Originally Posted by Bojangles

The show pitches college students (contestants) against college bullies (hosts). Every round has different flavours of bullying (all intent on humiliation of contestants, basically). One of the hosts ?Isha - The Goddess? - plays the role of the college rich bitch, who is supposed to insult contestants for their ugliness and for their lack of class.

She was doing her usual ?your-sideburns-are-from-60s? routine while the contestants managed to remain cool and didn?t respond to her comments. Infuriated (scripted, I think) she asked them whether they have tongues in the mouths (direct translation from the Hindi quip - ?munh mein zabaan nahi hai kya?). One of the two contestants said that they are quiet because they don?t want to talk to her. She barked at him to ?fuck off?. The contestant managed a (weak) comeback of ?you go?. Something cracked inside the hostess, and she slapped the contestant. Shocked, the contestant slapped her back.

The other host then jumped into the fray to defend the hostess and started beating up the contestant who kept asking ?how can she slap, sir?? Thereafter, the whole crew seemed to descend on the poor contestant and proceeded to beat him to a pulp. In the process, apart from getting physically thrashed, he gets thoroughly abused verbally as well. Expletives were all over the place, in Hindi and in English.




Interviewed at the beginning of September 2008:
?This incident occurred four months ago. The participants of the show had to pass through the litmus test of abuses and spats. And it was all scripted! We were all given our parts where 70 per cent was to be said as is and 30 per cent would be improvisations,? says Ravi, the man who was beaten on the show. ?There was this girl called Isha opposite me who was supposed to abuse me and I was to retaliate, but calmly. After a while when it came to improvisations, I presume she was out of words and came and slapped me hard. I was shocked and in the heat of the moment, I slapped her back. That led to the entire unit of about 70 people jumping on me beating me black and blue. It was a miracle in itself that I managed to escape from there,? he says.