I have been watching this program for a long time. I think the whole contest has lost its santity. It has many glitches in its design.
First, we noticed the selection of judges couple had some controversial personalities. This included singers who r still singing...
2. conflict of views among judges... openly saying 'I dont agree with u..'
3. In the begining mentors kept saying' whatever performance happens ..must happen on stage... no excuse..'. Slowly they changed stance... started pointing to..'he has soar throat... please consider this point...etc'
4. Mentors started challenging judges decision which is totally dissapointing. Once you have chosen judge, u must believe him. No comments.
5. Exclusion of Jatin-lalit. Why exclude any mentor? They kept saying they all are trying to get a good singer. Is it not important to have each mentor giving his opinion about singer's talent even if he has no contestant from his group?
6. The concept of 'public voting'. We all know no product of entertainament industry is made with public opinion. It is realeased in market and then gather public response. Films, songs are not like commodities(cellphone, TVs etc) which are enhanced on public use and comments. Why public voting was designed? This is creating regional bias, potential scope of votes manipulation OR just to make channel & program popular with respect to other similar programs running on other TV channels. In many cases this has already done damage and will further eliminate desired contestants. This is just like passing your inability of judging singers to public. In a country where we see less than 50% voting in elections, do you think roping in public voting will help? Then why to have judges in final round again?
It seems, the mentors on one hand dont agree with judges and on other hand show varying opinion with public voting.
7. ANOTHER IMPORTANT POINT, discussion about personal things like 'Vinit.. love, tapori style comedy, etc..' was totaly stupid thing that has destroyed programs sincerity and devotion. This whole thing has brought down the morale of conestants which was very apparent in case of Ujjaini. I felt some mentors are trying all their odd tricks to create youth emotions to get votes as they pretty well know that public voting fluctuates a lot for no reason.
In spite of all odds, we watch this program with only hope that from next episode contest will show more sincerity and determination towards music only.