BackBigg Boss 7: Reality TV virgins vs veterans
Will the 8 contestants with experience in reality TV shows rule the roost or will novices turn the tables?
Premium(Actor Salman Khan is the host for Bigg Boss 7 )
What’s up with flop Yash Raj heroines who started their Bollywood careers with Uday Chopra? Is the Bigg Boss house the only place where they find work? In 2009, Shamita Shetty made a beeline for the house and exited within a month “totally confused and disoriented". Her excuse for voluntary eviction was her sister Shilpa Shetty’s decision to get married suddenly. Now it is Tanisha Mukerjee who has entered Bigg Boss 7 (BB7), which started on Color’s on 15 September. Her mother, actor Tanuja, and sister, actor Kajol, said there was no reason why Tanisha would find her stay difficult. Well, it is yet to be seen how long this reality TV virgin will be able to survive “heaven" in BB7 given that this season is really going to be about how reality TV regulars navigate “heaven" and “hell"—the two zones of the Bigg Boss house are separated by jail bars. Eight out of the 14 contestants (the 15th contestant is a dog who is yet to show up) have done some form or the other of reality TV, cooking, dancing or getting married on TV and know how to work the system with tears, fights, lovey-dovey poses, and some skin show.
In Nigaar’s absence, Andy, who is a VJ and a choreographer and was seen previously in a cookery show Welcome-Baazi Mehmaan Nawaazi Ki in 2013 on Life OK, seems the obvious candidate to fill the “I am going to so screw you all" slot previously reserved for the likes of Imam Siddique (season 6), Dolly Bindra (season 4), Kamaal R. Khan (season 3) and Pooja Misrra (season 5). Of course, Siddique is not amused and on Twitter has said all comparisons between him and Andy are like comparing “Classy Crystal with tacky cut-glass". Andy may already have an enemy in the house in the form of the very shapely Gauhar, for Andy had locked horns with her sister Nigaar in his previous show.
A close second for this “I am going to so screw you all" slot could be Shilpa Agnihotri, who has done Nach Baliye in 2006, the one and only season of Survivor India in 2012 on Star Plus and Welcome—Baazi Mehmaan-Nawaazi Ki previously. A hardened reality circuit regular, Shilpa was one of the most manipulative contestants and also among the worst behaved specially when thwarted and not treated according to her “celebrity status" as shown on Survivor India. She will sweet talk, backbite and make alliances fast.
The man with the puff, Kushal Tandon, tried hard to get his two left feet working in Nach Baliye in 2012-13 but alas men with that hairstyle cannot dance (remember Dev Anand). Will he get by playing the charming ladies man or will he be bumped off early in the game? We are betting on the latter.
Bigg Boss 7, airs on Colors, 9-10pm daily.
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