This is the story of Reality shows

Hello friends, these days when you on a TV Reality Shows are shown repeatedly all the day in some channels like Sony, Star Plus, Zee etc. First major reality shows which became popular was Sa Re Ga Ma Pa in 1995 and at that time Sonu Nigam was the anchor. In this show singers use to sing their own composed songs or composed songs of their gurus. The judges were also great legends like O. P. Nayyar, Naushad and Talat Aziz etc. The highlight of this show was no quarrels between the judges or contestants or no sympathy stories of contestants. No voting system was used to decide the winner of the contest. That is why this show had produced good playback singers like Shreya Ghoshal (winner of 1996 and Mega final 1999) and Kunal Ganjawala (participated in 1997 and again in 1998).

As years passed on, suddenly public started showing interest towards these reality shows and popularity increased for these shows. I don't know which gentleman got the idea of public voting, this type of voting has suddenly spoiled the reality show's thrill. Like politicians, the contestants started begging for vote and judges started cursing the public for choosing a wrong person as winner, etc. But I would blame the production team of these reality shows for putting such a system to gain profits for their channel. If the Channels are interested in this voting system, then it is their responsibility to see that the judges show more restraint while talking on the show and do not criticize or blame the public.

In almost all the reality shows, we are listening songs from the contestants which have already been sung by famous playback singers in the films. So, no originality is left in these shows and it looks very disgusting and indecent when judges argue or quarrel with each other. These judges are showing very bad example of behavior to youngsters or budding stars.

The auditions for Indian Idol are being presently shown on Sony channel and one of the judges, Mr. Anu Malik is making fun of some contestants. Unfortunately one Doctor participated and Anu Malik made fun of him. I found this very improper because if anyone's singing is not fine then one should not make fun of that person. Not everybody is master in singing and one should give respect and take respect. Anu Malik's voice is also very horrible while singing but he still sings in films because he is son of some famous music director of the past. Even now he did not change his voice and still sings songs in very horrible manner.

I feel Indian Idol production team should go to arts colleges or to places where singers are taking training instead of going on to the roads and asking ordinary public to participate in Indian Idol. When these contestants come for audition, the judges make fun of them, which looks sick. I already lost respect on Anu Malik for the way he talks with contestants and with other judges, as if he is only music director on this earth who knows more about singing.

Many of the reality shows these days are highlighting the personal life of contestants as if he is the only person on the earth who is having problems in life. There are hundreds of poor people who are struggling daily for food and employment. Highlighting their personal life and showing all the family plights is like an act being shown for gaining the sympathy of public. It is true that most people who are participating in these shows have problems, but showing them on the TV is not meaningful. When singing is the ultimate challenge here then one should show how much the contestant has learned after coming into the contest and how well he is performing instead of all the other issues.

Sooner or later these reality shows will make contestants to fight with each other, question the judges (which has already been done in one show), etc. Finally, I want to ask all my friends what are the winners of the contestants doing after their win. They are either anchoring in a reality show or participating in another reality show. No music director is giving them chance on regular basis.

I want to let you all know that A.R. Rehman, the famous and legendary music director is the person who had started a music school in Chennai and other regions of India. He is a music director, who has given chance to number of new talented singers in his films. Hat's off to him. He talks less and shows the results. Not like Himesh Reshammiya or Anu Mallik, who speak too much and do less, that's all for now.

Signing off with love,

Vamsi....

Hopeless coverage by DD SPorts

Hi friends, good afternoon to all of you. I love sports very much and when ever I get the time, I would sit before TV to view the Beijing Olympics which is covered by DD sports. But the coverage of Olympic Games was hopeless and the commentary team and anchors were also hopeless.

The funny part of the commentary team was given by one of the DD sports commentator who is blindly commenting. I was watching the Kayak event and the time was around 2.00 pm. The Portugal team was leading in the race but from the starting of the race commentator continuously saying that Hungary team was leading in the race and will win the Gold medal. I thought the commentator will correct his mistake because there was no hungry team in that race. But Mr. Avatar Singh (he was some sardar, I did not exactly remember the name) continuously saying that Hungry was leading and he was shouting like a radio commentator. I thought he might not have lunch and feeling hungry that is why he is shouting Hungry was leading. This is the standard of commentators of the DD sports very funny.

What I did not like with DD sports is the way the games and events were shown on channel. I was watching the water pole game interestingly between Australia vs Hungry and sudden the stupid and irritating anchors appeared and started telling the Olympic updates without the time sense. The Olympic update was like reading some news and no highlights were shown. After the update the anchors suddenly taken into a wrestling match and never showed the Water pole game which was interrupted. From the first day of Olympics this is happening with DD sports. They have no proper sense, when to telecast, it is like a lottery and what ever the commentator likes he is shifting to that game which he likes and have some knowledge.

I am happy that India is bringing home atleast 3 medals (1Gold and 1Bronze already won; in boxing another medal is sure). I am impressed with the way the Chinese continent dominating the Olympics in their home. USSR was split into many small countries that is why Russia not able to regain the top spot or rank in the Olympics. USA was disappointing in the athletics but in swimming they were outstanding and credit goes to Michael Phelps (for winning 8 gold medals). Jamaica dominated the race tracks in athletics. Australia was disappointing in swimming and China’s domination continued in Badminton and Table tennis. In boxing Cuba’s main boxer shifted to heavy weight and new players were not able to dominate the boxing event. India had fielded 3 boxers and Vijender Kumar is the only one who is able to clear the quarterfinal and reached the semis.

India missed narrowly to move further into semi finals in Archery. The reason is making mistakes at the wrong time and Indian players lost the matches in Archery very narrowly. The most disappointing performance came from Anju Bobby George in Long Jump. She had jumped by over stepping and all her jumps were fouls and such hopeless performance came at a big event like Olympics. I hope government instead of giving such hefty prize money to the winning medalist, concentrate on the development of the sports facilities in India and develop the standard of games in India.

Finally, China is the highlight of the Beijing Olympics and they won more than 46 Gold medals and no other country is near them to overtake them. China will finish the games in the high note in my opinion…. That’s all for now

With lot of love,

Madhu Vamsi.