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The bold Dolly Bindra dazzles in a florescent green skirt! |
Dolly Bindra will now fight with the one person who always stood for her, and that is the Great Khali.
| No child's play, this |
| Anisha Mehta |
Shin Chan repels you. Watching a five-year-old mouth words inappropriate for children and hear him call his mom 'bacche churane wali moti budhiya' is simply unacceptable. |
| Well, it might be said that he is like any other kid of his age, but Shin Chan's antics come across as malicious and not mischievous. Television programming today has hardly anything new to offer kids. Less content-driven and more TRP-driven, entertainment meant for adults itself is cringeworthy. Growing up watching western imports like Diff'rent Strokes, Small Wonder, Silver Spoons, The Wonder Years and Bewitched, a few cartoons as well as epics like the Ramayana and Mahabharata was a delight. It is sad to know that kids today have nothing to turn to, to learn from, on television. A decade back, there was so much kids could learn from television programmes on air. Call them fables or moral science lessons, these programmes taught you to be better human beings. For instance, Nancy Reagan appeared on Diff'rent Strokes and taught kids to 'say no to drugs', Ricky, a teenager with a heart of gold in Silver Spoons, bravely addressed the issue of bullying in school, Ramayana and Mahabharata introduced us to the dynamics of human relationships and cartoons inspired by Panchatantra Tales taught us to be honest and hardworking. Cut to the new millennium where TV entertainment is synonymous with voyeurism. A recent article in a newspaper quoted an agency, which said that children today are glued to their television sets and are being brainwashed by "demonic influences". A survey by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India stated that when they are alone, 76 per cent of children between the age of 12 and 18 choose to watch reality television. Imagine kids of a tender age watching Rakhi giving her so-called 'insaaf' to distraught family members and Dolly Bindra swearing and cursing her house inmates without any inhibitions in the Bigg Boss house. Don't kids deserve better? Someone needs to own up. When you say that there is nothing a child can watch on television, why not create shows that provide wholesome entertainment? Are production houses listening? And for all those who feel Indian television hasn't tried, it did, but not hard enough. Except for a few shows like Shaka Laka Boom Boom, Bournvita Quiz Contest, or even MAD that connects with the artist in every child, soaps in the garb of children's shows like Just Mohabbat or Son Pari, which started off with a promise but later digressed to tracks like teenage romance and a scheming step mom, did nothing good for children's television. Original children's programming provides every family with shared cultural experiences but all Indian television could do was to make Indian versions of international hits like they did with Small Wonder and presented it as Karishma Ka Karishma in India. But sadly, the show wasn't half as interesting as the original with every other episode featuring either the nosy neighbours or the wife suspecting her husband of an extramarital affair. Kids today need heroes and icons from whom they can learn something; someone they can emulate. As a kid, I was mesmerised by Captain Planet; he was my hero. My friends and I would spend our afternoons recycling paper, planting trees and using vegetable waste as manure. We also conducted our neighbourhood quiz contests, trying to imitate Derek O Brien from the Bournvita Quiz Contest. And now, instead of inspiring kids, production houses are using them as TRP spinners in dance and comedy reality shows, where they do pelvic thrusts and crack crass jokes. Watching these kids on TV, young viewers also yearn to be the next superstars. To add to it, all that shows like Splitsvilla, OC and Hannah Montana do is influence young girls to be obsessed with looking good and having an 'attitude' to flaunt! Production houses and channels ought to get into damage control mode. And no, we do not mean creating another 'teenage love story'. There is a huge market left untapped, comprising toddlers, tweens and teenagers, who are hungry for quality content on television. Watch and learn should be the mantra. Is someone listening? |
olly Bindra is rocking Bigg Boss and TRPs are soaring. The Shweta Tiwari-Dolly Bindra argument was in bad taste to the housemates but it registered a record breaking TRP score of 6.82. It seems that people had told each other to watch that particular episode and the show boosted a significant TRP. Dolly's non-conformist, rigid attitude and loud, boisterous behavior is obviously, not appreciated in the house but it definitely has proved to be a backhanded lift to Bigg Boss as it has managed to topple KBC from its number one slot.
The show which started off as low key was overshadowed by KBC, the popular game show by superstar Amitabh Bachchan for a moment before Bigg Boss swung back into action with the entry of Dolly Bindra in the show. Dolly Bindra's ire against Shweta Tiwari and her estranged husband Raja Chaudhary goes back to 2005 when he had allegedly slapped her in a party. This was what happened in 2005. But she seems to be bringing that episode to the house in these days.
Also the atmosphere is pretty tense in the house and there are a lot of skeletons tumbling out of the closet as Ashmit has come to know about the truth of what happens behind his back.. No one can be trusted, is what most inmates in the house are learning. The most powerful reality show in India is also going to incorporate more spice by introducing Ali Khan, who is fiance of Sara Khan, who had been seen getting close to Ashmit Patel. And they are also trying to rope in Raja Chaudhary (who himself was in Bigg Boss 2) and his girlfriend Shraddha Sharma. Meanwhile, Bigg Boss is topping the TRPs of Indian television with this amazing turnaround of affairs.
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