Friday, September 7, 2007

Which One is better ??

It has been good time pass watching the following programs "Indian Idol"in Sony"Sa Re Ga Ma" in Zee and "Voice of India" in Star over the last few months.

All these shows are based on "finding the Singer/Performer". Sony started this concept with the First Indian Idol few years back. The show was a big hit and the singers were stars in few months.

But today, with 3 shows in 3 different channels doing the same thing with different judges, makes it difficult to judge which singer is best.

Indian Idol is all about performing than singing . And the singers are really of not great quality. Nobody sings a complete song. But in terms of performance Indian Idol stands first. Few performers who definitely be seen in a TV serial soon rather than their name appearing behind a audio cassette/VCD. The Judges are not that impressive to me. Anu Malik is my favourite, but most people hate him as he criticizes too much. I think he is talented guy(Need talent to copy music too) . This version of Indian Idol has missed his shahayari. Alisha, just adds beauty to the show. Udit is just there as a singer, some how cannot see him in the class of Sonu Nigam. Javed Akthar, senior in the industry is there for his experience with music.

Voice Of India, they really don't know what they are doing!!!! They started of well , with good singing. Lost their track on the way with competition from Indian Idol on performance. Some singers are good. They have a mix of people who sing really well and few who really cant sing.
Judges behave like jokers in this show. Abhijeet ,Alka ,Jatin,Lalit,Aadesh , their views are dont match at all.Abhijeet tries to add some humour to the show. Over all , the show is really poor.

Sa Re Ga Ma Pa , This show has real good talent. In terms of singing , this show is way ahead than the other two. In terms of performance it is the last. Judges Himesh, Ismail Darbard, Vishal-Shekar,Bappi Lahiri are good and they seem to teach their students(the singers of the show) really well. The performance(in terms of singing) of each participant has increased drastically. One bad thing about this show , they are creating a love triangle between Aneek,Sumedha, Amanat, Which i think is not required. The judgement has always been like "Mind Blowing" "Superb" "True Play Back Singer" and so on. It would be nice to give a true feed back rather than just praising each participant every time.

Anchoring of all these shows , is very important and I think Hussian and Mini Mathur of Indian Idol do a real good job. Shaan in Star and Aditya Narayan(Udit Narayan son) in Zee do a good job but not marvelous.

In one sentence to summarizes these shows
Sony is good at presenting, Zee is true talent and Star is not twinkling.

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