Bollywood or Hollywood

Every night at 9:00 my host family and I eat dinner (don’t ask me why Indians eat so late but that seems to be when most people eat here in Jodhpur or later). We sit in front of the TV watching this ridiculous reality TV serious called Big Boss. In the show a bunch of Bollywood celebrities have to live in a big house together where there are secret cameras so their every move can be monitored by the Big Boss (another famous movie star who hosts the show, and my host family told me he is from Pakistan). Every week on the show the audience votes for one celebrity to be kicked off. It sounds simple but there also seem to be some other rules I haven’t figured out because occasionally celebrities will come back after they were kicked off or random people will join the house (I guess it would help if I could understand Hindi but I’d rather not ask for a translation because most of the drama is quite petty and I can guess as well as they could translate what happened in one argument or another). Last week there was a wedding on the show between two of the celebrities. It’s pretty random but then again US reality TV is pretty bad and full of awful drama, so at least they are just living in a house together and not all sleeping with each other, which some American TV shows promote (and I know they are not sleeping with each other on this show because there are camera’s in every room and besides this their beds are in a communal room so it would be huge drama if something did happen). I have to say I prefer Hollywood over Bollywood, but as far as reality TV both are pretty dismal.