The training in NDA is surely diff. as it has been portrayed in the show. Once some foreigner documentary makers came to khadagwasla for filming of training of cadets. They asked for the permission for getting an insight into the real training of the future officers. They were first refused as they couldn't be allowed to get deep into the training but later they were given permission at one condition -" You are here on your own mental risk". After a week or so, the came back and recorded "This was the most inhuman, the most animal and the most brutal training we've ever seen". So, reality is not always what you see on t.v.