Only reason why Avanti, kartiki, and Rohit are getting more SMS is regional and religious. In one case it is Marathwada region voting for Rohit and on the other hand (remember previous edition in which someone from Nagpur was elected because of flood of votes from Vidarbha), the Gujju class (BTW, is she a Gujju) would be voting for Avanti. Many times while listening to Kartiki, it seems she is eating something while singing. Avadhut called it as a Ghazal style!
Rests of the viewers are from the elite Marathi class (such as Punekars, etc.) people, who would keep their strong opinions, write articles, and would not vote. Any case, the issue is the SMS based "election" system in which only telecom cos. make profit.
As I wrote earlier, singing Hindi songs in this Marathi programs is unfairness at its best. Rohit was already a participant in the Hindi version of program and gets undue advantage. Recent episode in which Shreya Ghoshal was the judge, he was give more than 2 mins. to sing as compared to others who were typically singing 1 min. 30 sec. Clearly more than a competition goes behind in the background.
Another problem with all reality shows is to project some personal problems of the contestants to cash in the sympathy, to create some drama. I do not care if you, you family members are not well or any such reason in a competition. Another stupidity is showing/making an underdog a winner. A contestant re-enters through call-backs and then become at least the finalist and the anchors keep on bragging them. May be there is hard work of such people, but mostly it is a marketing gimmick.
As some other blogger mentioned, I can not rule out the bias against participants from a particular class. I do not want to define that class (social, political, minority, etc.), but the standards applied against each of these participants look different.
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