Bigg Boss has been one of the crucial common actuality TV franchises over the past 20 years. Ever since its inception in 2006, the present has maintained a great maintain over the TRP charts, even being a vital a part of this time of the 12 months for a lot of. But regardless of a devoted core viewers, the present is falling far in need of the phenomenon that it was. Its viewership is dropping to a brand new low each season. Now, come Bigg Boss 16, we hardly see any buzz round it, hinting at one other lacklustre season of the present. Whatever noise is there may be for the flawed causes — the participation of MeToo-accused Sajid Khan within the Bigg Boss home.
But why is Bigg Boss not the present that stored on giving for therefore a few years? Why has it turn out to be really easy to disregard, even for somebody who watched it as a responsible pleasure? What has modified, particularly within the final two seasons? After one of the crucial profitable seasons in Bigg Boss 13 that featured Sidharth Shukla and Shehnaaz Gill (although one can argue over that being hyped too), the next two seasons (Bigg Boss 14 and 15) hit an all-time low. All that the makers may do to salvage themselves was carry within the earlier contestants. Familiarity, nonetheless, breeds contempt because the makers discovered.
Tejasswi Prakash and Karan Kundrra in Bigg Boss 15. (Photo: Voot)
The sturdy PR sport of contestants and favouritism on a part of the makers
Now, within the sixteenth season, the vast majority of the contestants that we see in the home are the faces of Colors TV: Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia (Choti Sardarni), Ankit Gupta and Priyanka Chahar Choudhary (Udaariyaan), Gautam Vig (Pinjara Khubsurti Ka), Tina Dutta and Sreejita De (Uttaran), and Shalin Bhanot (Ram Siya Ke Luv Kush). There isn’t any title in the home so common to intrigue the viewers, which was the case within the preliminary seasons. Neither is there anybody who doesn’t include the perpetual weight of “log kya kahenge”.
Today, full PR equipment works in direction of making a contestant development on social media. Ultimately, the one who traits extra, will get to spend extra time inside the home, and the one who doesn’t, is out, regardless of what the viewers desires. Imagine if Rakhi Sawant, Rahul Mahajan, Karishma Tanna, Shweta Tiwari, Tanishaa Mukherjee or Gautam Gulati had been image-conscious and had employed PR corporations to whitewash their behaviour inside the home, would Bigg Boss be as a lot enjoyable because it was?
Would somebody like a Manveer Gurjar even survive, not to mention win, Bigg Boss within the present setup?
Shamita Shetty and Raqesh Bapat in Bigg Boss 15.
Now, greater than what occurs contained in the Bigg Boss home, what issues is what is going on on social media. So, we should always most likely simply sign up to Twitter to ‘rig the game’ as a substitute of heading to Voot/Colors to catch as much as all of the drama.
Too a lot violence
With a number of the most strategic and drama-causing fights, viewers have been naturally inclined to tune in to Bigg Boss. Besides a few them, we witnessed fatuous but innocent fights through the years. But, all has modified since Bigg Boss 13.
In Bigg Boss 15, Karan Kundrra choke slammed Pratik Sehajpal and Simba Nagpal aggressively pushed Umar Riaz. Were they evicted from the present? No. Dear makers, these usually are not the sort of fights we get pleasure from. At all. And, you didn’t simply lose a viewer in Salman Khan’s mom Salma Khan, however many others pulled out out of your present due to an excessive amount of violence and ear-piercing verbal duels.
My coronary heart broke into million items watching this.. Man how helpless he’s that he’s crying that makers usually are not doing something@BiggBoss @ColorsTV sufficient of this injustice, evict the wrongdoers and provides him the justice he deserves
PRATIK STANDS STRONG pic.twitter.com/mDB6VSYqT1
— 𝕬𝖞𝖆𝖆𝖓 (@ayaanist) December 2, 2021
Repeated entries, re-entries and exits, celeb interference
Wasn’t Bigg Boss all the time a ‘captive’ actuality present that examined human behaviour when put in a home with no exterior accessibility? Well, it doesn’t appear to be that anymore. Now, it has turn out to be really easy for the contestants to simply exit, and return at their comfort. And, after they return, they clearly perceive the sport higher having gained an outsider’s perspective.
Not simply this, within the title of the wild card, we get to see many contestants from the earlier seasons who couldn’t win. But weren’t they rejected by the viewers for some motive? Also, what is that this obsession with Rakhi Sawant? We get sufficient of her by means of her social media and paparazzi recognizing, we don’t want her to on Bigg Boss anymore.
Who would have thought Bigg Boss would come to some extent the place it is going to don’t have anything recent to supply? With the rise of different cringe-worthy exhibits, why ought to anybody hassle with Sajid Khan or Tina Dutta on Bigg Boss after they can watch ‘fabulous’ lives of Bollywood wives unfurl on their screens or they’ll cringe over Sima Taparia’s views on marriages?
Bigg Boss was as soon as the OG king of cringe however seems to be like its reign is over and now it’s time to drag the curtains on the present. I hope the administrators behind the present are studying!
