Big leap

<b>Whats it about?</b>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?

Written by PriyankaPereira
November 2, 2009 09:31 PM IST

3 min read

Big Switch
UTV Bindass,Saturday,7 pm
Rating ***

Whats 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? Thats 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 taska stepping stone to win the big prize: a lot of money that the contestant will win to fulfill his/her slum buddys dream.

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Whos 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.

Whats 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 problemsmosquitoes,heat,humidity. The editing of the show is very crisp and there is never a dull moment.

Whats not?The producers must be having a really hard time finding an anchor because one cannot possibly explain why they chose Genelia as the host. Her style and diction simply puts one off. It seems she hasnt graduated from her Jaane TuYa Jaane Na days and speaks in the same college-girl tone. For Mumbaikars who have grown up seeing slums in the vicinity,the slum does look a bit staged.

Should you be watching it?After all the cliché reality shows that television has been regularly dishing out,this one definitely comes as a breather.