Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Reality shows: Can we relate them?

Yesterday while surfing various TV channels i came across a show on NDTV Imagine. The show had some 16 girls involved in search of an ideal groom and the centre stage groom-in -waiting was rahul Mahazan.

Rahul Dulhaniya Le Jaayega (RDLJ)” :)

Rahul is a married man but divorced & now he wants to start new fresh life. He is getting his own show where he would get a chance to interact with 16 girls to find his ’Life Partner’.



That probably makes him perfect choice for the second season of swayamvar show after Rakhi Ka Swayamvar concluded recently when she chose NRI Elesh Parujanwala and later declared that she would like to spent 6 months with Parujanwala and than will decide his fate.
These reality shows are hot amongst some youngsters, ridiculous for some and just a mere time pass for others

Risking your life and claiming to be a ROADIE , confessing about your personal life, your sexual affairs and your intimate relations and experiencing your past life which you can never experience, what these soaps are showcasing and this is what television viewing has been reduced to.


Surprisingly this all is shown at cost of our cultural and moral values. The use of abusive language, obscene sexual exposure is one thing that has become an indispensable part of these reality shows. Flirtation, betrayal, tears, bitching and scheming, is all shown in name of reality.

Shows like Sach ka Samna raises questions upon trust and faithfulness and weakens the thread of bonding. These shows only plant seeds of dissension amongst families and relations rather than bringing enlightenment.

This is what this television and the glamorous world of silver screen is taking away from us.

I don’t know what these people are trying to show? Whether it is the reality or scripted but the picture that it is projecting is really corrupted. People have found their shortcut to fame, popularity and money in these reality shows.

What media and television has given to us is undoubtedly tremendous but what it is taking from us is the question to be asked.How justifiable it is, showcasing all this vulgar acts and nonsense on television?

There has been much debate about reality TV shows and whether they are ethical or not, but no one has been able to completely justify themselves. As the television reaches its new era and reality is in demand, people are creating scripted shows and calling it reality.These are badly affecting minds of Indians specially youths.

It is not only affecting the minds of the people but morally corrupting them as well. Girls seems to forgotten the decency of living and boys have gone too far in their behavior. Excess of everything is bad and this phenomenon has rightly been fulfilled by these reality shows for the sake of entertainment and so called masala. Its time to buck up and think of what all it is leading up to.

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