By Anil Merani: VJ Andy is deeply disheartened by the new Bigg Boss wild card entries trio.
“What are Yamini Malhotra, Eden Rose, and Aditi Mistry’s call to fame? I checked their Instagram profiles, and apart from wearing short clothes, nothing was unique about them.”
“Is BB 18 reduced to just the glamour element? And if it just looks, we already have Eisha Singh, Shrutika Arjun and Alice Kaushik?” Says this Bigg Boss 7 contestant.
“Maybe Bigg Boss wants to appeal more to the lowest common denominator (an audience that likes to see young girls strut around in next to nothing). The above TV actresses can’t go bold, given their TV image. “added this Britain-based anchor, who has hosted several Indian reality shows ie.Get Gorgeous 6, Dare to Date, and India Has Got Talent etc.
“The success of Bigg Boss is not PYT’s, but the clash of different personalities (Siddharth Shukla, Hina Khan and Urvashi Dholakia) , their spats often go nasty, but that is the nature of the beast. Bigg Boss is not your sweet home.”
“But then, why change? Here, Andy attributes it to a socio-political narrative. We want people to live a particular lifestyle. “
“The USP of Bigg Boss was that the contestants were allowed to behave how they wanted (good, bad or ugly). The public choses who stays and who goes. Don’t hoist your values on them.”
“But nowadays, every weekend, BB18 host Salman Khan hectors them on how to live, forcing them to rethink” Why should social mores intervene in a TV show?”
“Also, if you care about society, would you get a contestant like Rajat Dalal on the show with serious charges against him? I agree you are innocent until proven guilty; it is still about perception.”
Also, Andy, who is openly gay, blames the above socio-political phenomena for keeping LGBTQ contestants out of the fray. You only want Alpa males to lead the fray. First, we had Rohit Verma, Laxmi Narayan Tripathi, me and Sushant Divgikar.
Andy further blamed the above phenomena on the show’s dwindling TRP, “The contestant mix is right. Ideally, the concept should retire to the drawing board for a reboot. Most contestants come prepared and skew the game.”
Going on he added,” earlier Bigg Boss winners were known celebrities, but lately trophy holders are undeserving. What did rapper MC Stan do throughout his season? He just rode home on the back of votes. “
Talking about the contestants, he feels Chahat Pandey might go the whole hog. “She is playing the dumb girl facade very well. Her use of the woman card is so adroitly that no one stands before her; most housemates avoid her like the plague.”
