5 guilty pleasures only watching Bigg Boss can give you
Modern Indian society offers interesting personalities on a platter. And the makers of Bigg Boss surely know how best to pick their plate. The recipe is simple - take a bunch of out of work actors, both film and television and add to that a token LGBT community representative, controversial nobody-turned-somebody names, foreign leggy lass, a porn star eager to make inroads into Bollywood and a few other inconsequential names who’ll be the first ones to be voted out, all of these more than happy to hurl abuses, take off their clothes (women only with the exception of men with abs), canoodle in the washroom, do obnoxious tasks and fight for screen time. What you get then is an eager audience watching their every move on TV and TRPs for Colors skyrocket.
Let’s not play the blame game though; we all are guilty of indulging in this trash every single night. The show is in its ninth year all thanks to us. It gives us enough masala to spice up our boring evenings, day after day. We don’t have to make conversations with our husbands or wives and don’t have to listen to our kids with interest. We’d rather be voyeurs enjoying "reality television" unfold at its dirtiest, most disgusting best, right?
That Bigg Boss is an addiction is well established. Try hard as you may, there’s no escaping this one. If you’ve ever wondered why, here are some reasons to answer your questions.
We can openly laugh at the LGBT community
If there’s anyone who’s going to judge us for making fun of a gay person, he’s not around to watch us giggle in our homes, is he? As the show, season after season, has the token gay or transgender person face downright insults at the hands of the other contestants, we laugh in amusement. So what if doing it on the road is unconsidered uncouth and judgmental? We always have Bigg Boss helping us out.
We can behave like teenagers, all over again
Remember the days of first love (or lust to be precise) when keeping our hands off each other was almost impossible? We may not be laying our hands on our husbands or wives anymore, ghar ki murgi is daal barabar you see, but we can always revisit the past looking at the contestants slyly make out behind closed doors.
We can openly stare and more at all the eye candy
Objectifying women may get us into trouble outside the Bigg Boss house but inside it, it’s a visual treat as girls roam around showing leg like never before. How’s that for post-dinner dessert? And since men too don’t shy away from flaunting their chiseled torsos, all you lonely women have something to look forward to every night.
We can learn new terms of abuse
If you’re running out of abuses that involve someone’s mother and sister, worry not for the new season of Bigg Boss is almost here. The curriculum guarantees atleast 10 new gaalis every week and around 120 in three months, all at hardly any tuition fee. Enroll now, with family and children in tow.
We can learn adult civil behaviour
When a bunch of somewhat educated grown-ups are asked to live together in a house, you can’t expect them to be civil, can you? And certainly not when they’re on national television, right? From fights over cooking and cleaning to scheming, plotting, abusing and throwing things, if not punches at each other, there’s a lot to be learnt for all of us out here.