Pl read India Today Jan 30-Voting Right?

Hi everyone

Please read "Voting right?" page 82 of India Today dated 30/1/06. It talks about voting for reality shows. It says 8000 votes came from one single telephone number in Gujarat for SRGMP. It also talks about mass voting from Assam.

Quite an interesting article.

Can you post the article?

Thanks,
Simran

yea if u can cud u plz post the article here as we canadians do not get indian newspapers :( 😭

Guys ... have you all forgotten about FG ??

A housewife in one of MP's small towns voted for Qazi ... The amount spent on sms for Qazi ?? A mind boggling 1.5 lakhs .. Infact the husband has taken a loan to make the payment for the mobile.   ;

This information was reported in Times Of India a month back ...

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And people complain of mass voting for Debojit from the North East !!!!

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no well I now understand why NE wants to get seperated from India and say India treats them like a colony. No wonder no political party condemed such an act.. Had it been somewhere in the south or north see the retaliations..I think we have to go to NE and find out how they feel there.. I dont have much idea about them but i surely feel they are neglected.. shame on us

that number voted for debo....8000 times

Originally posted by: adwarakanath

8000 votes from one singer phone in Gujarat?

Now you dare talk about Debo getting 80% of his votes from NE 😡

Dear friends

It is too big an article. Will just type the relevant ones.

-On Zee TV's Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005, 8000 votes came from a single phone number in Gujarat.

-In Nach Baliye, Rajiv and Delnaz Paul's relatives gave them immense support - translated, that means over 2000 sms votes.

-In Fame gurukul, Qazi amassed 1.5 crore votes while Ruprekha, considered a far better singer, had less than a crore votes.

When was the last time you saw a reality TV show and agreed with the verdict? Chances are, you can't remember. Reality show results now resemble Meteorological department forecasts, consistent only in being off the mark. This has left discerning viewers fuming and judges flummoxed. "People are not always anti-judges, but if there are six-seven singers who are at par, audiences choose the easy way out by going for either a person from their region or for someone who cried more or to whom the judges were rude. Ultimately everyone wants to play God says singer Sonu Nigam.

Take a recent episode of SRGMP Challenge 2005, where Nihira Joshi, considered a brilliant singer, was voted our mercilessly. It was enough to drive judge Ismail Durbar into saying that audiences didn't know how to vote. TV titans are getting used to such disastrous surprises.

In Challenge 2005, Debojit Saha from Assam upstaged favourite Vinit Singh, with the second highest percentage of votes, 19, in one episode because of mass voting from Assam.

So, is India voting right? Is the best man or woman winning?

It is about talent, yes, but as much about where you come from, how you manipulate the audience's tear ducts and how much they think you 'need' the prize. "We are a country of the underprivileged, so viewers use their power to give an opportunity to the person they think needs it" says Tarun Katial, business head, Sony Entertainment TV.

Knowing the right buttons to press is almost as important as knowing in which key to sing.

Photo shows Nihira, ID and Vinit - Joshi, one of the brightest sparks on Challenge 2005, was voted out in a blaze of controversy.

I am not reproducing the rest. Quite a big article but I have given you some atleast.

Too late, let me go to sleep. Bye

8000 votes from one phone. 😆 😆

Yeh to woh loafer baniya HR ka hi kaam hai. After that they have the balls to complain against NE votes. 😡

Kamina Hypocrite.

Originally posted by: apparaohoare

8000 votes from one phone. 😆 😆

Yeh to woh loafer baniya HR ka hi kaam hai. After that they have the balls to complain against NE votes. 😡

Kamina Hypocrite.

Tee hee on "loafer baniya" ... 😆

Debo gets 80% votes from NE and the rest 15% from NE people settled in other parts of the country. 5% from his mentor's state, Gujarat and that was one of the fan of ID from Gujarat voting 8000 times for Debo.