Originally posted by: return_to_hades
Its surprising for me to hear that people perceive Jai Kumar Nair as cocky and undeserving. He was unarguably the best dancer in DID season one and much much more versatile and polished than Salman. I don't think he was overconfident at all. He was astutely aware of his caliber and knew that it was not being recognized. Even when he critiqued the voting, it was not a brash bashing or whiny reflective of a sore loser. He accepted his fate with sportsmanship, but merely expressed his perspective.
I've noticed desi audiences are are not very receptive of people who know their abilities and express it. They expect submissive humility and acceptance of fate even when it means short selling yourself. A sore loser is someone who cannot accept defeat gracefully. However, accepting defeat does not mean accepting that one is automatically of a lower caliber. Sometimes luck does not favor the deserving. There are more sore winners than losers sometimes as people win or reach far without acknowledging all the lucky breaks they have.
As for choreography it is a completely different ball game. Choreography requires working with different people and extracting the best of their abilities. Jai while exceptionally creative and capable in his own dancing has not fully adapted to the role of mentor and teacher. It is a much sharper learning curve. I'm not saying he is better than anyone as a choreographer and he is still developing that aspect. Hopefully, breaks like JDJ, working with Rajeev Surti will help him sharpen his skills.
Being a good human being and gracious in defeat is not a desi quality but an universal human quality. People in any country don't respond well to people putting down the winners of a contest after the contest is done..........I live here in the states and have been watching talent shows, sports etc for years and I can honestly say that people here don't like people who make excuses for their defeats and put down winners of the contest by calling them undeserving etc......Jai can be confident all he wants but to put down the winners by calling them undeserving etc is just unsportsman like.........It wasn't even close in DID 1, he finished 4th for god's sake.......He didn't even finish in the top 3......and then what he did in DID lil masters is just the height of unsportsmanship.........He went after a little kid, Jeetu and also called him undeserving and said only his contestant deseved to win..........People the world over teach their kids to be humble in defeat and in victory........Being arrogant in defeat is looked down the world over NOT just in India........I don't recall the finalists in any of the American shows bashing the winner by calling them undeserving and if they did then they were hammered by the media for being sore losers as they should be because that kind of behavior should not be encouraged.........Are we to teach the kids to never accept defeat and never congratulate the winner? Are we to teach the kids to turn around and blame everyone like Jai does after defeat? Is that what we should be teaching the kids of today?
PS --- I thought D sir was better then Shakti in DID 2 but that doesn't mean I will call Shakti undeserving just because she won.........Salman, Siddhesh, and Alisha all finished ahead of Jai.....If he or his fans think it was unfair then fine all fans feel that it was unfair when their favorites don't win but that doesn't mean we go and bash the winners and the audience.......If the audience was wrong, Zee rigged the votes etc, then go out in the real world and prove everyone wrong by being successful........😊
Edited by ankit_nyc - 13 years ago
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