On the 11th of August, there was the Independence Day Special on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa on Zee TV with Kapil Dev being the star guest. Now the reasonable expectation is that on an Independence Day Special, there will be a lot of patriotism on display. What would make it interesting is the fact that there are 3 Pakistanis competing, and it would be difficult for Pakistanis to sing India independence songs. Now, this could be a political thing, in the sense that the Indian Independence struggle brought independence to both India and Pakistan.
However, this is still a competition involving singing, and getting voted on by the public, and while the rest of the singers sung rousing patriotic songs, these 3 folks sang songs that were either slower, or not heard before by a large section of the population. I can play these 3 songs below:
Junaid singing 'Mere Dushman Mere Bhai' from Border:
Mussarat singing 'Dil Na Lage'
Amanat Ali singing 'Ae Watan Pyare Watan' by 'Amanat Ali Khan Sahab'
Now what happened after this, for the next week where the voting results were calculated is that all of these 3 singers (and are pretty good singers) were voted to be the lowest vote getters, with one of them guaranteed to get eliminated. Now this placed the organizers in a piquant situation, after all, if suddenly all the 3 Pakistanis were rated lowest, then there would be a lot of noise about bias. At the same time, these were votes by people, who obviously did not appreciate the songs that were sung, and so voted them lowest. This led to emotional drama, and eventually a decision was taken that there was a lot of bias, a lot of rumours, and this would have made the results wrong. So, this week, nobody was eliminated, and the votes of this would be tabulated withe votes of next week to eliminate somebody next week.
See an excerpt of this drama (with audience, singers, all very emotional):
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Strange Sa Re Ga Ma Pa episode - Post Independence Day Special
Posted by Ashish Agarwal at 8/21/2007 08:14:00 PM
Labels: Competition, Hindi, Patriotic, Reality Show, Singing, TV, Video, Videos, Zee
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