The popular Reality Show on Colors – Bigg Boss is now in its sixth season. It has been in controversies from its inception or you may say that controversies are created to increase TRPs.
This time the controversy surrounds not so famous actor and model Kavita Radheshyam who turned down (!) an offer to participate
in Bigg Boss Season VI. She has made some really startling revelations and disclosures. Speaking about it on Saturday, she said, “Bigg Boss offered me big bucks to fake a relationship or love affair with a married man on the show. Further, I was asked to flirt with Rajeev Paul whose ex-wife Delnaz is also on the show. I was told that I would be paid a huge sum of money, if I could initially flirt with Rajeev Paul causing fights or discord in the house. Later on, I would have to try and bring the estranged couple together and get them to sort of kiss and make up on the show – even if it was temporarily. It would have been my task to get Rajeev Paul and his ex-wife Delnaz to reconcile their differences and maybe even consider a re-marriage. Rajeev Paul and Delnaz are divorced after a long, bitter fight, so the question of bringing them together seems very remote. I found it a very stupid suggestion. I know that reality shows are partly scripted, but this suggestion coming from a senior Endemol executive – Endemol owns the IPR to the Bigg Boss format – even before I could sign the contract or a confidentiality agreement was really perverse.” Sushant, an Endemol executive kept calling and messaging me several times almost begging me to join the show, Kavita revealed , adding that she was given to understand that Sushant was a very senior executive from the Endemol creative team.
Kavita Radheshaym also hinted that a senior Endemol executive had tried to act fresh with her and even suggested the casting couch if she wanted more money.
Hitting out at Bigg Boss, Kavita Radheshyam while speaking about her interview , “None of the former Bigg Boss participants or inmates have made it big in Bollywood. If one checks out the current resumes of the participants of the last 5 seasons, it is very evident that almost none of the participants have really gone far. Forget about the participants, even the winners have not made any quantum leaps in their filmi career. Kashmera Shah, Shweta Tiwari and some others were anyway working in the industry before they entered the Bigg Boss house. But those who were not doing much are still struggling where they are. To name a few – German model Claudia Ciesla who was linked with Salman Khan and entered the Bigg Boss house amid much fanfare hasn’t gone far in the last 3 years. Similarly, Ashutosh – the winner of the second season or Season 2 is not doing much. Anupama Verma, Aryan Vaid, Payal Rohatgi, Ashutosh, Raja Chaudhary, Rohit Verma and several others may be doing some work, but their career has not got a kick start with Bigg Boss. In fact, many former participants have sunk to lower levels in terms of a film or modeling career after their stints with Bigg Boss. The reasons for this is quite simple. A candidate who goes into Bigg Boss gets a false air or sense of superiority and hikes his or her professional fees several times over. After the initial hullabaloo and publicity has died down, event organizers, producers and TV channels do not want to touch the former participants with their inflated egos and hiked rates and drop them like hot potatoes. They try to tap the latest Reality Show participants. As a result many of them are actually out of work. By the time the reality of the Reality Show business strikes in, it’s too late for the candidate who has over-priced himself or herself and is out of the reckoning for most production houses and event companies. I would consider Bigg Boss a dent on one’s film career instead of a boost,” Kavita Radheshyam told Newz88.
While people from media fraternity tried to contact the concerned officials for their comments and viewpoint, including Deepak Dhar, Managing Director of Endemol India but they were unavailable for comment.