Why reailty show singers vanishes- Kailash Kher

very well said.. most of these reality show winners go for stage shows and thus spoil their talent...in stage shows its not music but how much yuh shout that counts ...eventually the good voice is lost.. people will forget the singer..

hope the singers listen to this and sing good songs..

these performance and all are good fr stage shows alone..if you wanna last long in music industry then its the 'sur' that is important..

Originally posted by: brahmabul

Hmmm...I expected some replies here. It was a good topic to debate on.

Originally posted by: Raghuraj

Although it is an old interview but I will like members to have a discussion on the point that Kailash Kher wants to make:

Unfortunately, most of the winners of these reality shows have vanished in thin air after their share of fame. What is your opinion on this? Why do you think this happens?

Let me narrate an incident. The other day I was watching a news item which spoke about a wrestler from Bhopal who won two state-level championships becoming a chain-snatcher now. This news item impacted me a lot. Why did he change his profession? Why did he get down to such a level? I feel that is because there was a lack of commitment in that person. He wanted easy money and didn't want to struggle for it.

I feel the situation is similar in most of the reality shows. A reality show is like a swimming pool where you are swimming in a small, known territory. But someday or the other you have to come out of it in the big, bad world of seas. You have to fight for survival. How many people are able to do that? That is exactly what is happening in these shows. Winners, after coming out of these shows are smelling easy money in stage shows and go after them. Then the instant fame they get also gets into their heads. This changes their focus and singing becomes secondary. Thus, while they made a very good start with the reality shows, they are not able to carry on the good work with the commitment which is required.

So what is the remedy?

I feel serious psychoanalyst help is needed in such cases.

Link to the interview:

http://www.tellychakkar.com/y2k8/sep/19sep/interview_kailash.php

Originally posted by: brahmabul

Every word that Kailash Kher has said is true. I just want to add to it more. He used a word in his answer 'Struggle'. This is what today's generation don't want to do. Reality shows gives them a platform for fame and recognition. How many of them went on to become playback singers? Yes some of them like Abhijeet Sawant, Vineet, Himani, Raja Hasan have sung odd or two sons. But just by singing 4-5 songs doesn't make them a playback singer. And almost everyone sings has sung for music composers who have been their mentor in the reality shows.
On the other hand look at the strugglers of our music industry Rafi Saab, RD Burman, Udit Narayan, Sonu Nigam, Abhijeet...just to name a few. Rafi Saab used to work in a Salon before he starting his singing career. Nobody can question their greatness.
Shreya Ghoshal, Kunal Ganjawala, Sunidhi Chauhan have all come from reality shows. These are the true successful examples who really went on to pursue a singing career. But that too for a reason. When they won in reality shows the shows were never had the rubbish public voting. The shows used to be judged by esteemed panel of judges who really knew what music is. Kunal came in the very first episode of SaReGaMa and that show was judged by one of the most complete artist, Suresh Wadekar ji. Some of the other judges that came on SaReGaMa include OP Nayyar, Jagjit Singh, Anil Biswas, Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia, Khayyam etc.
But the day SaReGaMa became SaReGaMaPa and all that mentor and 'gharana' system, the quality of show went down as the race for TRP's started and other channels also followed suit.
When I saw that leaked video posted by Raghu in a different topic, it hurt me very deeply. This is what our Music has come down to. They have started buying the audience to gain TRP's. And our very own Himesh Reshammiya feels proud in saying that 'Hum logo ne sab saath mil kar chugane ki kasam khaayi hain. Tum log yeh paiso ke liye kar rahe hai...haan bhai kar rahe hai...". Shame on him.