SRGMP-Love Fest (funny-article)

Boy, was this week's SRGMP enjoyable! Controversy, great singing, eye-popping outfits and Bappida in full flow unleashing that terrific girly-voice of his at anything that moved.

But first I'd like to say this: back when I was in school, there used to be one or two lukkhas who had zero chance of getting laid who would always tease others for trying to get somewhere with the girls. The harassment would commence by trying to out someone's affections in public, thus embarrassing them and killing any chances they had of scoring. Romance would be well served if these people were magically identified and banned. You know who I'm taking about, Himanshu. Lay off, will you - it ain't funny, unless you count your attempt to justify the forced outings.

So Sania finally got the jhagda she was trying to tell us about all these weeks. With all three Pakistanis ending up in the bottom three, Ismail Darbar decided to ask them if they had indeed refused to sing Indian deshbhakti songs. No, no all insisted, espousing their love for India and how much they had felt at home in India. Flashbacks of bhaichara shayari were spliced in by the producers of the show. All the contestants cried their hearts out.

"Who started these rumors!" demanded Darbar. "Those who don't want peace between India and Pakistan" offered Head, bobbing his head as usual. The audience weighed in. Later Head announced they wouldn't have an elimination this week. Now touching though all this may be, it all looked highly fake and staged. And I expect nothing less from SRGMP!

The stage, however, had been set early by Head and the rest singing that cabaret from Don "Aaj ki raat" and pointing to the missing potrait set up in the Lonely Tent to torture contestants. Tacky costumes! Backup dancers! Most excellent.

The "Dance" theme went quite well until Raja Hasan showed up. Now Mithun - as I like to call him - can sing the covers off the stage. But he chose to sing "Chinamma Chikamma" from Meenaxi, which I wouldn't call a dance song unless I was really bored shooing crows in a field. Dude, you need to get out more. Fortunately he belted out "Piya Haji Ali" from Fiza in the next round and redeemed himself. Later judge Vishal put some pressure on him by asking him to strive for more variety.

There were some truly good performances: Aneek sang as reliably as ever, Sumedha delivered another resurgent performance, Harpreet had me laughing and dancing with that terribly amusing song from Partner "Soni de nakhre", Mussarat milked the second round qawali opportunity and Amanat continue to tap into his geeky-mischievous side.

All eyes then were on the train called Mauli Dave: would it blow past the station or end up in a wreck. And Mauli blew hot and cold, lurching through "Aisa Jadoo" from Khakhee but doing a much better job with Shobha Mudgal's "Ali More Angna" - leaving the decision split again. Appropriate, given her journey so far.

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