Spic Macay to launch reality show in classical music

Written By Unknown on Sabtu, 27 Juli 2013 | 22.10

NEW DELHI: In a first of its kind, Spic Macay (Society for the Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth) will collaborate with Doordarshan for a reality show in classical music starting August.

The show titled Naad Bhed (mystery of sound) will be judged in both Hindustani classical and Carnatic music across three categories: vocal, instrumental and accompanists. The prize money is Rs 10 lakh each for both Hindustani and Carnatic music winner.

According to the show's director, the main aim is to garner respect for Indian classical music, inspire the youth to follow its great traditions and encourage and reward the best practitioners amongst them. "We are using the reality show format to take classical music to the masses and give a sense of pride to those learning classical music. The talent discovery is a by-product of the show's format and not the main aim," says Harsh Narayan, director, Naad Bhed. Narayan has been associated with Spic Macay for over two decades.

According to Vikas Nagrare, head central resource centre Spic Macay, the popularity of many television reality shows was the main criterion for formatting a show on their lines. "Since there's tremendous popularity of music reality shows on entertainment channels today we thought why not have something similar to promote Indian classical music - the one thing India is known for across the world? And for this, we've got a good support from DD", says Nagrare.

The format includes a selection process across all India through competitive auditions held across 20 regional DD Kendras. This process will start in the second week of August.

Anyone who's learning Indian classical in the above mentioned categories is eligible to participate with the maximum age of 26 years. The participant is required to have a formal training in Indian classical for a minimum of four years to qualify in auditions. "If we get a child prodigy in the process, it's even better," says Narayan.

24 participants will be selected from each of the 20 regional centres through Spic Macay's regional Naad Bhed selection team. So the first stage of selection will have 24x20=480 participants. Out of the short listed 480 participants, each participant will be given 3 minutes to perform. After the first round, 240 participants will be eliminated and rest will go to the second round. From these, five participants per regional centre will be short-listed for semi finals making it a total of 5x20=100. The final rounds to be held in Mumbai in second week of November will have 36 finalists. Last date for submission of application is July 31.

Unlike other reality shows, however, the elimination will be on the basis of judges' choice and not voting by public. While santoor maestro Shiv Kumar Sharma, Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia, Ustad Amzad Ali Khan and Begum Parveen Sultana will be judges for Hindustani classical category; judges for Carnatic music include Prof P N Krishnan, T V Shankarnarayanan, R Vedvalli, Vikku Vinayakram and R K Srikanthan.


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