Personal lives of people are no more personal, thanks to microblogging sites like twitter, but most importantly the television! It's like personal life sells on TV these days! All the channels are airing the oh-so-called 'Reality Shows' which have more drama than fictional shows. Turn on your TV and you'll see tonnes of shows which take you deep into the participants' life, or sometimes even their bedrooms, a few years back Reality Shows had a completely different meaning, Indian Idol, Nach Baliye, Kaun Banega Crorepati, Roadies, and the likes, were considered reality shows, but now Reality TV has a whole new definition. Explicit shows like Dadagiri, Emotional Atyachaar, Love Lockup, Maa Exchange,Wife Bina Life, Pati Patni aur Woh,Such Ka Saamna, are all ruling the roost of the IndianTelevision!
Is the average Indian TV viewer so dumb that he can't differentiate between what's real and what's not! Has everyone gone blonde? Anyone could make out that Dolly Bindra was not possesed or anything like she claimed! But Its not just India, some no-brainer reality shows trace their roots back to L.A, shows like Maa Exchange is adapted from it's western counterpart Wife Swap. And Such Ka Saamna from Moment of Truth.
Its not that only common people's personal life that sells, people loved to watch Rakhi Sawant choose her 'var' on Rakhi Ka Swayamwar, followed by Rahul Mahajan, and now Ratan Rajput. But even these shows are not truly Indian, they're rip offs of some really successful shows in the wild wild west like The Bachelor and The Bachelorette. Even worse shows have hit the TV these days, for example, Baggage is a show in which people dare to bare their deepest and darkest secrets just for a chance at love, this is horrible, even after revealing shocking things about them, they don't find a date!
One more such non-sense show is Keeping Up with the Kardashians, which shows nothing but the everyday life of the Kardashian family. Every episode is almost the same with Kim Kardashian finding out about some sex tape (from high school) being released, and the show wraps up with Kourtney and Khloe educating their little sisters about the bodily changes!
The viewer is not so dumb, please stop this! and give us some real 'reality'!
Note- A lot of research has been done for this post, by watching several episodes of Baggage, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, Bachelor, Moment Of Truth, and Bachelorette. Please appreciate it.
