Could it be more unreal...?
Reality shows have been ruling the roost for quite some time now, and have firmly established themselves as a formidable force to be reckoned with. However, in the past 3 months, reality television seems to have lost its resplendence. Gone are the days when reality TV was actually real in its truest sense. The singing talent hunts which seemed melodramatic a few years back now seem far better than the BRIDE hunts that are being carried out these days. People have become so desperate to get married, that they have condescended to humiliate themselves and their families on national television. LUX PERFECT BRIDE, a show that aired on STAR PLUS from October-December 2009 was nothing short of mental persecution. A bunch of losers who could not find themselves a wife after several failed attempts hit rock-bottom when they chose this show to find themselves a suitable bride who would also win a sum of Rs.25 lacs by the end of it. Amidst a lot of drama the show ended with a stupid couple finally tying the knot on national television for the very first time in its illustrious history. My mother and nana were glued to the TV set between 10.30 -11pm every single day to allow themselves to be subjected to the nonsense that the show had stored in it. Rakhi Sawant, now a household name, was the special guest on the show's finale. I assume by now you must've realized how lame the show really was. If you had the misfortune of watching it yourself, you would know that even the judges of the show were people who are either over their prime but happy with their new accent [SHEKHAR SUMAN] or who have no projects in the pipeline and a lot of time to spare [AMRITA RAO] or who never had and will never have any projects in the pipeline and are dying to flaunt their new implants to the Indian public [MALAIKA ARORA KHAN]. May it be in terms of the lackadaisical concept, or atrocious performances [provided the show was scripted to the very last scene] the show had nothing to write home about.
There was another show which aired on COLORS at the same time named BIG BOSS Season 3, or may i call it BIG BOSS TRITIYA as Bachchan likes to call it. It started off pretty slow, but really stepped on the gas after the first 2 weeks in terms of the TRPs. The 14 participants created controversies in the form of intimacy, hatred, violence, politics, and at one point of time even striptease..! Tempers flew along with plastic bottles..and bread slices..! There were no rivers of blood but those of milk and oil instead..! It was absolute bedlam inside that house. The show had all the makings of a 'reality show'. However, the winner turned out to be the lousiest person in the house- VINDOO DARA SINGH. The winner of the show was a candy-assed weasel words who used to play a monkey-man on Indian TV a 100 years back..! The winner was a guy who's verbal prowess is as good as that of YASH CHOPRA's..! The winner was a guy who's father has been hired to make funny faces in a KUKURE ad..! How in the blue hell did he win that show...??
My question is...could it be more unreal...? Not just the show per se...but also its outcome.
Anyways, now that i'm done dishing out my detest for all that's unreal in the world, i better get back to my bottle of rum. We're devils and black sheep.....and really bad eggs...drink up me 'earties yo-ho...!!!!!
P.S.: MALAIKA, IF THOSE ARE NOT IMPLANTS LET ME SAY THEY ARE A FINE PAIR . AND IF THEY ARE REAL, MY FAITH IN REALITY TELEVISION HAS BEEN RESTORED.
Reality shows have been ruling the roost for quite some time now, and have firmly established themselves as a formidable force to be reckoned with. However, in the past 3 months, reality television seems to have lost its resplendence. Gone are the days when reality TV was actually real in its truest sense. The singing talent hunts which seemed melodramatic a few years back now seem far better than the BRIDE hunts that are being carried out these days. People have become so desperate to get married, that they have condescended to humiliate themselves and their families on national television. LUX PERFECT BRIDE, a show that aired on STAR PLUS from October-December 2009 was nothing short of mental persecution. A bunch of losers who could not find themselves a wife after several failed attempts hit rock-bottom when they chose this show to find themselves a suitable bride who would also win a sum of Rs.25 lacs by the end of it. Amidst a lot of drama the show ended with a stupid couple finally tying the knot on national television for the very first time in its illustrious history. My mother and nana were glued to the TV set between 10.30 -11pm every single day to allow themselves to be subjected to the nonsense that the show had stored in it. Rakhi Sawant, now a household name, was the special guest on the show's finale. I assume by now you must've realized how lame the show really was. If you had the misfortune of watching it yourself, you would know that even the judges of the show were people who are either over their prime but happy with their new accent [SHEKHAR SUMAN] or who have no projects in the pipeline and a lot of time to spare [AMRITA RAO] or who never had and will never have any projects in the pipeline and are dying to flaunt their new implants to the Indian public [MALAIKA ARORA KHAN]. May it be in terms of the lackadaisical concept, or atrocious performances [provided the show was scripted to the very last scene] the show had nothing to write home about.
There was another show which aired on COLORS at the same time named BIG BOSS Season 3, or may i call it BIG BOSS TRITIYA as Bachchan likes to call it. It started off pretty slow, but really stepped on the gas after the first 2 weeks in terms of the TRPs. The 14 participants created controversies in the form of intimacy, hatred, violence, politics, and at one point of time even striptease..! Tempers flew along with plastic bottles..and bread slices..! There were no rivers of blood but those of milk and oil instead..! It was absolute bedlam inside that house. The show had all the makings of a 'reality show'. However, the winner turned out to be the lousiest person in the house- VINDOO DARA SINGH. The winner of the show was a candy-assed weasel words who used to play a monkey-man on Indian TV a 100 years back..! The winner was a guy who's verbal prowess is as good as that of YASH CHOPRA's..! The winner was a guy who's father has been hired to make funny faces in a KUKURE ad..! How in the blue hell did he win that show...??
My question is...could it be more unreal...? Not just the show per se...but also its outcome.
Anyways, now that i'm done dishing out my detest for all that's unreal in the world, i better get back to my bottle of rum. We're devils and black sheep.....and really bad eggs...drink up me 'earties yo-ho...!!!!!
P.S.: MALAIKA, IF THOSE ARE NOT IMPLANTS LET ME SAY THEY ARE A FINE PAIR . AND IF THEY ARE REAL, MY FAITH IN REALITY TELEVISION HAS BEEN RESTORED.
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