New Delhi: After the controversy brought on by Kishore Kumar’s son Amit Kumar’s derogatory feedback on Indian Idol 12 after he appeared on the present as a visitor, veteran singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya just lately gave his opinion on the identical in an interview with an leisure portal.
Taking about Amit Kumar’s feedback, he advised Peeping Moon, “There is no controversy. I spoke to Amit Kumar ji after the incident. Firstly, he didn’t say the statement on camera. It was neither a video nor audio. People trusted what print media told them. It was blown out of proportion unnecessarily”.
Bhattacharya, who featured in a latest episode of the present, additionally praised the contestants and said that the singers are immensely gifted.
“They took me back to the ’90s. They have to present something new every weekend. Every episode has a different theme, songs and they have to mould themselves according to it. They are singing different songs belonging to different genres. It is very difficult,” he added.
For the unversed, Abhijeet was talking on the controversy sparked by Amit Kumar’s feedback on an Indian Idol episode devoted to his father, Kishore Kumar.
In May, Amit Kumar was requested to touch upon the flak Indian Idol 12 judges Neha Kakkar and Himesh Reshammiya obtained for that episode which the followers deemed as an ‘below-average episode’. He stated to ETimes, “Haan, mujhe malum hai. I didn’t enjoy the episode at all.”
Amit Kumar additional stated, “Okay, frankly, I wanted to stop the episode. Do you know there was a programme K for Kishore and it came to an end after some time? Who ended it? I asked them to wind up. I told them to stop the nonsense as it was going haywire and boring.”
Currently, Indian Idol is in its twelfth season and is hosted by Aditya Narayan. It is being judged by Neha Kakkar and Himesh Reshammiya.
