Thursday, November 13, 2008

how real reallity shows are?

Television is the biggest hub of entertainment for every one.
Viewers have a great variouty of programs like News, views, dramas, information, sports, travel, music, and so on, so on, so on.
With the hundreds of channels available, viewers can choose the programs of their inclination.
With the tremendous amount of variouties, a new trend started from several years call “reality shows”
STAR TV, Zee TV, Sony are some of the established and popular entertainment channels. They have everything for their viewers, ranging from sagas to comedy to horror.
A new range that has come up is that of reality shows. The channels make it a point to show the clippings of the contestants fight throughout the day. Many tabloids refer to these acts as scripted and mere publicity stunts. But, what’s wrong in using these stunts if viewers are enjoying it?
Coming to reality shows, everyone is in the spell of these nowadays. You ask for it and they are ready with everything in the form of reality shows based on singers or dancers or comedy. There are shows showcasing the talent of children, to shows based on celebrities. It’s not just great performances but one also gets to enjoy the difference of opinion between the judges and contestants.
The pioneer of these shows was Indian Idol. Though there were some other reality shows before Indian Idol, but the spell of reality shows on the the Indian audience began after Indian Idol. It was a new concept in our country, because the final decision was in the hands of the viewers ie the winner was decided on the basis of voting by the viewers. The viewers had the power to make or break the future of the contestants.
Now, a obvious question crops up, do viewers are intelegent enough that they can make or break anyone’s future?
Are they smarter then those high profile judges like anu malik, sonu nigam, sukhvindar singh, etc?
If yes, then don’t they should have on the place of those stupid judges?
Music which was a way of adoration at a time, has now became less important then a kids toy.
The concept where kismet gets decide by voting is nothing more then just subornment. Since everything depends on votings, it’s very easy to win the title of winner. All you need to have a is lot of pennies in the pocket.
Now, mind raises, is it fair to buy a title?
Is it fair to debase the talent in such a vulgar way?
Is it talent hunt in real?
Certainly not, it’s just a case of “money is honey.” isn’t it?
There might be many questions similar to these, but answer might not anything.
The entire idea of Indian Idol was copied from American Idol and the concept was successful in marking a new beginning in the Indian television scenario. After the popularity and success of Indian masses, other channels did not lag behind in launching these reality shows for their channels. Today, these reality shows are ruling the market.
Reality shows seem to be the new age entertainment recipe. They might be selling controversies or cashing upon peoples emotion; but at the end of the day, they are the most popular shows with the highest TRPs.
In fact, it doesn’t matter in whatever way they are crushing the actual talent, but they want money, and no matter it comes by good way or fake.

prateek agarwal.
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