There is growing concern, world-over on participation of young children in television shows. In India, as on today, the things are in very bad shape. Dance-based reality shows – typically Dance India Dance Lil. Masters (Zee TV) and Boogie Woogie Kids Champianship (Sony), are the shows showing kids under tremendous pressure to perform. There are many other similar shows in regional languages. Remember the government recently decided not to have exams for kids so that they should not be under exam stress. But the stress levels experienced by the kids in these reality shows are so high that soon the children may turn out to be mental wrecks. Thanks to the TV channels which ruthlessly exploit the kids for TRPs.
The kids are made to under go grueling routines practices; face harsh, ill-planned verdicts from judges; trained to misbehave; undergo constant fear of being eliminated from the shows and sexual gestures and body movements with sexual overtones! The kids may not even know the meaning of such pelvic thrusts! They are only kids and you just watch - what are the things they are forced to undergo on the stage! The children are made to live in fool's paradise. This is open child labour.
In the Lil Masters show, kids are made to dance so violently, often using dangerous tools/chemical that we are surprised why the government and women’s organizations are not intervening in the matter. There are hardly any laws in India to regulate such shows. Self regulation seems to be not in existence. God save the kids.
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