I had called Indian telly awards for clarification as they had mentioned for nominating actors in a lead role, best show the channel in mutual consent with the production house has to fill up forms, a draft of Rs 2000 needs to prepared and sent in a particular format along with authorised signatories sign and seal. This is irrespective whether a show is popular online or has good trps.
This was also given in their website.
There was lady whose cell number was mentioned, she verbatim repeated the same thing. When I asked about off air shows, she wasn't sure
The open polling was for TV personality , child artists, actors in supporting roles and negative roles and many other not so relevant categories. I know quite a few fans voted like crazy here too as they were pretty sure that Colors will not send the money nor forms. So whatever is for open polling they gave their filled in nominations, that too in a large number.
Only the Indian television team knows how many producers and Gecs sent their nominations and drafts
There Was practically no news about the show and many left, moved on or forgot about everything.
all of a sudden when there few days for the awardcermy telly awards introduce popular voting.
BP along with lot of competition comes in the pixture when
ruless and regulations for all categories were different.
Yes one thing is for sure , the organizers changed everything the last minute, They kept jury nominations a secret and popular nominations were given in the open category for which voting was to be done for seven days
It is evident that those who were about receive awards if the original format was followed way back when the first announced polling ie TV personality etc , everything was changed as BP fandom was still in Josh back then . This is all last minute changes to suit or satisfy certain personalities