Stroll # 5: Sa Re Ga Ma P(ll)a za

VINEET:

Tera Jadoo Chal Gaya
Likely his # 1 song.




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Kitna Pyaara Vaada Hai

The very first song I heard of his, and which prompted me to have a soft corner for him.
Unfortunately don't have a link to embed; you can play the song by clicking on this hyperlink -> http://www.madhaparia.com/download/Saregamapa/Vinit/Vinit(Live)%20-%20Kitna%20Pyara%20Waada%20Hai.mp3

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SUMEDHA:

Tere Bina Jiya Jaaye Na

Not quite there, but if Lata Mangeshkar hadn't sung this song before, you'd have loved this rendition more.



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Bole Chudiyan

The performance after which she got voted out. I thought the voting had not much to do with her performance. It was simply about choosing the last 4, and the audience was right to let Poonam or her go. The audience chose to let her go, before letting Poonam go in the subsequent round.



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RAJA:

Mahi Ve

I thought this performance set the standards for the sign of things to come in this particular episode. Aneek and Amanat I thought didn't do well enough in this very first round of this episode, but then picked up in later rounds till Amanat closed things in grand fashion with "Tujhse naraaz nahi zindagi".

Anyway, this particular episode surprised me for one reason - that Raja was more "consistent" than Aneek or Amanat! I always thought Raja stood for "forgotten lyrics" while Aneek, and to a lesser extent, Amanat, were the ones that had up until then stood for the word "consistent".



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Teri Deewani

This particular round was on "Friendship day" where friends of the participants were supposed to choose songs for the participants. Some friends let down their participant-friends by picking weak songs. Not in the case of Raja; his friends chose the absolute right one for Raja.



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O ree chori



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Vande Mataram

There were 2 memorable take-aways from the Independence Day episode.

One - the fact that on Independence day, you can't expect an Indian to vote for a Pakistani patriotic song and vice-versa. Voting should have ideally been skipped altogether for this episode. Luckily, the one to lose out from this was Junaid - who was on his way out anyway due to a string of weak performances.

Two - the song that set the stage on fire.. and caused me goose bumps all over .. the one below.




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Akhiyan nu chain na

I recollect this song to be from the episode where television actors/actresses pick a song for their favorite singers. The best pick I thought was for Musarrat by Prachi Desai. Perhaps the 2nd best was this one for Raja by.. I don't remember who (actually I later found out that it was Rajshree - "Saloni")