Its a shame to read the current state of affairs on this program, which had reached such a cresendo in its level of performances and veiwership. There are a few glaring things that had annoyed me from the very beginning. One is when Shaan started the regional thing saying Ujjaini was calcuuta ki ladli and will get votes from there, Nihira is mumbaichi mulgi, Hema is Hyderabad ka ladla, etc. This is a music show, music is a universal language, why should there be a regional bias in voting? The best singer should win, irrespective of where he/ she comes from.
Then, in the first place, a show of this type should never have started with mentors with the same group of contestants to train. Contestants should have gotten training from all mentors at various times, then the mentors would not favor their own and start ego issues like HR has done now. That man is sick, he sees to it that his contestant gets maximum footage so people will remember him. Vinit sings well, no doubt, but way too much footage has helped him too. It is disgusting the way HR promotes him. Nihira, Himani, Hema are all equally good and now Gajji must see that he does not commit this mistake again. When egos come into play, the contestants remain aside and some ugly things take front stage. I hope these problems get resolved in future.
Also, like somebody mentioned, at the final stages, a panel of a dozen or so judges from the music field should be invited to judge the contestants, only then will there be justice to music!