Sanjaya and Shyamali in Mumbai - part deux

Looks like you are new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Rediff has a lengthy interview with Sanjaya, uncomfortable at times for the former American Idol finalist when he is grilled on his Indian-ness, otherwise pretty extensive. The feature also has plenty of photos of our male readers’ [...]

The Malakars go to Mumbai

Remember our little blurb on Sanjaya starring in the Nationwide commercial. Apparently Sanjaya and Shyamali are in Mumbai for the filming of the commercial. Check out this pic and story on Rediff forwarded to me by at least two different sources. [Rediff] (tip Sai via email and Anantha via gtalk)
Shyamali swaps Hooters uniform for sariimg: [...]

Sanjaya to star in Nationwide commercial

The Nationwide commercials with the slogan “Life comes at you fast” which in the past have featured Favio, Kevin Federline and MC Hammer will now feature Sanjaya. [link]
The commercial will feature the former Idol finalist visiting a monastery in India to seek advice and is told to both work on his hair and arrange a [...]

Uber Malarial Videos: “Meet the Spartans” spoofs Sanjaya

Tony Yalda in a cameo as Sanjaya in “Meet the Spartans”, fauxhawk and all.

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Sanjaya - 20 Dumbest people of 2007.

In more American Idol news, Mad magazine’s list of the ‘20 Dumbest People, Events & Things of 2007 features our Papaya. While half the world and all the call centers were against Sanjaya, I agreed with fellow bloggers, that he was a kid and the media was being too harsh towards him. The same goes [...]

Udi Sampat - American Idols new Papaya? [updated with video]

Although I am not a fan of American Idol, Santosh, looking for stories turned into one. Well that and our readers seem to have a thing for Desis on AI.
I say this because Chickpea, sent us a tip about a ‘Greasy’ Indian kid called Udi Sampat and I had to go searching.
According to USA [...]

Sanjaya to release debut album?

Rejoice Fanjayas for on the horizon is the debut album from the Idol we affectionately refer to as Papaya. Quoting the man himself: “See, it’s going to be an R&B-rooted vocal style, but I want to integrate jazz emotion and rock energy and world beats, world sounds, So it sounds kind of schizophrenic, but I’d [...]

Shocking footage reveals the Sanjaya-Call Center nexus

T’was a cold night 6 months ago when UberDesi unearthed Sanjaya Malakar. As Sanjaya crooned his way through the consciousness of mainstream America, UberDesi stood by him to the bitter end …….. and the aftermath. UberDesi was with Sanjaya on every step of his captivating journey and we even fought the Sanjay-call center nexus allegations.
But [...]

Indian reality show, now broadcasting from the bathroom.

It was only a matter of time before India decided to branch off with its own reality show. After finding success replicating shows like Who wants to be a millionaire, American Idol and Big Brother for India, Sahara TV has managed to find a new theme: Bathroom singers. And here is their website.

Bathroom Singer will [...]

The Sanjaya Show

Sanjaya with supermodel, Petra Nemcova seems to be doing well after American Idolimg: via Rediff
America may have voted Sanjaya off American Idol but his assault on America’s consiousness continues unabated with a vengance. Sanjaya, who counts Britney Spears (tip Anantha via Uber Stories) amongst his fans, a.k.a Fanjayas, besides appearing on Jay Leno, is also [...]

Sanjaya on Jay Leno

Sanjaya and Donnie Osmondimg: via Reality Magazine
Sanjaya was on Jay Leno tonight (tip Karthik).
Some excerpts from the show:
*Sanjaya and Donny Osmond were part of Jay Leno’s monologue. (pictured left)
*Jack Black (pictured below) was pissed off big time about Sanjaya being voted off.
*Jack Black is a Fanjaya but likes Chris Sleigh even more because Chris looks [...]

Goodby’a Sanjaya

img: via Reality Magazine
Sanjaya was eliminated in tonight’s show of American Idol bringing to an end the phenomenon that swept America. Details coming soon!
All good things have to come to an end in life. The best (or worst, depending on your point of view) thing to happen to American Idol came to an end amidst [...]

American Idol Update: Top 7

Update: Per DialIdol results, Sanjaya received the least number of votes which means it may be curtains for our uber entertainer. Tune in tonight 9/cc FOX to see if Sanjaya can beat the odds and survive.
Update: DialIdol has Sanjaya in the bottom 2. But! The West Coast and Hawaii votes are yet to come in [...]

Sanjaya booed at baseball game

Displaying their true class, baseball fans booed Sanjaya at a Los Angeles Padres game in Los Angeles, California.
“Sanjaya’s face pops up on the big screen right away. At first he smiled, he seemed to like the attention. But then the entire crowd at the stadium started to boo and it was loud! His smile faded [...]

UberDesi American Idol coverage: Tabloid ishtyle

Uber Disclaimer: This article is partly in jest, which part, you figure out.
Was Sanjaya’s rendition of “Besame Mucho” wooing J’Lo, Angelina or Hillary or all three of them?img: via MTV News

Sanjaya next Vice President?
Just days after UberDesi uncovered a vast left-wing conspiracy linking Sanjaya to Hillary Clinton, Clinton when quizzed about Sanjaya, came out in [...]

My adventures on BlogTalkRadio

As Sanjaya blazes his path through American Idol season 6 (he made the top 7 at the time of posting this), UberDesi’s coverage of his surprising ascent is also starting to garner some attention. I was a guest on Dr. Blogstein’s Radio Happy Hour show on BlogTalkRadio, which is a variety/pop-culture talk show. I guess [...]

This week on American Idol: Top 8 - Sanjaya and the 7 dwarfs

Update: As predicted on this post yesterday, Haley got the boot while Sanjaya continues his run on American Idol 6. He has not even made the bottom 3 in the past 2-3 weeks.
Update: Per DialIdol results at 11:20pm, Sanjaya is #4 tied with Chris, which means there is a likelihood of him being voted off. [...]

This weekend in Sanjaya

Now available on Cafepress.com
From the Designer
“Show your support for Hillary Clinton and Sanjaya Malakar in 2008.”
At $2 a piece, they should sell like hot poppadums. Or will they?

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American Idol Update: Racy picture of Shyamali Malakar hits the Internet

Superficial.com has a picture of Shyamali Malakar with a guitar on its website, allegedly from her myspace page, in which it claims she is naked. It’s hard to tell from the picture, perhaps she’s wearing a strapless top and shorts, you decide (pic after the jump, maybe NSFW).
What bothers me is the comments that follow [...]

This week in American Idol (part deux): Top 9

Update: Amid scenes of Mr. Malakar Sr., dressed in a Hawaii shirt (if anyone can find video clips or pics please forward them to us), high fiving friends and family, the oddmakers predictions played out to script - Sanjaya is in the top 8 and Gina is out. I was kind of surprised because I [...]

This week in American Idol: The UberDesi tapes

img: via Garamchai via MSNBC
Setting: Small 1 bedroom apartment in suburban New Jersey. Bollywood song playing on TV as the smell of chicken tikka masala cooking in the background wafts to your nostrils. Four men huddle around a phone speaking in foreign tongues in hushed tones. Sound of dial tone on the speakerphone as a [...]

Sanjaya Watch on American Idol: Outlook for the Top 10 Week

Img: via RealityMagazine
Update: Sanjaya made it through to the top 9. Also as predicted here, Chris Sligh was eliminated.
Update: Sanjaya sporting a mohawk - I don’t know what other words to describe the abomination in the picture - sang “Bath Water” by No Doubt. The kid sure knows how to get attention and keep the [...]

Malakar Mania (TM)

As Sanjaya continues on his run to become the next American Idol, he made top 10 last week, Malakar Mania (TM) is starting to sweep the Internet and Hollywood. As evidenced in previous posts some people are taking this psuedo-reality too seriously, I mean a hunger strike, cmon America!!!! UberDesi attempts to lighten the mood [...]

American Idol: Sanjaya is a top 10 American Idol contestant

Update: It’s official. Sanjaya is in the top 10 of American Idol Season 6. The ladies had a sub-par night and it showed when Stephanie was eliminated. But considering someone not named Sanjaya was eliminated, look for the biased media and fans to lay the blame squarely on him - something along the lines of [...]

And it gets better - Starving to vote Sanjaya out. [updated]

The story you are looking for has been moved here for obvious reasons.

To follow the Call center’s are voting for Sanjaya saga click here
Thanks VFTW.
And you can read all the hate mail against VFTW and Sanjaya, some of them are pretty funny over here.

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