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Histronics (have you heard in any show about terrible but cute host getting kissed on the show ? ) and contracts and emotionally charged over exaggerating shouting over the top “gurus” aside, Saregamapa is still immensely watchable for me for the singing talent it has. And also since it was a show I used to regularly watch pre-sms era. Though the names behind the show, like Gajendra Singh and Shaan have moved on to Star, I watched episodes of saregamapa. I tried watching Amul Voice of India in Star but due to the timing and the darkness of the set I fall asleep and the bright colourful set of Saregamapa along with the over the top performances of gurus of Saregamapa help me keep awake (and of course there is a repeat show in the day time plus entire show’s video is online).

Coming to the point of the post, last week I found all the 8 people in the Brahmastra round (or whatever round) in which only 2 would be taken forward.

My picks are Sarika and Raja Hasan. Sarika is the same lady who fainted on the stage after a biased judgement ( by Asha) . She sang extremely well in this round too and more I liked was her way - irritatingly innocent way - of asking for votes. Thats how my niece of 4 year old would have asked for votes chocolates !

She does have serious competition from Shaberi who has already bagged a singing contract from Visha-Shekar. And Vishal-Shekar are the most sensible and watchable gurus over there (save Bappi Da who is neutral most times). Lets not talk about Himesh (for there are conflictingly diametrically different opinions, and any stance I take is dangerous !), and his partner in crime Ismail. More about them some other time and oh I am digressing. Just wanted to say, really love the way Vishal-Shekar enjoy the music.

Among the boys, again there are very talented ones but Raja Hassan is my pick. He pulled out an unintentional emotional card which should easily give him more votes but that should not take away any credit from his ability. He is gifted, period.

And the Bengali contest winner really got the pulse of the crowd and since he is already qualified to move further, should be a tough competitor to others.

Here are the videos of Sarika (I wanted to post the way she asked for votes!) and Raja Hassan :

Playing chess the virtual way.

More videos here. Bill Gates shows Surface. Official site with demos

More than the touch screen (which we had already seen earlier) what impressed me was the way the devices interact. Placing a credit card would enable to make payment from it, placing a camera would get those pictures, communicating with phones/music player - that was super cool.

Many (like here) are of the opinion that she might be good at only item songs. My opinion will be biased Anyways below is the song which is little musical. Also don’t forget she has done a Bhajan album too.

Mauli, with her brother Omkar had her first Bhajan album (CD) titled “Prabhu Tare Pagathiye” released in September 2006.

Yand here is “Lag ja gale” by Mauli Dave.

So what do you think ?

Asha too felt Mouli could sing some other kind of song to exploit her talent completely, other songs like romantic or sad. I am not convinced about romantic songs but sad songs, yes. (romantic-sad songs, double yes!).

Here is Bahon Main Chale Aaon:

For more songs like Kaisi Paheli, Deeda de check out here

If BappiDa you are reading this blog, I want you to suggest her sing “aap ki nazaron ne samja”, “baharon phool barsao”, “choti si asha”, “barso re”. Or even “tere bin” of Atif

Just wondering why she did not take part in American Idol. If Malakar
could produce so much of noise, this girl surely could have done better ?!

This girl totally rocks. Her voice, body-language, variation of voice, selection of songs. Sure finalist and may be a winner too.

More info was found here.

* She was finalist in ‘Boogie Woogie, Chalo America’. dance competition organized by Sony TV in the year 2003.

* In August, 2006, during participation in NRI Antakshari organized by Annu Kapoor, Mauli’s singing talent was much appreciated by all the visiting members from Mumbai. Annu Kapoor expressed that she has lots of potential and deserves better platform.

Mayya mayya:

Rasiya :

I have written about this here, and about a book on Feynman here.
And one of my favorite quotes by the man is

You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world, but when you’re finished, you’ll know absolutely nothing whatever about the bird… So let’s look at the bird and see what it’s doing — that’s what counts. I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.

I have written about this earlier here.

[Via Creative Criminal]

Thinking of having a section of my favorite videos….I had this idea before Orkut introduced