How many of you watch this show? This is supposedly a reality show where a handful of chosen contestants from various states in India ride a Hero Honda Karizma from a stipulated starting point to a destination city all the while performing various physically, mentally and culturally challenging tasks and voting out one or more fellow contestants. And then there is this grand finale where one person is chosen the Roadie of the season and is duly rewarded with a cash prize and a Hero Honda Karizma (God I love this bike).
There is a lot of drama happening between the contestants throughout the journey. These people are total strangers and are fated to stay together for the entire journey (well if they survive the vote outs that is). They start forming groups and keep bitching about each other behind their backs as is the psychology of human mind. Here it is not about the survival of the fittest. It is about the survival of the most sly, manipulative, twisted-brained person. If you can con your survival you most probably have the chance of winning the title. That is bottom line of the show. It is surprising how people can behave on screen when they know thousands of people are watching them. I personally feel that most of this is for adding a certain ticker to the show and increase its viewer-ship.
The most interesting of all these drama is the one meted out by its hosts Raghu Ram, Rajiv and Rann Vijay, especially Raghu. During the auditions the way in which he insults the aspiring contestants is irritating. Again I think this is a scripted out strategy to keep people like me hooked to the screen. Yep I am shameless like that. He has the biggest attitude and he shouts and yells and bad-mouths anyone he wants to. Am really not sure if this guy is like this in reality and if so how on earth are people putting up with such a bitter and irritating fella is beyond my grasp.
I don't understand how come so many people are willing to take part in shows like this and act as if their life depended on it. Are there so many jobless people out there in reality? Seriously you should watch this show right from its auditions to understand what I am saying. The people hosting the show go to all possible extents to insult the contestants claiming to break them (In this season they have resorted to even physically abusing the contestants). There are things like writing "I am a Loser" on the forehead of one of the contestants and making a guy strip and wear women's undergarments just to prove that he is faking macho and independence and is not actually comfortable about his parents watching him on screen. I really cannot blame the channel for this beyond a certain extent. These are all adults beyond 18 years of age who pretty well know what they are doing. Aren't they really embarrassed by such charades? Don't get me started on the way in which these people behave on the actual trip. Girls come on to guys and guys fool around with girls for the votes and you can actually see some intimate scenes as in the movies. Will their parents not watch them on screen? Aren't they worried about portraying themselves as such on television? We are still in India and I don't buy that kids are off the hook when they turn 18. Yeah adults these days, do a number of things unknown to their parents and yeah they are legally adults and have rights to their ways, but isn't kissing and cuddling a guy on the national television taking it a bit too far? Looking at shows like this , "Splits Villa" and "The Big Boss" makes me wonder if I am really in India.
There are shows like the Indian Idol (The American Idol's Indian counterpart), The MasterChef and various other talent hunt and reality shows. I must admit that some of these are exemplary(like "The Chotte Ustad") and give people a setting to showcase their talents. And then there are shows like "The Roadies" and "Splits Villa" where there is no actual talent needed to win them (well, not if you consider being manipulative, bitchy, sassy, sexy and winning over boys and girls as talents). Above all I don't understand why people consider that participating and winning reality shows is all they are born for and without which they have no life. Oh you should listen to some dialogues where some people say becoming "Roadies" is their passion, their life's ambition and their destiny. I wonder where they learnt the meaning of such words, or if they are educated and mature at all?
Are we in a generation where we think being on screen is life enough? Are we developing an India on the pedestal of "Bollywood'? Why is it that this generation is behind making themselves seen on television and think that taking part in a reality show makes a career for them? And why are people broken when they lose a competition? Is that the end of life? Some of them are pathetic and I am really worried on the direction that our country is heading towards.
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