Sushant-Ankita in JDJ-All discussions here 2 - Page 54

Originally posted by: nikitagmc

@Minakshi:

I guess you didn't read my detailed posts in JDJ forum.

The soap watching population gets divided between Ankita, Ragini, Mahi and Sushant. Out of them Sushant is the best so he gets saved. Anyways, guys gets favoured in reality shows more cos girls vote for them so its kind of obvious.

Did you see last season of JDJ? The winner was Baichung Bhutia who was in no comparison to Gauhar Khan. Yes, he was good and even I was supporting him and so were many other, but regional bias in his case cannot be ignored, wherein the local groups in the north-east states were FUNDING people with sim cards and talktime and voting for him in groups. Are the north east states of India very rich? They are not, infact a majority population consists of tribal people. Still Baichung won, cos he had a lot of support in some groups (I forgot the name) who encouraged people to vote saying 'Make OUR boy win.' Same thing happened with Debojit Saha in SRGMP and one more contestant in II whose name I've forgotten right now. Chang may be from Bihar, but he hasn't emphasized a lot on this factor in the show. Shekhar has an upper hand here than him.

This is the way it happens. And who knows it is happening in Shekhar's case too. Remember, he has political support too.

Add to that the fact that yes, Bihar consists of villages, but here I'm speaking of the voting population- i.e people in small towns and upwards, who have TV's and cell phones (nowadays everybody has cell phones). They are the ones most likely to be affected by such regional bias.

States like Maharashtra do consist of more 'developed cities', as everyone likes to say, but these metropolitan people are the ones who are less affected by this regional bias. They are not likely to vote for Ankita just cos she is a Maharashtrian. As I told you about the news report that I saw, people of Mumbai Pune etc. do not even vote a lot in such shows.

There is a lot of permutation and combination in such issues about which I can't discuss at length here, maybe cos this would not be the right place to do so. However I've stated just the main points in short. There are a lot more factors too, in my opinion. See, these are just my observations based on the reality shows I've seen. I can't vouch for that. I already said that who knows maybe its all scripted and nothing else. But I only wished to point out that don't think that Bihar will lag behind in voting and all. Previous examples show it is never the case that states which are demographically poor don't vote or anything like that.

@Meenakshi: See, I agree that some states have their associations and so on, but regional bias is something which cannot be dictated beforehand. People living in small towns feel emotionally connected at times. Many feel that they should support their kin from the same state. I understand that it is difficult for you to believe this, cos you being a Bihari don't feel inclined to vote that way. I'm a Maharashtrian myself, but even I never take such things into consideration and feel its silly to be biased because of such reasons. What I stated is only based on the trends noted ever since the reality shows began.

I agree with the fact that Baichung is popular and even deserving. I was also rooting for him. I did not say that he won becos of regional bias. But yes, somewhere the bias was there and articles were carried out in it. I have seen such bias in states like Rajasthan as well. It just depends on the mindset of the people, there are no fixed rules about it that it will happen in this state and not in that state.

Plus Shekhar's support system is huge.

@Tiya: Ankita's Maharashtrian connection is not really very apparent neither does she use it to ask for votes in the show by speaking in Marathi etc. Shekhar's connection is far too apparent. And I really doubt that many people know Ankita is from Indore- that thing too hasn't been highlighted much. See, we know it bcos we are active on this site and follow SBS/SBB etc. Many many people don't. Most people do not even take the lives of soap stars seriously.  Example is in JDJ forum. Some people did not even know what serial Sushant-Ankita were working in. I told them.

As I see it, there are two reasons for Anki not getting high votes:

The common vote bank of soap audience is getting divided between Ragini, Anki, Mahi, Sushant. Out of these Sushant is getting favoured cos the guy always gets favoured as girls are more likely to vote for him, plus, he's doing excellently.

Second, Anki hasn't delivered any truly spectacular performance till now, which would truly make people, who are not her fans, sit up and take notice and start rooting for her, even though she has got a lot of appreciation. Her kathak was a step in that direction, but she hasn't yet won supporters like Chang, Yana or Sushant are winning. She is compared to Ragini as of now, (though I personally feel she is much better than Ragini)

Okay forgetting this serious discussion for a while..

Have there been any promos of the next episode? I came to know that Ajay and Emran Hashmi came this week and they were praising Sushant a lot. I like Ajay, and I have a feeling that this particular film is going to be a good one..

Wonder how Sushant was able to concentrate on dance when he was so glum.. poor guy!!

Originally posted by: teacher25

@ Niki..... I agree completely with the whole regional bias being an important element in the show, with voting systems. I had myself said at the start of the show that it would play an important role like last season, especially with reference to Chang....

My only grouse is with "Shekhar Suman".... he has not delivered except for the first "Jalwa"dance, which was a big surprise for me.. I don't begrudge the fact that he has not been eliminated till now, it is all a matter of luck / destiny, is what I believe. However, I cannot digest the fact that there is a huge fan base for him, bigger than Chang, Ankita, Ragini, Daya and others.... I agree that the soap- audience vote would be getting divided between the main soap actors, and hence they have all come in bottom three once at least. 

What is mind - boggling is that Sushant and Shekhar are the only two people on the show with such high votes, that they have never come in the bottom. Sushant - I do understand, I would myself stay up all night and vote for this guy if need be (have not done so till now)..... Who are supporting Shekhar and why? 

The older generation who watched him in Dekh bhai Dekh (my younger cousins don't know of him much, so assuming that he is more popular among the older lot)..... Women ---- they don't sms much (its a generalised opinion, but I think it sounds reasonable).... people in villages in Bihar don't have set-top boxes, without which you cannot watch Sony...... there is still shortage of electricity, and it is for 6 hours on average at max.... 

Younger generation do not identify with him (maybe its a prejudice on my part), and men of the older generation don't watch many dance shows......... 

Well, I guess I am in a way repeating myself, because of the simple disbelief in the so-called high popularity of this guy, who has been giving average performances for the past 4 weeks now. His acts / mannerisms don't seem to be so age - appropriate....  and so on.... 

Why do people like him? 😕