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"The Great Indian Laughter Challenge - II" will be back this February with a few surprises. RANA SIDDIQUI speaks to some folks with a funny bone
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WIZARDS OF WIT "Originality" is the key word while deciding, feel the judges Shekhar Suman and Navjot Singh Sidhu
Laughter time is here again. The Great India Laughter Challenge-II is ready to hit the small screen. This show is slated to go on air in mid-February 2006. This time the viewers will not only see a better stage but also, promises Ajay Vidyasagar, head of content and marketing at Star One, "the quality of the viewers' interaction will be improved."
Elaborating, he says, "We will generate people's opinion through various methods and its scale will be much higher as compared to the last show." The show promises to live up to its predecessor and showcase the finest and most humorous performances of 60 short-listed contestants. So far there are no `dos and don'ts' as far as subject matter chosen by the participants is concerned. "We are quite liberal about it," says Vidyasagar.
How to contest
The call for entries and the auditions that started last week will continue till this coming Tuesday. Participants can enter this nationwide search for the best comic talent by sending their performance video clips, by visiting the nearest Reliance Web World and registering themselves for an audition and send their performance or video clip or they can log on to www.indya.com and upload their performance video. The show will be hosted by Parizaad Kolah. This time too the judges will be the duo Shekhar Suman and Navjot Singh Siddhu who are known as Wizards of Wit.
Sunil Pal, last year's winner, will interact with the participants in the first and last few rounds to share his experiences and "give a few tips" to them. For Pal, his original ideas were modified by his director Pankaj Prasad in the final round.
"He showed me how to perform and that proved to be of great help," says Pal, who is loaded with film offers this year after he was declared the winner. For now he is doing two films by Subhash Ghai, Good Boy Bad Boy and Hamara Sapna Money Money, apart from Firoz Nadiawadwala's Phir Hera Pheri.
Criteria
Sidhu, who finds comedy the most serious business, goes for the originality and spontaneity of the contestants. "Content and its delivery are the key words in the competition. Many times we have to go by our sixth sense and gut feeling to make out if the contestant on the stage is not imitating on a repeat subject. Every contestant should have a style of his own. Moreover, people would voice their opinion, and the peoples' voice is God's voice," he says.
Of his fellow judge Shekhar, Sidhu says, "Our tallies match 95 per cent each time. So there is a perfect chemistry between us as the judges."
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