I think the judges are deliberately needling Akshaya. Yesterday she almost flawlessly sang A R Rahman's classic (that too the hindi+tamil version). Though she got a distinction and merit, Gupte and Mahesh were a bit critical about some small technical flaws. Mahesh explained that their expectations from her are so high that is the reason they are pointing out such small things. Then one of the judges (was it Gupte?) let the cat out the bag and reminded her how they had not given her genius as per her expectations in one of the earlier weeks and this had goaded her to come back next week and give a superlative performance beyond genius. But is it really fair on her to use this negative policy to make her excel?
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