New Delhi, May 5 -- Parashar Joshi became a talk of the town when fans on social media found his resemblance to India batter and Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer during an Women's Premier League (WPL) match last year. The Pune lad immediately became a meme material on social media.

But little did anyone know that Joshi once had grabbed the limelight at the Indian Idol stage back in 2008. Joshi, who completed his engineering in computer from Pune Institute of Computer Technology, had been trying his hand at Indian Idol from the first season itself in 2005.

However, it was until the 2008 season, Joshi got his first break when he eventually made it to the piano round (it was called second round back then). 15 years back, Joshi faced the l...