Saturday, February 14, 2009

Bangloreans has no self respect - Or they decide not to exercise it.


Entertainment, as far as I am concerned makes you feel good about life in general. However this is untrue if you are listening to Radio One 94.3 FM in Bangalore (and a couple of other cities around this place).
So I start for work everyday between 7:40 and 8 every morning and with morbid curiosity tune into hear RJ Prithvi. This guy seems to make a living out of abusing and harassing innocent folks who in most cases are just starting their day. Every day for the past 6 months I have been tuning-in trying to find what happens to the poor guy who gets caught in this ridiculous one sided verbal lashing peddled as entertainment.

So he would call people accusing them of stealing at workplace, harassment, long smoking breaks, taking too many leaves etc posing as some compliance / vigilance guy, threatening them with job loss. The language used will sure raise more than eyebrows in any organization.

The 3 completely uncivilized sections of RJ Prithvi's show are called "Tring tring", "Morning Dose" and "Ghanta Singh". All three are attempts to catch people unawares in a GAG/Bakra format but are executed in absolutely bad taste.They demean honest, innocent bangaloreans/people from other city on air so that the station can increase listener-ship. The best part is that each of the folks who are on the receiving end have no self respect to react to this public berating, and ask RJ Prithvi to stop doing this.

I think we do something about it - Let us send a strong message to forms of entertainment which by design subject everyday folks to humiliation and verbal assault.

So crank up your computers and send an email to prithvi.vishwanath@radioone.in, telling him to tone his shows down and bring in the real entertainment. You can also visit the forums for these shows at http://www.radioone.in/smithaShow.asp

1 comment:

Lav said...

Most of these Shows are recommended by one person or the other.People who are being set up on these shows. If this is not good,then what do you say about shows like MTV Bakra,Rodies,Dare to Date..all these are also very derogative in their talks and actions...How come you missed on that? The fact that you are saying,Bangalore does not have self respect...itself is not right...why don't you take it in a manner that Bangalorians are cool minded,fun loving people.As far as it does not really harm the self respect of an individual..and they don't mind it..there should be no issue.