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Rocky sa swayamvar

There are very few things that can bring a smile to my neo existentialism these days, Rakhi ka swayamvar is one of them. Over the years Rakhi sawant has created an a brand out of herself.. she is bold, outspoken, melodramatic, self made and a child of the increasingly sensationalist media. So when Rakhi announced that she was looking for a groom suddenly people sat up and said... really?? Thus began a reality show where Rakhi Sawant and 16 rather intimidated men held hands and moonlighted in different parts of a rather well decorated fort. All the men were in love with her and and wanted to marry her and in a world where men are often rumoured to be commitment phobic, here were 16 men who couldnt wait to tie the knot and took full advantage of this launch pad as their claim to fame. Mouthing wonderfully scripted lines, it would be hard to find a bunch of more liberal and broad minded men in one room at any given point of time. The attempts to profess love often bordering on the ridicul