Monday, December 1, 2008

What matters most Popularity or Talent: Looks, Talent or Hype (Part 3)


Last week's tragic incident at Mumbai had disturbed a lot as you can see I didn't make any on post on my blog topic. However from this week onward I'll be posting everything about the "Indian Idol Show" until the next terrorist attack happens in India. Mumbai people seems to have got pretty much used to these kind of things as we can see the same crowd and busyness around the terror hit areas.

I am just kind of confused today about what should I write about Prashant Tamang. Are you people Wondering who is he? Well let me just give a brief introduction about him.

Prashant Tamang:

Claim to fame: Winner of Indian Idol (Season 3)

Profession: A constable with Kolkata Police before winning Indian Idol.

Voice quality: Not sure. Good with a particular form of songs but not so confident with every song.

Musical Training: Don't know

Musical career: Used to sing for a band of Kolkata police in order to entertain higher ranked officers.

How did he became Indian Idol? No one knows.



There were lots of speculation going on at the time when Prashant Tamang became the winner of "Indian Idol 3". One thing is for sure that it was definitely not talent that won him the contest. There were a lot more talented people participated along with him some of them really deserved to be the winner. It was really amazing to see that he didn't even appeared at the danger zone for a single time instead of performing horribly in some episode. This is where I would like to protest the system of public voting cause most of the people in India don't have enough knowledge about music so how can leave the the decision to them when it comes to choosing your Indian Idol. I have even heard rumors that at north eastern regions in India it became a political issue and people are being forced to vote for Prashant. Whatever it is but Prashant Tamang surely was not the deserving contestant to win the "Indian Idol" and I strongly protest the idea of public voting in this case.

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