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Bhojpurias are very egoistic and everyone
thinks he is beyond criticism. At the same time the same person enjoys criticizing
others. In a popular Bhojpuri reality show Sur-Sangram shown over Mahuaa TV
channel had an exchange between two stalwarts of Bhojpuri Music. This lead to a
chain of events ultimately casting a dark shadow on the channel and the society
as well.
Bharat
Sharma, a popular Bhojpuri singer of yore, was called as a special judge on the
sets of Sur-Sangram, and was sitting between two permanent judges of the show –
Malini Awasthi and Kalpana Patowary. Eight fresh contestants were introduced in
that episode to challenge the finalists, one each from U.P. and Bihar. To be
honest, this was an immoral act on the part of the channel to take benefit of
the increasing popularity of the show by extending the number of episodes. And,
naturally the permanent judges wanted to know from the contestants what special
they have to challenge the finalists. There was nothing wrong in it but Bharat
Sharma opposed them and interrupted Kalpana not to do so. In reply Kalpana
asked back, is the contestant your relative? Every was stunned by her frank and
fearless reply not falling in undue awe of a senior like Bharat Sharma, who is
called Bhojpuri Samrat by his fans.
Matter
should have been dropped by both the parties as the show ended but no. One of
the party got so humiliated that his cronies took matter in their hands and
started criticizing Kalpana branding her as a small time singer who does not
know Bhojpuri culture and does not honor Bhojpuria stalwarts. Many things are
being said against her. Many organizations are taking the benefit of this
incident to come in the news. Even the parties involved seem to enjoy the
cacophony saying it just a show business and any news is good news as long as
it keeps them in the news. Bharat Sharma should have behaved like a senior but
no, he appears in no mood to forgive Kalpana for her temerity to speak against
him.
In
the mean time another sequence was underway. The show was initially planned for
35 episodes and so were the judges, the anchor, and the sponsor was contracted.
Kalpana had other pre-arranged engagements, so she declined to extend her
contract. So did the sponsor who refused to dole out more money and claimed to
be the sponsor till final contest of the Sur - Sangram without paying any extra
money as the serial has been extended without reason. The channel got another
sponsor and wanted to run the show as usual. Manoj Tiwari was against it so he
too declined to anchor the show. After a marathon meeting he was made to accept
his new role as a judge in the show in place of Kalpana and now Ravi Kishan
will anchor the show in place of Manoj Tiwari. Kalpana' no show in extended
episodes is now cited by the cronies of Bharat Sharma as their win as they were
demanding ousting of Kalpana.
This
whole episode reconfirms that Bhojpurias don’t take criticism in good spirit. A
new group of Bhojpuri extremists is trying to take over the Bhojpuri as their
person freedom and wants to silence every other voice which dares to oppose
them. This new trend has to be nipped in the bud for the betterment of Bhojpuri
culture and language otherwise these fundamentalists will take over and that
will cause doom of everything related with Bhojpuri.
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