TV Show Review Maa Exchange
What's hot:
The intimate lives of celebrities.
What's not:
The constant bickering and fighting
iDiva verdict:
If you enjoyed Big Boss and Ashmit Patel, here’s your sanctuary. For others, save your peace of mind, keep off.
Earlier there was Big Boss, where Dolly Bindra, Ashmit Patel and Veena Malik spat venom, fought like hutment dwellers and basically crushed your already sucked out brains.
Change channel. Now there is Love Lock Up, where two pathetic lovers are fighting over trifle issues, humiliating and deriding themselves and your sensibilities.
Change channel. Ah, a new reality series, this should be fun. Pooja Bedi grins and enters the house of a middle-class comedian Rajeev Nigam, it’s the Indian version of Wife Swap - Maa Exchange. (At least the producers had some sense of ‘originality’. Or it would’ve been called Biwi Exchange! )
Pooja has exchanged her place with Anuradha Nigam (Rajeev’s wife), and she is supposed to be the lady of the house for eight days. Pooja and Radha, have to live with the new family, adjust to their ways for four days, and make them adjust to their rules for the next four.
So, there’s Pooja sashaying and cooing, and the man going gaga over her. She feeds stale food to the child, makes the man clean out the house, and seems to have a nice time. On the other hand, Anuradha Nigam is having a tough time with Pooja’s maid, daughter, dog, etc. who try every trick in the book to make her feel uncomfortable in the new house. Radha on her part, is prying into the personal life of Pooja Bedi, trying to find something to prove she is a bad mother. As she hurls accusations at Pooja Bedi in front of her children, Pooja’s daughter defends her mother and hurls the abuses back at her. Isn’t it just great to see two decent people (one minor) to sink so low in life?
Back to Pooja, she is laying down rules and the man is not accepting them. But sadly, he has no choice; after all, she is Pooja Bedi. So he lightens his purse for new draperies and a house maid. Radha cries everyday as the maid servant humiliates her, and the rest of the house seems to enjoy. Throw in a bit of Kabir Bedi for glamour, who unwillingly squats on the floor to eat his meal.
The climax: Cut to the confrontation table, where both parties are slapping each other with incredible nastiness. But finely edited all the ugly part is cut out. All is well that ends well. Both are smiling at the end of it to return to their homes. BTW, where was the part where Pooja calls Radha a ‘Rakshasha’ (demon), which was shown so many times during the pre-break plug? The things that programming guys can resort to, just to keep the audience till the end!
As I crawl into my bed, depressed at all the negativity in the world, I think about the idiot box. Maybe someone should rechristen it to the sadistic box. I think I need therapy after watching Maa Exchange.
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