On the anchor:
• Big boss – 1 – arshad warsi was comical
• Big boss – 2 – shilpa shetty was graceful
• Big boss – 3 – amitav bachan is verbose
On the participants:
• We feel the presence of bindu, kamal, raju, tanaj, claudia and rohit, other participants are just passable and off-the-track. Poonam, aditi and samita seem to have come for their much-needed rest.
• Bindu is the only vital source of attraction and big boss – 3 seems to be going the way big boss – 2 was going as in the latter we only waited to find rahul mahajan entertaining.
On the strategy adopted by participants:
• Bindu is the biggest success with his well-mannered motion
• Kamal is irritating;still in the lime-light
• Raju who was entertaining in the first week seems to be loosing his steam towards the fag end of the second week.
• Female participants are not doing much except some of them being glamorous at times.
• They seem to be becoming clueless to their activities.
• Their number is so big as to topple their male rivals, but they only make a mole out of the sandy hill by making trivial matter as food sharing as their main issue and quarrel over matters of zero significance.
• We agree with bindu that female participants are now nine in number because they include within their group rohit and bakhtiar also. While rohit is in the role of a spy by staying with the male group and sharing the secrets with the female group, bakhtiar has no originality and all the secrets of the male group are passed on by him to the female group through tanaj.
General comments:
• I am at a loss to understand the key reason behind weakening of the male group which is likely to suffer more for the lack of balancing power.
• Amitav bachan has only succeded so far in maintaining his dignity and composure without mingling himself with the participants.
• But the biggest boredom of big boss – 3 is its lack of concern for the viewers by moving away from its basics to film review and film-promotion through film reviews by stars themselves which we see and read outside with more details and authenticity by film critics.
• Kamal occupies centre stage.
• Bindu is brilliant as usual.
• Bindu predicts the shape of things to come and a likely one also.
• Poonam’s worship and offerings to Lord are in good public taste, but her silence glorifies her less.
• Claudia’s participatory actions are lovable.
• Tanaj only breaks the silence, but she is far from impressive.
• Bakhtiar does not know which way he is going. He has less originality and speaks only the language of others.
• Raju seems to be running out of his comical stocks and continues to be more confused than fused. Of course, he describes an incident involving his daughter which all should know.
• Samita and Sherlyn hardly open their mouths and continue to shy away from the audience.
• Overall, the episode was boring and the viewers feel cheated in absence of any performance-oriented programme.
Today being the day of nomination things moved in expected lines and nothing unusual happened except that Bindu moved closure to nomination with a thin improvement of a single ballot over Sherlyn.
It seems that all participants are afraid of Bindu and Kamal and it was but natural that both were voted five and nine votes against them respectively. While Sherlyn had done nothing to merit a longer sojourn at the Big Boss’ house and Kamal’s was a repetition of earlier delirium, Bindu had done nothing to deserve a nomination except the fear factor looming large over the minds of the participants.
If the Big Boss wants a woman power to overpower her male participants this time, well, this is not the way. The game should be played on an even playing field and the most deserving, powerful and entertaining lady should come out outstandingly as Mona in Is Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao to win the crown.
This time we find males more vocal than the female participants and female participants are more subdued relying on their bench strength only bothering less for the viewers. true, we do not have a Rakhi Samanta or a Sambhabana Seth or a Kashmira Saha this time, but we have a few familiar achievers who still have nothing to offer.
As per our expectations, a lot of melodramatic and interludes were experienced in the Big Boss’ house followed by fake and contrived differences of the highest boring magnitude by the married couple occupying the house.
Kamal’s ascending utterances were melodramatic while his hitting Rohit with a water-filled bottle was dramatic but unnecessary. Of course, I find Kamal ‘more sinned against than sinning’ in the sense that he was out and out instigated and infuriated by the participants, especially Raju and Rohit. It was Raju who first infuriated Kamal by coming into picture as a bolt from the blue and hitting Kamal’s cheeks with fingers during his exchange with Kamal. Rohit ignited Kamal by his sarcastic comments around the dining table.
Kamal’s can be said to be a reaction rather than action as his outbursts were the effects only and not the cause. However, his action of physically assaulting Rohit can hardly be justified and he has been shown the way justifiably. But the Big Boss did Kamal, the participants and the viewing public the greatest disfavor by not eliminating him the day he was called for counseling. Secondly, If the rules are uniform at the house, Raju should not have continued after physically assaulting Kamal on the cheek. Rohit should have been reprimanded for adding insults to the injury, but lawlessness and anarchy got sway over comical bliss.
The couple in the house continues to bore the spectators who are but puppets in the hands of the Big Boss which is going to be a big bore. Besides, film reviews are unnecessary and my family seldom sees this as there are so many programmes in a number of options available in the cable net-work.
Big Boss bares them all and creates big drama which finds Rohit in a delirious mood muttering and murmuring and finally shouting at his own folly causing his self-alienation from the rest with tottering credibility and rootless unreliability. A few of the future episodes of Big Boss promise big drama and high TRP as high tension characterized by melodramatic soliloquies and dramatic overtones are bound to strike a heavy dose of outbursts and arguments elevating the non-performers and semi-performers to some sort of chaotic and combative performers. Participants are going to spend sleepless and sleeveless nights with their blood vessels mounting and hearts palpitating.
Of all the performers, Poonam stands out as the coolest customer adding to her support-base among the participants. But this hardly adds to her performance which has never been outstanding as Big Boss is not all about winning the title but providing spectators with dramatic enthrallment.
Bindu as usual remains the star performer with his outspokenness and impressive performances. He remains the darling of spectators and best suited to win the title. Rohit recharges the episodes with the required doses of conflict and confusion necessary for the forward movement of the serial, very often with uncalculated extravaganza dominating each and every episode with his skillfully devised plots often ending in a fiasco.
Bakhtiar has nothing else to give us except his unjustified tears with utterances of vengeance on those voting against the couple and alienating him to draw sympathy of spectators who are wise enough to understand that the the couple was never promised a stay-together and that performance counts which we find wanting in him altogether.
Aditi does not seem to have applied her mind well since the beginning of her sojourn and she is now in a horrible state with the declining strength of her admirers and friends.
For whatever reason may be, Claudia seems to be a misfit altogether for the show, relying more on Bindu’s support than her own performances.
Pravesh has performed well in his small stint at Big Boss neutralizing the Raju effect to the spectators’ delight as Raju’s pranks have become stereotyped and empty. But his togetherness with Claudia seems more dramatic than real!
On the whole, Big Boss should make the bench strength of participants half-empty and half-full to capture the rapture of spectators in the days to come. Big Boss has been continually experimenting with new strategies to retain its viewer base and even to go beyond. But a few more strategic insertions will prove magical and interesting and the viewership will increase considerably:
- All participants now know as to what was going behind them and how they were back-stabbed as the culprits were nabbed and even jailed and censored; but what is not known to the participants until recently is how the Bakhtiar-duo were planning and executing. The nasty part of the story should also be shown and exposed.
- In the two earlier Big Bosses, ample time was spent on cooking and eating and we knew the sort of life the participants were subjected to, but this time the viewers are left guessing on it. They have now interest in each and every aspect of participants’ way of life which is not certainly of 100 grams of edibles that are shown to viewers, but something more.
- Big Boss seems to have forgotten participants like Aditi, Samita and Kambli whose activities are shown less. If they perform well, they should find more coverage, if not they are misfits for the Big Boss’ house. Of course Samita has gone, but the rest of the lot need more recharging.
- The major part of the Claudia-Pravesh talks remain inaudible due to the perilously low voice Claudia talks in. While Pravesh talks to her mainly in English, Claudia in order not to be caught in camera perhaps speaks in English in low voice. However, whatever be the matter, viewers with knowledge of Hindi are certainly much more than viewers with English knowledge. So for every English talks, there should be Hindi subtitles or translations. Big Boss is not certainly the Big Brother of London.
- The viewers do not like to see a crying Bakhtiar whose murmurings and utterances do not appear to be genuine. So his “rondu mukhada (tearful face)” should not attract the attention of camera at all.
- Claudia with almost no knowledge of Hindi should be allowed to speak in English which should be shown in Hindi sub-titles. She should no longer remain a mute spectator. Others also should be allowed to talk with her in English with Hindi translations.
- After the Big Boss’ exposure, Rohit, a star performer alongside Bindu, has become defenseless. Big Boss should strengthen him by exposing Bakhtiar which will divert the issue altogether.
- Raju with his depleted stock of comical stuffs has become stereotyped and monotonous. His performances are only repetitions of his earlier performances. He is too serious now for the title to have any lighter moment for the viewers.
I have words of praise for Big Boss for creating big impact by catering to the tastes and moods of the viewers. All episodes are now filled with activities and tensions of the inmates of the house, all of whom now seem to be charged up. But what Big Boss seems to lack is the sting and authority and the rules framed for the participants are compromised more often than not. Nominations and strategies are now openly discussed and debated and open strategies are made contrary to the pronounced provisions for the participants. Participants freely speak English and the Big Boss lets them go scot-free. Neither any warning has any impact on them, nor the Big Boss has any idea to do anything about it. Viewers have no other option but to guess the activities and strategies wondering as to why an unintelligible language is preferred in India where it is understood by about 10% of the viewers or even less. Even people with knowledge of English do not understand in what language Claudia is talking and what is going on in between she and others, especially Pravesh.
Well, Mr. Dara Singh is a highly respected personality who besides remaining unconquered as a freestyle wrestler in the world for five decades has given sterling performances on the screen in about fifty films and serials. He has hardly ever in any controversy so far in a life spanning about nine decades. People of India will never forget or forgive any person using his name in a derogatory manner. After all, it is the son of Mr. Dara Singh who is the participant here and not Mr. Dara Singh himself. I thank Bindu for the restraint shown by him, but I am surprised that the Big Boss has not taken a serious note of it.
About weekly nominations, I am of the opinion that any participant nominated for two weeks at a stretch need not be nominated for the consecutive third week as he has come out popular both the times earlier. Instead, those continuing evading nominations by sponsoring groups should be nominated by Big Boss himself if they evade nominations for two times as a measure of test of their popularity. Such measures will make Big Boss more acceptable and popular in the days to come.
All said and done, we have been eagerly waiting to see more of Bindu’s entertainments us with his open manners as with the declining comical value of Raju , Bindu now remains the only entertainer in the Big Boss’ house.
