Karnataka - Bangalore   

A shower of goodwill for bathroom singers

Money for jam: Contest winner Raju Philip (centre) being awarded in Bangalore.

BANGALORE: The divine Ella Fitzgerald loved her man who sang off-key and so did a whole lot of shoppers here in Bangalore.

The city sees many events each day but there are some that are so intrinsically fun-filled that they elicit smiles from everyone, even the organisers themselves. The Best Bathroom Singer, an innovative and fun-filled event, was held at The Home Town, Marathalli, on Saturday as part of its ongoing shopping festival.

“This innovative concept was born out of a desire to give even the bad singers a chance, considering that good singers get so many platforms. We just wanted to have some fun,” Shruthi Rashinkar, Marketing Executive, Home Town, said.

The contestants ranged from homemakers, marketing executives to IT professionals. RJ Rohit from 92.7 BIG FM, who was the judge, urged participants to “sound similar to a donkey” and “to imagine that they are in a bathroom with clothes on”. Entrants were judged on their confidence level, appropriate use of props and on being the “real bathroom singer”. The props that could be used were a mirror, bathtub, commode, and a shower cubicle among others. Participants sang the old Hindi rock ‘n’ roll number “Aa aa aaja...” immortalised by the great Rafi and Shammi Kapoor. Only, they were seated on the commode and crooned to themselves in the shower cubicle. sending the audience clutching their stomachs and wiping tears of merriment. Raju Philip, adjudged the Best Bathroom Singer, won a gift voucher of Rs. 5,000 from Home Town. He said he was pleased as he had done many stage shows even in his college days. His impressions of actors such as Shatrughan Sinha and Sanjay Dutt were an instant hit with the audience.

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Stories in this Section

AI ticket scheme for corporates
A shower of goodwill for bathroom singers
Try Balkan food for a change
COMED-K: only 387 engineering seats chosen
Stir puts a brake on Metro work
Opposed
An exhortation to act
Nothing fishy about this meet
Swine flu: Samsung staff test negative
Applications
Residents stage protest against BBMP decision
Many complain of milk curdling after heating
Engineer’s relatives to meet Chief Minister
Review of power situation today
Student’s death: staff to stand by UAS decision
Two crushed to death
KASSIA plea
Soccer player ends life
SUCI demand
L. Raja Rao remembered
Condemned
Elderly couple found murdered
Bangalore Today

Copyright © 2009, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu