India’s Talent Hunt: Hunt for truth first people
Talent Hunt show or another Hunch of Publicity. Its hard to put thoughts together. So many beautiful shows and artists are hunted in times like these. But where do they all end up after wonderful performances, choice made by public for that particular wonder child or wonder singer.
Its democracy we have India. I love to practice my fundamental right to express anything I want. But does that mean I am entitled to say anything about anyone in India. Certainly not, I have to be responsible enough to be able to practice my fundamental rights. Certainly in India, democracy has been so mislead in today times. A child or a singer in these talent hunt shows is made to work hard, sing songs which originally has been sung by many re-takes in a studio. The person makes so much effort to achieve something which is either a lie or out of sight and out of mind case study. If these shows are just revenue earning building blocks created by so called Corporate Sponsors. The last singer I remember who was truly elected and given a chance to sing was Ms. Shreya Ghoshal. No one in India would question her ability to sing so beautifully as I feel she at times is a Mozart in disguise. But the basic view I like to put up here is, if she is a great singer, she faced a challenging competition, she came up on top, she lead her voice to become a star performer. That was some original work. But how about now? Where is singer Anwesha (Star VoI Chote Ustad), Aishwarya and I can go on naming these wonderful artists to be precise. The certainly performed so well. Where are these kids now? Where has the sanctity of these so called judges gone now? For a song, how hard is it to let a wonderful artist like this be given a chance. I would definitely like to appreciate Adesh Shrivastava, how was kind as well as brave enough to give chance to a singer from such competition. Its a brilliant journey they go through with stress and strain, loss of academics, just to live what they think they can, what they dreamed but just could not taste it right away.
I feel its the lack of awareness in citizens of my nation, who do not understand the set up behind such shows, its rather 80% marketing of sponsors and 20% promoting the singer which rather is a center stage entity.
When will the nation rise and wake up from what they have been living is a lie, a memory which they off and on forget, but the worse part is, if we have forgot someone, a time will come where we also will be history. Appreciate the person, write, print, e-mail it and let these immoral people know, that we are aware. We cannot be fooled out here. If art needs to be promoted, its only possible if we remember that artist exists. I would proudly say – “I PROTEST!”
I would like to let know the people what Rabindra Nath Tagore had once written:
WHERE the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
