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Originally posted by: symbionn

I am furious

I am very very very furious. What a shamful show.

I have already posted many times and again agree with you and many others like you who agree that this a PATHETIC and UNFAIR show. It is not a contest anymore. It is not a singing competition anymore, its a new SONY drama with atwist as in Kkusum, Jassi, etc. And the public is making it more melodramatic by voting undeserved candidates again and again and again. So my suggestion is to watch and forget abt this show. If you really wanna see the talent and a REAL COMPETITION, watch ZEE TV show CHALLENGE 2005.

Originally posted by: belarajput

How we know that Qazi is selecting by public all these times? This is a trick of Sony T.V to make this show popular as Qazi is a great performer, I am sure he is not going to be a part of fame jodi, they are using Qazi as a Mohra, they will throw him out as soon as show will come to an end. Fame Jodi is very obvious - Arijit and Ruprekha. This is only my opinion, please anyone don't get offended. Thanks.

I agree. Qazi is generating HUGE money for SONY TV. I am not sure but I heard that it costs Rs.6 to send a SMS. Imagine the amount......Qazi gets Lakhs of votes and half of those would be by SMS I am sure. It is a very well written script......SONY TV took the chance and hit the jackpot in QAZI.

Originally posted by: NYorker1

I agree. Qazi is generating HUGE money for SONY TV. I am not sure but I heard that it costs Rs.6 to send a SMS. Imagine the amount......Qazi gets Lakhs of votes and half of those would be by SMS I am sure. It is a very well written script......SONY TV took the chance and hit the jackpot in QAZI.

So its been agreed that Qazi has the potential to earn in lakhs may be crores for a channel, he is like a jackpot. so tomorrow if he becomes Fame Jodi and Sony can script a punch and twist and things and get him to make a music album and host a music show they will earn another some crores. SO why calling Qazi underserving again and again. At the end of the day u feed that cow only who gives u milk, u wont feed a cow who has lots and lots of potential to give milk but cant give and earn for u.

Originally posted by: infiniteattract

So its been agreed that Qazi has the potential to earn in lakhs may be crores for a channel, he is like a jackpot. so tomorrow if he becomes Fame Jodi and Sony can script a punch and twist and things and get him to make a music album and host a music show they will earn another some crores. SO why calling Qazi underserving again and again. At the end of the day u feed that cow only who gives u milk, u wont feed a cow who has lots and lots of potential to give milk but cant give and earn for u.

The point here is that they are using him as a catalyst (Apne Matlab Ke Liye)......to increase their rating at national level cus they have worst rating. One TRUTH......QAZI will NOT be a part of JODI....mark my words. And people (masses) who are voting for QAZI again and again will forget him very soon as we all know that MASSEs have a very short memory. Soon people will see QAZI trying his luck in acting, that he claims he wants to be.

Originally posted by: NYorker1

The point here is that they are using him as a catalyst (Apne Matlab Ke Liye)......to increase their rating at national level cus they have worst rating. One TRUTH......QAZI will NOT be a part of JODI....mark my words. And people (masses) who are voting for QAZI again and again will forget him very soon as we all know that MASSEs have a very short memory. Soon people will see QAZI trying his luck in acting, that he claims he wants to be.

hmmmm.... masses have a short memory - thats why sony or for that matter all these tv channels are making money. about twists and turns in the story they have a tv series writer's pool and they put in there ideas for one episode regularly and then the director's randomly pull out one of them and use it in there tv series. very soon you will see arijit married to ila's daughter and then monica plotting against the couple to break there wedding (because she wants to be a fame jodi with arijit) and then one of the judges will disappear and come back as sonu nigam or anu malik (or any one) thanks to a plastic surgery. and after one year of telecast they will move the story to 20 years later and arijit, shamit, arpita etc.'s sons/daughters will be in the gurukul and carrying on their parrents competetion.

My 2 cents - Remember Karan Johar (god I hate him) "Make the audience cry and you go laughing to the bank" - the masses have a very short term memory which is so short that they forget that they to go a movie for enterainment and to forget their day-to-day stress and instead, they praise the directors for making them cry with these ghisi piti stories and dialogues (I feel like puking when people cry in these stupid movies K3G, KHNH etc).

i think the friday gala in us happened on thru. because the audience were wearing the same clothes on thru and fri. ( REX mom and sister were wearing the same clothes)

An article on SMS : India's Revenue Earning Strategy thru Shows:

Fastest fingers first

More and more TV channels are offering incentives to viewers who SMS

SOMASHUKLA SINHA WALUNJKAR
Tired of being a spectator as you channel surf? Well, for those of you who want to be more active participants in your favourite TV shows, SMSing can bring rich rewards (literally): from all-expenses-paid trip to Singapore, a chance to take Priyanka Chopra on a dinner date, selecting your favourite singer in a talent show or winning yourself a ticket to KBC2.
It costs Rs 6 for a subscriber to send one SMS, Rs 5 is the earning for service provider and Re 1 payable as government tax. And the revenue for a mobile service provider runs into crores.

Sample this: KBC2 has had close to 6 crore SMSes sent since June 2005. Indian Idol on Sony reportedly got close to 5,90,206 SMSes in just three-and-half hours since its opening on November 25, 2004 and netted close to 4 crore SMSes in four months. Sony's Fame Gurukul got 40 lakh SMSes in two weeks! For Zee's Sa Re Ga Ma Challenge 2005, as many as 100,000 SMSes come in daily, while for the Zee Cinema Munnabhai MBBS contest, about 300,000 SMSes came in.

Internationally interactive television means a lot of revenue for television channels. In India the concept is relatively new and yet to catch up. While mobile service providers do make a killing and get enough revenue, channels only manage to create brand loyalty, the actual revenue earned from is little. Industry estimates say that channels get between 30-35% of the revenue from each SMS received. An SMS earns the channel anything between 75p-Re 1, say industry observers, which when multiplied with the total number of SMSes received amounts to a lot of money. Internally, almost 80% of the revenue is given to content providers, in India content providers get about 20% of the revenue.

So what does SMSing do for TV channels? "They make it easier for a channel to tabulate the entry and allows it to respond faster to the consumer. So far SMS is in three categories: 1. votes and polls segment (you can vote for your favourite artist, etc); 2. contest and participate: you want to take part in a show like KBC2, SMS your answer and win a seat; 3. sending out content: downloading ringtones, pictures and even video clips of a show. We want our customer base to be loyal. Our Holi Special episode contest got us 12 lakh SMSes in just one night, while Star Parivar Awards got us 2 million responses in four days," says Viren Popli, senior vice-president (Interactive Services), Star TV, India.

Agrees Ishwar Jha, vice-president (Business & Technology), Zee TV: "In India SMSing is mostly a marketing tool which creates long-term loyalty for a show, viewers feel connected to a show they SMS to. India's Best Cinestars Ki Khoj was one of the first TV shows in India to use the convergent voting platform (SMS, telephone and Internet) and we got about 15 million SMSes. We are going to launch a show which will depend a lot on SMSing and viewers who send in maximum SMSes will get attractive prizes."

MTV was one of the early starters and encouraged viewers to SMS as early as 2001. For MTV VJ Hunt, viewers were asked to pick out favourites from the 11 finalists! And that's not all, viewers are also asked to send in their love-notes for Love letters a show which airs on MTV. Says Vikram Raizada, vice-president (Marketing & Digital), MTV: "Interactivity is wired in our DNA. MTV In Box, our first SMS-based request show, was aired in 2001. We have a lot of half-hour interactive straps. For us SMSing is about building relationship with viewers and weaving it into our lifestyle. Revenues are not the focus now, but we'd be looking at that possibility in future."

SMSing is emerging as a popular marketing devise even down south. The Sun Network gets close to 50,000-150,0000 SMSes every day which are scrolled on the screens. Sun Music (Tamil), Kiran (Malayalam) and Adithya (Telugu) use a lot of SMS.

For service providers like Idea, Hutch and Airtel, SMSing means revenues. "We also offer customers an advantage: we have created a special facility to enable us to cope with the huge traffic that SMSing for shows like KBC2 or Indian Idol," says Mohit Bhatnagar, senior vice-president (New Products & Alliance), Airtel.

So what are you waiting for? If you want to fly to Singapore or see your message on screen, hit the mobile buttons fast.

Originally posted by: NYorker1

I agree. Qazi is generating HUGE money for SONY TV. I am not sure but I heard that it costs Rs.6 to send a SMS. Imagine the amount......Qazi gets Lakhs of votes and half of those would be by SMS I am sure. It is a very well written script......SONY TV took the chance and hit the jackpot in QAZI.

yup its Rs.6 per sms. its applicable in all shows, even in KBC. these TV chanels are earning crs of ruppees with it. I don't knw, if tomm Ekta Kapoor also cm up with these kinds of Shows with too many twists & turns????

Originally posted by: NYorker1

that they are using him as a catalyst (Apne Matlab Ke Liye)......to increase their rating at national level cus they have worst rating. One TRUTH......QAZI will NOT be a part of JODI....mark my words. And people (masses) who are voting for QAZI again and again will forget him very soon as we all know that MASSEs have a very short memory. Soon people will see QAZI trying his luck in acting, that he claims he wants to be.

its seems true.. at the end of the day, qazi will b seens acting, either in serials or in movies.

Originally posted by: NYorker1

The point here is that they are using him as a catalyst (Apne Matlab Ke Liye)......to increase their rating at national level cus they have worst rating. One TRUTH......QAZI will NOT be a part of JODI....mark my words. And people (masses) who are voting for QAZI again and again will forget him very soon as we all know that MASSEs have a very short memory. Soon people will see QAZI trying his luck in acting, that he claims he wants to be.

agreed with u 100% .. qazi will b seen acting either in serials or in movies, which he always wanted to b a part of.

as far as stage shows r concerns, hw many shows sony can organise for him in an yr. ultimately all singers move towards playback singering.