Recently I watched few episodes of new TV show Sach ka samana. It looks very new reality TV show concept in India. Here participant has to give true answer of every question, which is very personal. To know truthfulness of the answer polygraph machine is used. Here I am not going to discuss detail and rule of this show as I assume most of us have watched its episode. No doubt concept is new and good but here I have some confusion. I watched very first episode of this show where a married female was participant I really don’t remember her name but what I can collect she was around few years married with two kids having complete family life. I was observing the question she was being asked and very surprised as she was accepting the painful truth for most of the question. She had almost won Rs 5 lacs after giving around 11 truths, she was continuing and questions were getting more & more personal. But I realized most of the questions were based on personal feeling and thinking, which I felt is not fair. Like female was asked question like
* Do you feel that someone else looks better than your husband?
* Do you feel your mother loves your brother more than you?
* Did you ever felt to kill your husband?
If you ask me, I feel that they are just pathetic questions and originally have no specific or correct answer. As feeling or thinking is unintentional process in human brain and most of the time is not logical, even has no value/effect. If you try to compare following two questions you might understand what I am trying to say.
1. If you ask a person Other than your wife did you ever had sex with some girl?
2. Other than your wife did you ever feel to have sex with some girl?
If you see here first question is very much relevant and person answering will be very much clear as what is the truth, while second question is very confusing for any one as no-one even remembers that what he felt just 5 minutes before and if he felt something as such what was the intensity of such feeling, if intensity is very low than really such feeling doesn’t have any value and impact on individual’s character, moral or personality. What I understand from this show, they ask most of the time question based on feeling or thinking and try to confuse the person as no body can actually proof what he felt or not. I was shocked when this female was asked the question as other than your husband did you felt about other man, first it needs to be clearly defined if someone felt then actually on what extends. Even it is possible with most of us when we watch some beautiful actress in movie doing some bold scene and for a second it comes in mind WOW, a feeling for moment and it goes, then if it has to be blamed as I felt for that girl, I don’t think this is fare at all.
If this show really has to succeed, I think they will have to go towards event based questions, which have clear answers and what people actually want to know.
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