Mona-polising voters:Shweta

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MONA LEGAYASONA: The Jassi avatar of Mona Singh helped her garner maximum audience votes than a relatively unknown Shveta in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa

Last Friday saw the grand finale of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, the Indian version of the international popular dance contest show, Dancing With The Stars. This programme is very popular in Australia and in the UK it is aired as Come Dance With Me. Sony has bought the rights of Dancing With The Stars format and did a good job of it. Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa was no doubt a much more slicker version of Nach Baliye 2. The latter, on the other hand, looks very tacky.
Like most reality shows, Jhalak also had its ups and downs and its fair share of surprises. The hottest find of Jhalak was of course Shveta Salve and her choreographer Longines Fernandes. Both of them have been in their respective professions for some time now, but it was Jhalak which catapulted their talents. From the very first episode, they were consistent and good and both somehow complemented each other. It was clear that they should win.
But then the surprise package was Mona Singh and Toby. They did manage to reach the finals and if you look at Mona's graph, it was impressive — from being a clumsy dancer to one with a lot of confidence and finesse towards the end. Besides, the junta was with Mona, obviously because of her Jassi avatar. No doubt, she would garner the maximum audience votes than a relatively unknown Shveta. But certain things do baffle the viewer. I remember an actor friend of mine telling me weeks in advance that Mona Singh would win. This, when Mona was nowhere near the top three. How did the man surmise it? "Simple," said he. "Sony needed to bring back Mona post Jassi and launch her as an actress. But the Jassi image was hard to shake off. So to give her a new and slicker look, nothing could be a better launchpad than the Jhalak stage. So there you go."
Come to think of it, in retropsect, certain things do fall into place. Mona Singh starts out as a weak but potential dancer. Shveta from day one proves a hit with viewers and judges alike. A couple of episodes later, word leaks that Shveta has trained as a dancer professionally.
a) Why didn't the channel look into the matter while taking her in as a contestant?
b) Why didn't the organisers check the allegation out when rumours were floating and disqualify her then?
Much later, when Shveta and Mona were in the running, there was a subtle character assassination on Shveta. That she refused to part with 20 per cent of the prize money to her choreographer and that she was very arrogant. Agreed, her being arrogant does make her unpopular with the contestants and the crew and obviously they will not vote for her. But to the average viewer her attitude would not make so much of a difference as her movements. Also, is there any guarantee that Mona Singh would give 20 per cent of her prize money to Toby?
I am not saying Mona Singh did not deserve to win. What I am saying is that it was Sony's responsibility to defend each contestant, be it Shveta, Mona, Ajay or Mahesh, and refute rumours when they are rife. Their silence speaks volumes of the channel being hand-in-glove with the source of such rumours.

Think beyond Anthony

What's with the name Anthony? Looks like the Christian community in India do not have much choice in names apart from Anthony? Or that writers and directors don't have much imagination beyond that name. Otherwise, why would every Christian character in Hindi films be named, Anthony. First Amar Akbar Anthony, then Anthony Kaun Hai and now My Name Is Anthony Gonsalvez. Or is it merely the name is stuck on one's mind like the endless number of filmi Vijays.

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awesome article. Finally someone looked at the BIGGER picture!! 👏 Hopefully, in JDJ2 SONY will be more watchful & careful.

many thanks

This article has got everythign BANG BANG BANG on target.....just lik how abhi is aiming his gun in mermaid's siggy 😉

Originally posted by: breathing_irony

This article has got everythign BANG BANG BANG on target.....just lik how abhi is aiming his gun in mermaid's siggy 😉

Breathing irony, Ha ha.. thanks .. i am so glad i found it on rediff.. 😃

i dnt understand y is the chanel responsible for any of the controversies and sld it defend anyone? its the contestants responsibility. i really dnt understand the reason for channel taking the responsibility 😕

Originally posted by: sandya_rao7

i dnt understand y is the chanel responsible for any of the controversies and sld it defend anyone? its the contestants responsibility. i really dnt understand the reason for channel taking the responsibility 😕

teh channel shd've defended shveta when tht talk abt shveta not giving 2 lakhs of the 50lakhs to the choreographer came about coz tht was a false report!

They shd've also defended shveta when pooja 'i-kw-it-all-coz-im-a-big-mouth' bedi and other newspapers were targetting shveta coz she was 'apparently a trained dancer'.......

Last Friday saw the grand finale of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa, the Indian version of the international popular dance contest show, Dancing With The Stars. This programme is very popular in Australia and in the UK it is aired as Come Dance With Me. Sony has bought the rights of Dancing With The Stars format and did a good job of it. (Yay!!👏) Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa was no doubt a much more slicker version of Nach Baliye 2. The latter, on the other hand, looks very tacky.
Like most reality shows, Jhalak also had its ups and downs and its fair share of surprises. The hottest find of Jhalak was of course Shveta Salve and her choreographer Longines Fernandes. Both of them have been in their respective professions for some time now but it was Jhalak which catapulted their talents. From the very first episode, they were consistent and good and both somehow complemented each other. It was clear that they should win. (Totally!!😊),
But then the surprise package was Mona Singh and Toby. They did manage to reach the finals and if you look at Mona's graph, it was impressive — from being a clumsy dancer to one with a lot of confidence and finesse towards the end (That's my girl!!😛) Besides, the junta was with Mona, obviously because of her Jassi avatar. No doubt, she would garner the maximum audience votes than a relatively unknown Shveta (Humm… now I wonder how shveta came this far…, plus… there were time when Mona got less votes!!??😕) But certain things do baffle the viewer. I remember an actor friend of mine telling me weeks in advance that Mona Singh would win. This, when Mona was nowhere near the top three. How did the man surmise it? "Simple," said he. "Sony needed to bring back Mona post Jassi and launch her as an actress. But the Jassi image was hard to shake off. So to give her a new and slicker look, nothing could be a better launchpad than the Jhalak stage. So there you go." (and the point is???????????😕)

Come to think of it, in retropsect, certain things do fall into place. Mona Singh starts out as a weak but potential dancer. Shveta from day one proves a hit with viewers and judges alike. A couple of episodes later, word leaks that Shveta has trained as a dancer professionally.
a) Why didn't the channel look into the matter while taking her in as a contestant?
b) Why didn't the organisers check the allegation out when rumours were floating and disqualify her then? (Humm.. Good questions!!😉)

Much later, when Shveta and Mona were in the running, there was a subtle character assassination on Shveta. That she refused to part with 20 per cent of the prize money to her choreographer and that she was very arrogant. Agreed, her being arrogant does make her unpopular with the contestants and the crew and obviously they will not vote for her. But to the average viewer her attitude would not make so much of a difference as her movements. Also, is there any guarantee that Mona Singh would give 20 per cent of her prize money to Toby? (It's been 4 days…and I found no news saying Mona and Tobby were fighting over money!!😃)
I am not saying Mona Singh did not deserve to win.(Huh! Aren't you funny!!😆😕) What I am saying is that it was Sony's responsibility to defend each contestant, be it Shveta, Mona, Ajay or Mahesh, and refute rumours when they are rife. Their silence speaks volumes of the channel being hand-in-glove with the source of such rumours. (You are absolutely positively correct!!😛)

Originally posted by: sandya_rao7

i dnt understand y is the chanel responsible for any of the controversies and sld it defend anyone? its the contestants responsibility. i really dnt understand the reason for channel taking the responsibility 😕

No sandhya..this responsibility is solely owned by the channel . Becoz the points which are taken up here by author of this article .. is already decided by the channel itself that how much % choreographer will get ,

secondly ... regarding swetas dancing capabilities ..if channel knew abt it that she is a proffessional dancer then why didnt they verified it ?

seems like you don't understand lot of things. If there is rumor that one of the contestent is trained dancer then sony has right to disqualify that person. obsiously they didn't because she wasn't however kept quiet so that their mona sorry I mean jassi would win/. EIther way Jassi's win is tinted.

Originally posted by: sandya_rao7

i dnt understand y is the chanel responsible for any of the controversies and sld it defend anyone? its the contestants responsibility. i really dnt understand the reason for channel taking the responsibility 😕

great written article . All said and done , Jassi /Mona won period ,theres no use talking abt it . Whether her win is tinted or not tinted,she woudnt bother abt it coz from her POV ,she did everything right to win and she walked away with the JDJ trophy and 50 lakhs and also many fans .I think she would be really happy ,it would be the viewers esp the ones who werent with her that would feel that her win was tainted and Its natural to feel so .