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Why Loyalists Can't Care Less about Bigg Boss 9? A Fan Rants!
For a decade, Bigg Boss has spiced up prime time entertainment in a way, no other show can even imagine! (not even Roadies, though it does get close) But let’s not live in denial anymore and say it straight – Bigg Boss 9 sucks! It sucks to the extent that a certain Mouni Roy, with her tacky VFX and dated story manages to rake higher TRPs than a house full of convining, plotting and supposedly scheming losers who are desperate to come out of their life of oblivion.
There is so much that has gone wrong this season. For starters, it is a drab bore. One would rather prefer the sharp and nuanced criticism on Masterchef vis-à-vis the guilty pleasure that the show once offered. We wish it had upped its standard in terms of content. Alas, BB 9 lost sight of why it works – for its sensationalism. Middle class kids and their mothers would once give Tulsi and her aangan a miss for bickering contestants.
Are we saying that BB9 is not explosive enough? Well as a media observer points out, the strategy of the show is not fresh. It is not a good sign when shows start repeating each and every task from their previous seasons. But neither the emotional drama nor the hostile quotient or its aggression ever hits a high note. Their past glories remain their selling point till date.
Who is to be blamed for their blandness? Lack of good contestants! Diplomacy is the last blow on the show’s theme and with its new bunch of holier-than –thou contestants, what better expect than the measly TRPs of 2-point-somethings. Colors? What happened to you guys? After housing terrorist Abu Salem’s ex-girlfriend Monica Bedi, former adult star Sunny Leone and the tainted son of minister Pramod Mahajan, Rahul, what laurels or failure does the present set of contestants have to flaunt? Like we said, they are a bunch of losers on the lookout for quick fame.
Salman Khan, who is striving to render his energy to the dull, mundane show, has so far made no headway in the right direction. On some level, Bhai is making it clear that he is doing it for the hefty pay-cheques that supports his noble work at Being Human. If gimmicks can save lives and help the needy, Bhai being the large-hearted angel wouldn’t shirk from it. Salman’s sullen look, grim face and slumber-filled eyes give it away that he can’t care less about ‘bathroom lights being switched off’ fights anymore. It is too amateurish, too juvenile and too silly for anyone to bother about.
So why couldn't a particular franchise live up to its image of being one of the most controversial shows on Indian Tele? Over-confidence, arrogance and the ‘chalta hai’ attitude I believe.
This year’s theme ‘Double-Trouble’ was an epic fail. What was the trouble part in it? And double bit was a dud. Those who walked in expecting the show to be twice more devilish and twice more fun admit that BB9 was a colossal disappointment. Maintaining the pattern of contestants – a romantic liaison, a clandestine affair, late night cuddling in sleep, ex lovers and their fiascos, gays and their queer love Bigg Boss 9 had everything minus the punch. It feels far too boring and mechanical.
So where lies the problem? Are we as an audience over the idea of this reality show or the country has finally woken up to accept that we’d so longer been pushing crap for entertainment. Though the latter is highly unlikely in a country where entertainment amounts to judging people.
High time, BB 9 pulls up its socks or by the time it is finale, people will be queuing outside the coveted ghar with their rifles armed, ready to gun down the people who bored us to death day-after-day. Now this is the real emotional atyachar. Argh!
