Originally Posted by Bluffmaster
It Sucks.
lol
to be fair, if you go by singing then the other version(saregamapa) has better singers.
Other than a couple of people on this versions Indian idol, no one else looks like a guy who will set the stage on fire. And the choice of judges is not that good. Indian Idol targets to find performers, people with attitude and the present lot of judges are nowhere suitable. Jaaved Akhtar is way too old, Udit Narayan doesn't have an opinion, or if he has he can't express it. Either way he comes across as a guy who is misfit for idol(maybe for the other show he might have been better). Alisha looks great but is a poor match. And Anu Malik's absenteeism has certainly not helped at all.
Bottomline the last years judges expressed a bit of youthness which was the idea of Indian Idol. Its just not been the same after the first version.