“I think here, not just the I&B Ministry but the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights should come with stringent guidelines, set by experts and the media together.Sonakshi Sinha manages to set the stage on fire with every song that she dances to.
Thirdly, they feel rejected when they lose which again causes depression.” The psychiatrist also says that there aren’t sufficient guidelines in place to regulate the nature and content of children’s dance reality shows as often, there are no counsellors on the sets and even if they are present, they aren’t allowed to interact with the child.
Secondly, the child is unable to handle the adulation when they get back to school. He says, “These shows bring a lot of adulation for the child, which stops when the show gets over, leading to anxiety and depression. Psychiatrist Dr Harish Shetty, while seconding the I&B Ministry’s move, highlights why he finds children’s reality shows problematic in general. So these channels and shows get high TRPs and because of the TRPs, the producers are not bothered about the harm they’re putting the children in,” she adds.
You find it ‘cute’ when a child does something very adult like. We love to watch puppies and children, and this is evident by the number of YouTube videos that go around. People like to see a child dance on an adult number. We try our best to give children and their parents the right direction and tell them to not have dance moves that would look indecent, but some people don’t listen to you, so you can't hold them back because often, they do it for money.” Talking about how she herself has cautioned parents and participants time and again, she says, “Right from the beginning, I have been urging this and I am glad this is finally happening.
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As per the rules, no programme should be carried on TV which denigrates children, and further that programmes meant for children should not contain any bad language or explicit scenes of violence’.This move by the I&B Ministry has been welcomed by many, including choreographer Saroj Khan, who has been a judge on dance reality shows like Boogie Woogie, Nach Baliye, among others. Additionally, the channels were also asked to ‘abide by the provisions contained in Programme & Advertising Codes prescribed under the Cable Television Networks (Regulation) Act, 1995 and rules framed. It also issued an advisory to private satellite TV channels asking them to refrain from depicting children in ‘an indecent, suggestive and inappropriate manner in dance reality shows or other such programme's and to ‘to exercise maximum restraint, sensitivity and caution while showing such reality shows and programmes’. But they aren’t the only ones finding fault with the goings-on of these shows, as yesterday, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, took cognizance to several dance-based reality TV shows that have young children perform dance moves that are ‘often suggestive and age-inappropriate’ and that ‘such acts may also have a distressing impact on children, impacting them at a young and impressionable age’.
And this hypersexualisation of children, coupled with the high-pressure nature of reality TV shows has made many a child rights activist and educator uncomfortable. On children’s dance reality shows, it isn’t uncommon to see a tiny tot swaying to the tunes of ‘Mungda’, toppling down from a sky-high human pyramid as ‘Mere Gully Mein’ plays on in the background or bust move to ‘Kamariya’ in midriff-baring tops and ultra-short shorts.
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