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After some prescribed suggestions from my friends I dared to have glimpses of “Reality Shows”….If they can be called so……Honestly I was not able to see that piece of crap even for 5 minutes...
Though the term "reality" is often a contradiction in terms, considering that the shows now in circulation. I guess the makers of these shows have forgotten the meaning of reality television. I would like to remind them, that reality television is a genre of programming that showcases unscripted dramatic or humorous situations usually featuring ordinary people. Unfortunately, they are nowhere close to the definition.
Television which was once supposed to be our escape from reality is now increasingly focusing on the so called unreal reality shows…These shows are just craving for high TRP’s by unleashing on us artificial emotions and human behaviors forcing us to take sides and form opinions.
I have nothing against the contestants taking part in the show. They are the unheard, unseen talent of our country in quest of fame. We are a nation of singers. Bathroom, bedroom, and boardroom we hum and sing everywhere. But how many of these talented singers succeed beyond the shows? High-profile judges on these shallow shows are laughing all the way to the bank.
Rather than nurturing new serious talent, I think we are giving these wanna-be singers false hopes, not to mention providing employment for jobless composers. I mean look at judges like Anu Mallik, Aadesh Srivastava, Himesh Reshammiya etc. What are the credentials of these people? Are they fit to judge anything? Forget music, I think they personally need help in all ways….
And yes not to forget, Judges are supposed to be at loggerheads. They are supposed to fight and then say sorry to each other off camera. Frankly between intolerable judges and super-obnoxious star-guests, the poor contestants stand no chance.
But in all this unreal TV shows one show that has struck the right chord is Marathi Saregamapa Little champs. I speak to family every night on Skye and in background I used to hear these small kids singing so beautifully. My mom is a follower of this show, such to an extent that she used to prefer listening to those little champs than her only daughter 1000 miles away…Lolzz. I was being hearing all praises for these kids from her. But unfortunately I am not an avid listener of Marathi music. But recently I am being following the show. And I must say this is one of the best singing talent show I have seen till date.
These kids are so talented and so pure. They don’t have artificial dialogues, irritating accent and most importantly they sing fantastically. The judges (Avadoot Gupte and Vaishali Samant) are so wonderful and know their job brilliantly. In this dirty and artificial circulation of programmes, thanks to Zee Marathi for this wonderful singing talent show.
I firmly believe that these little champs should give extensive training of good singing to all other talent hunt show contestants as well as judges. The quality of talent hunts from all over Asia is far more inferior to the little champs from small cities of
In spite of not using well scripted dialogues and artificial nakhras, this show is a huge hit. I really want to appreciate Zee Marathi’s efforts and congratulate them for this success and as well thank them for showing people what they want to see.
I feel like asking the Indian audience, have we really forgotten the taste of good music?
Are we really falling pray to these compulsive and regressive reality shows?
I hope the answer is NOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
