Rheality TV, of Bail & Whistles

News TV showcased 'nothing happening' in its Rhea Chakraborty coverage

There is something hypnotisingly television about the coverage of actor and something Rhea Chakraborty's release on bail on Wednesday evening. Facts and information such as the bail amount, and what her bail conditions are– never mind what she was in jail for— are as important as, if not less than, how she looked inside the white car that took her somewhere. Did she seem forlon enough? Was she looking Unsettled enough?

If not , why not? Rheality TV was made by television, and in this final episode of what looks like the end of the first season, it is being unmade by same gnostic forces.

Never since Amitabh Bachchan skipped q heartbeat has TV media given a blow-by-blow account of an event involving a car with a passenger. A critic once described Samuel Beckett's play, Waiting for Godot, as a production where'nothing happens twice'. Indian TV news tops this by showcasing 'nothing happening all the time' via Rhea Culpa. The best way to have watched this bail-out was with the mute button on. Coming 43 years after Jayaprakash Nara ya na's release from jail in 1977 when media was confined to one (State) outlet, we must be thankful that we live in the age of news television. Rheally. And yes, she was wearing a white mask inside the white car.

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