Nearing top four - Saregamapa

11th Dec

The ones I remember today are Abhilasha with Daler paaji - excellent, full of energy,
then Abhilasha again with Mohe chhal ... a very, very difficult song and she did it very well.
Sugandha has always been a favourite of mine - her Hey Shona was weak today but more because of Shekhar - I love the song by Shaan, and Shekhar was not good enough, so Sugandha suffered with him. Also the beat was slower than the original. Sugandha then sang my all-time favourite Raina beeti Jaaye .. amazingly well - loved it!
Bishakk with his challenge song was good - Madhuban mein Radhika - again tough - pure classical song - remember Sonu Nigam singing it on stage years back and he was amazing, Bishakh was very, very good as well, especially in the tarana.
Kamal's ghazal was good in the end.
Ranjeet - i think I never heard his good ghazals - today I wasn't very impressed with what he sang, but the glimpses of his old ghazals made me want to catch up with them, esp Aaj jaane ki zidd na karo and the Mehdi Hasan ghazals. Ranjeet out today.