Originally posted by: chimichanga
Now that the selections of the winners will be done by viewers it looks like it is going to be a tough fight. everyone (at least on this forum) has his/her own favorites and they will be backing them. I would like to mention my favorite singer too ..
According to me Sharib is the guy to win the event. All those things the mentors are talking about - rooh, sur, gayaki, emotion are presnt in ample amount in Sharib. Also, i feel al least 2 of the songs he has sung have been sung better than the original singer - "Laagi Tumse man Ki lagan" and "Aashik Banaya aapne". He has shown that he can sing high pitch the best among all the male singers in the competition (Tadap Tadap). The only performance of his which i felt was not up to the mark was his rendition of "Chaiyya Chaiyya". Apart from that he has been very good. Also none of the others have chosen songs of high calibre which demonstrate his range in singing.
His competition would come from Debojit who is also very good. Rajiv and Vineet are not that good, I feel . Especially Rajiv, who falters on sur many times and is overhyped . Hemachandra is very pukka on sur, but most of the songs he choses dont have that much of a range.
I have another request to ask from anyone who is reading this and plans to vote for their favorite singers. Please base your vote only on the merit of their singing and not on any other attributes. I have heard comments like this singer is "ghamandi" or that singer's comments about her/his parents/wife were were touching etc, etc. The fact remains that we just get to see on TV whatever ZeeTV shows us and we are in no position to make a judgement about the character of an individual singer based on that. Please remember that basically Gajendra Singh can make any singer look humble or "ghamandi" just by the way of his editing the program !
In any case , it should not matter to us what kind of a person the singer is in real life. What we can make a judgemnet on is the person's singing and lets base our favorites on just that .
This is my humble opinion ......