Over the years most of them time the audience get to watch edited or dramatized version of Reality TV that is not clear by itself in the niche it creates for the audience.  The current streaming LockUpp2 hosted by Riteish Deshmukh and Farah Khan promises the authenticity of what reality TV looks like exactly.

The current season of the bold television reality show, features Ram Kapoor, Shivangi Joshi, Harshad Chopda, Madhuri Grover,  Dheeraj Dhoopar, Shreya Kalra, Akanksha Chamola, Pamala Serena to name a few. 

Beyond the competition and the entertainment that the show is garnering attention, is that Lock Upp 2 is unique and offers a platform for contestants to feel comfortable first enough to share their truth, share about their identities and express their emotional revelations without any hesitance.   This show allows them to be vulnerable and let their truth take the centre stage. The two key facets that have vanished from the reality show over a period of time. 

Some of the contestants who shared their personal secrets.

Ram Kapoor, television and film actor revealed his personal secrets of his life about a painful incident of his childhood. The Bade Acche Lagte Hai actor shared that as a young teenage kid in the school, he was molested and that has left an impact till date on his mind and he had become silent and traumatised over the incident. Except for his wife Gautami is aware of this incident, he has never opened about it to anyone else.

Harshad Chopda and Sufi Motiwala another contestant were in tears listening to Ram Kapoor. Host Riteish Deshmukh and Farah Khan hugged Ram comforting him that they are proud of him for the fact that he could share this secret after keeping within him for 40 years.     

A few days before after the reality TV show began, Akanksha Chamola made a shocking revelation that she is bi-sexual and that before she tied the knot with the famous television personality Gaurav Khanna, she had confessed to him and that he was very open minded about it and had understood her feelings. He had accepted it gracefully.  Incidentally whenever any conversation surrounds about sexuality, it is often met with wide eyes and hesitation. Her candid response to her bisexuality with a direct approach itself had helped him with his acceptance. 

Sufi Motiwala also opened about his emotional reality on the coming out of the gay individual in India. He spoke about the family expectations and acceptance and it takes a great deal for the parents to accept and the process is really very sensitive in reality. He asked, to just think about a gay and when someone discovers that they are gay, it takes them 10 or 12 years themselves to accept it and then you go to your parents and disclose the worst fears, they inevitably would need their own time to accept and process it in their thoughts and in their life, said Motiwala. 

Lock Upp 2, a major revelation with a mix of excitement, and the harsh reality.

The major revelations have shaken up the Lock Upp 2 with a mix of exciting entertainment and the harsh reality that is often covered up behind certain shaped images.  While reality TV shows often the label of being too dramatic, Lock Upp2 has displayed real life stories that are compelling and have found the right platform for the contestants to speak up about their traumas, setbacks, conflicts they are going through and their identities. That’s what makes Lock Upp 2 very distinct from the rest of the reality shows that are already served.

The contestants are attracting the audience while they are looking up on them to know more about each of them. Lock Upp 2 has been ranked No. 8 at Netflix Global Top 10 Non-English Shows, staggering with a 1.9 million views. In India, the show enjoys much lesser but is on No. 1 spot on Netflix among India’s Top 10.  It still involves competitions, expectations, tactics and lots of entertainment apart from what the show holds as an emerging safe harbour for conversations that one can rarely find a space in a reality show.