Hindi TV Serial - Bigg Boss Season 5 - More drama and more fights

Looks like the concept of Bigg Boss is to get as many people to watch the serial as much as possible, and with each season, the amount of tension and fights in each version has increased to a much higher degree every time. The first couple of versions did not have too much fighting, but as the years have gone by, the amount of fighting has increased drastically. Each time, there have been members in the serial who fight for no given reason, thus giving rise to the suspicion that these people have been told to fight as much as possible. As long as they do not actually physically fight, they are also retained and not evicted.
This time, with the season 5, there are some more changes. The serial started with some big name hosts, with the popular movie stars, Sanjay Dutt, and Salman Khan. In addition, the show started with many more women in the show, a total of 12 women, 1 transgender, and 1 has been movie actor (Shakti Kapoor). Over a period of time, 2 more men have come into the show. The contestants are:
Shakti Kapoor - Initially, the only male in the show.
Pooja Bedi - One of the initial brave faces of Indian cinema, who exposed as much as required, and did a couple of good roles.
Shonali Nagrani - A former contestant of Miss India and a TV anchor.
Nihita Biswas - Very famous for being the wife of Charles Sobhraj. Evicted on day 7.
Shraddha Sharma - Not a very well known television actress
Mandeep Bevli - A news anchor
Raageshwari - A former MTV VJ and did sundry other things
Vida Samadzai - Famous for participating as a Miss Afghanistan in the international pageant in 2003 and posing in a bikini
Mahek Chahal - An actress
Sonika Kaliraman Malik - A famous wrestler, and 6 months pregnant at entry into the show. She withdrew on Day 8
Pooja Misrra - The biggest fighter among the contestants, who is a former VJ and reality contest participant
Gulabo Sapera - A cultural person from Rajasthan, she was evicted on day 14
Laxmi Narayan - A transgender
Juhi Parmar - famous for being the main lead in a long running serial
Amar Upadhyay - Played the role of Mihir in the famous Star serial, Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi. Entered on day 8
Siddharth Bhardwaj - Winner of MTV Splitsvilla. He entered on day 15.

Hindi TV Serial - Khatron Ke Khiladi Part 4 - Fear Factor - Torchaar

Khatron Ke Khiladi is a popular reality show that runs pretty fast, with the most popular format being where a popular male star takes a number of ladies (from television, and other such popular) as contestants and pairs them up with male partners. They are taken through a series of tasks that challenge their fitness, courage, will power, sheer talent, and they go through rounds of elimination till there is an eventual winner.
Last time, the host of the program was Priyanka Chopra, but I think the audiences get more pleasure out of seeing female contestants, and with the host being Akshay Kumar, the show this time (version 4) should get more popular. However, keep in mind that reality contests see more and more confrontation, which makes the show more popular. In the current case as well, Akshay has got more confrontational since the previous time he hosted the programs, and runs down the contestants much more than he used to do in the past.
The contestants these time are:
Aashka Goradia - A television artist
Aarti Chhabria - Acted in a movie along with Akshay Kumar. Has been eliminated.
VJ Bani - MTV Roadies contestant
Anjum Chopra - Member of the Indian national Women's hockey team
Aliesia Raut - Actress, acted in movie Fashion
Diandra Soares - Acted in movies Boom and Fashion
Mauli Dave - Made a name for herself on a singing reality show
Dina Singh - Wife of Vindu Dara Singh
Sambhavana Seth - No one needs an introduction to Sambhavana, who likes a lot of controversy. She has been eliminated.
Poonam Pandey - Created a sensation when claimed she will strip for the Indian team after the One Day World Cup victory. Eliminated.
VJ Mia - A well known VJ
Smita Bansal - The Bahu of the house, on the show Balika Vadhu. Has been eliminated.



More videos of the show on Youtube (link)

Hindi TV Serial - Big Boss 4 - Lots of controversy in the house, Dolly Bindra and Sameer Soni thrown out

Bigg Boss4 is getting all the controversy that it needs to increase its TRP and viewer attention, but is also getting some unwanted attention that it would not have wanted. Over the past many weeks, there has been a lot of drama in the media about the serial, with parents and many other organizations complaining about the language used, and also about the level of vulgarity in the serial (especially the fights that happen in the serial, and the drama that is supposed to be staged in the serial). Even in this season, there has been a marriage staged in the serial which is supposed to be a total drama (since they were already married 2 years back). Further, the serial also attempted to show the married couple under a single sheet, apparently on a honeymoon (it is another matter that Ali Merchant had to leave the show soon after, given that he was only a guest on the serial).
And then the major attraction, with the Hollywood sex symbol (many years past her prime though), Pamela Anderson has entered the serial, dressed in a revealing white dress (you can be pretty sure that this is meant to ensure that there is more viewer attention and they would ask her to do more than just dress up). She is just there for 3 days in the serial, and is being paid an amount of Rs. 2.5 crore for this presence (although she has to try and speak Hindi).
On the other hand, the conflict between people in the serial continues, with a face off between Dolly Bindra and Sameer Soni (which resulted in both of them being evicted from the serial - thus saving more members for the week since 2 members have been evicted).
And finally, the Government knocked the appeal out of the serial since it judged the serial as too adult, and thus should not appear before 11 PM.

Hindi TV Serial - Na Aana Is Des Ladoo - The serial will take a leap, and both Raghav and Sia will not be there in the post leap time frame

Na Aana Is Des Ladoo is built around the brutal nature of Ammaji, and her control over the local surroundings, and the confrontation that comes in when she is challenged by various people, most primarily by her daughter-in-law Sia (who is supported by Ammaji's youngest son Raghav). In between, Ammaji faces a challenge from her own lost daughter Amba, and then from her own brother-in-law. She manages to overcome all these challenges, even when her other son Gajendra was conspiring against her.
Sia was insulted and humiliated by Ammaji many times, but Sia never did carry out much of a revenge on Ammaji (when in fact Ammaji had caused the public blackening of the face of Sia's father). But the main storyline has been the challenge caused by Sia to the power of Ammaji, especially when Sia defeated Ammaji in the election for the sarpanch of the village and also refused to abort her own children even when it was revealed that she was carrying a girl child.
She had not told Raghav that the child she was carrying was a risk to her own life, and when Raghav got to know, he was furious. But all this is now about to end, since the serial is about to go in for a time leap, with both Raghav and Sia missing after the leap (Raghav gets killed during a confrontation with Bhanupratap (Aman Verma), who has been in jail for 15 years and wants revenge on Ammaji and her family members.
And then Sia dies during childbirth, so the time leap is missing both of them, but Ammaji is still there, and there is Chanda's son also in the picture. In other parts of the story, Sunheri takes back her accusation in the courtroom, which causes Gajendra to get released from the jail.