{"id":5539,"date":"2007-06-06T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=1105"},"modified":"2007-06-06T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T07:22:00","slug":"bhavin-dhanak-meiyang-chang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/bhavin-dhanak-meiyang-chang\/","title":{"rendered":"Bhavin Dhanak. Meiyang Chang."},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sticking my neck out: the two guys named in the headline of this post will reach the final three of this year’s Indian Idol. The third will either be Emon Chatterjee—good singer but a bit kiddish—or Parleen Singh Gill, who I see as a dark horse. There will be no girls in the final three, as much because of the bias against girls in the last two seasons that I spoke about here<\/a>, as because none of the girls this time seem to be a complete package<\/a>. All the boys I named are likable, and sing well, and that’s the ticket.<\/p>\n

However, they have the lottery of the next two rounds to get through first. Last night, three out of 12 girls were eliminated, and this evening three boys will get a ticket home. I think there’s a fair bit of luck involved at this stage, as the supporters of a good singer might feel complacent, and criticism of a bad singer might just propel that person’s supporters to vote furiously. I’m assuming that’s why the excellent Aisha Sayed got eliminated, and the much-criticised and mediocre Vartika Shukla stayed in the contest. If Indian Idol had the voting mechanism of Bigg Boss<\/a>, and viewers had to vote to throw people out instead of to keep them in, the results would be different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sticking my neck out: the two guys named in the headline of this post will reach the final three of this year’s Indian Idol. The third will either be Emon Chatterjee—good singer but a bit kiddish—or Parleen Singh Gill, who I see as a dark horse. There will be no girls in the final three, as much because of the bias against girls in the last two seasons that I spoke about here<\/a>, as because none of the girls this time seem to be a complete package<\/a>. All the boys I named are likable, and sing well, and that’s the ticket.<\/p>\n

However, they have the lottery of the next two rounds to get through first. Last night, three out of 12 girls were eliminated. I think there’s tremendous luck involved at this stage, as the supporters of a good singer might feel complacent, and criticism of a bad singer might just propel that person’s supporters to vote furiously. I’m assuming that’s why the excellent Aisha Sayed got eliminated, and the much-criticised and mediocre Vartika Shukla stayed in the contest. If Indian Idol had the voting mechanism of Bigg Boss<\/a>, and viewers had to vote to throw people out instead of to keep them in, the results would be different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,56],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nBhavin Dhanak. 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