Salman Khan’s Bigg Boss 8 isn’t working

Bigg Boss 8 was propelled with much exhibition this season. The generation house got Salman Khan to concur and do yet an alternate season (in the wake of trekking his expense obviously), there was a run to attempt and get as numerous diverse and fascinating competitors (which fizzled pitiably), and the configuration got a turn with the show opening on with stranded plane and a mystery society (that got busted). So what truly happened with this season of Bigg Boss 8 ? We provide for you 5 reasons why the tremendously built up reality show is evaluating low on the TRP and prominence graphs

Weak contestants

The general consensus is that the makers didn’t really go all out to get an interesting mix of contestants. While the previous seasons had colorful characters like Sambhavna Seth, Dolly Bindra, Kamaal R Khan or even familiar faces like Rahul Roy and Rahul Mahajan, this season is a big downer. No one is really tuning in to watch Karishma Tanna or for that matter Upen Patel (who had promised to deliver some masala) to see their jhagdas and tu tu main mains! The selection process seemed really lame and now the buzz is that the production house is on a desperate hunt to find a wild card entry to spike up the ratings.

The new format bombed

Early on the makers tried to give a variation to the show by making the contestants live in a broken down flight where they had to sleep on reclining chairs and share a small toilet. Then there was the drama about the so called ‘secret society’ with 3 members given special privileges before the entered the show. Unfortunately for the makers the identities of these secret members was made public way before they anticipated. The start seemed really weak and the sentiment has since then stayed through the season.

Playing too safe

Despite watching the previous season, contestants like Diandra Soares, Minissha Lamba or even Puneet Issar have played it way too safe. These people know that unless they play up to the cameras and provide drama there won’t be any viewer ship. Even though Salman tries to instigate them on the weekend episode and give a reality check, the contestants are playing the game way too safe. Some of them are even lazy enough to get into any argument, and prefer walking away from the fight instead of tackling the issue and settling it on the spot.

Bad script

Salman is suffering at the hands of the writers who have given him some really bad script and made him say lines like ‘don’t bend too much you know there are boys in the house’! Whoever let that pass on the edit table or came up with the line needs to be on a deathrow! Most of the weekend episodes have become mundane and predictable with Salman taking digs are other celebs (Hrithik, SRK), or trying to make fun at his own expense (ex-girlfriend jokes), with most of the humor falling flat. Also can they please cut down on the canned laughter that comes in when the camera pans over a dead audience made to raise their hands and clap on cue!

Desperate for TRP

The last straw on the show was the recent Parineeti Chopra-Ali Quli episode where they played a prank and blamed him for touching the Kill Dil actress inappropriately. Parineeti in her defence said that the producers came to her with the idea and said it would get the episode high ratings. Even though she has an equation with Ali, the joke didn’t quite go down too well with the viewers. Not only did she get flack for trivialising the issue, but the whole set up seemed cheap and gimicky!