Exaggeration has another name in India.
They are called "Reality Shows". These shows are a high dosage of cringe and crying at the same time.
Such an oxymoronic name, undoubtedly they are always the furthest from real things.
They get orgasmic for TRP ratings and they'll do anything to get that... anything.
I will talk about 3 specific shows here with the names distorted for obvious reasons:
Kaun Banaega Corny Patty:
It is a simple Q/A session with Amartya Bachpan(AB) with an insane amount of money and mindblowing backstory attached to every question. It's like Koffee with Karan but with middle-class people. The background of these people will make you doubt if they even exist (I am claiming they are lying, it might as well be true). Exaggeration is the norm and the producers won't leave anything behind.
AB: What's the capital of Italy?
Contestant: Rome. *Then proceeds to tell how he/she got lost in Rome and started an open heart surgery clinic in the middle of the street with Rs 10 and a scissor*
Answering a simple question will feel like walking through a minefield. AB will make you doubt all the options and your existence in the world.
But out of the 3, this show is least insane. Yes...least. Wait for the other 2.
SaRe Gate "Mama aur Papa" (SaReGaMaPa)
The judges think every performance is the last performance they are seeing in their life. The over-reaction is a norm. It has 3 stages:
The head bobbing: Their heads start bobbing in a rhythmical manner. You can see the intensity increasing with time whilst their eyes shut. It's like a trance, you can sense something is about to happen
Physical Appreciation: Some cry, some whistle but one thing remains constant, it remains cringy. You might see some judges dancing on top of their desks. You'll doubt if this is national TV or some road bar.
Phonetical Appreciation:*recites the entire thesaurus* They make it sound like they were deaf for their entire life and are hearing sounds for the first time.
Think of the most difficult and hard situations. Multiply that by 2. Take that to the power of infinity. Now you have the average life of a contestant in the show. The producer will juice every ounce of melodrama out of their miserable lives for ... TRP.
Bic Bosch
This is the what happens when you put a dozen of Redbull injected so-called celebs in house arrest. The argument these guys have will make any 5-year-old look like Einstein.
Sanity doesn't exist in their dictionary. Actually, you can't blame them, if you stuck in a house for this long, any calm person will lose their shit.
These people get triggered over any little inconvenience.
The show is basically the lives of people with first world problems.
RATING: IMDB ratings. That explains this perfectly.