Ok now that the hilarity and surprise of the result has settled in, I think I kind of love the result in a cynical way. It's honestly what this season deserves. (Long post ahead sorry)
Sanu da is amazing and I love him, but you can tell he was all in on Subhodeep by the middle of the season and cared little about the others by that point. Shreya is amazing too, but she was clearly invested in Adya and saved Adya's behind a billion times. The fact that Adya is a finalist at all is a joke through and through, even if she did show her potential on various occasions.
The top two singers to make the final were Pyush and Ananya. They were the top male and female singers on the show. Even people who didn't love them would've been fine with either winning, since they were consistent almost every week and great almost every time. In any other season, one of them is the winner. Say what you will about other seasons, but the end result is almost always a predictable and understandable one. It's the one thing that I like about this show every season, even though every season takes a nosedive in the final six weeks or so.
But again, this season was different. For the first 2/3 of the season, it felt fresh and made us feel nostalgic. The judges were beloved unlike recent years. Hussain as host was great. The early rounds were legendary. And then everything turned upside down. This is the season where Menuka, who is already finding success as a professional and was at worst the second best female singer on the show, finished 10th. I know she made mistakes, but still, tenth? And then Utkarsh, who was a clear finalist, gets eliminated the same day due to clear favoritism/rigging. And Obom makes it to the semifinals despite giving up months ago.
When you have Adya, Anjana and Vaibhav make the finals over Piyush and Menuka (who was always getting eliminated before that let's be honest,) Subhodeep is allowed to become an egotist who depreciates throughout the season but has a judge's backing until the end, and Adya is saved nonstop, you kind of deserve a winner like Vaibhav. Someone who made clear improvements as the season went on, transformed from joker to well-rounded performer, but was still, at best, the 4th or 5th best singer on the show. It's a choice that few will love, many will joke about but nobody can really hate, unlike if some of the other finalists had won.
I'm not saying Vaibhav was the best, or 2nd best, or 3rd, or 4th. But he's the winner that this season deserved, for better or worse. At least now I can tell the few members of my watch group that are still kind of interested in watching the final few episodes, that they won't hate the winner, and maybe we can all have a get-together in the coming days to watch the last few episodes. I still wish the show had managed to retain its momentum and not succumb to the usual BS, but I'll always have good memories about the first few months of this season. I am thankful of that.
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