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Is there any research or conceptualization in most of India’s reality shows?

Guess they are not required. Somebody else’s doing it on their behalf. What does India do then? Let’s try and find out.

From ‘Top Chef’ comes ‘Amul Master Chef India’. ‘Big Brother’ to ‘Bigg Boss’. ‘Fear Factor’ to ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi’. ‘Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader’ to ‘Kya App Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hai’. The list goes on.

‘Plagiarism’ is not a topic of discussion because some of the shows may have copyrights. The fact is that these shows have already been there, why not come up with something new. Concept and research as I mentioned seems to have a very little role to play. It’s simply the technique of copy and paste, an alteration perhaps in the name and a negligible deviation from the source.

The source is what matters and not how well it’s being copied. We literally have a bunch of talented people with exquisite ideas to give the west some healthy competition. 21^st century, guess we’re done with copying.