MTV Reality Stars
| MTV Reality Stars | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Sitcom |
| Created by | Nikhil Taneja |
| Written by | Nikhil Taneja Adhir Bhat Kautuk Srivastava Sid Mathur |
| Directed by | Gaurav Khindaria |
| Original language(s) | Hindi |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | MTV India |
| Location(s) | Mumbai, Maharashtra |
| Running time | Approx. 22 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | MTV India |
| Original release | 16 March – 1 June 2013 |
MTV Reality Stars is India’s first youth sitcom. It is a season-based fiction TV dramedy (Drama-Comedy) and satire created by Nikhil Taneja that captures the comedy and chaos in the Showbiz industry. The series also featured cameos by top Bollywood filmmaker Anurag Kashyap and famous Bollywood actors Arshad Warsi and Anand Tiwari. The 12-episode first season of the show was aired every Saturday on MTV India at 6.30 pm from 16 March 2013 to 1 June 2013. The humour and the look and feel of the show were in the space of Bollywood movies Delhi Belly and Pyaar Ka Punchnama.
MTV Reality Stars follows the travails of four friends and roommates, Kuldeep Sodhi, Zamir Akhtar, Krish Batra and Tania Sharma as they try to "make it" in the industry. Krish writes reality shows, Kuldeep wants to be on a reality show, Tania is a reality show reject and Zameer hates reality shows.
The show features a reality show within it called "MTV Rejects", a show that tries to find the country’s biggest reject. The script of this show has been written by Krish and Tanya is in the production team. Kuldeep wants to be a part of the show so desperately that he stages a mock fight with Zameer to grab the attention of the show-makers. The show makers also select Zameer (the Reality-hater) along with Kuldeep. Krish and Tania try to get Zameer out in the first episode. As luck might have it, Kuldeep is ousted instead and Zameer (the Reality hater) stays on the reality show. As the show progresses, unexpected things keep on happening, as the reality of reality TV is revealed. Things go so wrong that these four, who had come to Mumbai to be superstars, end up being reality stars. Nikhil Taneja, the creator of the show says, "It took us almost a year and a half to conceptualize the show. We have treated it like a feature film. Anyone who enjoys reality and friendship will love it."
This show is a huge shift of genre for MTV which has made famous reality shows like MTV Roadies and MTV Splitsvilla. Aditya Swamy, EVP and Business Head, MTV India, says, "In this show, we take healthy digs at our biggest shows. Unlike daily soaps, this is a finite series that is built around a tight script, a truly delightful cast and film level production standards. This is the future of Indian television and this is a genre we are committed to building."
This group of 4 friends are the main characters in this show. Each of these 4 characters are stereotype friends observed in any college friend group.
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