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The finale of Mr. and Ms. IT Chennai 2007 was a fiasco
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TALENT SEARCH? Krishna Das and Reena Vincy winners of ‘Mr and Ms IT’
Sometimes a show just goes wrong on so many levels that it’s hard to know where to begin to describe it. The recently held finale of Mr. and Ms. IT Chennai 2007 was an utter fiasco, from start to finish. Whether it was the organisers or the par
ticipants or the emcees, you were just left wondering — what were they thinking?
The idea was interesting — to give professionals from IT companies such as TCS, CTS, HCL, HP, Sathyam, Scope, CalSoft etc. a chance to showcase their talents, and crown a Mr. IT Chennai and Ms. IT Chennai based on performance and personality. But it’s hard to see why they needed to have 32 contestants — 16 men and 16 women — performing on the final evening. This meant that the show (which started nearly one and a half hours late) dragged on past the four-hour mark. Add the fact that the sound system stopped working every two minutes (there was a loose contact of some sort), and that the show was paused every 15 minutes to ‘honour’ various invitees with mementos, and you can see why one ran out of patience rapidly.
All this wouldn’t have mattered as much if the quality of the acts had been good. Unfortunately, with the exception of a handful, they could only be described as ‘woeful’. It was hard to blame the judges for asking “What was that?” after a couple of the contestants finished. There was the gentleman who read two news reports and an airport announcement, the ‘James Bond’ whose talent was apparently posing on stage with an imaginary gun, the lady who sang and did a collage at the same time, and another who chose a song with only four lines. The fact that only few of them were able to present themselves well or answer the judges’ questions articulately made it that much harder to sit through.
But nothing left as bad a taste in the mouth as emcee Gautham’s comment (which he repeated more than once) that “these IT retards are getting on my nerves.” Was that meant to be funny? It certainly didn’t make anyone at the Image auditorium laugh.
It was nearly midnight when Krishna Das and V. Reena Vincy were crowned Mr. and Ms. IT Chennai 2007 by judges Anu Hassan, Dr. A.S. Ganesan (pro-chancellor of the Vinayaka Missions Research Foundation), John Vijay (Radio One programme director) and singer Vinaya. It’s a pity that the show, which had so much potential in theory, had lost its audience entirely by that point.
DIVYA KUMAR
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