Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Big Boss Takes over my home

Come nightfall and my family parks itself in front of the TV to watch Big Boss. This is voyeuristic pleasure or what? The cast is Rahul Mahajan, the spoiled son of a corrupt but demised minister, Monica Bedi, an actress accused of links with the underworld, Sambhavana Seth, a fighter cock who thinks she's an actress, Payal Rohatgi, Who thinks shes in the Garden of Eden and therefore wears almost nothing, Ehsan Kureshi, a truly good comedian, Raja, accused of wife beating and other things (Rahul Mahajan shares this credit too), Debojit, a singer and Diana Hayden, a former Miss -something- and speaks Hindi like Sonia Gandhi does. Now These chaps are all put together in a house with no doors for a stipulated period and a have to vote each other out and the decision is compounded by the SMSs sent by the audience. Happy?
Now if you're keenly following this you'll have to watch them clean the loo, the swimming pool, run on the Treadmill, fight, scheme against one another, Bitch, smoke and hop into one another's bedrooms to facilitate the blossoming of romance or lust, as you wish. In the mean time they also have to complete the various tasks that an unseen Big Boss gives them. Which could be Keeping a finger to the hole in a jar filled with water so that it does not empty or to dance to a particular tune when it is turned on anytime without warning.
You'll also have a sprinkling of celebrities that hop in once in a way like Abhishek Bacchan, Shilpa Shetty etc.
You'll also have people who've been voted out come back again into the kitty. What fun!
I fail to understand how all this (most of which is predictable) can have people riveted for months together and gossip about the cast and speculate who will be voted out this week(what does it matter? they'll come back anyway!). Does this give people some sort of a sadistic pleasure in believing that all is not well in someone else's house too? Anyway enjoy!

1 comment:

Narendra shenoy said...

I know what you mean. People seem to delight in the vulgarity of the whole thing. Yeccchhh!