Total Crap

Richa Aneja the 16 yr old from Amritsar is th first casualty of the Galas.
Ever since the time I saw her at the theater round, her falling out with Prashant Tamang in the duet round, I have been hoping that she should go. It was based on me not liking her personality, felt she made a fuss and that she was childish. But today when she was eliminated I actually felt bad. Not because she was eliminated. That was a long overdue. I felt for her because she has come to this stage of the competition, singing in the same 16 yr old voice. She was even complemented on several occasions for this very fact and it became her USP. Now, at this stage of the Galas, the judges start stressing on this fact. Javed Akhtar alone pointed out that at this stage it made no sense to criticize her for something not in her hands. He alone was saying that she was not ready for playback singing in the earlier round. Anu Malik tells her now.
Unfortunately for her the audience listened to him. Basically, what has been done is she has been told, "You sing really well, better than many of these other people. But, we are sending you home because you are a kid."
If they felt she was so underdeveloped, they should have spotted this in the audition itself, not made a big deal of it now.