Reality shows need reality check??

Are the reality shows ‘Real on Reel’ or ‘Reel on Real’? Or it’s just the self created drama that touches the chord of highly emotional Indians to win the list of top channel or show. Today, these reality shows are all over the channels and running extremely successfully.  Reality shows are the win –win situation for everyone, be it a channel, viewer, or contestants. And the one who achieved the most out of the show is contestants; they get the chance to showcase their talent.

Reality show has taken over TV since decades and now the people are trying to imitate the celebrity who they watch on TV. People are still glued to watching TV even if it is giving them guilty pleasure to be the part of someone’s emotional and personal life.  The craze of reality show hits the record of being the top channel by celebrating the success of winners or by seeing them crying or failing in some show.  The fact that the contestants are ordinary people and audiences have high chance to connect with them is the biggest triumph card for the show.

These track of reality show changes with the passage of time. The viewers changed and the whole scenario of contestant’s. Earlier reality shows like Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, Antakshari and Tol Mol ke Bol, which are made in India used to have only the youngsters as there contestants but later after copying the international formats like KBC, Jhalak Dikh La Jaa, Kya Aap Panchvi Pass Hai, and Dance India Dance, it not only attracted the superstars of Bollywood but also the innocent children.

Reality shows while giving children the feel of competitiveness and the critical thinking about the life also somehow vanishing their time to enjoy in school as kid and the innocence to be with the friend and not with the competitor. 

A show like Big Boss, depicts a very shallow behavior of contestants sometimes which is not only disturbs the mind set of youngster but the children too.

The mother of a 4 year girl ‘Myra’ says, “Myra copy same steps when she watches Gangnam style song on TV, this shows how much  she is consuming from it, and these days the shows show some nuisance stuff in the name of reality show, which may even harm the thinking of her at such small age.”

It says, people act the way of what they consume, Reality shows have brought up some of the real talent of India. Certainly they have plus side too, shows like Satyamev Jayate, Emotional Attyachar,  which is not only revealing the real side of the person but they create awareness about the society and  as the title of Emotional Attyachar say, dekho sekho bacho, which gives the sense of awareness by again touching the emotional stint of the person. DID, a famous dance show help children to learn under some of the top choreographers but also help them to gain the sense of worth at such smaller age.

Famous Psychologist says, “Its true what you show to children, they catches really fast and reacts the same ways, but it also gives the strength to face the problems at later stage and helps them to achieve the greater success.”

People seems to be drawn by reality shows because they can connect to someone at personal level, while these shows are giving opportunities to showcase their talent, it also taking away some of the precious moments of life by not enjoying or experiencing it.