The reality TV show “American Idol” has triggered a new trend - Idol search TV channels all over the world are searching for idols - or talents. This search is not only limited to the television screen but it has also proliferated onto the stage in various forms. Although the primary objective of this kind of shows is to screen for talent  in reality excuse the pun it is nothing but an entertainment show. The excitement the drama and the occasional emotional outbursts are all part of the show. Undoubtedly such shows do bring many talented men women and children to the limelight but is this the right way to do explore talent  In many cases the exploration turns to exploitation - especially for the young participants. They have to go through a grueling screening process sustain a tremendous pressure to perform and then handle a barrage of criticism from the celebrity judges.  I know in one dance show a young girl couldn’t take the judges criticism anymore and had a nervous breakdown resulting in a paralytic fit. In several instances the young competitors sacrifice their education to continue the show. But the tragedy is in most cases the winner is not judged by the celebrity panel whose criticism these young participants have to encounter but rather by the audience through cell/mobile phone text messages SMS . And in this process the wireless carrier mints money. I am sure the show also gets their share of this income too. I remember in one such show on ETV Bangla one of the judge a famous musician was so frustrated with this gaming system that he almost stormed out of the show. His argument was that these shows undermine the hard work and perseverance most musicians and performing artists have to go through in order to make it in this difficult world. He pointed out that these shows are unfairly biased to popular cheap performances because that’s what the masses like rather than music that requires years of professional training and practice. Well he may have a point but he should have known that before agreeing to become a judge. Lately these shows are also held on live stage. Recently CAB Cultural Association of Bengal has announced NABC Idol a show to select musical talent from this region to perform at the final to be held in San Jose in July.  Arranging such a show is not trivial and I hope this show will be successful in finding the real talent. The advertisement says that the judges will be all from overseas. I don’t know if this show will use SMS to collect audience voting to select the winners - that will be a major logistic and technical challenge. However if this turns out to be the typical music competition that we used to have back home it will undoubtedly lose some of its entertainment punch.  I am not sure if the intention of the organizers is to make it a true talent search or a mere entertainment show but I hope we’ll know that soon.  Share this article Close   Bookmark and Share This Page Save to Browser Favorites / Bookmarks Ask backflip blinklist BlogBookmark Bloglines BlogMarks Blogsvine BuddyMarks BUMPzee CiteULike co.mments Connotea del.icio.us Digg diigo DotNetKicks DropJack dzone Facebook Fark Faves Feed Me Links Friendsite folkd.com Furl Google Hugg Jamespot Jeqq Kaboodle kirtsy linkaGoGo LinkedIn LinksMarker Ma.gnolia Mister Wong Mixx MySpace MyWeb Netvouz Newsvine oneview OnlyWire PlugIM Propeller Reddit Rojo Segnalo Shoutwire Simpy Slashdot Sphere Sphinn Spurl Squidoo StumbleUpon Technorati ThisNext Twitter Webride Windows Live Worlds Movies Yahoo Email This to a Friend Copy HTML:  input readonly  readonly onclick  this.select  type  text value  Search for Idols size  84 title  Copy this HTML to create a link to this page /   If you like this then please subscribe to the RSS Feed . 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