Bigg Boss Season 7: It’s All About Big Money, Celeb Tantrums And A Glimpse Of Heaven And Hell

Are you ready for a tango with the devil and some chicken soup with the angel – in real time and on camera? Well, we commoners are not allowed there yet, but the Good and the Bad will be out there in their true colours at Bigg Boss Season – Saath (Season 7), one of the most popular TV reality shows in India. It’s the first time that the organisers have come up with the theme of jannat (heaven) and jahannum (hell) – the Wow and the Aao – and Bollywood Superstar Salman Khan will host the show as before on Colors.

‘Sallu’ has been on a roll here, hosting the show for the fourth year running. In fact, he has been so smitten that he vows not to “leave it” until Colors channel asked to do so. But there’s another reason why Salman has stuck to the show. It’s the Rs 5 crore fee per episode, but the 47-year-old has jokingly told the media that the amount is higher than that. He has reportedly doubled the money he was charging the previous season, but the actual amount is anybody’s guess.

However, Colors does not seem to be that generous with its celebrity contestants. For one, Pakistani fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has been reportedly dropped for demanding Rs 1 crore or so. That’s definitely bad news for viewers as he would not have been a damp squib like The Great Khali of Season 4. Music composer Aadesh Srivastava won’t be in either, because he asked for Rs 70 lakh, media reports say. We just hope the prize money hasn’t shrunk as well. Last season, it was Rs 50 lakh, but the big news doing the rounds is that the amount might be double this time.

Produced by Endemol India, Bigg Boss Season 7 will hit the air on 15 Sept prime time, that’s 9 in the evening, and the subsequent episodes will be aired daily for the next 104 days. But what will be on the cards at Lonavala, the house of the Bigg Boss, this time? Most people are already drooling over Sallu and his double avatar – that of angel and devil – in tune with the theme. That is bound to grab more eyeballs than before. And in true ‘bad boy’ style, he promises a “hell of a ride” for the 14 celebrity contestants.

We still don’t know for sure who all are joining that coveted list. But the regular dose of glitz and glamour should not be missing either, going by the earlier track record. Loud verbal wars and fisticuffs, mushy scenes and marriage even (remember how Sara Khan and Ali Merchant tied the knot in the Bigg Boss house a couple of years ago). And there was big money in it – it is said that the live-in couple walked away with a whopping wedding cheque of Rs 50 lakh.

It is almost certain that stand-up comedy king Kapil Sharma will make a special appearance on Bigg Boss 7, like he did last time. But the artiste denies joining the show as a house mate. That’s a pity as we all love a clean and clear laughter break after emotion-charged fights, sob scenes and playing politics in and out of the Confession Room. But then, that’s the sticky factor of the show that keeps it at the top of TRP rankings.

Modelled after the popular show Big Brother, the Indian version has a host of celebrity contestants who stay in an isolated house, are cut off from the rest of the world, work through the tasks assigned to them and do some active politicking to vote each other out of the contest till they reach the last leg for the big prize money. Contestants are constantly monitored by in-house TV cameras and one must don an audio microphone all the time, as long as he/she is in the house.

So what are you waiting for? Buckle your seat belt, take a deep breath and keep your hold firmly on the remote this Sunday evening when all ‘hell’ will break loose and ‘heaven’ will await you. Any last moment wish, dear viewers, before the show begins?

Only one, most avid fans of Bigg Boss confide. Let’s change the Bigg Boss (not the show, but the man), too, at the end of each season. Tell us who the Bigg Boss is at the end of the show and we can also judge how sound he was as a judge throughout those gruelling days. Are you ready to take up that challenge, Bigg Boss?

Image courtesy: Colors