Mentometer for the Mentors

Its high time that the public started a mentometer for the mentors [and even judges]. One grants them a certain stature, which is why they are there, but that is no reason why their word, really their language but also their body language, should not be subject to a critical scrutiny, for it does say a lot about not only strategies of asserting one's power that has implications for who wins, but also questions of ethics. I think these issues are serious and extremely important if we want these mega-events to reflect, but more importantly, lay the trajectories for, what we are.

Let us use this post to say what we disliked in their comments [including the supposedly positive, but annoyingly patronizing ones] and what we find admirable. HR has drawn a lot of flak, but few others would go unscathed. I recommend the sensitivity of a Javed Akhtar [from Fame Gurukul] as something of a benchmark. Lets show them the way!

my mento meter ratin would be
AS 7
Javed akhtar -7
ID 8
HR - 20 (minus twenty)😳

oops i forgot JL 4

On a scale of ten, 9 for ID, 8 for AS, 6 for JL, and -10 for HR!

Originally posted by: adwarakanath

HR gets 20? WHAT THE .........?

not 20 but - 20... actually it should be - 420😉

I guess what would really convey the message is our specific and detailed outburst on the qualities that we appreciate or denigrate; numbers would be unproductive, if not outright lazy, way of making sound waves.

E.g., I think in the episode where people talked about their new year resolutions, the comment of ID on Debo. 'you are trying to collect sympathies now' was unfortunate, if only because Debo's was the first of its kind in the sequence of time; had Vinit or Paresh, who had similar socially concerned resolutions, been their first on stage, they might have drawn the same comment.

I wish to suggest that such comments do affect how a person receives a performance. I don't think there can be any other way but being self-conscious of this fact would probably help us make better judgments.

May be also write about how rumors hype up and keep people in circulation and whip up their 'fans' - 'Nihira's Ouster' is a case in point. This is to nothing about Nihira's singing abilities. My point is that all these individual artist's performance is quite apart from these strategies.