New Delhi: Indian-American singing sensation Sanjaya Malakar making it through the successive rounds of popular TV show American Idol has evoked mixed reactions.
"Regular Idol watchers, and there are 30 million of us, know that Sanjaya Malakar is an abysmally untalented contestant who not only survives elimination week after week but actually seems to become more popular. He is the worst singer among the finalists, by far," Eugene Robinson wrote in the Op-Ed pages of The Washington Post.
Terming his voice as "weak" Robinson wrote Sanjaya dances as if he has restless "leg syndrome"
"But Sanjaya is undeniably cute. And he has a world-class head of hair, which he styles a different way each week – the apotheosis, thus far, was an indescribable 'faux-hawk.' Wielding his lush locks and his charismatic smile like weapons of mass destruction, Sanjaya has conquered television's biggest show in a demonstration of force majeure that recalls Saddam Hussein's blitzkrieg of Kuwait," he wrote.
Robinson also criticised the judges of the TV show and said, "They should stop worrying about what impact their comments might have on the Sanjaya sympathy vote".
More talented singers are voted off the show, one by one, while Sanjaya survives. In the process, he seems to have grown from a shy, tentative 17-year-old into some kind of passive-aggressive monster, he adds.
Malakar, whose staying power has come under varying degrees of derisive comments and expressions of surprise including from himself, will be back next week hoping to stay on perhaps till the current season ends in May.
(With inputs from PTI)
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