Big Switch
UTV Bindass, Saturday, 7 pm
Rating ***
What’s it about?What happens when you are picked up from your cosy bed and plonked on a worn out charpoy? Or from having help to clear your room to cleaning the house yourself? Or from a pretty canine as a pet to a goat tied outside your house? How will one survive these life changing experiences? That’s what we witness on Bindaas Big Switch - Life Palat Jaayegi. The channel has taken 10 rich kids who have never stepped into a kitchen or cleaned a stain and put them into a whole new world. This new world is a slum where the contestants must live and work. While they are at it the cameras never stop rolling. The contestants are paired with a ‘slum buddy’ who will guide them through the pitfalls and opportunities within that world. Each week there will be a task—a stepping stone to win the big prize: a lot of money that the contestant will win to fulfill his/her slum buddy’s dream.
Who’s in it?Bollywood actor Genelia dons the role of an anchor and in turn also makes her small-screen debut. The contestants are Adam Bedi, Pooja Missra, Natasha Suri, Adam Bedi, Sunny Sara, Siddhartha Khanna, Mohita Modgill, Sabah Majid, Kunwar Singh, Omesh Kanwar and Bindi Mehta. There are also the slum buddies, who have been picked from underprivileged Mumbai.
What’s hot?The show has the most unique concept (never seen before on Indian television) and this is its USP. The whole idea of bringing the two clashing worlds together is what gets this show a thumbs-up. It is quite entertaining to listen to the brats speak in accented Hindi and also at the same time complain about mundane problems—mosquitoes, heat, humidity. The editing of the show is very crisp and there is never a dull moment.
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