For nearly 20 years, Bigg Boss has been operating (and ruining) our lives. The contestants turn out to be an integral a part of our every day routine – a lot so that each emotion they exhibit tends to have an effect on and affect our every day moods.
And if that favorite contestant doesn’t find yourself successful, it causes a significant upheaval within the lifetime of followers and supporters. Maybe that is why the authenticity of each winner’s victory has been questioned until date – be it the GOAT late Sidharth Shukla or MC Stan.
History has been repeating itself since Sunday evening.
Karan Veer Mehra clinched Bigg Boss 18 trophy in a historic feat — it was his second actuality present victory in six months. There had been celebrations in his new discovered fan military and outrage in others. The man had entered the home with zero fan base. But step by step, with the assistance of strategic sport play and an entertaining facet, climbed reputation charts.
But it is the period of social media – the place the probabilities of successful or shedding could be affected by the variety of followers, except you’re Karan Veer Mehra.
Karan single-handedly defeated the collective cult fan base of Elvish Yadav and Munawar Faruqui, earlier BB winners who had made vote appeals for Rajat Dalal and Vivian Dsena respectively. Social media pundits are at their wit’s finish attempting to determine how a person with much less variety of followers on social media may win a voting-based competitors.
The reply is straightforward although. TV viewers!
Bigg Boss has been adopted like a cult on Indian tv. The TV viewers would not essentially belong to social media for it is shaped by – other than social media customers – children and middle- and old-aged women and men, who all have an entry to cell telephones. So they can learn pointers correctly and vote, however be not current on Instagram or X (beforehand Twitter).
In addition to this, the TV or impartial viewers just isn’t impacted by social media narratives. It watches the present for what it’s and judges contestants purely on the premise of contribution and leisure.
In easier phrases, if Karan received at 742K followers, it wasn’t as a result of all of those 742K folks voted for him. It is as a result of the impartial TV viewers voted.
And if Vivian Dsena at over 1M followers misplaced, it wasn’t as a result of these 1M folks didn’t vote… however solely as a result of the TV viewers didn’t.
Karan’s victory is being hailed as probably the most satisfying wins in current occasions as a result of the TV viewers voted for him in enormous numbers. He was beloved by India – viewers and celebrities alike. And India voted for him. In reality, sources say he was nearly all the time the top-voted contestant each time he was nominated — even above folks with enormous Instagram followers.
The second query therefore on his rival fandoms’ thoughts is why would folks love him a lot. He was a reasonably unknown entity when he got here.
The reply is once more easy. A healthful character.
It’s a delusion that folks like solely fights on Bigg Boss. The viewers loves a mixture of the whole lot. Like it occurs in healthful entertainer movies – there’s romance, there’s friendship, there’s motion, drama and thriller. Karan was a complete bundle on the present by that measure. He was enjoyable, witty, confrontational and emotional — each factor in the precise proportions.
The widespread man may relate to him after they realised he has struggled for 20 years to succeed in this place – in life and on the present. With him, the viewers felt betrayed when Shilpa Shirodkar made Vivian Dsena Time God not him. The viewers preferred Chum Darang extra when she reciprocated Karan’s emotions.
Everything fell in place for him. He step by step grew to become the primary character, the hero of the present. So even when it was ‘one vs all’ inside the home, they may see he was being unnecessarily focused. They sided with him, and voted for him, and made it ‘The Karan Veer Mehra Show’.
So different fan armies may use bots or buy votes, the ‘dwell voting’ function ensured the TV viewers voted for ‘janata ka laadla’. Several movies, wherein these individuals are rejoicing at Karan’s successful second, have now gone viral.
The solely one that got here near this healthful arc was Avinash Mishra. But then he selected to be the villain. And that is India… you do not want villains to heroes.
Karan’s victory has rattled different contestants – other than Chum and Shilpa. They are nonetheless not capable of come to phrases with a victory as this — poetic justice for all that Karan went via inside the home, as a result of they thought he at 150K followers stood no likelihood of successful.
But if social media following was the one criterion to win, Nyrra M Banerji at 6M followers would by no means have been evicted.
As far because the votes as involved, the channel has typically clarified that they’re counted by a 3rd celebration to make sure transparency. They additionally signal an NDA (non disclosure settlement) to keep away from any leak of data.
So the contestants and their followers can cry as a lot as they need or give demise threats to Karan’s supporters, the reality stays probably the most deserving man has received. If they doubt the authenticity of the voting and counting course of, an RTI could be registered for readability.
A saner recommendation could be to develop a backbone, settle for defeat and transfer on. The boat has sailed.
Kudos to the TV viewers!
(The writer is solely liable for the opinion expressed on this article. The firm doesn’t essentially adhere to their views.)
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