Are you kidding me?? - Page 3

This is a tradition dating back to 10+ years. In 2005, when public voting was introduced, we lost two of the finest singers to come on the show -- Swananda and Nihira -- and we got Debojit as a winner over Vinit. Neither was particularly talented, but Vinit was considerably better than Debojit. On top of that, Paresh made the top 12 on the basis of being a Briton, really -- somehow voters liked foreign-born individuals (Swananda was different in the sense that she was born in India and moved to the UK after marriage).

Basically, Sony, Zee all these are commercial companies. They are here to make money. So by this so called voting, via SMS gives them a good opportunity to make money on top of all those prime time ad and other sponsors.

The greed of these corporations knows no bound. They play on public sentiment to garner 'votes' and which results more revenue for them. They don't care who is the most deserving talent to win.

This is the mainstream media scenario since the early 2000.

Before that SRGMP's were really a quality singing competition, with high caliber Judges and as a result we have found Shreya Ghosal, one of winner from that time and later a widely successful playback singer.

Nowadays, only the regional singing competitions are much more balanced and very well judged.

Originally posted by: arjavrawal

This is a tradition dating back to 10+ years. In 2005, when public voting was introduced, we lost two of the finest singers to come on the show -- Swananda and Nihira -- and we got Debojit as a winner over Vinit. Neither was particularly talented, but Vinit was considerably better than Debojit. On top of that, Paresh made the top 12 on the basis of being a Briton, really -- somehow voters liked foreign-born individuals (Swananda was different in the sense that she was born in India and moved to the UK after marriage).

In 2007, Aneek won by about a percent over Raja Hasan, and two percent separated Raja from Amanat Ali. Now, to look at this, I went back and watched some shows from C07 and Aneek has no definition of sur, quite frankly. Amanat is decent, but not to the point where he makes the top 3. Raja would be the clear winner if we're looking at staying in sur, staying with the laya, and tonal quality.

I don't really remember much from 2009 because I was in India during that season. It was during the monsoon and the rain almost always ruined our signal. Plus, Indian Idol was the big thing back then.

2010 gave us Kamal Khan, who was good, but not better than Abhilasha who was FAR better in terms of sur and tone. Bishakh Jyoti is far from Top 3 material.

Jasraj Joshi, the 2012 winner, has no connection musically to the Sangeet Martand whose name he was given. A true embarrassment to the musical community.

Nothing more needs to be said about Rupali and Kushal.

tl;dr: Zee has a tradition of vote-fixing, and as I mentioned in the reforms thread, it would be a good idea to hire an auditing firm to prevent voter fraud.

Originally posted by: srtor

Basically, Sony, Zee all these are commercial companies. They are here to make money. So by this so called voting, via SMS gives them a good opportunity to make money on top of all those prime time ad and other sponsors.

The greed of these corporations knows no bound. They play on public sentiment to garner 'votes' and which results more revenue for them. They don't care who is the most deserving talent to win.

This is the mainstream media scenario since the early 2000.

Before that SRGMP's were really a quality singing competition, with high caliber Judges and as a result we have found Shreya Ghosal, one of winner from that time and later a widely successful playback singer.

Nowadays, only the regional singing competitions are much more balanced and very well judged.

But I still feel Lil Champs has given some great deserving winners like Anamika, Azmat even Shreya Ghoshal from what I have known.. More than the adults version.. So I still have some faith this year too..