Bigg Boss Climax - Rakhi Sawant Must Win

Shivam Vij links to an article by C P Surendran on the now passe Big Brother-Shilpa Shetty racism episode. In my opinion Mr. Surendran has hit the nail on the right spot.

He writes:

So why is most of India in mourning? Because, Tweed and Goody called her a few names one reportedly called her a Paki, the other, according to Germain Greer in The Guardian, compared her to a critical part of the female anatomy, which was bleeped out which Shilpa considered racist.

At home, millions of ethically evolved Indians are watching Big Boss, an Indian reality show comparable to Celebrity Big Brother in which a Bollywood starlet Rakhi Sawant is similarly being given short shrift by her visibly upper class co-contestants.

As one of them said, “Aap ooper se niche tak nakli natak ho.” And there goes Rakhi Sawant, yet again sobbing, flaunting her all, to the confession chamber. Moments later she tells the camera, much as Shilpa did, “Why does every one hate me?”

On closer look, the friction between Rakhi Sawant and the Rest boils down to a class and cultural conflict between people who can speak English and an item girl who can’t.

As one of the participants in the Celebrity Big Brother said of Shilpa: “Shilpa should ***off home. She can’t even speak English.” Cut to Big Boss, and you will see housemates repeatedly making personal remarks and bitching about Rakhi’s “upbringing and outfits.”

And today Mid-Day has a report stating around 1,200 Rakhi Sawant fans have filed an online petition against Sony Television, protesting Rakhi’s character assassination by co-contestants in the Bigg Boss house. The culprits this time round are Carol Gracias, Ravi Kissen and Amit Sadh.

Obviously Rakhi’s fans are following similar pattern to what happened between Ofcom and Big Brother but I doubt that Ms. Sawant’s supporters would top or even get close to the number of people who turned out for Bollywood siren Shilpa Shetty’s support. The reasons could be many - Rakhi is after all an item gal and it’s a perceived notion that item gals are sluts & whores basically everything derogatory, she comes from you a lower-middle class family, her loudmouth and boldness has often been laughed at by the media, it is happening on a desi-show and not across borders, etc.

Forget Bigg Boss, recently when Mr. Mika (who appears to think more from the lower portion of his body) released a lewd music video over the kissing controversy involving himself and Rakhi Sawant, nobody objected. Not a single person belonging to our ethically evolved society filed a lawsuit. Even those men, the self nominated authority of moral policing who found Hrithik-Ash kissing scene objectionable and Malika Sherawat’s dance stint to be against Indian values, sat at home with a fat tape on their mouth.

Not saying that what Rakhi Sawant’s fans are doing is the correct approach, I don’t think that at all. I mean after all it is a game-show which is designed to bring out the worst in people and then again who knows it might even be rigged. And not to forget each of the participant including Rakhi are being paid well enough for their misery within the Bigg Boss house.

Since this is the final week of the show, I would say if you really want to show your support then vote for other contestants for eviction and thereby Rakhi remains in the house till the very end - This is what I am doing.

According to me Rakhi should win not because she has been a victim of class division but simply because she has been a complete performer thru it all. Be it her bitching, PJs, sucking up, over-enthusiasm while performing tasks, confession room dramas and not to forget awesome in-between dance jigs.

She made watching Bigg Boss one hour of hilarious entertainment, where could expect the unexpected from her. No wonder the show’s TRP dropped considerably when she was evicted and the show producers had to get her back on as wild card entry inorder to save their butts.

Example - A Conversation between Sawant and Kashmira Shah.

Kash : Tumko kya lagta hai humhe show par phir kyun bulaya?

Sawant : Haan re! Kyun ki hum bindass hai.

Kash : Nahi…Kyun bulaya?

Sawant : Hum frank log hai.

Kash : Nahi….Tu sooch.

Sawant : Kyunki hum band bajaooo types hai.

So yeah - chuck the dharna, screw the online petition and just vote for the enemy, it’s really that simple.

Ps….On a side note, if Sawant wins Bigg Boss I shall be throwing a big paaarty in her honor. This is an attempt to tempt those who don’t watch the show and/or are member of Anti-Sawant gang to get on the other side of the turf. You can do so by sending a SMS on 2525 and punching in Ravi or Rahul or Carol in the text area.

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