Farah Khan said this on previous Indian Idol and it applies the best to Prashant this year.
"I hope the people of India realize that they have to vote for someone who will represent the country. It's high time we started acting in a mature manner instead of being emotional fools."
Are Indians really fools to select Prashant? Amit is so much better singer. All people who know music have said that.
Yuvraj gets one crore for doing a miracle, hitting six sixes in an over. and the same one crore going to Prashant seems like a gross injustice. In all ways Amit deserved better than this.
This is the difference between an educated mature society like America and immature and highly uneducated society like India. In American Idol even if Blake was more popular People saw that Jordin sang better and she won.
In India forget about a Woman even reaching the final three in Idol, Saregamapa, morons vote for their own state rather than the real talent.
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by rosy khan on Sep 26, 2007 12:45 AM Permalink
true...very true. i still cant believe how prashant made it to top 13! and now that he has won..i assure th music world to get ready to do some hard work!
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by LPY on Sep 26, 2007 03:58 AM Permalink
It is truely unbelievable my family is under state of shock and still sometimes just out of blue say %u201CHow can Prshant win?%u201D and we are fairly musical family have been singing and giving programs for many years now. I have never heard anyone sing Nasha ye Pyaar ka Nashaa hai and many other songs as good as Amit he did even better than udit Narayan. He just sounds so good. Those singers in SAREGAMAPA got singing contracts I hope Amit gets some he is better than most of Saregamapa singers.
Even John Abraham looked shocked, when he opened the box.
Prahant should have gone even before Deepali, Pooja, Ankita and Emon. even Abhishek (Ek Chatur naar) Emon too got a very raw deal from Javed Akhtar very bad of Javed Akhtar to say such nasty things to him. When Chang said that he and Prashant could go he was right.
It should have been between Emon and Amit or Deepali and Amit and any winner would have been a fair winner. But this guy Prashant though a good guy seemed to be a hidden manipulator. Prahsant an INDIAN IDOL Come ON!!
Why are the Indians so regionalized? We take pride in our music but we are so cheap and shallow that when it comes to supporting a real talent we support the person only from our state. Not Chak de but Sharm de India !!
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by on Sep 28, 2007 02:01 AM Permalink
Regionalisim is everywhere in india.from cricket to ploitics ,from ploitics to any form of administration.when a south indian made as a captian of cricket team he is not given cooperation but all is fine when somebody from north zone is made.In the previous in the indian idol, karuniya was declined on the basis of regionalisim ,even in soaps ,tv shows,competitions etc people are judged by their states they represent.and we talk about the racial discrimination in uk towards shlipa shetty in a tv show and make such huge fuss out of it .without looking back at our own backs in india. we indians are double standarded people and deny to accept our mistakes and faults and try to project ourselves as heros at international dias.today a person is declined ,rejected in every feild due to his religion, caste and location but nobody bothers to care about it. so same must have happend in the case of prashant also ,who knows.
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by marien Khanna on Oct 04, 2007 03:06 PM Permalink
You know onething in India, many people are born to comment, even without knowing anything. I think you are one of them. If you are from so called musical family why dont you participate in the event like this.You dont know how to respect the elders. You are speaking against Javed Aktar. I think your whole family is mad.Even days back people start talking against Sachin Tendulkar. Can India produce a player like him. What the bullshit you people are talking yaar. At least appreciate the things which has been offer to you. Sorry boss. Never comment further.
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by TB Subba on Sep 26, 2007 09:26 PM Permalink
Shame! not on the decision of making Prshant the Indian Idol 3 but on an Indian like you who look more racist and communal. people like you are spoilsport for unity and integrity of the great country, i.e. India. From your remarks it appears that u have more affinity towards a foreign country like US than your own country. It is really a shame to you. Shameeeee Shameeeeeee Shameeeeeee
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by LPY on Sep 27, 2007 02:58 AM Permalink
TB Subba Shame,
You don't know the meaning of communal what the people did for Prashat's state did was communal they suppressed the real talent like Amit, Emon, Pooja, Deepali, Ankita etc. and made Prashant Indian Idol by Immoral means.
Since you support such dividing politics you are the root of such corrupt system
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by on Sep 25, 2007 12:22 PM Permalink
u can find scores of guys who can sing as good as if not better than amit if you go to clubs/hotels in any big indian cities. the kinds who can do pretty wonderful covers but have no originality. and if u talk about showmanship i give him fraction of points prashat will get. he always looked nervous and unsure abt himself, even after all the favor frm the guy called Javed and a Paula Abdul wanna be cougar named Alisa (sorry cheng). any person with a little bit of self respect will be ashamed to see that indian Idol choose such people to be judges. in honesty amit was a good guy. but he lacked confidence and star power. to make the things worse the judges biasness killed any chances amit had. may be they forgot they r in the 21st century india where there is discrimination against race, religion, cast or region.
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by LPY on Sep 26, 2007 04:08 AM Permalink
I think your first post was correct Mr. no name!!
There will always be good singers somewhere on the earth but we are talking about the ones in Indian Idol.
There is (still) so much discrimination based on Race, Religion, Gender and especially STATE that they bury the real talent
I agree about Javed A. and Alisa C. but Anu Malik though brash was true he said several times that Amit you are the Indian Idol. And he said that from true feelings. He was overwhelmed when Amit sang Nasha Ye Pyaar Ka Nasha hai.
I am neither from Shilong nor from Meghalaya but this is a lesson for for all to never support any thing based on groupism and harm the real talent.
In Saregamapa too Musarrat sang better then Raja but he had to go Raja has been consistently singing badly recently but he is still in. In American Idol some people tried to sabotage by voting for Sanjaya but eventually the real democracy prevailed while in India still it is not real democracy.
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by on Sep 28, 2007 01:28 PM Permalink
"I am neither from Shillong nor from Meghalaya"-->just goes out to prove how well you know your country...focus on learning more about your country first dear...:-)
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by on Oct 09, 2007 07:12 PM Permalink
the person who wrote this message should be shame. yes, i sccept that there was much better singers that prashant is. though prashant is the best. he has a brillant voice with a great singing.others were better but i coesnt mean that he is not good, his singing touches everyone's heart. if it is the thing then there is also a question of mona singh. if she is respected as a winner then prashant should be too.no matter what ever anyone says but i love prashant.... i think you sont like him cause he is from nepali origin.even he is from nepali origin he is an indian and just an indian army
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by aamarpali puri on Sep 25, 2007 10:33 PM Permalink
Dear you are 101% right selecting prashant is wrong. All those people say that they can sing better then Amit are actually jealous. Regarding nervousness or anxiety is concerned it is natural thing and prashant a trained commando knows how to hide his expressions. Amit is original as far as voice and feelings are concerned. the night when result were declared prashant tamang was singing song of daler mehndi was pronouncing Ash as Ass and cash as cass . Prashant was the only contetant who never improved himself as far his pitch and pronounciation was concerned. So at last I just want to say that he won because he got support of crore pati MPs and Cops. Prashant is good person but as a singer he stands no where in front of Amit. At the end I wish All the best to Amit and Congratualtions to Prashant. Dr.Aamarpali
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by marien Khanna on Oct 04, 2007 02:52 PM Permalink
Dr. Amarpali, Please dont mind i have to say something on you. I am from Orissa and my pronounciation is differ from you.Does it mean a different meaning. Do you understand what does it mean by saying indian idol.A nepali boy singing hindi song so beutifully i think its a pride,which you people will not understand.Please never bring politics into it. He is a poor guy, working in police.Please just keep your mouth mum. Dont give any false comment. Yes i do agree Amit is a good singer too.
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by Alan Mehta on Sep 26, 2007 04:01 AM Permalink
You have some serious growing up to do. Stop being a sour puss. Prashant won BECAUSE the people voted for him. This, my dear fellow, is how a democratic process works. India is a democratic society. Denigrating India because your favourite did not win is simple immaturity on your part.
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by LPY on Sep 27, 2007 03:05 AM Permalink
Alan Mehta,
Please stop patronizing people, you have no idea about Indian democracy right? As your name suggest you probably are a convert one leg abroad and one in India. I will not complete here the dialogue of Rang de Basanti. But psudo%u2019s like you are more suitable for sitting in a corner in an arm chair watching Sas Bahu serials
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by sansu bhagwat on Sep 25, 2007 12:18 PM Permalink
its not shame its fame. u r simply jealous of prashant victory.kya kare competition me koi dhoti nahi thaha na.now the game is over and winner is winner.jo jeeta wohi sikandar. ur commets make no diffrence.so stop shouting like fool.
