Reality of reality shows

You switch on the T.V and go to your favourite channel. You see some kind of reality show.You surf the channels by pressing the remote. You are surprised to see such shows in Telugu, Kannada, Punjabi, Oriya and all languages.
The truth is that all viewers in India, irrespective of region and language are herd of sheep.

For producers, reality shows are more remunerative than serials as they need not spend for artists.

The participants laugh, weep, dance and fight at their own expense.

The shows were really entertaining and refreshing in the nascent stage. But, now they have become stale and monotonous.

The success of the shows directly relate to how many participants weep after getting rejected.

The camera man waits for the girl to weep and catches it in tight close up to improve TRP ratings.

Shows relating to singing are at least acceptable as it brings forth real talent. But, here also commercial aspects enter. A boy or girl coming from a traditional family of clean manners is slowly turned into a item boy or girl as the show progresses. They are first made to wear modern dresses and gassy make up. Soon, they are into dancing with group dancers for peppy songs. Once, they get selected they are drawn into all stage shows of the channels and made to wear obscene dresses and sing. See the transformation – from a decent girl of singing ability to a pop singer on stage.

The dance reality shows are the worst. They break all moral and cultural ethics. All participants are made to wear revealing dresses and show vulgar dance movements. The irony is that the parents sit in the gallery and watch vulgar movements with a smiling face. The participating dancers are embracing the fellow dancer and showing their cheap dancing skills and the judges are the dance masters who are really masters in choreographing vulgar dance movements. The participants touch the feet of these dance masters as if they are bowing before Maha Vishnu.

Another show is the comedy show. To some extent it show cased the real skills of people even from remote villages. But, it will look funny to see Munian and Kuppans from villages wearing coat and suit and ten millimeters of greasy make up on the face. But, of late this also has become boring. How long we can see people talking like Vijaykanth and Raguvaran.Comedy artists of B grade are made to sit as judges and they laugh for every 10 seconds even during commercial breaks.

The worst reality show I have come across is the “Swayamvar” of the Hindi actress. Fortunately I have not seen that but heard about the dirty things.

Soon we may have the following reality shows.

• Fight between mother in law and daughter in law. This will be a real comedy show with peppy dialogues , mimicry of relatives on either side and stunt scenes.This will be captioned as “Mamiyaar aada Marumagal oda”

• Surgeons may be made to operate patients before audience and if the surgeon forgets anything he can go for a help line and complete the surgery. Loose Mohan and Ennathe Kanniah will be the judges. If a patient dies, he can come back alive in the wild card round. This will be captioned as “Arukka povathu yaru”

• Drunkards will compete for drinking. There will be rounds for country drinks, western drinks and final round will be illicit drinks like varnish and turpentine. The show can be captioned as “King Fishers Super Drinker”. Soon, this can be followed by “Super Drinker Junior” where young kids may be asked to drink before smiling parents.

The list is endless. No point in blaming producers and T.V channels.They will say that they are giving what we ask.

Let us ask something different and sensible.