January 8, 2010

"Wah-Wah" Worthy Reality TV

I'm ashamed to admit that I'm an Indian reality TV fiend. Particularly the talent show ones. I'm aware of all the flaws and how some of the drama's fabricated, but I don't care. Two shows I'm currently following are Music Ka Maha Muqabla (MKMM) and Dance India Dance (DID). MKMM has a stellar judge line up (Shankar Mahadevan, Shreya Ghoshal, Shaan, Himmesh Reshammiya, Mohit Chauhan and Mika), but the only downfall of the show is that it's filmed in a concert atmosphere so the competition focuses on performances and hype as opposed to raw talent. It will pick up pace soon though, I hope.

I decided to post standout performances from this past weekend and will hopefully continue to do so every weekend.

Anyway here are my favorite videos from DID from this past week:

The beginning is cut off and I'm so pissed, but here's Shakti performing to Loosen Up My Buttons by the Pussycat Dolls. Because she's a trained dancer, she takes the performance from trashy sexy to pure sultry, something rarely seen in India (in my opinion). Be sure to listen to Mithun's reaction, it's hilarious:



On Saturday almost ALL the performances were amazing so this was one I could think of off the top of my head. He's pretty much captured everyone's heart. It's not that well known, but Dharmesh was the winner of Boogie Woogie's Mahayudh or maybe it was Ustaadon Ke Ustaad (can't remember the title) competition about a year maybe two ago.



America's a week behind in MMKM. Star Plus is so annoying when it comes to reality TV. Zee and Sony always have their ish up to date w/ us. Anyway here's my fave performance for the weekend:

Vineet, who was the runner up of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005 went on to participate in other singing shows such as Joh Jeeta Wohi Superstar and now MKMM. Personally, I'm not that big of a fan, but there's no denying he's talented:



More next week :)

4 comments:

  1. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete
  2. (Sorry for bombarding you but this is my take on DID 2 so far...)
    I have the hots for Dharmesh Sir....*giggles*..hmm and its kind of interestng how he looks liks remo and he also chose remo as his fave person out of the 3 lol...hmmm maybe they're related...or maybe im just hoping for some internal drama lol? I hated the drama Geeta put up after he made the "mujhse mera bhagwaan chootgaya" comment towards Remo...

    Wow, I realized I missed out last year by not following DID after seeing Prince perform (during auditions)..dahaaamn he was sooo much better than his teacher

    I have no words for Shakti's classy sexiness...

    I feel like Geeta (who reminds me so much of Sweetu whom I googled and unfortunately it isn't her) tries really hard to be like Farah Khan and also she is SUCH a Ms.Piggy and Terrance is such a Zayed Khan...dont u think? And I absolutely love Remo, he's the most genuine one out of the three...=). Oh, and is Soumya really Terrance's sister or was that just a lame joke that they were making?

    Also, during the auditions I was so confused when one kid from one region got a taqdeer ki topi while some 13 yr old from Baroda got rejected..? It was so weird...there should just be a limit for all regions not select regions..=S

    I heart Punit and loved Nikitasha's fusion and her song selection,
    And I am so glad that Ameeth faught for his chance that day...he is a wonderful dancer, totally Govinda-like...but I feel like he's typecasting himself into just a Telegu Dancer..he needs to do more styles...And I also really like Melvin...and I feel like Bhavna is mediocre and needs to work harder and I feel like Meenu is improving so much already...she was good to start off with and on top of it she did such an amazing job with the Catwoman act....I also like Shashank a lot...so very graceful...Naresh is good but like Bhavna, I feel he's mediocre..needs to work a lot harder to stay in! Kishore is Uh-mazing...And Teena is totally hottt...I loved her Ring Ring Ringa dance!!! My fave couple performance so far was Kunwar and Shakti...they did it PERFECTLY...yeah Kunwar is a hottie and performs really well...he stood out in front of his girlfriend during the auditions and Shakti is just a sexy graceful mama lol..

    Remember swamyashiri. (I feel it's appropriate to mention her)..she was soooo funnyyy i loved her hahaha omg she reminded me of Rizzu beeee...and I totally loved the victory dance by her and her husband..I watched it twice haha...

    *DO NOT READ THE FOLLOWING IF YOU ARE NOT CURRENTLY CAUGHT UP*
    |
    |
    |
    |
    |
    |
    |
    v





    All right so the latest: I totally disagree with both Ameeth and Kishore being voted lowest and on the kasowti....but if it came down between the two...I would definitely say Ameeth is weaker...but I think neither of them should be on the kasowti...I think Parvez and some other dudes were worse than Ameeth...Kishore being selected totally took me by surprise cuz he was the best performer that night on Remo's Rangeele =S...aahhh let's just wait and see what happens!!!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Yes Vineet is good, indeed, but I absolutely love Harshit, Aishwarya, Rehman, and Shadab...and so far my fave teams would be Shaan and Shreya..

    DO NOT READ BELOW IF YOU ARE NOT CAUGHT UP:

    |
    |
    |
    |
    V
    omggggg I am sooo happy for Shaan's genuine win against Shreya...they both were awesome but Shaan really needed that win and I love how his wife and kids were there rooting him on!! =)

    ReplyDelete
  4. i lied i like hemani n aumay as well as toshi and sharib

    ReplyDelete