Juggling Shows of Pakistan

                 From last five years Morning Shows have made a revolution in Pakistani media. Every channel has its own morning show i.e. a news channel or a religious channel. Morning shows are providing an extra dose of entertainment to people from all walks of life. After sending children school and husbands office house wives turn on television and take an energetic and fresh start of the day by watching the beautiful ladies (hosts) of morning shows.

What a morning show comprised of? A talkative host entangled into branded clothes or a dummy displaying designer’s outfits. In fact most of the hosts have started selling the designer dresses that they wear in the show. If you want to buy that particular outfit just sms as much as you can. Besides host, the other eye-catching attraction of a morning show is its guest, new day new morning and a new guest, he or she can be from any field.  It depends on the show’s topic. No doubt morning shows has lessened the space between celebrities and audience. We can reach our favorite celebrities on a single phone call or by sms. But now every channel has its morning show and the guests are switching from one show to another. More over a morning show has number of interesting segments. Caption the image, birthday bumps, fitness, beauty these are some of the most famous segments that a morning show have. 

From last two years a new trend has hit the morning shows that are wedding seasons. I remember Shaista Wahidi’s morning show “Good Morning Pakistan” had introduced the first wedding season and after that all the morning shows copied it. “Wedding season celebrating in a morning show” it sounds abnormal.  Why a morning show is celebrating wedding season? A person turn on television in morning to get a fresh start but what he saw traditional ceremonies mayun, mehindi even baraat and valima,  all the people are singing shadi songs wearing heavy labled dresses and jewellerys . On the other hand these shadi shows were helpful for people who are getting married or are involved in marriage ceremonies, This is one side of the coin other side of the coin shows that these shows are developing inferiority complex inside poor audience. Every one watches morning shows from rich to poor but now a day’s morning shows are featuring shows for wealthy people only, wedding season is one of the obvious example. The heavy, expensive, branded clothes are not in every one’s reach and at the time of such economic crises these kinds of shows can only raise suicide rate in Pakistan.

Now a day’s switching of hosts is a hotly debated issue. I am talking about the recent shifting of Shaista Wahidi on Geo television in replacement of “Nadia Khan Show”  “Utho jago Pakistan” hit the television screens recently.  However Nadia Khan herself shifts from ARY to Geo television but no doubt Nadia khan is the trend setter. She has taught everyone how to host a morning show that is why many anchors copying her in every other show but she’s also a copy cat. Nadia had copied Shasta’s GNP segment of summer mela and Nadia Khan’s summer mela was again featuring the elite class of Pakistan.

Most of the morning shows started in past and ended in past. Like KIran and George a husband wife family morning shows.

All and all morning shows are can be call as backbone of Pakistani media and an extra dose of entertainment but this extra dose is now becoming an over dose for audience. Day start and ends on watching these shows. It seems that there is no more entertainment left. Same sequence, same segments, same shows that are call as morning shows!

A tale of revenge...

Dr Shaista Wahidi one of the most famous host of Pakistani media who got fame and name from ARY’s morning show “Good Morning Pakistan” has recently switched to Geo TV replacing Nadia Khan’s “Nadia Khan show” by her brand new morning show “Utho jago Pakistan”. On second episode of Utho jago Pakistan (2nd episode of 30th November 2010) she invited “Amanat Ali” and our own queen of scandals “Meera”. Poorly Shaista got encountered with her adversity on the very next episode.

Elder people use to say, “A person’s respect is in his own hands” and we all are familiar with the proverb “Look before you leap” but sometimes tongue doesn’t co-operate with our words and slip of tongue occur. Its human nature, most of the times we forget things and calling incorrect names is very common but it happens one time, two times but if it happens third so it means you are doing it deliberately. Same slip of tongue incident happened in second episode by our own Shaista Wahidi and it was all pre –plan. Her tongue slips only on the name of her own guest Amanat Ali. She calls him “Asad” not one, not two times but three times same as that a person doesn’t mind one time, two times but third time he reacts so as Amanat Ali did. When she said “Asad oh sorry Amanat” Amanat replied: “Nadia oh sorry Shaista”. First of all it’s very absurd to forget your own guest name and the guest is also a big star then what’s the sense behind taking incorrect name? If we take it in a formal traditional way, a person invites guest to his house, he honors him by delightful and respectful words then why Shaista did such a big blunder?

That’s not enough as Newton said “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” so how Shaista will leave Amanat on his such disgraceful act without taking any reveng to do so she cut his conversation. She put her leg in the middle of conservation and speedily moves towards Meera without let him to complete his sentence.
That was Amanat Ali’s part now moves towards Queen of sandals Meera, who is going to host a show on Geo TV very soon. Now days Lollywood’s super stars are moving towards small screen. Following the footsteps of Reema Khan, we will soon watch Meera in her very own show. Meera has tried her luck in every field now she is moving towards small screen. The question is what is the name of the show? What kind of show she is going to host? What are the segments? These entire questions have no answer because Meera didn’t reveal anything about her show. At a point Shaista was revealing the name but Meera exclaimed: “No! Not now. I didn’t finalize the name yet!!!” although she was been to UJP for the publicity and advertisement of the show. Her hidden motive was to give a clue to people about her show but regretful she didn’t reveal anything.
While in the whole episode Meera was busy in adjusting her hair. More over when Shaista asked to take a break as she is going to host a show in future she replied: “Merey paas script nahe hai” (I don’t have the script).
Further moving, Shaista asked Meera about her childhood, fitness and beauty secrets she replied: “I will reveal my secrets in my own show right now I can’t tell you anything” and for childhood one her excuse was “When I will come with my brother and mother I will tell you about my childhood”. Meera reveals only one thing that is her real name “Irtiza Rubab” and nothing more interesting. In fact Shaista was asking this question to the audience about her real name and at the end of the show Meera herself didn’t disclose the name she said to Shaista “aap batadein”. Applause for her!
There was a big advertisement in the newspaper for the publicity of the episode “watch Utho jago Pakistan’s second episode. Guests are your own Amanat Ali and Meera with me (Shaista Wahidi)”. Although people are bored of watching Meera and Amanat Ali’s interview because on every morning show, they are sitting in fact Shaista herself has taken their interviews in “Good morning Pakistan” but still people watch the episode for a new change but found the episode cliché one and full of blunders.