At last, the awaited winner of the top music reality series, ‘Indian Idol 5′ is has been announced. The winner has just been declared to be “Sriram”, chosen carefully by the audience and the three judges : Suniti Chauhan, Anu Kapoor and Saleem Merchant. Obviously, most of us knew that he was the most deserving one!
The top three finalists of Indian Idol 5 were : Bhumi from Gujarat, Sriram from Secundrabad and Rakesh from Punjab.
Many contestants, apart from the top three, like Swaroop Khan and more, were present for the grand finale. Swaroop Khan in fact was renamed today as “Sher Khan” by judge, Suniti Chauhan
Many special guests like the award winning singer, Shankar Mahadevan, and the best performer of a drama queen character, Kareeena Kapoor, actress Kirron Kher and one of the greatest personalities from India, Mr. Amitabh Bachchan were called upon for this awaited moment as to when the singing Idol of the nation would be declared
The show has been going on for a while, actually the while has been even longer. Indian Idol 5 started being aired in April and today stands to be its concluding terminal.
The event went on for about three hours from 9 pm to 11 pm on Sony channel.
All the contestants marked the 55th Independence Day with beautiful patriotic performances.
The only female contestant from the top three contestants, Bhumi, was selected to be the ‘Radio Mirchi Jockey’.
As it is, Sriram has already recorded a duet with singer, Shreya Ghoshal, from Salim Merchant’s latest movie. His parents were present for the finale and seemed in complete support of theprospective ‘Indian Idol 5′.
The three contestants got to play the opportunity of a lifetime, to play Big B’s own game, “Kaun Banega Crorepati” with him. Only this time, role reversals took place. Mr. Bachchan for the first time, sat on the hot seat and answered the three individual questions of the contestants.
Mr. Bachchan also wrote a poem for the top three contestants, which he chose to humbly recite to the audience
Amitabh Bachchan (born October 11, 1942) is an Indian actor. He was born in Allahabad, India The eldest son of Harivanshrai Bachchan, a well known poet, and Teji Bachchan, he was brought up in the rich tradition of the arts. He did his schooling at Sherwood College in Nainital and went on to Delhi University to earn a science degree. His first film was Saat Hindustani and he has since made over a hundred films in a career that included such box office successes as Zanjeer, Deewar, Sholay and Amar Akbar Anthony. Amitabh Bachchan is most famous for introducing into Hindi cinema, the character of the "angry young man" in stark contrast to the more romantic characters being played by his contemporaries Amitabh Bachchan retired from the film industry to briefly enter politics by winning a seat in parliament from his hometown of Allahabad. However, his political career was short lived. Amitabh returned to Bollywood by founding his own production company called Amitabh Bachchan Corporation Limited (ABCL)