So... What exactly does reality television stand for ??
1. Entertainment..
2. Just plain truths..
3. utter disgusting planning and controversial methods just to gain popularity or in this case TRP
It is obvious that people will have different opinions about this... Some may say all three or some may say that option 3 is best suited...
Lets clear some basics... TV channels air these so called reality shows to increase their TRP's... arre business karna hai na...!! But in this age of cut throat competition, is reality TV the only way to do good business?? ... What happened to the creative minds, what happened to pure fun, frolic and pure LOL ??
Defining entertainment is difficult as it is relative term... having said so lets take a look at it..
Entertainment : something affording pleasure, diversion, or amusement, esp. a performance of some kind
Lets take a few examples... Sach Ka Samna, Splitsvilla , Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao, Rakhi ka Swayamvar and loads more... (don't get any wrong ideas.. i do not watch any of these !!)..
These are so called the "prime reality entertainment shows"... what entertainment?? Putting a bunch of people together and creating situations where they fight, b**ch around and go on insulting each other on national tv ????????? .... wow definitions do change quickly and with great magnitude I must say !!
What happened to entertainment in form of Sarabhai vs Sarabhai, FRIENDS, Dekh Bhai Dekh, Khichadi ..... Have people stopped watching these serials??? Is entertainment now concerned only with melodrama, b**ching reality or with controversies created by imbeciles ???
Now there will be an argument stating "popularity" reasons.... what popularity ?? The one due which people will remember you due to your foul language or the on due to your senseless cheap comments about other people ??? Was sarabhai family not popular? Was FRIENDS not the most watched and the most complete fun serial ever ??
Agreed that those were not reality serials but then they entertained right?? Is that only cruel and insensitive reality scales the popularity charts??
Even game shows appear to be rigged...
How come celebrities earn loads of money when they participate in these shows?? I don't know a single show that has shown a celebrity loosing out .... (now don't tell me celebrities are clever and all !!) Also they claim to donate their prize money to charities... yeah right... has anybody checked up later... Income Tax people pls do the needful !!
Once a participant looses out in a reality show.... goes out.. stays dormant.. and once the show is over re-surfaces and whoa we have controversies galore ... entertainment indeed !!
Then we have the cayotees (obviously..news channels) scrambling all over ... !! These channels are experts cooks I must say... get some raw news, apply loads of masala (hype), use a high strong and horrible sounding anchor... and wholla.. we have a damn good recepie... !!
C'mon people...
think over.. Are we really enjoying this?? Is this "real" entertainment at the cost of someone's character??.. Even politicians have started to understand this...!! (gr8.. so now that we know that even politicians actually do have brains, lets start thinking ourselves ..!!)
If these people at TV channels are so good at "creating this f**king reality", why not use the expertise in creating something genuinely entertaining ?? Are they afraid to loose out TRP's... Remember diversification is one way to scale up the ratings !!
Anyways... what else can I do besides penning down my thoughts.. hoping for some brightness to descend in "their" darkened, hard shelled brains... !!
dtd:- 28/07/09
