The Malakars go to Mumbai

Looks like you are new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]

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 [...]

April Fools recap

The idea for my April Fools Day posts was hatched last year in the comments of this post on Sepia Mutiny. Two things are for certain:
1. Regular readers of ÜD are too smart
2. I’m not smart enough to fool ÜD readers
So I came up with the idea of running headlines that sounded like they were [...]

Himesh Reshammiya to collaborate with Sanjaya

In a surprising revelation, Bollywood music director Himesh Reshammiya and American Idol finalist, Sanjaya Malakar, announced that they wrapped up work on an Indo-American collaboration album. [link]
Controversial American Idol finalist from season six, Sanjaya Malakar was in good spirits as he walked into the press conference. After 27 tracks spanning 2 languages (English and Hindi) [...]

Uber Malarial Videos: Superstar Sam Anderson

Über Desi from its inception has been in the business of discovering and promoting fresh and promising talent, like Sanjaya Malakar. It is this pursuit of perfection that led us to the discovery of this über talent that is set to take the Tamil film industry by storm, ladeej and genteelman, presenting ….. Sam Anderson. [...]

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 [...]

And the Über Desi awards for 2007 go to…

Since it is our first new years after being established, kinda, we asked our bloggers to contribute people for the Über Desi of the year awards. The categories like ÜD, were supposed to be funny and boy do we have a list for you.

The winner gets one hot car!!

Überest Desi: Ms. Kushboo Jani - For [...]

Tancredo quits

Republican presidential candidate, Tom Tancredo, who among other things famously called for an end to the H1B visa program, has quit the presidential race. [link]
While we @ Über Desi are not in the business of (openly) lobbying for any single candidate (except Sanjaya Malakar), keeping in mind the fact that most of us are products [...]

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 [...]

Sunita Williams center of politics in Gujarat

India loves Sunita Williams, plain and “zimble”.
“Discovery to Houston, kem cho, majama……”img: via Hindustan Times
Some people like to point out that she is not Indian - she is only of half-Indian heritage, her mother is Slovenian, and we should not be celebrating her successes, but we @ UberDesi don’t discriminate on such superficial grounds. [...]

2008 US Presidential Elections: 101

As the battlelines are being drawn for the US Presidential Elections of 2008, we @ UberDesi will attempt to keep our readers updated with the significant happenings, soundbytes and, most importantly, desi-related issues and news associated with this event.
Who wants to be Amrikan President?
Actually we have a head-start with the Desi-crats post, the follow-up on [...]

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 [...]

Who you calling a Bigot? Bigot.

For those of you who have not had a chance to update yourself on the blogosphere, MSNBC/ Newsweek has an article on Koreans bracing themselves for a backlash.
While researching the article, the authors decided to use a comment from Sepia Mutiny to illustrate their lede’s point about nasty bigots in the blogosphere. I would not [...]

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 [...]

Shocking findings at UberDesi HQ: Sanjaya not top search result for UberDesi

If you missed it, Uber blogger and Desipundit contributor, Gaurav of Gauravnomics fame, selected UberDesi as his “Desi Blog of the Day” yesterday. Thanks Gaurav.
One of his observations stood out to me in particular.
My tip to Uber Desi: Think of what next after Sanjaya Malakar.
So this got me thinking. Over a few beers and pizza [...]

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 [...]

Even if pigs could fly… - The answer to the call centers + Sanjaya theory [updated with videos]

As many of our readers are probably aware, people who care about such things are starting to think that Sanjaya Malakar is still on American Idol because call centers in India are voting for him (1, 2, 3, 4, 5).
Personally, I did not have a problem with this theory. Opinions are like… , everyone [...]