Tayabur,

long but good comments. 100% agreed.

napolean,

The way marks are divided, 50% for judges and 50% for the audience, I think, judges should not say anything that can affect the audience while they are voting. See, the judges should care about the correctness of the song, 'suur ta kothay lageni', they have to decide it based on the grammar. But the audience are not expected to care about the grammar. They will decide 'suur ta kothay lageni' based on the appeal of the song. If the singer can move their emotion, they will vote. Now, as a music illiterate, if I find from Fahmida Nobi that the singer made these many mistakes, I will hesitate to vote for him/her, even though I was moved by his/her song. This is complete injustice to the contestant, as well to the audience.

Some people argue the 'learning' thing. See, this is a competition. If the judges want to teach the contestants, they can do it after the contest and not in public. ANd you see, the judges are not always correct. If you can remember the Bulbul-Fahmida incident about Putul......

Moreover, the judges are not handling the things equally for each of them. For some contestants, they find the faults, for others, they dont. In the previuos round, Salma received such a poor marks. Did they explain which mistakes she made? Badhon in her last round received poor marks; but she was praised by every one of them. So, these comments are not proprtional to the performance. Why making them then?

Ferdous,

I salute you for your courage to say what should be the truth, though I rate Salma's song much better than Nishita's.

Actually, I dont like the concept of all-rounders, that means being able to sing 'all types' of songs. You dont need to be perfect in every type of song. If you want to be, then the probability is very high that you become a mediocre singer in each field. Salma and Nishita both are excellent ones in their fields. And it is injustice to make them sing everything! Anyway, if this is the concept of the competitiob, we have to respect it to be fair and vote completely based on the performance at each round, not what he/she did in the previous round and what else 'imaginary stuff' he or she will be able to do in the future.

All of them are personal opinion. You dont have to agree. :)
Have fun!

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