NDTV Imagine, a general entertainment channel on Indian Television, had broadcasted a new reality show in 2009 titled ‘Rakhi ka Swayamvar’, in which they had an item girl of Bollywood, Rakhi Sawant select her groom from 20 contestants. At the end of the show Rakhi ended up selecting one Elesh Parjunwala, a Canadian business man from Toronto as her to be bridegroom. The two were to tie the knot on TV immediately, but it was announced that duo were interested in tying the knot a little later and the show hence ended on a happy note with the couple’s engagement on national television. However a few weeks after the show ended, Rakhi Sawant announced she was not marrying Elesh as she wasn’t interested in quitting her acting career in India and settling in Canada.
The Season 2 of the reality show was aired in the beginning of this year and was titled Rahul Dulhaniya Le Jayega. The show featured Rahul Mahajan as the groom looking for a bride this time. Rahul Mahajan is the son an ex- BJP politician-Late Pramod Mahajan and a reality show personality. At the time of participating in this show Rahul’s background had nothing much to boast of. In fact he was known more for his notorious acts like being involved in drug possession and consumption and being accused of domestic violence by his ex-wife. Yet to our surprise there were 17 girls who were going all out too woo this man and to get married to him.
Rahul selected Dimpy Ganguly, a girl 15 years younger to him to be his bride. Dimpy was a Bengali model and actress. This time the channel even managed to get the couple to marry on live Television in March. But the wedding apparently has neither lasted long nor ended on a happy note. Reportedly Dimpy has walked out of Rahul Mahajan’s life yesterday after accusing him of domestic violence.
Dimpy has stated that she was often beaten up by Rahul, but on Thursday he went overboard. She said he punched, kicked and dragged her by her hair, and that’s when the ex-model decided to quit her 4 month marriage to him. So much so, for a wedding that was witnessed by millions on National Television.
NDTV Imagine who had earlier announced that they were working on the format for the third season of this show, will hopefully re-think before creating another alliance that in all possibility will not work. And even if they go ahead with the third season, will they get participants this time? We assume they will, after all there is no dearth of publicity hungry people. Elesh and Dimpy, we are positive, were both aware of what they were getting into, but went ahead for the sake of publicity alone.
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It is concern how NDTV could make such realty shows in which they have a person with criminal record, it has become a very cheap programme. Why was Rahul Mahajan selected first of all? Did not NDTV knew about his criminal records? Was Rahul Mahajan a role model? What is the interest NDTV had for making such bad realty shows?