Monday, October 02, 2006

Miss Vasantham - 6th Elimination



So, it came to pass, over a very haywire weekend. It's fast losing its initial lustre, this program. Of course, we always have much to say about it. But, it is getting a tad bit boring and the new injects to hype up the show, i.e. getting the girls to bitch about each other and stating clearly for the cameras who they think is not worth staying in the competition; just reeks of hitting below the belt. Again, the question is asked, is this a pageant? or a reality show?

Are you looking for a dancer [what with the numerous quips about the ladies' dance moves, hips and ass]? Are you looking for a versatile actress? Are you looking for a stand on stage and beam at the cameras doing Sandra Bullock's Miss Congeniality moves beauty queen? Perhaps first things first, the producers should sort out their own issues, rather than attempt to hype up something which itself has no focus.

It was the 6th Elimination and we were left with less and less girls to actually observe and scrutinize. Of course, most of the time, we scrutinize the ticker tape SMS thingie too. That of cos is the real champion of all champion inventions, so much so that even Sun TV borrowed the idea and let Singaporeans SMS in their greetings a while back. I forgot if it was for Deepavalli or New Years.

The catwalk. Again and again, I claim. Nothing spectacular. You turn you twirl you pose you move. The Group 2 girls however, manage to do a little bit more of owning the stage, like they know what they're doing and looked a tad bit fluid with their moves as compared to last week's Group 1. Last week, it seemed, everyone just wanted to do their own thing. And not stick by the choreography strictly. Oh well, its a competition. Continuing on, it was on to the Q n A portion.

Q n A

Perhaps one good change this time around was to be more fair to all the ladies and pose just a single question to all of them. However, can you really just do that? Inviting the judges to provide comments even before the "question" was asked, tended to invite a pre-question from most of them. The point being? You scare the hell outa the people who're standing at the mike, and when they think they're done with answering what not you wanted to know, then the harsh truth that it's not "THE QUESTION" is told to them.

And even when it was, it was ungrammatical. The question repeated 8 times on National television was "Does good looks matter to have a successful life?". The correct question should have been "DO good looks matter....". Aptly pointed out by one amused viewer, who praise be to him/her, spent 2 dollars to educate the rest of the population. Talking about that SMS thingie again, the KLKillahs also sent in an SMS instructing all other KLKillahs to have a good evening. However, apparently Mr. Moderator has banned us. Maybe thats why he himself put out a message of his own: "No advertising please!!! - Moderator". Right, freedom of speech definitely doesn't count. No one can send a "[Insert company name here] sends its best wishes to the ladies" but we can definitely handle a "I'm sorry for what I did, please don't spank me when I get home - LoverBoy".

I think there's also some subtle curse going on with regards to Sunita. Everytime, she opens her mouth to say "We wanna see you do better in this competition", that girl is most probably going out. As was the case this week. So, the girls did their mandatory answering. And you sometimes wonder why the marjority of the crowd in the audit was only cheering 2-3 of the girls on. Let me get this straight. This is a sub-popularity contest.

There will be an SMS voting initiative a la Idol to determine the winners when they're cut down to the final 8, and as a contestant, don't you want the most vocal, vicarious supporters down cheering for you. TV is such a great influence on the general mindset. For example, upon seeing all the catcalls for Kalaivani, my mum went "That girl quite popular ah". Tweak the minds of the public. Subliminally alter their mindsets through TV. Just my humble opinion.

Talent Round

This was by far the smartest thought up talent round of them all. Yes, the costumes are rented, but yes, everyone simply did so good, it was impossible to tell who was the best of them all. Pretty hard to compare, samba to cabaret to downright, look-at-me-at-Bhangra night dancing right. They're all not on the same plane to make a outright comparison. Still, according to what the judges say from time to time, it seems this round seldom carries any weight. I mean it used to, to provide immunity, but that was stopped too. [Survivor decided to sue you?]

Still, some girls deserve special mention for the theme they chose and how they pulled it off. Definitely, Devi Priya, Revathi, Kalaivani wowed with their performances.

Results

You know a show is getting boring when you can outright pick the eliminated ones even before the final whistle [cat call whistling included]. You know people don't really get along when you see Bharathi actively coming up with 24 different facial expressions to register disgust on every new girl on stage and simultaneously sharing a good laugh with her folks while "expressing" herself.

So, anyhow, the results were out. "Sub-confident" Anita and "Squeaky" Nishalani are out. Phew, for the second one. After that anti-football comment. You might as well, tell every Indian mofo in the country they wouldn't need to wish you good luck for the future. And no, 22 men are definitely more interesting to watch than 1 of you.


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3 comments:

ah_neh said...

Yep. But let's hold on to the suspense yeah. Also, our next post is KLKillah's 100th. So we're planning something special for you lot.

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