TV eats up all my study time these days and I blame it entirely on Rakhi’s Swayamwar which manages to throw up a surprise each day and keeps me hooked. This spicy one hour reality show with all the ingredients of a thriller is totally gripping. From a father of three kids, to a wannabe celebrity, to an NRI the show has attracted every lecherous man who wants ‘fame’, yes you heard me right, not ‘Rakhi’, they all just want to be famous and this ‘wedding show’ gives them their fifteen minutes of fame. Let’s face it, which man after knowing Rakhi’s background would offer to marry her? None but the desperate! The suitors don’t admit that they are there for fame instead they swear that they are on the show to win Rakhi’s hand and for this they are doing it all, walking on hot coal bed (yes I am not joking), arm wrestling, bending iron bars, singing (braying…which ever is convenient), close dancing, modelling, romancing, dating, crying, faking etc.
The prospective grooms are so raunchy and nasty that the whole show looks like a third grade reality circus. While one guy had the audacity to kiss Rakhi twice, (hats off to his guts!) another went further ahead and openly questioned Rakhi about her past relationships and if she still is a virgin( I appreciate his frankness but is it not obvious she isn’t) This I guess was the most inappropriate time to putforth such questions. Luckily or unluckily for the two they got chucked out of the show. The game is simple, either become Rakhi’s puppy love or get treated like a dog. She chucks every man who dares to ‘cross the line’ like she puts it plainly. This show is certainly not going anywhere. I don’t know if any of them will make a good husband but one thing is for sure all of them are budding actors who have a bright future in Bollywood.
Rakhi is just not Rakhi on the show, she’s playing some village type lass whose soul yearns for true love but her hideous real avtaar makes a comeback now and then to scare the unwanted suitors away! On the “meet the moms-in-law” day Rakhi behaved so coy and sheepish that it startled me. Imagine a woman who doesn’t fear to bare it all (quite literally) in public put her pallu on her head to meet her prospective moms in law. Now howzzat! The ladies were bowled undoubtedly!
With only four suitors left the plot is getting murkier lol, I am just kidding, I was trying to make it sound interesting although its not. It’s obvious she is gonna either choose the rich middle aged Gujju NRI or the naive 22 year old college student. But what I am actually waiting to see is if she’ll really go about with the Swayamwar or complain about the lack of choices and back out from the ’show’ on the last day. You never know with Miss Sawant naa! There was even news that Mika was jostling to be a part of the show, Thank God he isn’t otherwise the security around Rakhi would cost more money than the sum of the entire show. lol
The other show that starts just after Rakhi’s show and which is equally entertaining is “Sach ka Saamna.” Man! Indians are just out of ideas, all they do is just copy-paste American shows with desi names. This show is just about decent, the funny thing is people on the show are indecent and their lives are just so screwed up! The person in the hot seat gets so hot by the questioning sometimes that you can notice little steam droplets on his forehead. It’s probably because Indians aren’t so open about things they do, their life is full of dark dark secrets which once let out could ruin their happy happy world. Questions like “do you have an illegitimate child?” or “have you slept with a prostitute in your life” will definitely put any man in a tight spot. So it wasn’t surprising when one guy who is a popular tele actor who plays Dadaji type of roles took the challenge and failed miserably. He apparently had three failed marriages, one legitimate child and one illegitimate child and a girlfriend, Wow! So much like a TV soap! Kambli’s Sach ka Saamna was really heartbreaking, apart from revealing some wicked facts about the BCCI, he spoke lowly of his best buddy Sachin Tendulkar and earned the ire of not only the BCCI and Sachin but all cricket lovers. Apparently Sachin chose to ignore Kambli at a meeting after the entire controversy and now the two best friends seemed to have parted ways. This is so not happening! If this is the result of telling the truth we are all better off lying for things which don’t put our friends and relatives in an uncomfortable position! Indians are still not ready for such shows.
And lastly the most enjoyable show, “India’s Got Talent”, this concept too has been lifted from “Britain’s Got talent” but who cares unless it’s good. Its truly delightful to watch talented people do their gigs with conviction and also funny sometimes to watch people make a fool of themselves like one guy whose talent was eating grass rofl. He even galloped like a horse. People I tell You! :)) The show is a total time pass and far better than other reality shows. There also my take on “Iss jungle se mujhe bachao” (Indian version of the popular British reality game show I’m a Celebrity Get Me out of Here!) but that in my next blog 
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