Prashant Tamang crowned Indian Idol 3

Prashant Tamang, a constable in the West Bengal Police, was on Sunday crowned Indian Idol after vanquishing his rival Amit Paul in a grand finale of the over-two month long talent hunt.

Tamang, 24, who hails from Darjeeling, has undergone a journey from being a member in the police band in Kolkata to becoming the heart throb of millions of TV viewers all over the country.

The grand finale was an all North-East affair as Tamang took on 24-year-old Paul, who hails from Shillong.

The results of the talent hunt were announced at a gala in New Delhi with the final witnessing a whopping seven crore people sending in their votes.

Tamang stole the centrestage with his rendition of the song 'Yeh Kali Kali Ankhen' from the Hindi film 'Baazigar'.

As Bollywood actor John Abraham announced Tamang the winner, the constable thanked his mother in a voice choked with emotion.

"I thank my mother, public and Bengal police for granting me the permission for participating in the show," he said.

The contest saw the entire North-East coming together irrespective for their ethnic differences in support of the two singers.

Meghalaya which has a history of violence between the tribals and settlers, especially Bengalis, ralled behind Paul, who is a Bengali.

The state government has even been asked to declare Amit Paul state ambassador for peace and communal harmony.

A large proportion of the over seven crore sms received by the organisers of the talent show came in from the North East.

More than 50,000 spectators had thronged the venue of the finale with huge cut outs and posters of the favourite contestant.

Actor John Abraham also performed with the contestants on a song from his upcoming movie 'Goal' which added to the excitement.

No Comments...Seriously!! Am like.........SHOCKED.....anyways...Congrats Prashant..Way to go!..well i was prepared....I knew this was gonna happen....I wasnt happy about Indian Idol 2 result...and not so happy this time either!

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If you compare Indian Idol with American Idol, things are totally opposite. in USA they looks for who got the telent. and for the last 7 seasons, eash of the american idol winner are now super stars..

but in asia, specially in this south asian region, ppls are too much emotional, they don't judge based on telents but on emotions. ans its happening again & again.. we saw in closeup1 in BD & Indian Idol all seasons.

in closeup1 season 1 & 2 .. we got 2 winner who dont deserve to be the winner. same thing happes in Indian Idol all season (except in indian idol season 1 i think, abhijeet sawant doing well these days but..)..

in indian idol 1.. other contestants doing gr8 in their singing career. same in indian idol 2. but just look at the winners. we dont see Sandeep Acharya (winner of indian idol 2) that much on TV or in any movie song but we see others.

so same thing will happen this time aswell. prashant wont be able to do that much. but other will. and this time we saw more talented singer then before.. they will do well..

I'm kinda happy that prashant is the winner. not because he is the winner but because now Amit can sing freely rather then be in a contact with sony and do some funny stage shows...

hmm, jantami result ta ki chilo...ki hobe....prashant je hobe sheta dhora chilo....talent er kono dam nei indian idol...just sms kore kauke talented banano jaina...er cheye better voice of india

Here's how Prashant Tamang got help and become Indian Idol...

Prayers for his success are expressed even in website of Tamang Society. Nepalese and non-Nepalese newspapers, websites, forums, blogs etc are filled with stories related to him and support for him.

The mayor of Mirik, T.B. Rai, has vowed to spend Rs.10,000 in SMS for voting Prashant and his staff have also vowed to spend a month's salary on SMS for voting Prashant. Police staff of India have also vowed to spend a month's salary on SMS for voting Prashant. Nepalese people working in Brunei, UK, Hong Kong, UAE are reported to have been sending money to SMS for him.

Rallies are organized in Darjeeling and Kharsang in his support, some of which are attended by his sister, mother and grandmother. Pokhara, Nepal located Radio Annapurna 93.4 MHz is campaigning for collecting donation to vote for Prashant Tamang.A signature campaign for his support was organized by Himalayan Darpan Newspaper of Darjeeling.

Schools, clubs and police of West Bengal are found asking people to support Prashant who have named him Pahar ka Gaurav ' (Pride of the Hills). Sikkim Cabinet Minister G M Gurung and S B Subedi planted tree saplings at Singtam to pledge the Sikkimese support to Prashant and to show the unity between Nepalese community in Sikkim and Darjeeling.

.. but ye good on him... at least he will be famous for sme time...

but dats how it is always.. everywhere da underdog always wins.. da best ones never wins.. or the one who creates a better story... wid prashant it was a good story coz he had a normal job n den bang got into music n won... their wldnt ave been much of a story wid amit.. n dats da case everywhere.. even in x-factor da story is da main thing.. its no long abt da talent its all abt selling da story.. n being da underdog...

He won because of Alisha specially.. Soon after the last gala i knew it that Prashant will win, when a judge makes such silly remarks it is bound to get more reaction from the opposition side including some people even voted Prashant because of Alisha, like myself i always liked Amit but after the last gala i hoped prashant wins!

if any one got support dat much ...... then he deserved it ....... (although i didnt watch a single episode ) ...... but all i could say ....... if any one got dat typ huge love of people ...... den he could be da Star .... coz its da main destiny of a singer to acquire Love of ordinary pplz .