Ooh La La La

Been checking out Rahman's talent hunt show every Sunday night on Sun TV. A pretty decent show. Every week 3 bands participate and jam for 2 rounds. One round is for cover versions (strangely, they use the word remix!) and the other is the own comp(osition) round. One band goes through to the next stage. Thankfully, each of the judges Paul Jacob, Vasundhara Das and Sivamani is/was part of bands and understandably, they are not the typical "attitude/expression" freaks. Atleast not yet.
While some of the music may be tagged as confusion, the standard has been good overall. The production of the show itself looks so unlike Sun TV.
In the last episode i watched, the band lead by singer Kalyani performed a very interesting cover of "Nee Paartha Paarvaikkoru Nandri", but lost out by a whisker as the ending of the song was rather abrupt.
Its heartening to see bands like these from Chennai. I thought the only jamming we get these days in Chennai/Bangalore is of the head-banging brain dead modern metal kind.