Date:02/08/2008 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/mp/2008/08/02/stories/2008080251920400.htm

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Losers make a splash

ANUJ KUMAR

If one needs to explain assembly line production to a youngster, the current state of reality shows on Indian television is a fine example. So when Cyrus Sahukar, who is hosting a new reality show ‘Hole in the Wall’ for Pogo picked up the phone, one was expecting another routine but it was surprising to note that he was also bored of clones. “For long I haven’t seen a reality show where participants are not sobbing or cribbing about the judges. This one is going to be different.”

A Japanese format, the show will have two teams of three people facing a moving wall. As the moving barrier speeds towards the waiting teams, the participants must quickly contort themselves to fit through the weird and whacky cut out shapes in the wall — or be swept into the pool below.

“Here if you lose, you get dunked in a pool. So there is no pressure. The wall is light as a feather and the pool is only four feet deep. So the element of fear is also ruled out.”