After a frustrating
day at work , it gives us immense sadistic satisfaction to switch on the idiot
box and watch reality shows depicting celebrities succumbing under
pressure . As a general rule , I do not
watch "Bigg Boss" . Frankly , I don’t see the point . I neither have
enough love nor enough hatred towards the so called celebrities, that I am just
indifferent to watching them swear all over the
place and hatch elaborate plots against each other .
But somehow , I
couldn’t avoid the new Big Boss season . The temptation of seeing Heaven was
too much to resist . All the avid BB fans will know what I am talking about -
" Heaven" is a handsome golden retriever who committed heinous crimes in its past birth . The poor dog , his
name itself is a satirical comedy .
He is called
"Heaven" , but he is stuck in hell with a bunch of modern savages .
And the worst part is - he has no escape route ! No ticket out of the hell hole
. No elimination ! Dog alone knows what really goes on within the
"tele-barbed" walls of the BB house .
My deepest
sympathies with Heaven - but this article is not about him . Its about the very
concept of Big Boss .
Now that I am
actually watching the show , I cannot help but marvel at the simple ingenuity
of the show . Just find a bunch of crazy , fame thirsty specimen . Put them all
together into a house and ask them to live the life of an average middle class
family . A kind of life that nearly half the country is living . And voila !
There you have it . Reality cannot get any better than this !
I myself have shared my humble abode with several room
mates for the past few years . I do understand the complexity of living with
someone who is not family , and yet trying to make "home" a place to
return to at the end of every day .
There are subtle dynamics governing the day to day life - especially when you
rent a place and not just share a room . There is cleaning to be done , food to
be cooked , groceries to be bought , finances to be managed .. Oh , the list is
endless ! And yet , in spite of all the very same constraints imposed in my
life as shown in Big Boss , I have never seen any cat fights or sulky faces or
necessity of "rules to be followed in order to co-exist" .
From watching all
the drama unfolding on the show , I cannot help but think that all this is
exactly what it is - "drama" - fake , exagerrated , enacted . But is
it really ? When you are really trapped inside four walls for months together , will you really have it in you to act all
the way ? IF yes , then kudos to all the great acting out there ! If not ,then
BB is glaring example to show how ridiculously pampered our Indian celebrities
are . Shame on them that they make such
a big hullaballoo out of simple things like washing vessels ,cooking food and
managing finances ! I mean really . Grow up and stop whining you celebrity
bitches !
Its not some great
achievement that you did out there . All of the task that you did there
together is something that an average middle class mother has done single
handedly !
Shame on you for
applauding yourself for doing household activities while living in comfort and
literally doing nothing else . Take your
heads out of you’re a***s and look inside the household of a average middle class
family . They do all these so called "tasks " along with handling
this other thing called LIFE . Oh yes , they do !
You talk about the
brutality of living and serving strangers ? Welcome to the life of a newly
married bride in a middle class Indian family .
The great
difficulties in washing vessels AND cleaning toilets on the same day ? You are
only doing this for 3 months , on a shift ! And you are so sulky about it that
there is nothing else more painful ! Any middle class family does all of this ,
every single day of their lives along with whatever else they need to do to
make a living . Day In and day out .
The cruelty of
limited finances ? 33 rs is defined as the threshold for BPL in India . I am
sure you are better off !
Emotional grief of
being away from loved ones ? Need I tell you how many fathers stay in different
cities from their families just so that the daily bread is earned ?
You sit and whine
and create drama . And at the end of it you describe that "Bigg Boss was a
life changing experience " . Good for you , dear celebrity . Because for
hundreds of others your "life changing" experience is simply the unchanging
reality of their lives .
And yet , inspite of
every damn difficulty that life throws at us , we finish our days work , finish
paying off our bills , cook the food , clean our houses , feed the children and
at the end of the day, without fail -we
switch on the idiot box to watch you do a bit of what we deal with .
Who's the real Big
Boss now ?
