Boogie Woogie India

Different people have different opinion regarding judge’s verdict and also for public voting. Though in Democratic India, hardly 60 percent people exercise their right to vote and out of that 60 percent who vote, more then half of the people are not even aware of the whereabouts of the leader that they choose. Many of the votes are a result of one time meal offer in exchange for a vote plus Rs. 10/- note as a prize for voting - it’s a pure sale of ones rights in favor of the rich politicians. And then the rest of the votes, a majority of them are the result of blind faith. 90 percent of the educated people don’t even bother to vote – we only believe in talking big. Well let me not go there at all because it is a never ending story. Anyway, let us come to reality shows and its public voting versus judge’s judgment.

Should public be given responsibility for selecting their favorite candidate? Yes of course why not! If we get to bear so and so candidate for an hour twice a week, we should be allowed to choose or eliminate whoever we want. But do we exercise our rights fairly? Of course not!! Only 1 percent of the population goes for the fair voting rest is a long story.

Almost all of the reality shows have public voting and a number of candidates selected by public voting is based on region, language and what not. There are some singing shows that were very reputable once upon a time and now have lost its reputation due to the same public voting resulting in good candidates getting eliminated at early stages because they do not meet the unfair criteria. Now Boogie Woogie is the only show that is respected for its fair judgment and as time goes by, the respect also increases because it follows a certain format. For Boogie Woogie, “only” talent matters. They don’t care for anything else. Yes that’s how it should be.

Okay now let us look at the public viewing of a talent versus judge’s way of judging. “We” the people who think we exercise fairness, for most of us when we see a performance, if music sounds good to our ears, almost half the battle of the contestant is won. Then the second most important factor to us is a contestants attitude and approach, his or her smile, niceness, looks, dance steps that either we are seeing for the first time or seeing after a long time. Their sense of dressing also counts. We unconsciously start to compare if we can do the same performance or not and if not then that performance is fantabulous provided we like the candidate or else no way only highway for that contestant. We don’t think twice to curse if they go against our hearts. Our heart rules 99.99 percent in our judgments and we find ourselves cry when our favorite contestant cry, laugh when our contestant laughs, and we find ourselves ready to take that extra step to promote him or her to get the final victory leaving our own personal goals high and dry - yeah we the common people are pretty emotional you see. And technicalities – who the heck cares?? If the dancer dances on beats or not doesn’t really matter as long as it sounds good to our ears. We rule with our hearts, we are big hearts!! Now let’s move on to the monsters who rule by their brain – judge’s (oh boy am I in trouble? Well we will figure out someone to blame it on later)

Judge’s especially the "Boogie Woogie judge’s" – the "perfectionist" who play their role strictly in a lighter way, let’s look at them little bit. The best thing about them is that they always have their last word but they never make it sound like that. Some art haa? They are very well known for bringing out the real talent from all parts of real India. For them all aspects of technicalities matter sometimes their technicalities can break our little hearts just like it did at times when contestants like Swasti got eliminated. For them, if it is a dance, then it better look like dance, cuteness and drama doesn’t have any weightage. For them, a dance cannot be a dance if the beats are going north and steps are in south not even when the contestant is cute or hot.. oh my my… pure brain people - they are SO off from us hearts!! But yes they do have a point and that is why they are so much respected. They not only judge but also educate the people around them free of cost which is a marvelous thing. They do not let their hearts rule when it comes to judging. Things like “oh she is cute so she must win” or “that is poor family so they deserve to win” does not occur in their dictionary. There are plenty of cute and there are plenty of poor but when they reach Boogie Woogie sets, they are nothing but one and the best among all must win! That is their attitude.

So the recent discussion of public voting versus let the judges continue to judge Boogie Woogie, brought lots of interesting arguments. Many feel strong that Boogie Woogie must not bring public voting and must maintain the old standards and many feel it is time that public voting be introduced. Two of my very dear friends spoke in favor of judge’s and I am going to put their exact words here:

Rahul: IMHO (in my honest opinion) … I think Boogie Woogie should not change the format of eliminations … it is the FAIREST reality show that is out there …. and think that is what makes it to special

Shobha: Ditto Rahul. I wanted to say this and I voted to say no public voting. Look at what happened to SRGMP

Then of course you must have read few other comments on the blog by our members – Shruti, Kavitha and Ananth.. Plus a majority of people have voted in favor of No Public Voting but it is still on till Firdaus asks us to put an end. You want to know something strange? The number of people who voted either in favor or against public voting are not even 1 percent to the traffic that gets here everyday - why I wonder? Is it that difficult to choose one of the option? It is only one vote per IP so why not vote?

Anyway if you ask me my opinion, I think as much as it is important that public should be able to choose their candidate as it is OUR right, it is just that India is NOT ready for public voting yet. We still have a long way to go before we really can vote fairly. Our hearts will not allow us in judging fairly still and will pull us towards either some region or cuteness or towards some other reason. Many of our young girls will still vote to the cutest guy around, and many young guys will vote to the hottest girl on the show and many of our elders will vote for their own regions. They say heart has its reasons that reasons does not know but don’t get me wrong, we are not that bad for following our hearts. I still will say if my decisions were not ruled by my heart, this blog wouldn’t be here. So let us cheer ourselves and sit back and relax and let the judges give their verdict. 9 out of 10 times, we are going to agree with them and every once in a while we will not. So what’s the big deal? The day we don’t agree with them, we will get together and fight with them - just the way we did in past. If we call them our OWN then it is our right isnt?

Well while we wait and see what Boogie Woogie decides regarding it’s public voting, we can only hope that whatever maybe the decision, may the talent shine always just like it does now and nothing be effected negatively if there is a change in format.