Rakhi Sawant baby show — After Packup

The much-hyped borrowed baby show featuring washed out starlets like Mouni Roy and of course, our very own Rakhi ‘loudmouth’ Sawant has finally attracted the wrath of the National Commission of Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR). They claim that tearing a child away from his / her biological parents can have disastrous implications on the child’s mental and physical well being.

Gee… so, it took NCPCR all of a good month or two of subjecting hapless toddlers to brainless, irresponsible nobodies before they finally realized that the children (who obviously have no say in what happens to them) were being treated unfairly? Brilliant deduction, NCPCR. We only wish you’d thought of this way before the show actually kicked off instead of waiting for Rakhi Sawant and Co. to flaunt their borrowed babies like trendy Gucci accessories.

The show organizers claim however, that the parents of these ‘borrowed children’ were not paid for loaning out their offspring, as they were already ‘rich’ and ‘educated’. What’s more, some of these parents also go on to claim that they were doing ‘social service’ by teaching celebrities the finer nuances of parenting. Say, what?

Which ‘rich’ and ‘educated’ parent in their right mind would loan their child out to Rakhi and Egg-head Parujanwalla, or even Mouni Roy and Gaurav Chopra who are more obsessed with pecking at each other, rather than bonding with the child they are supposed to be caring for?

It’s only now, after the show has attracted all this unnecessary hype and hoopla, that a couple of astute psychologists cry foul and blame the show-organizers for causing separation anxiety in the young, unwilling stars-to-be.

Methinks that in addition to the organizers, NCPCR should also haul up these irresponsible parents by the scruff of their necks and teach them a firm lesson or two about what caring for your child really means. Because the last time I checked, it certainly didn’t have to do with pimping your child out for your own personal and starry-eyed ambitions.