Wednesday, January 14, 2009

A Letter to Padmhasini

This is addressing Padmhasini (as a fall-out to Chinmayee's post on her blog)

You have been very prolific in your show (Airtel Super Singer)!! And you have built a special niche spot for yourself in the show particularly when the show is all about abundance of talent...contestants, judges....where the level of talent is of the next level. I think you have kick started a new clan of MC / Compere / on the tele who are suave, swift in reaction based on the mood of the show, very very competent with the stuff that you are appointed for!!

We appreciate all of this and have started to expect more of this professional MCing from other so-called comperes / glam girls and felt sorry for them. Similar shows in other teles have sloppy compereing....which made me feel that you though being an amateur in Compereing; have brought a breeze of professionalism to this art, be it dress-sense; be it cheering the contestants; be it franchising the tag-line of the show in different tones in differing situations to suit the mood of the show!!; be it jelling well along with the contestants and singing along with them, playing pranks with the terror trio!!; be it the minimum amount of interference with the judgement inspite of being an authority in music yourself; be it the quality of being leastly jarring by way of an MC; be it the poise with which you have been using your bi-linguistic skills equally competent; be it the use of godspeed and shabba khair!!

All of this are the ones that we have felt along the journey called Airtel Super Singer along with you in the past year or so!!!

Its a shame that you are having to part with the show at this peaking part of the show..We will miss you....and yes, needless to say the remaining 8 contestants would miss you as well!!!

Wishing you good luck and we look forward to seeing you in some other show very soon!!!

-Rajesh Prakasam

4 comments:

Ramesh said...

We will miss Raginishree too. ;-)

Thanks Chinmayi.

Anonymous said...

Hi Rajesh..surprised to know that you are in Edinburgh and what more in banking industry...i really thought there wont be many people here who would be watching super singer...my brother is one of the finalist...n m still at a state of shock seeing ur location edinburgh..r u still in orkut? take care and enjoy the chilly winter!

Anonymous said...

Thank you very much Rajesh. Feel immensely obliged.

Anonymous said...

ok...she shrieked in b/w the songs...who cares abt the copere, the one right nowis a couple moron and her accent from wherever on hell that came from....get to the singers....that is all...chinmayee sings well no doubt but not a talent of talents..she is in the good league that is all....nasal singing...