Imagine Priyanka Chopra disscussing fashion with you,or getting married like a celebrity on television?? These are the few things that might have seemed next to impossible a few years back! But today there is a dramatic change in Television where fiction meets reality.
These shows broke the path of the regular soaps and created a genre of their own.They are the biggest money grossers with high TRP ratings on prime time television.People cant help take notice of these shows!But how real are these reality shows?
Many at times they give away the feel of "scripted".The main recipe of these shows remains the same as the soaps : catfights,betrayal and scheming.The so called dance shows have high TRPs not because of the dance the particpant but because of the way they are mocked by the judges,how good is that?On certain shows contestants get verbally abused,use of foul language is a common here.Some shows made the system of marriage a joke.! There is a reality show on everything from makeovers to switching ur position with a celebrity,taking care of babies or making kids sing!
To top it all viewers are asked to SMS on these things,but are they really electing the winner of the show based on this ? how can we know?Game shows and talent hunt shows have their own brand of emotional contrivance.
How ever everyone one of us gets glued to one reality show or the other. But as viewers we must be careful enough not to buy to whatever is being showed and see the thin line. BUT...........
Love them or hate them surely cant ignore them! ;-)