both the boys have sung so well that even if one of them is shown red card, he will not let that participant leave…he will send 2000sms to save that person. They said that since everybody has been performing so good, they hoped that joyeeta will also continue in the same way.
Himesh- He was also impressed by sharif's performance and said that therse is some magic here today and he is sure that joyeeta will also keep this on.
Ismail- He found the singing very good and all of them were of the opinion that this has been probably the only day when all the contestants have performed so well.

Joyeeta- Piya tora kaisa abhimaan from Raincoat……the only thing I can say is much much better than the last performances…but still some thing lacking…..the throw was not good…though the classical notes were handled well…overall I did not find it very impressive.
Mentors-
Aadesh- He said that he found the performance ok…because he is a filmi music person and he considers it from that angle. Ismail interrupted saying that he uses classical stuff in his music and he found this good…….big fight started where we were shown that the judges did not know where to look…shaan trying to pacify these two…

The results were announced…..as all of you know by now, there are two rounds of singing in this charan but I think the fight ensured that there were no further rounds. The mentors were missing during the time when results were announced. This time I am writing the result because I think it won't make too much of a difference and has been also taken because the second round could not be held. All four were shown green cards. In my opinion ujjaini and sharib deserved it.

This is the big fight between aadesh and ismail which we have been hearing about…after which aadesh refused to come for the shoot. Now the news going round is that he has agreed because his students will suffer otherwise.

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what a showdown - i just can't wait to watch this episode, unfortunately for me it will be telecast here only on 25th. whatever it be the, participants benefited from this. all 4 got green cards! that's something!