Read an entertainment headline today, Rakhi Sawant, after her tremendous success in ‘Rakhi ka Swayamvar’ is now going to be on ‘Pati, Patni Aur Woh’, another reality show. I almost doubled over, mostly with frustration, I think.
Tell me guys, do people really want to watch Rakhi Sawant on prime time TV, in a main character role? I cannot and will not digest this. Is the viewership so good for them to announce another show with her in a lead role? Is my mind so twisted that it cannot fathom this? The swayamvar ads were all over the place.Even those of us not following the show knew about it. Ask any child about swayamvar, and she/he will know because of Rakhi, not because of Sita.
Rakhi Sawant has gone up the ladder, from an item girl tag, she now has the tag of a REALITY STAR! I can now accept Shilpa Shetty’s leap to fame with Big Boss a little more easily. Can we not see the downward graph of our quality on TV?
Shilpa Shetty - > Rakhi Sawant -> What next?(Bobby Darling??Dont know who that is?Lucky You!!) Are we not going really wrong somewhere?
I am not saying we should start watching Ramayan. But we definitely are in dire need of sensible TV. We have such intelligent people in the industry and in the audience. I do not want to believe that shows like this is what ‘aam junta’ wants! The cycle has to end sometime, somewhere. Either the producers have to take a risk and not just go by ratings OR the audience, for the lack of anything else, instead of watching this, should turn the TV off, and turn the radio on!
Don’t we remember in the early 80s and part of 90s we had some terrible movies? Before that we had some masterpieces, and again, after that we have had a lot of directors, ready to risk making good movies. Am not referring to some low budget, no light, no make up actors showing us what bad things happen in the world today. I am talking about a Dil Chahta Hai, an Omkara and a Jab We Met, which made loads of money too..When there are good creative people ready to take a risk on a good script with confidence, producers will be ready to plunge too and vice versa.
We need that kind of revolution on TV. Some simple measures…
1)Lets not copy what is happening out in the west. Lets be original guys. Indians, through history, have been forerunners in so many things. Let’s try to get back there.
2)We need laughter on TV. Not cheap slapstick, but real good humor. I am sure our writers can think harder!
3)And please, oh please, let kids be kids! Don’t slap on makeup on them and ask them to say things, which I think, my granny used to say ! Remember Kachi Dhoop? Amol Palekar ji, where are you?We need more serials from the likes of you.
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