Entertainment is a major part of all our lives. We probably can survive days without watching TV, but then we also have those days when we spend hours just watching TV. Indian television has always surprised me. Be it the saas-bahu sagas, or the now very popular reality shows. These so called reality shows have always made wonder how real is real? Each show guarantees you that it's different from the other, but all of them have equal amount of drama involved. In fact, I don't find anything different in them.
For some reason though, I think they're rather entertaining. Let's take Rakhi Ka Swayamwar for example. The lady had contestants from all over who would want to become her groom. She, for once was fully dressed from top to bottom in many episodes. Then after much contemplation she decided to marry Elesh Parujanwala. Well she only decided, never did. Then came Rahul Dulhaniya Le Jayega. Again the same process, same everything, the only difference was that he married Dimpy Ganguly, the chosen one. But even his post marriage controversies and revelations of how the show was scripted were all out in the open. And now we have Ratan Ka Rishta. I wonder what will be there in that because from what I see in the promos, one of the qualifications to become her groom is that the guy has got to like 'lauki'. Like seriously? Going by that, my groom must hate brinjal... whatever!
Then comes the very loved and much watched (I was a loyal viewer) Bigg Boss. In the first season, we had Rakhi (yes...again) falling for a fellow contestant but because he was engaged, she was depressed. So in this one certain episode of the show we had Rakhi standing with a broom in her hands, leaning against a wall, crying and there was the song Kya mujhe pyar hai playing in the background. What are we supposed to get out of this? Do we actually do that in real life? Then followed some three more seasons. However, I thought the fourth one to literally have it all. Action, drama, romance, comedy and much more. There was a point when people would literally sit glued to the television between 9-10 at night. Who wouldn't want to see Veena Mallik a.k.a. Pout Queen making a complete fool of herself by pouting in front of the mirror, dancing on the table, Ashmit Patel trying his luck with almost all the single women but then settling down with Veena, Dolly Bindra screaming "hurrrrrr", The Great Khali trying to talk but somehow his voiced only echoed, so on and so forth. The season, as they call it, had all the right masala. But again, the same question arises, is it real or should we just make ourselves believe that it is?
Whatever said and done, real or not, we all somewhere enjoy watching all these shows, laughing out loud and just wondering what actually happened to the concept of reality shows?
Ps- Rakhi Sawant now wants play Phulan Devi... never mind!
Also, I couldn't have mentioned the ten thousand reality shows that are there, else the blog would've never ended.
For some reason though, I think they're rather entertaining. Let's take Rakhi Ka Swayamwar for example. The lady had contestants from all over who would want to become her groom. She, for once was fully dressed from top to bottom in many episodes. Then after much contemplation she decided to marry Elesh Parujanwala. Well she only decided, never did. Then came Rahul Dulhaniya Le Jayega. Again the same process, same everything, the only difference was that he married Dimpy Ganguly, the chosen one. But even his post marriage controversies and revelations of how the show was scripted were all out in the open. And now we have Ratan Ka Rishta. I wonder what will be there in that because from what I see in the promos, one of the qualifications to become her groom is that the guy has got to like 'lauki'. Like seriously? Going by that, my groom must hate brinjal... whatever!
Then comes the very loved and much watched (I was a loyal viewer) Bigg Boss. In the first season, we had Rakhi (yes...again) falling for a fellow contestant but because he was engaged, she was depressed. So in this one certain episode of the show we had Rakhi standing with a broom in her hands, leaning against a wall, crying and there was the song Kya mujhe pyar hai playing in the background. What are we supposed to get out of this? Do we actually do that in real life? Then followed some three more seasons. However, I thought the fourth one to literally have it all. Action, drama, romance, comedy and much more. There was a point when people would literally sit glued to the television between 9-10 at night. Who wouldn't want to see Veena Mallik a.k.a. Pout Queen making a complete fool of herself by pouting in front of the mirror, dancing on the table, Ashmit Patel trying his luck with almost all the single women but then settling down with Veena, Dolly Bindra screaming "hurrrrrr", The Great Khali trying to talk but somehow his voiced only echoed, so on and so forth. The season, as they call it, had all the right masala. But again, the same question arises, is it real or should we just make ourselves believe that it is?
Whatever said and done, real or not, we all somewhere enjoy watching all these shows, laughing out loud and just wondering what actually happened to the concept of reality shows?
Ps- Rakhi Sawant now wants play Phulan Devi... never mind!
Also, I couldn't have mentioned the ten thousand reality shows that are there, else the blog would've never ended.
