India singing

Singing is the new hobby of India these days, or so it seems. Every TV channel is preparing a new singing sensation that will rock India. And every Indian is preparing itself to become the latest singing sensation.

Let us count the number of shows that are busy churning the great Indian singing talent. Sony has started a whole new season of Indian Idol 3. Zee TV has waged a world war with its show Sa Re Ga Ma and Star Plus is going to compete with its new show.

Indian Idol has 4 judges, almost 10 million singers (the number may be even more!) and two hosts. Anu Malik is the head judge and he is being assisted by three other judges, Alisha Chenoy, Udit Narayan and Javed Akhtar. All the three judges ( Anu, Udit and Alisha), except Javed Akhtar (perhaps), are jobless.

Anu Malik has nothing to do, so he waits patiently, every year, for the new season of Indian Idol. He behavior on the show is close to being rude, and it appears that Mr. Malik feels that without him, the Indian Film Industry would have been song less, or would have been deprived of music. He pretends to be the Mozart of the Indian Music but some of the participants, whom he has rejected, sing better them him. My advise to Anu: Please, please forgive us, for all our sins and retire. We don't want to see you.

Alisha Chenoy gets another chance to showcase her omphs and ahs. She does nothing else, she will do nothing else. No point talking of her.

Udit is freash from the lawsuit filed by her legal wife. He is unemployed..wonder when he sang his last song.... He does nothing on the show-----mujhe lagta hai...un, un, un, apko mumbai aana chahiye---un, un, un, phir mein sochhta hun---un, un, nahi. Oh god! give me a beak.

Mr Akhtar is yet to show his antics. I am waiting.
Do you by any chance know who was the last Indian Idol or what happened to our first idol Mr. Abhijit Sawant. I bet you don't have any clue. Don't worry, you don't need to know.

My Question: Does the 21st century India need a singing idol to take it to the world scene?

I have refrained myself from commenting on the other two shows simply because I have not seen them, nor I intent to do so. Forgive me, all you singing giants. These shows do nothing good to us. They are simply a crude way of playing on the Indian sensibility to churn money.

Cheers
Kundan