Review of the documentary

Media and its manipulation of TRPs to gain power was the main theme of the documentary. The attempt was to highlight how media is trying to force feed to the audience what will be monetarily beneficial for them. The content which may not necessarily be newsworthy or have any information that may be deemed important or relevant to the society in general, is shown to the audience to further increase their viewer base and in turn the revenue streamline.

All this is done in the name of the demand of the audience. Most channels and their personnel will wash their hands off the issue by saying that they are only showing what the people want to see. In that, they do not see their responsibility towards showing what is truly news and is disseminating some information that the audience were not previously aware of or had forgotten about it.

The documentary also takes into account the views of general population, those are the consumers of what’s been shown to them and those who the channel blame for what they show. As is turns out and is shown in the film that the public is not oblivious to the fact that they are being manipulated and used to garner profits for the channels. In the film it is clearly shown that the public does not want to see redundant and repetitive news. They do not want to be shown irrelevant things and overtly exaggerated news, which only adds to the misery of the general life standards by inculcating fear, faithlessness, distrust and ambiguity.

By Sara Kyani