Ever since Bigg Boss season 7 started on Vijay TV, controversies and criticisms have not slowed down. There’s more adult content, sexual slurs, rape complaints and more than any other season. What has not happened in any other season has happened in this season.
Pradeep Antony has been evicted from the house after being given a ‘red card’ for using inappropriate language. Even after a week, she is still being talked about inside and outside the show. Contestant Vikitra’s ‘funny’ comment on rap has also become the latest controversy.
The ‘Bigg Boss’ house is divided into one team with Maya and Purnima and now another team with Vachitra and Archana. It has many people commenting that Maya, Purnima and others are involved in harassing many contestants.
Also, this season is being considered more ‘toxic’ than any other season. The participants of the show are also using many inappropriate words.
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Small screen actress Archana, who entered the show as a ‘wild card’ entry two weeks ago, has been teary-eyed since the day she entered and says she misses her fellow contestants. Can’t handle pressure.
Maya and Jovica are portraying him as mentally ill. “Go and see the doctor,” she says.
It is being called an inappropriate term for the mentally retarded.
He made fun of Archana saying that she was afraid of being trapped in a small space as she entered the ‘Small Boss’ house as a ‘wild card’ entry.
Due to this reason, Maya, Purnima, Jovika, Ishu etc are being called as ‘Bully Gang’ on social media.
Ex-Bigg Boss contestants like Kajal, Thamarai and others have expressed the same opinion in their interviews with the media.
Complaints of constant ridicule
‘Bigg Boss’ asked them to admit who said it by showing someone else talking about a contestant in the show that aired two days ago. In it, many people made bad comments about the other contestants of the show which shocked the Bigg Boss housemates.
Nixon’s comment about small screen actress Vinusha, who was already evicted from Bigg Boss, was especially bad.
Nixon compared his body to Purnima. No one objected to this except Vachitra.
Vinusha posted on her Instagram page about Nixon’s words, ‘I want to speak for myself. In the beginning Nixon and I had a good understanding. I considered him as a younger brother. But once he started trolling me, he stopped.”
“I asked them to stop because they hurt me,” he said. One day he apologized to me and said it was just to troll me, not to make fun of me.
Blame the rape victims
There is also an impression that Archana and Vazitra are speaking out against the rape victims.
Vachitra and Maya, Poornima, Ishu etc. have a disagreement over giving Pradeep a ‘red card’. Vazitra said that if Pradeep Antony had spoken inappropriate words, he should have reacted immediately. Similarly, Archana had also said that she gave a ‘red card’ to Pradeep for talking nicely to him.
At the time, many people on social media condemned Vachitra’s statement that if she did not report the rape immediately, the injury would heal and they would not accept her complaint. Many felt that Vichitra was blaming the rape victims, besides Maya, who mocked the men on the show, said that all the men on the show are ‘trash’ this season.
At the very beginning of the season, Vachitra was also criticized for acting like a ‘moral police’ while talking about co-host Ananya’s ‘tattoo’ on the show. Yukendran, who was evicted from the competition, said in a video discussion with his wife Hema Malini that the ‘Bigg Boss’ house has become ‘toxic’. Thus many controversies have arisen in this season. Actor Kamal Haasan, who hosted the show, said that many people under the age of 18 are watching the show.
Child welfare activist Diwanian says that children will lose their childhood if they watch the show.
“Children learn a lot from both the family environment and the social environment,” he said.
He said that there is a social atmosphere in this media space. Children are at a stage where they don’t know what is right and what is wrong. Now children mostly look up to media people as their role models. In ‘Bigg Boss’ show, ridicule and humiliation of others in the name of comedy is increasing. Remnants of patriarchal thinking also pervade the show. When children watch this show daily at home, their mental health is affected. This increases the chances of violence among children.
Increased mental health problems
Talking about this, Sujata, a mental health consultant, said, “It’s like changing a toxic environment into a normal environment. The program is broadcast without censorship. Kids have been watching the show ever since. This show will have a huge impact on the youth. ‘
She says the show, which started with the idea of bringing out everyone’s individuality, is now promoting a toxic mindset.
One of the contestants (Archana) claims to have a specific phobia, which the others join in and make fun of.
She says the ‘Bigg Boss’ house does not help people with mental health issues. “No matter how much we talk about mental health, this incident is like re-approaching it with a common-sense attitude.”
Sujata also says that it is becoming a trend for people to speak ill of someone in public. Therefore, those who use inappropriate words speak as if it does not matter if their name is tarnished outside.
“They have no social consciousness,” she added. He is speaking in an emotional state.
He said that people who are already suffering from mental health problems if they participate in the program or watch the program, their problems will increase.