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Hindi Serial – Rahul Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – Rahul finally decides on Dimpy as his bride, leaving Nikunj and Harpreet in the lurch
On March 06, 2010 in Competition, Contest, Drama, Hindi Serial, Marriage, NDTV Imagine, Rahul Dulhaniya le jaayenga, Reality Show, Romance, TV
So finally the waiting is over. On a long program shown on Saturday, Rahul has finally made his choice, selecting Dimpy Ganguly over the final 3 contestants, with Nikunj Malik and Harpreet Chhabra, who made the final, not being selected. The show also put at rest all the talk after Rakhi Sawant’s swayamwar, who had got engaged and then broke the engagement, since it is quite clear that Rahul and Dimpy are going to get married on the show. They have already exchanged garlands, exchanged rings, and taken the blessings of the parents present on the show. Rahul also finally said “I love you” to one of the contestants, and it was Dimpy. It must have been that he made his choice much early.
For the last couple of days, the show has been highlighting the various functions that relate to marriage, such as dance and singing shows, bringing in many other stars (but not major film stars), going through many of the rituals such as the haldi. Before this, all the meetings with the different set of parents had happened. Of course, one wonders for Harpreet and Nikunj, since they have gone through all the rituals and even done a haldi ceremony for somebody whom they are not going to marry (although they would already know this before they joined the show).
The show did try to prolong things a bit, such as by asking all the parents, the girls, and Rahul to say whether they did want to say anything to any of the others, and this got a bit boring. However, now that NDTV Imagine has managed to get a swayamwar to end with a marriage, their credibility level must have gone up.
Hindi Serial – Rahul Dulhaniya Le Jayenge – the final three contestants are decided
On February 26, 2010 in Competition, Contest, Drama, Hindi Serial, Marriage, NDTV Imagine, Rahul Dulhaniya le jaayenga, Romance, TV
The 4 remaining contestants on the Rahul Swayamvar show are Harpreet, Dimpy, Mrinmai, and Nikunj. And now one of them will be eliminated to make the final 3. This is after an interesting week whereby all of them got a chance to invite Rahul to their homes, and most of the interactions were shown very positively.
In each case, the family members welcomed Rahul a lot (even though the age gap at the minimum is 6 years, and more than 10 years in many cases, and not a single family member seemed bothered by this in any way). Some of them fathers / elder relatives did take the chance to ask Rahul about whether he was serious about marriage, and Rahul did his best to sound sincere and assure the family members that he was going to get married in this show, as opposed to Rakhi Sawant who finally did not get married in the show and because of whom, everybody doubts all these contestants.
What was interesting in the depiction of Rahul’s visits to all the contestants home was that they all committed to him that they were in deep love with him, but he was not willing to commit in any way in this way, although he was much closer to them than it was in the past.
In the end, it was down to Mrinmai and Harpreet in terms of eviction, one of them would be the one who would be evicted from the show. And finally Mrinmai was the one who was evicted, and she did not go politely, telling him that Rahul was wrong in evicting her.
Swayamvar Season 2 – The drama is yet to begin in earnestness! – On NDTV Imagine
On February 21, 2010 in Competition, Contest, Drama, Hindi Serial, Marriage, Rahul Dulhaniya le jaayenga, Romance, TV
Swayamvar Season 2- Rahul Dulhaniya Le Jayenge has had a sedate beginning. Given the controversial nature of the ‘groom’ and his past exploits, Rahul has so far been extremely unassuming and not tried to hog the limelight. He has been courteous to all the contestants. In fact he has often appeared embarrassed and bashful, unable to deal with the girls and their clamouring for his attention. In fact, at times he has this look of incredulity on his countenance as if he is wondering to himself “Is this really happening to me? Wow! How did I get to be so lucky?” Indeed over the last couple of years, he has travelled from one end of the spectrum to the other-from being in the hospital for drug overdose to being divorced from his first wife and then becoming a much publicized playboy during Big Boss Season 2.
However the same attributes of timidity and bashfulness cannot be ascribed to the fifteen contestants. They are an over eager, in your face, ‘modesty be damned’ bunch of girls. Of course given the format of the show where they have to woo a man instead of things being the other way round, they cannot afford to be overtly modest. Thus you will find them tripping over each other in their bid to please, tease, coax, cajole, seduce Rahul so that he spends the maximum time with a particular contestant. Some try to show off their culinary skills by preparing various dishes, while still others try to woo him by their singing, dancing and other such skills. The winners of various competition winners get the invaluable prize of getting to spend one-on-one time with Rahul.
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Rahul Mahajan begins his swayamvar with a bang!
On February 02, 2010 in Channels, Competition, Marriage, Masala, NDTV Imagine, Rahul Dulhaniya le jaayenga, Reality Show, Royal, TV
Swayamvar Season 2-Rahul Dulhaniya Le Jayega has finally begun. Fifteen beautiful and very hopeful girls will be vying to win Rahul Mahajan’s affection and admiration. Like the previous season (Rakhi’s Swayamvar), the first episode was a grand event where the aspirants were introduced to their prince charming. Set in one of the beautiful palaces in Udaipur Fatehgarh Palace, the contestants alighted from expensive vintage cars to be greeted by Rahul, bouquet in hand. Most of the girls also carried small gifts in order to make a good first impression.
The fifteen hopeful girls came from all over India. The average age of the girls will be around twenty five years and most of them were visibly nervous as they were out to woo a man (and not the other way round) and that too on national television. It takes guts for a woman to pursue a man rather than the reverse. Most of the girls were either students or aspiring models and there even was a lecturer of a college. Most girls came bearing presents so as to make a mark in Rahul’s heart at the very first opportunity. Twinkle Mukherjee from Kolkata gifted Rahul an idol of Goddess Durga, “jor” and cheli– that marks the ‘gathbandhan’ (wedding knot) between a bride and groom in Bengali weddings. Charmy from Ahmedabad showered her affection and wished Rahul good luck by gifting him a showpiece of ‘Farishtey’(angel). Nikunj Malik, an accessories designer from Faridabad made Rahul’s day truly special by gifting him a wallet especially designed by her with her picture in it. Rashmi from Lucknow gifted him a set of a Lucknawi Kurta-Pajama.
