Rakhi Sawant to get a taste of parenthood

The final episode of NDTV Imagine’s marriage-based reality show, ‘Rakhi Ka Swayamvar’, got the ratings of 8.4 TRPs on August 2, 2009, thus getting the highest score for a non-fiction show till now in 2009.Inspired and all geared up by this, the channel is coming up with yet another show, ‘Pati, Patni Aur Woh’, with five real life television star couples who would be taking up the parenting challenge. The five couples are Rakhi Sawant and her ‘official husband’ Elesh Parujanwala along with four other celebrity couples - Shilpa Saklani and Apurva Agnihotri; Juhi Parmar and Sachin Shroff; Mouni Roy and Gaurav Chopra; and Debina Bonnerjee and Gurmeet Chaudhary.

Nikhil Madhok, vice-president, marketing, NDTV Imagine, explains, “Some time back, there were two-three shows being launched annually and these shows were being replaced after a long period. Now every other month, there is a new launch as channels have at least six-seven new shows lined up for a year.”

The show which is based on ‘The Baby Borrowers (BBC Worldwide Productions)’, will have the contestant couples deal with five stages of parenthood – Dummy pregnancy, handling infants, handling toddles,handling rebellious teenagers and then grown up kids.

Meanwhile, Rakhi has even decided on a name for her child. “I will call her Khushi,” she says. Talking about the concept of the show, she says, “I don’t know. All I know is that I am going in a house just to have a picnic for one month.”

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