Talent Hunted
Its great fun watching these music talent-hunt shows on television on the weekend that are held in almost all the channels ,Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge (Zee), Indian Idol (Sony) and Star Voice Of India (Star Plus).
It is true that Indian youth is given opportunities in abundance to showcase their talent to the whole wide world, but what does really happen to them after winning these contests. The winners of these so called Idols are nowhere to be seen. I don’t even remember their names now.
What I really feel is that the person who really benefits from these shows is the host of these shows. It was Sonu Nigam in the first series of SaReGaMaPa (Best contemporary singer) who showcased his talent on these shows and then went onto become the countries best singer, then came Shaan, who is doing quite well for himself and now I believe Aditya Narayan (son of Udit) will soon follow their foot steps.
For people who haven’t seen these shows, in one of these shows you have these “gurus” (4 of them), who try to train/nurture and guide these unfortunate contestants. I call then unfortunate because it’s their ill-luck that they are the chosen ones to be tormented and insulted on television by one and all.
These music competitions are hilarious to watch though. The rivalry is more amongst the mentors than the contestants. These contests have mentors/gurus who fight for everything and I am sure all these fights are scripted and staged. There was this incidence where one of the music director from the Yalgaar Gharana, Ismail Darbar, accuses Asha Bhosle (the judge) for not giving the appropriate judgment and went of record saying that these singers can not judge another singer and only a music director can be a good judge. This all happened on the show hosted by Zee.
Hearing this, one moron (popped from nowhere, who is one of the judge on the programme on Star) who is quite insecure of his future and who all the while says why should Pakistani singers (Adnan,Atif etc) should be given a work on Indian Soil and also calls the music directors ,”Desh Drohis”, for offering them work. He is none other than Abhijeet Bhatacharya.He now goes on a news channel where he says the following things about the one of the mentors of the other show…
Abhijeet: “saregama ke guru-o ko toh dehkho, woh kya judge karenge”
Though he rightly points out that a person who has composed music for two movies (Ismail), comments on the legendary Asha Bhonsle.
Abhijeet (On Bappi Lahiri):”Jab Bappi aur Usha Uthup gaaten hain to yeh patah karna mushkil ho jata hai ki kaun ladka ke liye gaa raha hai aur kaun ladki ke liye “
He also makes fun of the Hindi pronunciation of Bappi’da.
He goes on ….”Appke shows ke guru-o ko pehle kudh gana sikhna hoga, unhe yeh tak patah nahin ki gaya kidhar se jata hai….” accusing Himesh of Nasal Singing.
Abhijeet creates kind of scenes on his show, which is not only cheap but also derogatory. He says to contestants that if you don’t know to sing very well, you can please go to the other show (on other channel).Its mandatory to have one tussle between Abhijeet and the other judges on the program on Star TV and poor Shaan (the Host) looks on with the kind of look ...”Kahan phaas gaya yaar!”
This brings another incident on Zee to my mind, where Res-Ham-Miya (Guru of one of the gharana’s) was so impressed by a Pakistani singer and alleged that he would make him the alternate to the Sufi singer, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s kin, in India. He goes on and says if you follow this kind of singing you will definitely get work…"tum mere next film ka next gaana zaroor gayoge." .He further adds I don’t want you to become an ordinary stereo-type singer having no work…he says…I am sorry yells… “Mujhe tere ghar mein roti chahiye, struggle nahin”
To top it all we have Anu Malik on Sony, who is expert in insulting. I am pretty much sure that he has been given the license to behave (mis) at his worst on the show, which is guess increases the TRP of the show. He has regular fights with Javed Saab, and in between Senior Narayan (Udit) grins and the pretty Baby Doll shows off how attractive she is in her 40’s.
I kind of enjoy these shows, switching from one channel to another (thanks to my remote), as I get to see these duels as seen never before between countries respectable musicians, and in between get to hear some songs too.
It is true that Indian youth is given opportunities in abundance to showcase their talent to the whole wide world, but what does really happen to them after winning these contests. The winners of these so called Idols are nowhere to be seen. I don’t even remember their names now.
What I really feel is that the person who really benefits from these shows is the host of these shows. It was Sonu Nigam in the first series of SaReGaMaPa (Best contemporary singer) who showcased his talent on these shows and then went onto become the countries best singer, then came Shaan, who is doing quite well for himself and now I believe Aditya Narayan (son of Udit) will soon follow their foot steps.
For people who haven’t seen these shows, in one of these shows you have these “gurus” (4 of them), who try to train/nurture and guide these unfortunate contestants. I call then unfortunate because it’s their ill-luck that they are the chosen ones to be tormented and insulted on television by one and all.
These music competitions are hilarious to watch though. The rivalry is more amongst the mentors than the contestants. These contests have mentors/gurus who fight for everything and I am sure all these fights are scripted and staged. There was this incidence where one of the music director from the Yalgaar Gharana, Ismail Darbar, accuses Asha Bhosle (the judge) for not giving the appropriate judgment and went of record saying that these singers can not judge another singer and only a music director can be a good judge. This all happened on the show hosted by Zee.
Hearing this, one moron (popped from nowhere, who is one of the judge on the programme on Star) who is quite insecure of his future and who all the while says why should Pakistani singers (Adnan,Atif etc) should be given a work on Indian Soil and also calls the music directors ,”Desh Drohis”, for offering them work. He is none other than Abhijeet Bhatacharya.He now goes on a news channel where he says the following things about the one of the mentors of the other show…
Abhijeet: “saregama ke guru-o ko toh dehkho, woh kya judge karenge”
Though he rightly points out that a person who has composed music for two movies (Ismail), comments on the legendary Asha Bhonsle.
Abhijeet (On Bappi Lahiri):”Jab Bappi aur Usha Uthup gaaten hain to yeh patah karna mushkil ho jata hai ki kaun ladka ke liye gaa raha hai aur kaun ladki ke liye “
He also makes fun of the Hindi pronunciation of Bappi’da.
He goes on ….”Appke shows ke guru-o ko pehle kudh gana sikhna hoga, unhe yeh tak patah nahin ki gaya kidhar se jata hai….” accusing Himesh of Nasal Singing.
Abhijeet creates kind of scenes on his show, which is not only cheap but also derogatory. He says to contestants that if you don’t know to sing very well, you can please go to the other show (on other channel).Its mandatory to have one tussle between Abhijeet and the other judges on the program on Star TV and poor Shaan (the Host) looks on with the kind of look ...”Kahan phaas gaya yaar!”
This brings another incident on Zee to my mind, where Res-Ham-Miya (Guru of one of the gharana’s) was so impressed by a Pakistani singer and alleged that he would make him the alternate to the Sufi singer, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s kin, in India. He goes on and says if you follow this kind of singing you will definitely get work…"tum mere next film ka next gaana zaroor gayoge." .He further adds I don’t want you to become an ordinary stereo-type singer having no work…he says…I am sorry yells… “Mujhe tere ghar mein roti chahiye, struggle nahin”
To top it all we have Anu Malik on Sony, who is expert in insulting. I am pretty much sure that he has been given the license to behave (mis) at his worst on the show, which is guess increases the TRP of the show. He has regular fights with Javed Saab, and in between Senior Narayan (Udit) grins and the pretty Baby Doll shows off how attractive she is in her 40’s.
I kind of enjoy these shows, switching from one channel to another (thanks to my remote), as I get to see these duels as seen never before between countries respectable musicians, and in between get to hear some songs too.
-GAG
posted by The Fite Klub @ 2:51 PM
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