Who is the Big Boss ?

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 ?