Karishma Tanna and Upen Patel started off their romantic journey on the last season of Bigg Boss and are still going strong, despite a few ups and downs along the way. They might have been together for a little more than a year, but the duo does seem pretty confident about tutoring young couples on MTV’s brand new TV show Love School.
If you’ve been in a relationship for some time now and all is not well, maybe you could try some love schooling. The first episode of MTV’s Love School introduces this ‘ideal’ celebrity couple, as they meet/audition young love birds who seem to be dealing with love life ‘issues’. While some, who need more serious professional help in terms of counselling are not given admission. But couples who Upen and Karishma find entertaining, and whose problems need an easy fix, are given admission to the love school, set in the beautiful Solan, in Himachal Pradesh.
Now, what exactly will happen in this serene boarding school of sorts remains a mystery throughout the first episode. What are these kids enrolling themselves into? How does this ‘school’ hope to convert problems into solutions? And what makes Karishma and Upen credible ‘Love Professors’ doling out precious advice? All that remains to be seen.
Though, I have to say, Upen looks more comfortable in his love guru avatar than Karishma does, despite his hangups with Hindi.
It is a real mystery to my skeptic mind as to how this TV show will tackle issues involving trust, complexes, attraction and infidelity. Honestly, I had a hard time taking these young jodis seriously. They discussed rather personal issues and relationship nitty gritties on TV without a care. To add to that, Upen kept stressing the fact that the priority for contestants should not be to grab an opportunity to be on TV, but to take their relationships seriously. Yeah right! While Karishma couldn’t help laughing out loud at some of the people she comes face to face with. It all seemed a bit ‘cooked’ up. After all, this does take reality TV into a whole new ‘wannabe psycho-analysis’ zone.
The Emotional Atyachaar of this ‘almost real’ Splitsvilla is yet to prove its worth. Karishma and Upen have only just started with admissions in Delhi and so far it’s only been about ‘he beats me..’ *CRY*, ‘she’s cheating on me…’ *CRY*, ‘he ignores me…’ *CRY* kinda stories.
All in all, nothing about the first episode makes me curious about the second. The basic parameters on which the hosts are throwing love lockets (a sign of being selected) at hilariously disillusioned couples, is pretty damn shaky. I wonder how many more ‘selection’ episodes keep us from the actual Love School, up in the hills. And once we get there, is it going to be worth the wait? At this point, I highly doubt it.
To be honest, I’m not sure I get the point of having a show like this on air in the first place. But I’m willing to be pleasantly surprised. It’s definitely a gutsy move and might appeal to confused adolescents and teenagers, who have no other source of advice or perspective when it comes to relationships. But how constructive or correct is the advice being doled out, is one huge question mark. MTV Love School certainly has me wondering.
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