Super Singer

Super Singer is a talent show in one of the excellent television channel in Tamilnadu. You also must have heard about it or even watched it. My husband and me will try our best to wind up our work before 9 P.M everyday and sit in front of the television to watch the young dudes exposing their talents in music. I always admire how the competition adds spice to the work people do. The same way the tough competition that existed among the singers and their quality was attracting us every day. From around few lakhs the people were filtered to few tens down the year. Till then all these people were judged and filtered on the basis of few parameters for a singer like - shruthi, layam, thalam, breath control, sangadhi etc, by the established play back singers of the cinema industry. Good. So far everything went well. The last ten people were of good quality. We were happy and making our own guesses of the winner of the title. But then came something called wild card rounds in the show. In which they called few of the already rejected people, made them sing again, selected few from them and clupped them with the ten who were waiting to participate in semi finals, thus by reducing the quality of the singers in the advance levels. Most of the audience at least my friends and family who were watching this program got irritated due to this wild card rounds which came once in every advancing rounds and added people who we thought were seriously not up to the mark of the cream ten, initial semi finalist people. What made this channel do like this? Was there any political pressure to include any of the rejected candidates to come back in to the show again? Or the channel wants to drag the show for another few months? Whatever it may be the channel has to seriously think before doing such a kind of thing in their show. In my known circle many people stopped watching this show in the recent past due to all this boring wild card rounds. Ok, at least this we can accept to some extent. But after the semi finals, there came another system called polling, which we thought is a real absurd. . Instead of a well known singer judging the candidate the program insisted the public to vote for the best singer in the round, to qualify to next levels. The major drawbacks of this polling-
The system of judgement which was transparent to the viewers were now hidden in the form of voting
Of course the public view on the singers is important, still most of them are lay mans in the music who do not know whether the singer performed well by sticking to all parameters like shruti, thalam and all. So the channel should have at least made the results based on public opinion-voting plus the judgment from the well known singers.
Since the result was based on the voting alone, the candidate who have big network among the participants will obviously qualify through, though he is a normal singer compared to few others in the competition.
The conclusion of this big story is, the channel has to think many a times before doing such a kind of things like wild card, voting etc, in the shows which has high TRPs. Even if they do, let it be transparent in some way to the people, so that the viewers at least will have feeling that in the name of voting there is no corruptions going around even in a television show.