The current voting system, I am sorry to say, does not tell us contestant's popularity in true sense. Contestant getting most votes is not necessarily the most popular. Why? because they allow multiple voting. Let us say contestant A has backing of 80 people and B, 20 people. Now contestant A gives a rocking performance (gets 10-10-10) and B gives terrible (gets say 4-5-6). The contestant A's supporters will feel that he/she has rocked so he/she will be very safe. So they give him/her just 2 votes each. Contestant B's supporters get panicked because of his/her bad show and to save him/her they vote him/her 10 times. Now A gets 160 votes and B 200. So even if A is 4 times more popular he/she gets voted out. Zee does not care about this. In fact they are very happy about this situation. Why? because the bad performance by B benefitted them-- there was a mad rush of SMSs and boy! more Rs. Rs. Rs. Rs. for zee.
This whole public voting system is open for all kinds of abuses. It is a big farce-Smart Money-making System (as someone said before) for Zee and nothing else! Someone could hire a bunch of folks and have them send SMSs for one candidate day and night till their fingers turn black and blue.
They are neither selecting the best ( by judges) nor the most popular (by public voting in its true spirit). All they care about is the bottom line. Making it fatter and fatter (and more fatter!) is the ultimate goal.
Absolutely agree...now the outcome of this show is in the hands of a SMS mafia...
CID
Cricket
