{"id":4616,"date":"2008-08-20T01:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=2928"},"modified":"2008-08-20T01:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-19T20:25:00","slug":"reservations-in-reality-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/reservations-in-reality-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Reservations In Reality Shows?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Don’t be surprised if that’s what they start demanding next. Mumbai Mirror<\/i> reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n While Congressman Sanjay Nirupam made it into reality television show Bigg Boss, Republican Party of India (RPI) MP Ramdas Athawale is miffed that he didn’t.<\/p>\n Athavale, who is being sidelined by his coalition partner NCP, has now threatened legal action against show producers and the television channel ‘Colors’ for not including him as a contestant. He alleged they discriminated against him since he is a Dalit<\/i>. [My emphasis.]<\/p>\n While Athawale made the announcement at a press conference in Mantralaya on Monday, he admitted that he did not have an acceptance letter or a contract from the show producers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Another report<\/a> tells us that Athavale’s supporters attacked the office of the television channel. Dev, the reader who sent me the link, astutely commented: “I wonder if he was selected and got voted out, would the other contestants’ houses get smashed?” <\/p>\n Having said that, I’d have loved to see Athavale share a bed with Sanjay Nirupam. One gets used to strange bedfellows in Indian politics, but that would be quite a sight, especially if one of them got horny in his sleep and reached across the bed because of muscle memory.<\/p>\n As for the show itself<\/b>, I’m enjoying it. They’ve changed the voting mechanism this year, which transforms the dynamic of the show. Last year, as I wrote in my post “Rahul Roy and the voting mechanics of Bigg Boss”<\/a>, viewers had to vote contestants out; this year, they vote to keep them in. Last year’s format favoured the low-profile contestant who didn’t inspire strong emotions from viewers; this year, if you’re low-key, you could be in trouble—you have to get viewers to like you. <\/p>\n Er, why am I blogging about Bigg Boss? That’s supposed to be a guilty pleasure…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Don’t be surprised if that’s what they start demanding next. Mumbai Mirror<\/i> reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n While Congressman Sanjay Nirupam made it into reality television show Bigg Boss, Republican Party of India (RPI) MP Ramdas Athawale is miffed that he didn’t.<\/p>\n Athavale, who is being sidelined by his coalition partner NCP, has now threatened legal action against show producers and the television channel ‘Colors’ for not including him as a contestant. He alleged they discriminated against him since he is a Dalit<\/i>. [My emphasis.]<\/p>\n While Athawale made the announcement at a press conference in Mantralaya on Monday, he admitted that he did not have an acceptance letter or a contract from the show producers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Another report<\/a> tells us that Athavale’s supporters attacked the office of the television channel. Dev, the reader who sent me the link, astutely commented: “I wonder if he was selected and got voted out, would the other contestants’ houses get smashed?” <\/p>\n Having said that, I’d have loved to see Athavale share a bed with Sanjay Nirupam. One gets used to strange bedfellows in Indian politics, but that would be quite a sight, especially if one of them got horny in his sleep and reached across the bed because of muscle memory.<\/p>\n As for the show itself<\/b>, I’m enjoying it. They’ve changed the voting mechanism this year, which transforms the dynamic of the show. Last year, as I wrote in my post “Rahul Roy and the voting mechanics of Bigg Boss”<\/a>, viewers had to vote contestants out; this year, they vote to keep them in. Last year’s format favoured the low-profile contestant who didn’t inspire strong emotions from viewers; this year, if you’re low-key, you could be in trouble—you have to get viewers to like you. <\/p>\n Er, why am I blogging about Bigg Boss? That’s supposed to be a guilty pleasure…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3,15,4,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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