Sirasa Super Star " – Madness or Mania?

[cdvasu]

:confused: Sirasa Super Star " – Madness or Mania?

By Ramani D.Wickramaratne
There is a public opinion that "Sirasa TV" is an anti-Sinhala /Buddhist TV channel encouraging cultural programmes which are targeting our rural youth and destroying the cultural fabric of Sri Lanka. The writer sincerely hopes that these opinions are wrong. However, the "Singlish" terminology and vocabulary used by the Sirasa comperes and programme directors, does leave a huge question mark as to the intentions of this TV and Radio channels. Thanks to the money they throw into their programmes, and the "madness" they instill in the young minds, most of our rural youth are growing up without a cultural identity.

The writer walked into BMICH premises on 14th January 2007 and noticed groups of young people carrying musical instruments, practicing songs in every possible nook and corner on the BMICH grounds. One could easily spot out the " prospective contenders" from their attire, "gelled and eerie looking" hairstyles and the put on swing in their walks matched together with the " sankara culture" that Sirasa is famous for. Most of these youngsters were accompanied by their families and friends and had traveled from all corners of the island to participate in the singing competition which is one of the pre-requisites for becoming the " Sirasa Super Star-2007." The fiasco of the 2006 has just finished not so many moons away! To carry them into this artificial environment one could see a see of Sirasa flags together with those of other sponsors who also aim at making money in the process by selling their commodities like telephones!

This year's programme commenced exactly on the Duruthu Full Moon Day which makes it obvious that Sirasa does have a sinister agenda to drag Buddhist youth away from their village temples. From 3 rd to 18th January 2007 is the period set aside for preliminary auditions. Two auditions are held daily for these contenders once in the mornings commencing at 8.30-9.00 a.m.and once in the afternoons commencing at 1.00p.m. Per day, they invite 1,000-1,600 participants per session, into Colombo. One can calculate how many young people converge at BMICH during these 16 days-50,000 youth. Of these youth who are given auditions apparently only 10 are selected from which the final 3 are selected eventually! For these young misled youth to travel to Colombo and spend an overnight stop to be able to present themselves to Sirasa at the designated time, they come accompanied by family or friends. All expenses for transport, food and stop over expenses have to be borne by themselves for this trip- what a waste of much needed money for the upkeep of a family with absolutely no guarantee of being selected at these auditions. Most of them turn away to return to their homes utterly disappointed at the manner in which they have been treated- ofcourse, this realization comes rather late to them and at great cost. By year end, when the Sirasa Super Star competition reaches its climax, Sirasa itself has become much richer in terms of income but left a band of youth in a maniacal state unable to figure out what is right from wrong!

We do not expect the country to be in a state of mourning due to the ongoing war with terrorists in the North and East. However, as a responsible media channel we do expect Sirasa to act with a certain amount of decorum and etiquette. Why cannot these auditions be held on a district basis in those districts thereby cutting the costs incurred by prospective contenders? Why do they have to be so selfish and cause inconveniences to those traveling from afar? Throughout the year, those hoping to hit the top 10 and then top 3 will nothing else in their mind whether it be studies or work but "Sirasa Super Star" in their minds!

For a country to grow healthily, there needs to be a balance in everything that is done whether it is media or any other cultural aspect and sadly, with the manner in which Sirasa is setting about their business, one cannot but suspect that their agenda is far more gory than we would like to think! Why do we Sri Lankans need to ape the west and copy only the bad things they adopt? The west has many things which we could learn but nay- we need to exhibit the fact that as a nation we are suffering from a severe "inferiority complex" to overcome which, we need to be whiter than the whites! Just like in the recently held Sports Event in the Middle East where our athletes thought they must be as naked as the western athletes to win a race, while female muslim athletes dressed in their covered track suites beat us handsomely and with pride!

It is high time the relevant authorities decided to monitor what is going on and take measures to bring sanity into this country while maintaining our own cultural heritage and values. What is wrong with that?

Have fun – but with dignity and pride – the pride of our nation.

[unistudent]

:confused: Sirasa Super Star " – Madness or Mania?

By Ramani D.Wickramaratne
There is a public opinion that "Sirasa TV" is an anti-Sinhala /Buddhist TV channel encouraging cultural programmes which are targeting our rural youth and destroying the cultural fabric of Sri Lanka. The writer sincerely hopes that these opinions are wrong. However, the "Singlish" terminology and vocabulary used by the Sirasa comperes and programme directors, does leave a huge question mark as to the intentions of this TV and Radio channels. Thanks to the money they throw into their programmes, and the "madness" they instill in the young minds, most of our rural youth are growing up without a cultural identity.

The writer walked into BMICH premises on 14th January 2007 and noticed groups of young people carrying musical instruments, practicing songs in every possible nook and corner on the BMICH grounds. One could easily spot out the " prospective contenders" from their attire, "gelled and eerie looking" hairstyles and the put on swing in their walks matched together with the " sankara culture" that Sirasa is famous for. Most of these youngsters were accompanied by their families and friends and had traveled from all corners of the island to participate in the singing competition which is one of the pre-requisites for becoming the " Sirasa Super Star-2007." The fiasco of the 2006 has just finished not so many moons away! To carry them into this artificial environment one could see a see of Sirasa flags together with those of other sponsors who also aim at making money in the process by selling their commodities like telephones!

This year's programme commenced exactly on the Duruthu Full Moon Day which makes it obvious that Sirasa does have a sinister agenda to drag Buddhist youth away from their village temples. From 3 rd to 18th January 2007 is the period set aside for preliminary auditions. Two auditions are held daily for these contenders once in the mornings commencing at 8.30-9.00 a.m.and once in the afternoons commencing at 1.00p.m. Per day, they invite 1,000-1,600 participants per session, into Colombo. One can calculate how many young people converge at BMICH during these 16 days-50,000 youth. Of these youth who are given auditions apparently only 10 are selected from which the final 3 are selected eventually! For these young misled youth to travel to Colombo and spend an overnight stop to be able to present themselves to Sirasa at the designated time, they come accompanied by family or friends. All expenses for transport, food and stop over expenses have to be borne by themselves for this trip- what a waste of much needed money for the upkeep of a family with absolutely no guarantee of being selected at these auditions. Most of them turn away to return to their homes utterly disappointed at the manner in which they have been treated- ofcourse, this realization comes rather late to them and at great cost. By year end, when the Sirasa Super Star competition reaches its climax, Sirasa itself has become much richer in terms of income but left a band of youth in a maniacal state unable to figure out what is right from wrong!

We do not expect the country to be in a state of mourning due to the ongoing war with terrorists in the North and East. However, as a responsible media channel we do expect Sirasa to act with a certain amount of decorum and etiquette. Why cannot these auditions be held on a district basis in those districts thereby cutting the costs incurred by prospective contenders? Why do they have to be so selfish and cause inconveniences to those traveling from afar? Throughout the year, those hoping to hit the top 10 and then top 3 will nothing else in their mind whether it be studies or work but "Sirasa Super Star" in their minds!

For a country to grow healthily, there needs to be a balance in everything that is done whether it is media or any other cultural aspect and sadly, with the manner in which Sirasa is setting about their business, one cannot but suspect that their agenda is far more gory than we would like to think! Why do we Sri Lankans need to ape the west and copy only the bad things they adopt? The west has many things which we could learn but nay- we need to exhibit the fact that as a nation we are suffering from a severe "inferiority complex" to overcome which, we need to be whiter than the whites! Just like in the recently held Sports Event in the Middle East where our athletes thought they must be as naked as the western athletes to win a race, while female muslim athletes dressed in their covered track suites beat us handsomely and with pride!

It is high time the relevant authorities decided to monitor what is going on and take measures to bring sanity into this country while maintaining our own cultural heritage and values. What is wrong with that?

Have fun – but with dignity and pride – the pride of our nation.


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[saraprobe]

Jerk, let them what they wanna do, if u dnt want shut the F* up, coz we are in a free world, we have right to do what accepted as a whole, u better go back to jungle!

[life]

Read this, too.
http://www.elakiri.com/forum/showthread.php?t=19507

[saraprobe]

One thing he has remember is that, the professor get paid by the GOV. & the gov. get aid's from other countries to recover their deficit , especially western countries, so far what we have achieved, nothing but the poverty. So Mr. Nalin de silva need to know that we need to make commercial not cultural in the future, he shouldn't get paid from now on, so he will feel what to choose, culture or commerce, food or stupid talk!
Same thing occurred when bathiya & santush came out the stage, bunch of controversy, now those people can't even wipe their ass!:D

[nukisl]

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:yes: :yes: :yes: :yes: :yes: :eek: :eek: :(

[nEoN_wHitE]

try to give your idea in a short way. we don't have much time to read more details
hehehehhehe eka athatha:yes::D:D:D

[amilaudana]

"Sirasa TV" is an anti-Sinhala /Buddhist TV


Buddhism = popular music???
no.

religion should give up aesthetics ..

These are new empirical talks. we have no Englishmen now. So our enemy is other natives. like Tamils

these are for lunatic professors and post modern youth who have get their brain spoiled. capitalism is. why don't you talk for that... this is racism. Damn you.!

Actual Buddhist should not be like this...


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:angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry: :angry:
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[azrah ghaffoor]

this is weird...

[madurax86]

...woooa hold da shit ryt dere...letz not blame sirasa for all dat shitty work i mean sumtims da government TV stations do shittier things dan that(i'm not gonna say..) ...it's da foolishness all da shitty ppl hu live here..they like fantasy stuf n they try live in a lif dat is more fancier..well once da ppl in this country blamed western ppl for not wearin clothes to cover their body .WTF get onto bambalapitiya n c for ur SELF; NOW they blame India--n da shit bags hu copy indian stuf...y blame?? if u dont like them dont watch 'em ...like i do go download stuf like family guy or little britain .. dats wht i hav to say

[amilaudana]

...woooa hold da shit ryt dere...letz not blame sirasa for all dat shitty work i mean sumtims da government TV stations do shittier things dan that(i'm not gonna say..) ...it's da foolishness all da shitty ppl hu live here..they like fantasy stuf n they try live in a lif dat is more fancier..well once da ppl in this country blamed western ppl for not wearin clothes to cover their body .WTF get onto bambalapitiya n c for ur SELF; NOW they blame India--n da shit bags hu copy indian stuf...y blame?? if u dont like them dont watch 'em ...like i do go download stuf like family guy or little britain .. dats wht i hav to say


ya we want freedom ...........! madura is correct
but i like calssics most. no classics in sri lanka..
pop is to who want only. u can refuse pop ... but u can't force any one to du that.

[lasanka]

god hu cares let em do what they want how the hell does sirasa superstar affect u in anyway????

[lasanka]

...woooa hold da shit ryt dere...letz not blame sirasa for all dat shitty work i mean sumtims da government TV stations do shittier things dan that(i'm not gonna say..) ...it's da foolishness all da shitty ppl hu live here..they like fantasy stuf n they try live in a lif dat is more fancier..well once da ppl in this country blamed western ppl for not wearin clothes to cover their body .WTF get onto bambalapitiya n c for ur SELF; NOW they blame India--n da shit bags hu copy indian stuf...y blame?? if u dont like them dont watch 'em ...like i do go download stuf like family guy or little britain .. dats wht i hav to say
well said machan... do what u want and let em do what they want!!! and yaaa dwnload family guy heheh or watch somethin like 24 prison break etc!

[Martin]

Everybody is trying to keep their market. The campaign comes in many ways. Finally everybody will achieve their targets on the result of what they sell. The product could be Programme, Game, Idea, Nationality, Religion, etc .. etc which has monetary value or some other value. So be careful, everybody is selling. If they have done something, this country would have developed a lot. But some have done nothing to the country and nothing to themselves too.

[Agent_47]

It seems that a lot of people in this country seem to be affected by a bit of xenophobia. Sirasa Super Star may be one of the most boring, annoying, wannabe type of programmes in the world and yes it does affect the local culture in a way but this is a FREE country where we can do anything we want regarding entertainment and such. At least when our people sing Sinhalese songs they don't start embracing Indian pop culture. Personally I hate that programme but just because it isn't to my taste I don't expect others not to watch it. There is always a choice. Watch it or don't.

[madurax86]

dere's one last thing i'd like to mention tho; since this is our country v should try stop things like these but dis racism thigy is not da way to do it---it's ignorance wen no ppl watch it they stop producin it..hav u guys seen those award's dat sirasa gets ?? dey say that they've done so much n dey makeup an award for dem selves.
this is wut make our ppl go nuts[..dey realli like to do wut others doo..dey got it frm da monkeys hhhaa]..so dey watch sirasa coz sirasa says dat its da best n da most watched....other stations r da same too--mostly radios..

[lasanka]

kk

[11111111]

It has become a mania to become a super star. Couple of things to consider before going are:

1. Can you actually sing?
2. Are you having the right personality?
3. Can you bear defeat?

If you can manage the above, please go and be a super star! :yes:

[lasanka]

dude u cant blame ppl they see american idol dont they??

[11111111]

It's not blaming child. It's called striking against Capital Maharaja! :lol: :lol: :lol:

[lasanka]

eh.. but y?

[sakala]

Thamge ideas shor & sweet system ekata ammanam hondai neda

[shaggy]

IO 2 big :oo:

[sakala]

Thamge ideas short & sweet system ekata ammanam hondai neda:yes: :yes:

[madurax86]

It's not blaming child. It's called striking against Capital Maharaja! :lol: :lol: :lol:

dis inci vinci country cant do a thing like dat i mean v have our own problems ...dis war's goin on for abt 20 yrs..did nyone tried strike enough to get da LTTE down on knees ?? untill now i havnt seen tho....

[eladebara]

www.suntel wow.com

[cow_theboy]

in a country there should be different tv channels. thats normal guyzz. If all the channels equals we have nothing to watch. IN a country we should have different channels thats my idea.

As a example , SLRC is govnt channel it telecast good things. Sirasa telecasts foriegn musics and films and more than other telecasts.

Wat u think about my idea?

[cow_theboy]

???

[MOST WANTED]

YAP

[Agent_47]

Yeah there should be a good variety of programmes on T.V. otherwise we'd just die of boredom.

[nayoma]

also i havnt a time for wast but i read that here and thre i think y think is right but some people like be famouse,but some mans not given any chances.thise chances is most importerd improve for thr talant
mrs i think u know that but sri lankan govenment have a three chanel i think u know that.some channel begining Ragatha rashmi thise channel give a many publicity for that programe but wat's happen thise proggrame but sirsa tv begane a proggrame givininge big publicity and they finished that . ok guy's my english knowledg is not best.there's have have a problame ple 4give me and thise is only my veiws:rolleyes:

[blood_brotha]

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thats cuz u think u guys are above anyone else and u r EGO filled brains cannot recieve anythin exept university things

[nelum]

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:yes: :yes: :yes:

[pagani]

Some kind of a idiot work

[mayumitanaka]

I am a buddhist and this is rubbish,cant belive that we have such stupid people in SL to beleive thjis rubbish about sirasa being anti buddhist and anti sinhala, I am a sinhalese and this rubbish must stop as sirasa has brought much pleasure and views from every part of this country at a time when ppeople of this country are suffering with cost of living and under the stupid regime of the rajapakseas

[dill@22]

enda thibune surendra thama

[massina]

I'd rather say it's a MAFIA....

[anarkalee]

man hitagaththa aith sss balanne kiyala

[amalkaj]

Jerk, let them what they wanna do, if u dnt want shut the F* up, coz we are in a free world, we have right to do what accepted as a whole, u better go back to jungle!

Do U think U are free. No U my dear. U are a prisnor of new imperialism. They don't do it using guns like old days. Now they are using weapons like Sirasa. U fool

[amalkaj]

Our foolish people think they are free. But They are prisoners of men like Mahendraraja, who use their money to corrupt the minds of innocent young people and also to devide the country by giving fullest support to the LTTE. What our foolish music lovers do not know is when U send a SMS to vote in Superstar , 50% of sms charge automatically goes to LTTE account.

[sriflipflop]

Our foolish people think they are free. But They are prisoners of men like Mahendraraja, who use their money to corrupt the minds of innocent young people and also to devide the country by giving fullest support to the LTTE. What our foolish music lovers do not know is when U send a SMS to vote in Superstar , 50% of sms charge automatically goes to LTTE account.
can u proove

[Kalindugayan]

kiyawanna diga wadi

[nkrockers]

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