BBC to produce Desi Girl

The BBC is producing the show ''Desi Girl'' in order capitalise on the growing popularity of television soaps set in poor Indian villages, The Telegraph reports.
The show will pit a number of catwalk models and Bollywood stars, including Monica Bedi, against one other to find the most down home, practical woman among them.

Producers said the show will give them an opportunity to prove they are purely glamour girls or if they are true country girls at heart, the paper reports.
If the women want coffee in the morning, they will first have to milk a cow. To cook a meal, they will have to make fire fuel patties from cow dung.

"The idea is to bring the life of rural India to the urban populace. The contestants have to adapt to village life and also they have to outdo each other and win the hearts of the villagers," said Shailja Kejriwal of NDTV Imagine.

"The villagers will ultimately decide which one of these city girls has it in her to be like them and win the title of ''Desi Girl''," Kejriwal added.