Life is all about Reality Shows

Poornima — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:30:00 +0000

I am one of those who do not follow ‘reality’ shows. Even when the infamous racism row happened in the UK’s ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ show and was splashed across all news channels, my reaction was – ‘so what? its just another Bollywood masala in a UK setting’.
So when the star villian of the show, Jade Goody died recently, the adulation across UK revealed the power of such shows. She had become famous, rather infamous, during the controversial episodes of Big Brother. She was the villain. However, her fatal illness brought her back the lost respect – like the bad mother-in-law/sister-in-law in our movies who cry for forgiveness, in the arms of the heroine, just before dying.
Notwithstanding the millions she made by cashing in on her death (signing up lucrative deals with TV networks to allow them to film her last days – for her sons’ sake), she was praised by even the UK’s Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, as a ‘courageous woman’.

After all, nothing is more honourable than a honourable death. Life is all about reality, I mean reality shows.

Koffee with Karan

Poornima — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 11:05:00 +0000

No, I’m not yet famous and certainly do not have a filmy background to be a guest on this show. Lame joke aside, I happened to see a rerun of an old show with Richard Gere today; someone whom I admire, not for his talents but his Buddhist beliefs. While for most of time, the Hollywood star was a tad too careful, he really opened up on things that were close to his heart – his social work and his Tibetan culture.

One thing that struck a chord was this summarization he made about his beliefs. “No matter who we are or where we live, we all have these vices – anger, jealousy, greed. Whether one is rich and famous or poor, all of us have them and it is these enemies that we have to fight against.” – Not exactly those words, but something close to it.

Strong Koffee. Bitter yet true.

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Life is all about Reality Shows

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