10-04-08

Tere Bina

Raja appeared on a show called; 'Ustaadon Ka Ustaad' - This show features a variety of stars from different fields and rival TV reality shows, who are pitted against one another to see who comes out as the victor, they were being judged by three different judges, Shekhar Suman, Saroj Khan and Javed Akhtar.  It was a small show in scale - lasting only a week or so culminating in a Grand Finale on the 20th April 2008. 

Anyway, for this episode, Raja sang 'Tere Bina' which I didn't personally feel was the greatest song out of the songs that he sang in SRGMP 2007 but, he did it justice nevertheless...

After his performance, Raja was told by judge Javed Akhtar, that he needs to embrace songs that have more of a younger and modern sound as oppose to really old traditional style songs.  Saroj Khan swiftly agreed stating that Raja's voice hasn't reached the level and depth of singing that the original song had, but Shekhar, was brimming full of compliments, stating that, in his opinion, Raja is a very complete and accomplished singer, he further goes on to say that oftentimes judges try to find flaws in something that is flawless, and even if they were to bring on a host of legendary singers to make a judgement on, that the judges would even find a flaw within their singing!!!  Shekhar states in a 'matter of factly' tone, that a great singer to him, is someone that can touch ones heart and Raja does this beautifully! Awww!

Let's see what you all think of Raja's effort?!