Guys, I'm an ardent fan of Gopinath the host for Neeya Naana show hosted on Vijay TV. The way he carries the show on his shoulders is absolutely fantastic! His mannerisms, the way he speaks and his style, everything is superb! I love the show very much and make sure I don't miss out any of the episodes. But, I happened to receive a mail from my friends portraying the real face of this "reality" show. I want to share his experiences with u guys.
His experience at the show is given below:
Hi friends,
I would like to share my disgusting experience when I had taken part (so called participation) in Vijay TV NEEYA-NAANA talk show with all of you. I had registered for this program through SMS, I got a call from these guys about a week later and they had asked me to come for a shoot last Saturday (14 Jul 07) ,at AVM studio Vadapalani . I was really excited about my participation in this program, as this is a very popular talk show considered to be pretty nice.
I had great expectations about the arena where the show is being filmed, but to my shock the floor where the show was filmed was like a cave, no A/Cs and not even fans, I was literally sweating for the entire 3 and half hours of the shoot. when we had asked to switch on the fans they say that"the fans will cause unnecessary noise in the recording so we will not turn it on ...."
Even after spending 3.5 hrs like this, most of the people who were invited to participate in the show were not allowed to express their views. In both the teams (for and against teams) they had people who were hired and paid to speak; the mike was circulated to only these people. There was one other participant like me who had lost his patience and forcedly asked for the mike to the host GOPINATH, his reply was "look here Boss, you don't direct/advice me how to carry out the show, that's what for I m being paid for...please keep quiet and wait till I give the mike to you".
This incident was more nerve wrecking, there was a blind man who had come to take part in this show, he was also trying to seek for a chance to get the mike and express his views, seeing this the production team had approached this blind man and had scolded him and said him not to shout for the mike when the camera is rolling as this would cause unnecessary editing sequences. This was the worst demotivating response I have ever seen, that too towards a visually impaired person who has come with all hopes to speak out. The whole show was a fabricated one , all made up , the final verdict of the debate was decided even before the discussion had started , and the host Gopinath also takes the discussion in such a way giving more priority to the team which they had decided to win. Those people who were paid a sum of Rs.2000/- were evenly distributed among the two teams, and these people drive the discussion, all others are called to just fill up the seats. The sole intention of such programs is to make money and not at all serve for the real social awareness what they claim to do. It's all commercialism behind these shows.
Normally this NEEYA NAANA team visits IT and ITES companies in the city and hunt for people to take part in their so called talk show, I humbly request all of you to not encourage this team even to enter your office premises, and please don't encourage such fabricated talk shows by either taking part in their SMS opinion polls or by nominating to participate in it or even watching it. All this result in total vain, this had wasted almost 6 hours of participants like me. Finally ending up nowhere.
Please pass on this information to at least to your friends to communicate the reality behind such shows, this would really help in saving your friends' time, money and energy.
I was really shocked to read this article, but I guess its the truth. This is how they conduct most of the reality shows. Its just a game of money, a business, in the name of serving people by "opening their eyes" nothing more to them. But guys, this is where we really need to open our eyes. Post your comments on what you think about it. What is the verdict?? Neeya?? Naana?? :)
