Sunday, August 1, 2010

It really ain't fair!

This evening was the grand finale of the reality show 'Idea Star Singer - Season 4' on the Asianet channel and five contestants had reached this stage after a year and a half of a tortuous process of elimination from an initial bunch of around 45 young boys and girls.
The results were based on the combination of the marks given by a panel of judjes and the votes through SMS by the viewers, after each performance. And the winner of this season is a youngster by the name of Joby John, who comes from a very humble background. He won hands down over Sreenath, his nearest rival by a brute majority of 'SMS votes'.
My personal observations on the results are:-
(a) Joby got more SMS votes because people perceived him to have come against
all odds and being the underdog was given their support on a sympathy wave.
(b) Sreenath, definitely, is a better singer and it's to be remembered that he
was the only participant who had sailed through each phase, never once going
into 'the danger zone'.
And so I wonder as to whether real talent gets recognised or otherwise, when emotions cloud our ultimate judgement in these reality shows.
Anyways, my congratulations to all the five contestants who'd reached the finals!

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