While watching promos for Indian Idol 6, after watching a very talented Devendra Singh from Punjab, I got hooked and have been watching this edition of Indian Idol right from episode one (thanks to Videochaska.com)
The preliminary rounds of selection were pretty good with the Sony Television discovering extremely talented children from the hinterlands of our vast country.
The main audition centres were -
Mumbai,
Kolkatta,
Delhi,
Lucknow and
Ahmedabad.
In addition, there were also mini audition centres like -
Amritsar,
Jaipur,
Rajkot and
Aurangabad.
Yes, you saw it right. There is no Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai or Trivandrum/Cochin.
I completely understand it is Sony Television's prerogative to choose where they want to conduct their auditions.
However, given that the last year winner - Sreeramchandra Mynampati is a Telugu and is from the city of Hyderabad, doesn't it sound a bit odd that Hyderabad has been given a miss? Wasn't there Hemachandra, also from Hyderabad, who was in top 3 in Zee Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, few years ago?
There are certainly a number of talented children like Sreeram and Hema in Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, Trivandrum etc. The whiz kids behind Indian Idol 6 have been very unkind to these youngsters and it is really unfair.
Back in Hyderabad, like my sister's, almost all the families do not move out of their houses on Fridays and Saturdays evenings, because Indian Idol is telecast (am not sure if it will be the same for Indian Idol 6, though). Meaning, Sony Television has equal or bigger audience not just in Hyderabad but also in cities like Chennai, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Cochin etc.
By not including the key south Indian cities in the audition (and by depriving the talented youngsters of their rightful entry to a national film industry), in my view, Sony Television perhaps has done a commercial misjudgement, which they will realise, when they see their south TRPs and the SMS voting from southern cities.
Readers of this post, no matter which part of the country you belong, just step back and read it objectively and slam me if you feel I am wrong.
When the global boundaries are getting erased, we have some smart people in Sony Television who are trying to divide our great country musically, linguistically?
God bless them!
The preliminary rounds of selection were pretty good with the Sony Television discovering extremely talented children from the hinterlands of our vast country.
The main audition centres were -
Mumbai,
Kolkatta,
Delhi,
Lucknow and
Ahmedabad.
In addition, there were also mini audition centres like -
Amritsar,
Jaipur,
Rajkot and
Aurangabad.
Yes, you saw it right. There is no Hyderabad, Bangalore, Chennai or Trivandrum/Cochin.
I completely understand it is Sony Television's prerogative to choose where they want to conduct their auditions.
However, given that the last year winner - Sreeramchandra Mynampati is a Telugu and is from the city of Hyderabad, doesn't it sound a bit odd that Hyderabad has been given a miss? Wasn't there Hemachandra, also from Hyderabad, who was in top 3 in Zee Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, few years ago?
There are certainly a number of talented children like Sreeram and Hema in Hyderabad, Chennai, Bangalore, Trivandrum etc. The whiz kids behind Indian Idol 6 have been very unkind to these youngsters and it is really unfair.
Back in Hyderabad, like my sister's, almost all the families do not move out of their houses on Fridays and Saturdays evenings, because Indian Idol is telecast (am not sure if it will be the same for Indian Idol 6, though). Meaning, Sony Television has equal or bigger audience not just in Hyderabad but also in cities like Chennai, Bangalore, Coimbatore, Cochin etc.
By not including the key south Indian cities in the audition (and by depriving the talented youngsters of their rightful entry to a national film industry), in my view, Sony Television perhaps has done a commercial misjudgement, which they will realise, when they see their south TRPs and the SMS voting from southern cities.
Readers of this post, no matter which part of the country you belong, just step back and read it objectively and slam me if you feel I am wrong.
When the global boundaries are getting erased, we have some smart people in Sony Television who are trying to divide our great country musically, linguistically?
God bless them!
