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The winner of the first season of music reality show Indian Idol, Abhijeet Sawant, talked to BollywoodLife about how focus on ‘extra elements’ has deteriorated the quality of Indian Idol.
“Duration of extra elements used to be short at our time. But more relevance is being given to these elements today. They must give challenging work to the contestants. When you work more on other elements, the level of singing goes down. This is my biggest issue or concern. We must spend more time on singing.” said Abhijeet.
Abhijeet also talked about the fake romantic angles on Indian Idol referring to the promos suggesting the wedding of host Aditya Narayan and judge Neha Kakkar.
He revealed, “Every such element was fake in season 11, I have no clue about this season.We need to balance such creative ideas with singing. We must be famous because of our singing and not because of these stories.”
Indian Idol 12 also got caught in the middle of a huge controversy after its Kishore Kumar tribute episode. Amit Kumar, the son of Kishore Kumar was invited as a guest judge on the show. He later admitted that he ‘didn’t enjoy the episode at all’ and was just following the team’s instructions. He also said that ge was forced to praise the contestants even though he didn’t like their singing.