Name: Harshida Madhaparia

Age: 19

Place: Middlesex, England

About Her:

# She loves to dance and was a Boogie Woogie first runner up.
# She describes herself as an entertaining person who can make people laugh.
# She quit her studies last December to take up music seriously. She can also sing in Gujarati.
# She sings in a community band called Musky for the last six years. The band sings Bollywood songs to bhangda and garbha.

Judges’ comments

Anu: I like your voice, style and smile.
Alisha: I like your ‘rough’ voice. You are an uncut diamond.

Harshada in Indian Idol 3 – Eliminated in Piano Round on June 7

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Name: Emon Chaterjee

Age: 17

Place: Kolkata (West Bengal)

Occupation: Student (class XI)

About Emon:

# He believes he can make people happy with his music.
# He listens to music 24 hours a day.
# He has done several shows for local TV channels and has a Bengali album to his credit. His hobbies are painting and sketching.
# He loves to sleep and eat, and dreams of becoming a playback singer.
# Something he is confident about? He can make 5,000 friends in five minutes!

Judges’ comments:

Anu: I think Bengalis are very talented. You are selected

Emon’s performance at Piano Round:

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Age: 24

Place: Dhanbad (Jharkhand)

Occupation: Dentist

About Meiyang:

# This Chinese boy with an Indian heart believes he is the best and can keep an audience entertained.
# Simple and easygoing, he has never trained in music, but believes he inherited his ‘singing genes’ from his father.
# His hobbies are reading, acting in plays, sketching and making cartoons.

Judges’ comments

Anu: I love your voice, it is magical. You will make it to the top 5.
Aside: After being selected in the audition round, he celebrated by jumping into the swimming pool. At the insistence of other contestants, he repeated his act again!

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Age: 19

Place: Haryana

Occupation: Student (BSc)

About Parleen:

# He believes he is a good singer and performer.
# A trained singer, he made it to the Top 50 in Indian Idol 2.
# He loves biking, football and basketball. He also plays golf with his father.
# He wants to be a playback singer. An alternative career is in the Indian Army.

Judges’ comments:

All the judges were very impressed. No one could find any fault in his singing.
Aside: After he was selected, he stood on a table and sang Teri deewani.

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Name: Padmanav Bordoloi

Age: 18

Place: Assam (Guwahati)

Occupation: Student (Zoology)

About Padmanav:

# His dream is to ease the ailments of the unwell with his voice.
# Though he learnt music for a year from Jiten Basumapary, he had to quit because of his studies. He can sing both western and classical.
# He loves to read—both novels and spiritual books. He is greatly inspired by Mahatma Gandhi.
# He has won prizes from ISKCON for bhajan competitions. He also won the prize for best singer at a state-level classical music competition for gandharva singing on All India radio (Guwahati).
# His hobbies include acting, writing essays and reciting poetry.

Judges’ comments:

While Alisha wasn’t too convinced, he had the approval of all the others.

Padmanav in Indian Idol 3 – Eliminated in Piano Round on 6th June

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Name: Prashant Tamang

Age: 24

Place: Kolkata (West Bengal) (original-Darjeeling)

Occupation: Sepoy with Kolkata police

About Him:

# He has been singing since childhood, but has never had any formal training.
# He sings in the police orchestra. He wants to become the Indian Idol to prove himself and make the Kolkata police proud.
# He was in the Special Armed Force and has been working with the Kolkata police since 2002.
# He thinks of himself as a simple person with simple thoughts and simple living.
# In his free time, he plays pool with his friends. He also loves to play football.

Judges’ comments:

Udit: You sing well, but you need to be more original.
Aside: After his selection, he rushed out of the venue, jumple and smile.
Alisha: I like your ‘rough’ voice. You are an uncut diamond.

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Name: Pinky Maidasani

Age: 27

Place: Mumbai (Maharashtra)

Occupation: Music teacher

About Her:

# She thinks she can give Shakira, Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson a run for their money.
# She has sung in a Richard Marx documentary titled Yeh Peepul Ka Pedh Hain.
# She has won several western music competitions on FM radio.
# She plans to go to Shirdi for three days to pray for success in Indian Idol.
# She loves to dance and considers herself a good performer.

Judges’ comments:-

Anu: I like your hoarse voice.
Alisha: I know there is a hawan going on at your place. It has worked, you performed well.

Current Status at Indian Idol 3:-

Eliminated in Piano Round

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Name: Puja Chaterjee

Age: 18

Place: Jharkhand

Occupation: Student (class XII)

About Her:

# She has been learning classical singing for the last nine years.
# She studies at Emerald Heights International School, Indore. Her school has arranged for her vocal training. She learns Indian classical, western classical and instruments.
# She comes from an artistically inclined family. Her eldest sister is a painter and another sister learns kathak from Rani Karnad (Girish Karnad�s wife).

Judges’ comments:

All four of them were impressed and applauded her.

Puja Chaterjee’s performance in Piano Round:

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Name: Priyanka Mukherjee

Age: 22

Place: Kolkata (West Bengal)

Occupation: Student (Graduate)

About Her:

# She loves and lives music. She has been learning classical music for the last 10 years.
# She also loves acting and, in a talent hunt conducted by Doordarshan called Doordarshan Kalakarz, she was in the Top 4.
# She is a member of the Rafi Lovers Circle (RLC) fan club.
# Her hobbies include watching films.

Judges’ comments:

Anu: I think you look great and you have a nice voice.
Alisha: You are both beautiful and talented.

Current Status at Indian Idol 3:

Eliminated in Piano Round

Priyanka Mukherjee’s performance in Piano Round:

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