SVOI and SaReGaMaPa L'il Champs This Week - Critical Analysis

While the little kids of L'il Champs are busy counting their final marks to find who passed with flying colors, in SVOI the final countdown for the Grand Finale has begun and soon we will have a “Voice of India”, but who will choose the voice, no one really knows, though there is plenty of noise about all other paraphernalia.

After the elimination of Abhaas - Star Voice of India has reached its final stages. Harshit and Ismeet will now be fighting out in the finals scheduled on 24th of this month. But who selects the “Voice of India” – the Public Mandate or Lata Mangeshkar herself - is still a big question mark for all. Even till the last stage, the show producers seem to be lost as far as the format goes. Shaan requests viewers to vote for the two contestants and select the winner, while the very next moment he announces that it will be Lataji who will be selecting the winner. Jatin’s comment that it is better not to criticize the contestants now and leave their fate on the public to decide, seems to corroborate, that even he believes it will be the public votes that decides the winner.

Jatin’s comment on avoiding criticism of the participants seem to have fallen into deaf ears including his, because that was precisely what the judges or mentors did while on the sets. None left a chance to put down both the finalists by comparing them repeatedly with Abhaas so much so, that it even affected their performances. When at this stage, viewers expect really top class performances, this week saw the two finalists giving out very mediocre ones. Adesh’s comment about the show now being meaningless and his disinterest about who finally wins, seems very childish. The verbal duel of words reached such levels that it took one of the celebrity judges of the day Hridaynath Mangeshkar to finally step in and stop them. This show had some of the best talents but in the end, it looks like more than the performances of the contestants, the show will be remembered for the verbal duels of the mentors.

In L'il Champs, the “Masti ki pathshala” gurus are getting a bit strict with their markings. While Himachali Barbie’s elimination though sad, was kind of expected after her performance on Saturday, Vasundhara’s straight selection to top 3 on Friday somehow brings a nagging thought to the mind if it was her performance alone which merited her rank or if sympathy had a role as well in deciding the final selection. Friday saw Vishal and Shekhar as the celebrity guests and it was nice to see them all working towards proving the show title “Masti ki Pathshala” true, by having fun with the kids while correcting their mistakes.

We have always heard that all is fair on love and war – just want to know what is fair in a musical reality show contest? Isn’t it unfair on the viewers that instead of good performances, it is the Judges' harsh acts that they have to watch, or isn’t it unfair on the participants that judges exhibit such strong favoritism?

Author: Barnali

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