New York times had an artilcle about 4 years ago on how these people who sitting in the audience of Indian reality shows were paid prefessional audiences. These are people who came in with their regular clothings and then changed into the outfits (that was provided by the channel) like western or more modern type to wear, so that they will look like coming from all walks of life. Each day they received around one hundred ruppees and they were provided food. When they were interivewed, they said that was one way to earn a living and support their families plus they liked being fed right there. So I also knew it for a long time that they had dummy audience clapping and cheering for the contestants😆