Friday, February 09, 2007

A BIG BOTHER

It is a shame , when the usualyy sane people fall for the theatricks of the insolent buisnessmen. And normally such a fall is accompanied by blissfull and pitiable ignorance of the fact that they are being taken for a ride. To be fair it is not at all a matter of dispute whether modern day actors are or are not businessmen. The answer is YES they are!
Watching reality tv can be a painful exercise ,but it also becomes an idiotic errand when the viewers start believing what they see. Just like no one would hope to find credible scientific information in the "STAR WARS" saga, one cannot fnd anything remotely real in the so called reality tv shows.I f that was the case we would not have witnessed the plethora of conspiracies anddumb brawls that make up the entire "real" content of these shows. After all which man of reasonable prudence will believe in the childish "acts" of captivating the audiences.
let us admit that television is in essence a profit making industry. so everything, from what is telecast on it to whatever makes you switch it on is an essential part of that business, which is prospering in these times of easy money and loose moraltiy.
Currently there are two kinds of shows which are being aired on the tv. there are shows which showcase celebrities as audience catchers, the there are shows which try to play on the common-man-stuggle card by casting ordinary common men and makie heroes out of them.
Well there is nothing wrong in being emotionallymoved by movies and soaps; but it isquite ridiculous to start beleiving that the actors of these soaps are the genuine victims of the malencholy sagas.
Reality tv is nothing more than an ingenous way of capturing attention , by focusing on candid and unsensored moments of a shrewdly doctored script. Just like peolewoludn't sympathize with Rani mukherrji after moistening tissue papers in the cinema hall, or throw hrithik off a cliff to watch him fly like krishh it will be stupid to say that shilpa shetty should be consoled for facing racicsm in a reality tv show. whether she was or was not abused is immaterial,what matters is that she was allegedly abused in a television show. Well i don't know about others but this tv show abuse thing is fantastically far fetched for me. This incident was as frce as a James bond adventure and as libellous as a comment from a drunkard to another.
To negate all other apprehensions about the authenticity of these shows one only has to go through the newspapers(specially the times of india) to find that these struggling stars with sagging fortunes have suddenly been flooded with money , not to mention the publicity they have recieved which is of gigantic proportions.
to seriously talk about these shows anymore would be like trying to study biology from the cript of "star trek".
All said and done ,even if one removes all other fantastic factors, it is hardly credible to believe that a struggling

1 Comments:

At February 12, 2007 , Blogger Ramit Kakkar said...

great topic to comment on, i was wanting to pen my thoughts on the same, but you have done that for me and that too in a manner which i could never have. great use of language. could not have been better expressed

 

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