Friday, December 09, 2005

Stop It Himesh!

I don't know how many of you follow Saregamapa Challenge 2005 at Zee Tv, but these days(and earlier too) it is the best programme amongst all the musical shows on the television as far as quality of singers is concerned.

Not that it hasn't had its share of controversies. First there was a fight between Adesh Srivastava and Ismail Durbar which went on to alarmic proportions. Then there were some judges who took the occasion to stamp their undue importance - worst of all was Daler Mehndi. On one episode Adesh Srivastava openly, and rudely questioned the decision of one of the senior and fair judge - Khayyam.

But currently, another controversy is brewing which is soon going to take catastrophic proportions for one of the Himesh Reshamia's talented contestants - Vinit. And it is ironic that Himesh is himself, though unknowingly, causing damage to his prospects in this programme.

Vinit is extremely talented contestant who has always taken a 'green card' on his first attempt. In the voting round as well, he has topped the past two weeks, and this week he is close second. He his definitely amongst top four along with Nihira, Himani and Hemchandra.

But Himesh Reshamia has started over promoting him in this programme. He his paranoid over certain things for eg. the hat he always dons. On every performance he wants Vinit to wear a hat too. Then, he always comes to stage just before Vinit's performance and talks junk about expectations, lucky hat etc. When the performance is over, he will go on to use words like "superb", "fantastic", "excellent".

Initially, he didn't use to do this. This was provoked by the ever-trouble-maker Adesh Srivastava. When Adesh's one of the contestants was outperformed by Vinit in one of the rounds, he begin to question Vinit's singing and voice quality. Himesh got fed up of this tirade, and begin promoting Vinit's talent big way. He has already made him sing the songs of the movie Rocky, and has also promised him three songs of another movie.

So far so good, but his new antics on the programme are beginning to go over the top. People are getting irritated. This is affecting Vinit's popularity and votes. Two weeks back, he got 28% votes, last week 18%, and this week 14%, though he has sung well all along. This way he is going to sink further.

Somebody, please enlighten Himesh Reshamia about this statistic resulting due to his folly. I won't be surprised if Vinit's gets ousted in this contest in next few episodes though I sincerely want him to win among the boys.

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