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Raghu Rearview: My
Roadies Journey
ON an impulse, she picked up her medical report that was clipped to the bed and opened it. She wasn't suppose to. TWINS???!!! So, it was happening, Amma's little brother Narsu had already suggested the name of the twins Mareech and Subahu, after the two demons of Tathaka. The two monsters were coming, and they did as Raghu Ram and Ram Lakshman. The two names- from being bullied by schoolmates, making their own Munrika gang(the DDA flats where they stayed), losing themselves to whisky, guitar to being light attendant, to finally hooking up with MTV, the two names indeed went through a touchy journey. It this journey that the bad guy of MTV Raghu Ram, the face of the popular reality show Roadies, brings out in his book Raghu Rearview: My Roadies Journey. The book reveals the hidden side of the hard-taskmaster, Raghu. It is the side that got bullied, the side that was back-stabbed by professional colleagues, the side that also fell in love, the side that got obsessed with this side. Raghu threadbares his journey so far wherein he kind of justifies the on-screen rudeness, which stems from being a butt of jokes as a kid and while he was in school along with this twin, Rajiv. The writer takes you along you in this journey in a chronological order of events where you somewhere start relating and even sympathizing with this bad man. The colloquial use of certain words (mostly Unparliamentary) comes naturally to the writer who hasn't made any effort to soak his writing in some heavy-duty English vocabulary.
In the rearview, Raghu discovers himself, just like the readers get an up, close and personal of him. "I see equal parts Raghu, equal parts bully: the guy who cribs on second and run towards the crowd next. We're the same person, only that guy, the google-breaking, rudest man on TV-he's taller," writes the writer, a self analysis and self realisation that forms the base of this journey as he looks through the rearview.
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Raghu Rearview: My
Roadies Journey in the real
sense explains the birth of the popular, most-hated and most-loved
show Roadies and what all Raghu had to go through to create and
maintain it in long run. Those who have religiously followed this show
will discover what it actually takes to make a show
"nastily" popular. Raghu has no qualms and does not hide his
flaws as a person who got obsessed with the show and how he began to
ignore his family and lovely wife Sugandha. Here is a writer who also
exposes the other side of his twin Rajiv, who can detach himself any
time, any minute. All his professional colleagues, especially his
third brother (as both twins like to call) Rannvijay, a VJ and ex
participant on Roadies gets a generous mention, along with
Rannvijay's ex-girlfriend Anusha Dhandekar who happens to be an MTV VJ.
This writer has spared none, only he has been generous by thanking
those who helped him.