Too much of reality; what’s your say?

There used to be an era in Indian Television where hardly we had seen any program airing episode by episode serially, but certainly after few years the crowd from the streets vanished for an hour every week to see some all time classic TV serials like Ramayana & Mahabharat. That was the time when Television set was considered to be a luxury item in Indian middle class society. Whether it’s a town or a village a TV set was always surrounded by a houseful crowd to watch those serials.

That was an era of mythological & fantasy serials like Alif Laila, Vikram Betal, Ali baba chalish chore, Chanakya, Malgudi days to name a few. This era ended during end of 90s which was beginning of another new era of daily soaps in Indian Television. The industry became more polished and organized by that time. The characters in those family dramas were more stylish more modernized and ageless. Full of twist and turns in each episode and full excitement for the audiences mainly for the house wives

After the era of daily soaps then Indian television industry jumped into a different modern era of reality shows which started with some Music competition shows like Meri Awaz Suno, Sare Ga Ma Pa etc. All these audiences were excited to see all these new sensation, new style of operating the shows.

But I think now it’s more of an ultra or super modern era because now every channel has number of reality shows running everyday. Now it does not just show the reality of the competition but they claim that, they show the real emotional outburst of each individual involved in these shows. They do not just show case their talents but they get into their personal lives to add more spice to the show and as an audience we also enjoy it. Isn’t it?

But I think it’s too much of reality now. People have forgotten the difference between personal and public life, now what they just want is more and more publicity. They don’t feel shy to showcase their private life; neither have they felt bad to abuse someone on national television. Some people have now taken a step further, they don’t mind to showcase their private affairs like marriage & death. They made it a public affair or more of another reality show to showcase these sensitive occasions of personal life.

Is this all real? If it’s real then is it healthy for them or for their society? Why they make so much of public affair of their own private lives?

I am neither writing this for sake of it nor judging anyone on the basis of morality. Actually I am little confused and want to understand the idea behind all these from all of you.

Waiting for all your answers.

With Love,
Ashu.