Indian Idol - talent hunt or a debris of hopes?
Somewhere in the corners of our vulnerable hearts, each one of us is a star. This belief is instilled in our minds like a tacit law, governed by our talent that people around us swear by. The adolescent girl in your neighbourhood is told by her friends that she is made to walk the ramp. A middle-aged man in a nearby village struggles year on year to have his stories published because the kids subscribe to his narrations with immense awe. Among the shanties that line up a distant suburb, dwellers reckon there is a certain rockstar among them. Riding on a million such assurances is a dream – a dream that all of us have seen now or before – of being admired as an idol. When we set off in insane pursuit of such a dream, there is but one emotion that catalyses all our moves – our self-pride.
A few weeks back, countless such dreamers congregated at what they thought would be the platform where they could show the world their flair. They lay outside the gates of the Indian Idol audition buildings for a whole hot night, yearning for that single moment that could convert their dreams into reality.
For most of these contestants, the smug judges sitting inside the hall may have been their idols they looked up to. I only wish the esteemed jury would spare a thought for the emotions, the pain, the struggle that nestled in the susceptible sensibilities of these people before lampooning them in front of an entire country. Of course, not everyone is necessarily as talented as one expects to be. But that does not warrant such assassination of emotions. Because at the end of the day, the self-pride is a constant. It doesn’t vary with the level of talent that a person claims.
If anything, a reality show should focus on encouraging new talent. That certainly cannot happen when its agenda changes to ridiculing someone’s emotions to an extent that he loses faith in his own talent.
Nobody is born a star. Nor were these three judges. Forget not that what goes around comes back, and it comes back hard.
(The irony that Anu Malik judges a singing contest is an altogether different matter. )
1 comment:
your post set myself thinking on what is the better one..a stinging volley of harsh words thrown at you to tell you, that "dude,better hit out or get out.. or kind words of encouragement saying, "boy you can do it, just try harder". Just to give you an example, quite a few times in the past,I wished my parents to be a little bit tougher on me. May be it could have made me a bit more stronger, to face the hard realities of life..but I thank them now to have pampered me instead..those small little words of encouragement gives u the required motivation to pick urself up after an array of failures time and again..as u said it, the reason is simple-"self-pride".
At some point of our lives, we all must have suffered from 'competition syndrome'. It can make u or break u down completely..An healthy competition is all what we crave for, at the end of which everyone turns out a gainer if not a winner. But i guess, things like Indian Idol end up as a pain for most, a gain for only a few..
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