Nani announced in weekend episode that Nutan Naidu and Syamala would be reentering into the house as audience voted big for them. But they didn’t join the house until Thursday’s episode. Finally when they entered in thursday’s episode, housemates were surprised, confused and became emotional.

Surprise entries:

Bigg boss asked housemates to choose envelops that has some number written inside it. Whatever number they found inside the envelope, they got a gift box that has same number written on it. Roll Rida and Ganesh got envelops that had stars and Bigg boss asked them to go and check for their respective gifts in the store room and confession room. While Ganesh found Nutan Naidu in store room, Roll Rida found Syamala in confession room. They were surprised to see their mates back in house.

Housemates got emotional:

Roll Rida was the one to find Syamala in the confession room first. He got very emotional, hugged her and in fact cried. Roll Rida thanked Bigg boss and said it is the biggest gift for him as he missed “Syamala akka (sister)” a lot. Ganesh who found Nutan went blank as took time “to process what he has seen”. But Amit saw Nutan and expressed his happiness and excitement to see their ex-housemate back in house. All the housemates hugged and cheered Nutan and Syamala.

Then started struggle:

After housemates found them inside the house, they were surprised first, they were emotional & happy next but they still had doubts whether they came back to house permanently or they came back just for a day or two as guests. Roll Rida and Nandini were first to start analysis on the impact of their reentry into the house. Tanish, Babu Gogineni, Amit and deepthi sunaina were seen starting another thread and they were analyzing whether these two came temporarily for captaincy task or they will stay only for 1 day or or they will stay only for this week. Tanish opined Nutan has that stature and deserves comeback as he impacted the house positively when he was there.

Syamala ‘s dialogue from Attarintiki Daredi:

After suitcases of Nutan and Syamala arrived, housemates understood that they are here to stay. Syamala asked Amit to bring their suitcases from store into house, remember Amit was one who helped and carried each and every contestant’s suitcase into house. Both thanked audience for voting them. Then Syamala told Brahmanandam’s dialogue from Attarintiki Daredi – “Nannu gentesina manushulu, “. But the dialogue was not in good taste and did not suit the situation, especially after all housemates gave her a warm welcome.

Pooja is the new captain:

Pooja Ramachandran, who entered the house last week became captain of the house. Even though she is finding it difficult in speaking fluent Telugu, she showed her braveness and sportsmanship during the “pirates and survivors” task and housemates (almost) unanimously opined that she was the best performer in that task.

We will have to wait and see how her captaincy would be and how the dynamics of the game change after the reentry of Nutan and Syamala.

-ZURAN (@CriticZuran)

Bigg Boss Telugu season started more than 50 days back with 16 housemates. However with recent re-entry of Nutan Naidu and Shyamala into the house and wild card entries like Nandini and Pooja, now after 50 days of the show, there are still 14 contestants in the house. By seeing this numbers, speculations started whether there will be “double dhamaka” this weekend with two contestants leaving the house.

5 contestants nominated for eviction this week.

• Babu gogineni
• Deepthi nallamothu
• Kaushal
• Nandini
• Ganesh

Nomination process:

During nominations of this week Bigg Boss played a small trick. Bigg Boss asked contestants to choose their own rankings in the house. As there were 12 contestants in the house at that time (Nutan Naidu and Shyamala did not join the house yet), contestants have to choose a rank for themselves among 12 ranks.

Once they chose their rankings, Bigg Boss told whoever ranked themselves poor are directly nominated for eviction. So whoever ranked themselves from the ranks between 7 and 12 are nominated for eviction. But Geetha Madhuri, captain of the house, and Pooja, the latest wild card entry into the house, were given exception by Bigg Boss.

Deepthi dragged Kaushal into nominations:

Kaushal ranked himself at third place and Deepthi Nallamothu also ranked herself at third place. As both were standing at same place, and couldn’t reconcile themselves even after Bigg Boss’s request, he nominated both of them for eviction. To be frank Deepthi nallamothu unnecessarily dragged Kaushal into nomination this week. She initially chose 10 th rank but later changed her mind and came to 3rd rank, the place where Kaushal is standing, and stood beside him. Kaushal even asked why you are sharing the same rank as mine. But both of them got nominated for eviction.

Other housemates cheering for Kaushal’s nomination:

Later other housemates were seen cheering and laughing out loud as Deepthi pulled Kaushal into nomination Because had she stayed at her original ranking , only she would have been in nomination but by changing her decision she pulled Kaushal also into nomination.

Who are not really in danger zone :

Now among the five, who are nominated Kaushal is at better position because he initially chose third rank for himself but got nominated because of others (Deepthi’s) decision. Because of all this, he got sympathy of audience. Going by the same logic, Deepti is at bad position because she not only dragged Kaushal into nomination but she also seen enjoying dragging Kaushal into nomination. Ganesh is also in better position, not because of his talent but others who got nominated are in more dangerous position than him. But his passiveness will take a toll on him in future, if not now.

Who are in danger zone:

Deepthi Nallamothu, Babu gogineni and Nandini are in dangerous position. Deepthi’s dillydallying during the task of choosing rank put her in danger zone. Babu gogineni’s recent outbursts and his arguments regarding Rajamouli topic, all put him in danger zone(https://www.telugu360.com/bigg-boss-tidbits-rajamoulis-atheism-was-central-topic-in-show-this-week/). Nandini has been passive since beginning. She couldn’t leave her mark in most of the episodes except the one task of movie making. So, media and social media predicting one of these three or maybe two of these three will get evicted this weekend.

But Big Boss show caption is “Anything can happen” So we can’t really predict what happens in Big Boss. But as per audience reaction at this moment and by observing possibility of double Dhamaka, 2 out of these 3 may get evicted this weekend. We will have to wait and see who is going to leave the house this weekend.

ZURAN (@CriticZuran)

Bigg Boss is highly successful reality show program in India. As everyone knows , in this show, a diverse group of contestants will live together in a custom-built home under constant surveillance for a few weeks.  Audience can vote for their favourite contestants so that they can continue in the house, avoid eviction and finally become winner.

What is dedicated PRs?

When the makers say audience will decide the fate of housemates, it is generally assumed that, voting is done by audience based on housemates behaviour and genuinely based on their performance. But what happens if there is a dedicated team for some of the contestants to influence the votes polled to the contestants ?

Usually film personalities will have Public relations managers who manage press and other media on behalf of their bosses. There has been wide debate, especially among audience of Bigg boss Hindi show that there are dedicated PRs for bigg boss contestants too. There are two types of dedicated PRs – First one is paid PRs and second is dedicated fan teams.

Does paid PRs exist?

Kishwer Merchant Rai , contestant of Bigg Boss 9, some time back revealed that she too had a publicist to handle her social media and several other contestants had similar publicity managers. She also told that, she was evicted from the house only because of some managers of other contestants manipulating social media against her. There are several instances like this.

Bigg Boss-1 Telugu and dedicated PRs

It would be unfair to make any conclusive statements on the contestants of Telugu Bigg Boss without evidence. Nonetheless, we can discuss the rumors. In season-1, when Adarsh stood at 2nd place, surpassing Navdeep, Archana and Hariteja in the grand finale, many people were surprised. Of course Adarsh played well, stayed composed during the show. But Navdeep added lot of value to the show with his cheerful and brave attitude, Archana was a heroine and had good fan following and Hariteja became extremely popular after her ‘burra katha’ episode in the house. Yet, Adarsh stood at 2nd place and that spurred several rumours about Adarsh’s family having a dedicated team to vote for him(professional team that handles several mobile numbers ) and influence voting pattern in the social media. Adarsh, coming from well-off family and having ability to maintain dedicated and paid PR also added to the rumours

Bigg Boss-2 Telugu and Kaushal army

Kaushal is one of the contestants of Bigg Boss-2 and most of the housemates do not gel well with him. (https://www.telugu360.com/bigg-boss-tidbits-housemates-showed-their-anger-on-kaushal-during-nominations/). Despite most of the housemates nominating him again and again, he is escaping eviction every week and also becoming strong week by week. All this credit goes to Kaushal army, a group in social media that became popular  and is dedicated to support Kaushal and continuously troll other housemates whoever fights with Kaushal in the house. The volume of trolls and memes generated in favour of Kaushal is huge compared to others and we can clearly see the dedicated work of this Kaushal army.

Again, it is incorrect to call Kaushal army is run by dedicated and paid PRs. But one thing is sure that Kaushal army was able to show it’s power on whoever fought with Kaushal got evicted from the house – be it Kireeti or Bhanu sree or Tejaswi. After Nutan Naidu and Syamala re-entering into house, some analysts pointed out that Kaushal army voted hugely for Nutan Naidu and Syamala to make sure Tejaswi or Bhanu Sree (who are strong candidates and also against Kaushal) do not re-enter the house. Kaushal definitely has followers now because of his “fight alone, fight till the end” attitude but the pattern of influencing social media by this group gives enough doubts also. Even if it is “partially orchestrated”, it proves that Kaushal understood the tactics of this show and one can expect him to be in final list.

How does this affect the show:

If a dedicated team continuously vote for one person when he is in nomination, he will always avoid eviction. When he is not in nominated list, if the same team carefully watches other strong candidates and tries to evict those strong candidates, definitely it changes the dynamics of the show. Probably this is the reason some twitterati tweeted in frustration, to STAR MAA – “just give the title to Kaushal and close the show and save time of audience” . If performance of housemates is not considered for eviction and a group (whether paid or blinded by adulation) tries to change the outcomes of voting, definitely it will make the game less enjoyable for general audience and it may even damage the reputation of the show.

Hope makers of Bigg boss, who have handled several episodes, several seasons, and several languages so far take care of this and ensure “undiluted” entertainment.

-ZURAN (@CriticZuran)

Big Boss show is running on quite unexpected lines. After Tejaswi got evicted from the house last week unexpectedly, star Maa announced that one of the housemates who got evicted earlier from the house will be reentering the house but audience will decide whom to bring back with their voting. Also one more twist is that this week there will be no eviction from the house.

There has been lot of curiosity on who will be re-entering the house. Also Nani announced that there is huge voting from audience this week as several of them voted for their favorite contestant. As per the inside sources it is not one candidate but both Nutan Naidu and Shyamala will be re-entering the house today.

It will be interesting to see how the show turns after these two enter the house especially as Nutan Naidu was supporting Kaushal earlier when Samrat, Tanish and Tejaswi were fighting with Kaushal. Also, almost all housemates are now against Kaushal. We will have to wait and see how the show turns after this re-entry episode.

Bigg boss show turned the tide and improved from low ratings couple of weeks back to terrific ratings for recent week. The show improved tremendously in last 2 weeks as there were surprises in last 2 weeks. ( https://www.telugu360.com/bigg-boss-telugu-2-redeems-its-trps-and-maa-tv-gains-huge/ ). Not only the tasks and happenings in the show but also the guests entering the house are entertaining audience. Anchor Pradeep’s entry into the house surprised audience and his episodes were huge hit. Now another entry into the house, as per reprots, is Shiva Balaji, the title winner of Bigg boss season-1.

There were some rumors that Shiva Balaji will be joining the house as a wild card entry. However, possibility of him entering as wild card is less because, he was already title winner in season-1 and why he would want to participate again as contestant. At this moment, makers want to plan something different than usual guest entry for Shiv Balaji into Biggboss house

Even though there is no clarity on whether he will be just guest into the show or makers are planning something bigger than that, but it is almost certain that Shiva Balaji will be soon seen in the Bigg boss house.

It is very common that movie makers promote their movies before release on the most popular shows of the small screen. Be it “ Comedy Nights with Kapil”, or “ Jabardasth” are “Big boss” all the shows have entertained star heroes heroines and filmmakers to come to the show and promote their movie. This is a win win situation for both of them because the TV show will get better TRP ratings and movie will be promoted to the fans of those shows. now there has been discussion whether Big Boss 2 Telugu is ‘ sentimentally’ not good for promoting movies.

In Bigg Boss 2, so far movies like “ Jambalakidi Pamba” and “ Tej I love you” have been promoted and both the movies became disaster. As film industry is full of sentiments, the makers of upcoming movies are hesitating to promote their movies in this show, say some gossip mongers. Also, they are comparing Big Boss 1 and Big Boss 2 on these lines and saying Bigg Boss 1 was lucky for the makers who promoted their movies through that show.

However, needless to say, this argument doesn’t hold water. Below is the list of movies that were promoted so far in Bigg Boss Season 1 and season 2 along with their results.

Movies promoted during Bigg Boss season 1 and their results:

Nene Raju Nene Mantri – profit venture

Arjun Reddy – blockbuster

Ungarala Rambabu- disaster

Veedevadu ( Sachin Joshi movie) – disaster

Meda meeda abbayi – disaster

Anando Brahma – Hit

Jai Lava Kusa – Hit

Movies promoted during Bigg Boss season 2 and their results:

Jambalakidi Pamba – flop

Tej I love you- flop

W/o Ram – flop

So, in Bigg Boss season 1 also, out of movies promoted, 3 were disasters, 1 blockbuster and 3 profit ventures. Anyway, whether promoting in a particular show will not make a movie hit or flop but it is the content of the movie that decides the fate of the movie

Bigg Boss Pooja Ramachandran

Bigg Boss Pooja Ramachandran

Pooja Ramachandran is new entry into Bigg boss House. She joined the show in celebrity category after Tejaswi was evicted from the house. Recently we have discussed about the need of wild card entry onto the house (https://www.telugu360.com/bigg-boss-telugu-2-needs-wild-card/). Pooja entered into the house in yesterday’s episode. She entered late night while all the contestants are sleeping.

Pooja Ramachandran is known to Telugu audience thorugh her roles in films like “Swamy Ra Ra” and Krishnarjuna Yudham. Before becoming actress, she was Video Jockey and model. She was ‘Miss Coimbatore in 2004’ was the runner up for Miss Kerala 2005. She is a malayali from Tamilnadu, but born and raised in Bangalore. She acted in Tamil TV serials. She had huge following as a VJ at SS Music channel. So far, she acted in more than 20 movies but only couple of roles registered well with audience.

After Nandini, she is second wild card into the Bigg boss season 2 Telugu.

About Bigg Boss Show:

Bigg Boss 2 is telecasting from 10 June 2018 on STAR MAA. Bigg Boss Telugu opening season was hosted by Jr NTR , it was the highest rated shows on Telugu television history. After the huge success of season 1, the channel started Bigg Boss-2. Natural Star Nani enthralled audience with his hosting skills in the second edition of the marquee program. Total 16 contestants participating in the show and they will spend 100 days ( 70 days in season 1) in the Bigg Boss house

It is known news that, Tejasvi has been evicted from the house in recent episode. So far, 6 members have been evicted from the house. Sanjana, Nutan Naidu ,Kiriti, Shyamala, Bhanushree and Tejaswi. However in a rather surprising move, Bigg Boss makers gave an opportunity to audience to bring back one of these members into house. Latest announcement from Bigg Boss show is that audience will now have an opportunity to bring back one of these housemates into house. Audience can vote for their favourite housemate and whoever gets more votes will be back into the house.

Those who observed this announcement were surprised and suspecting whether this move is only to bring back Tejasvi into house. There was no precedent like this in the show where evicted contestant came back into house, even though there were some surprises like evicted contestant was not sent out of Bigg Boss house but was kept in a secret room and later the contestant joined other housemates. But this is first time Bigg Boss makers are trying to bring back evicted candidate into the house again.

This will actually change the dynamics of the game because those who were evicted might have already seen all the previous episodes including the unseen videos. So they will have a better understanding of the show as well as the housemates now. So if they enter house second time obviously their game will be better.

We will have to wait and see who will come back into the house.

Bigg boss show gave surprise in last 2 weeks evicting Bhanu Sree and Tejaswi who were initially thought to be “finalist” contestants got evicted before 7 weeks. As Monday is nomination day, each housemate is asked to nominate 2 members for eviction this week. Surprisingly most of the housemates nominated Kaushal this week. While 10 members are there in the house currently, he got total 6 nominations.

There has been subtle argument among housemates as well as social media that whoever fight with Kaushal will get evicted in next episode. It all started with Kireeti, who got evicted from the house after he tried to squeeze lemon in Kaushal’s eyes in one episode (https://www.telugu360.com/as-expected-kireeti-is-evicted-from-bigg-boss-2-telugu-this-week/). Later, Bhanu Sree slammed Kaushal after he inappropriately touched her, though inadevrtantly, during a task. (https://www.telugu360.com/bigg-boss-2-shocking-episode-bhanu-slams-kaushal-for-inappropriately-touching-her/)That episode shocked many, but later Bhanu Sree got evicted from the house. Latest eviction is Tejaswi, who also was against Kaushal during Bhanu sree episode. So there has been an argument that whoever fights with him are getting evicted next. Actually, when anchor Pradeep was in house, Tanish gave this comment, albeit in lighter-vein. But later housemates, including Kaushal started believing this.

Obviously this made other housemates angry on Kaushal and the same was reflected during nominations. Most of the housemates, while nominating passed negative comments on Kaushal, especially about his selfishness. But Kaushal strongly defended himself and made a practical statement that – “I am here to play the game , not to make relations or friends, and yes, I am focused and ambitious”. However, for some it may look selfishness and greediness. We will have to wait and see who will get evicted this week.

Bigg boss shocks continue. Tejaswi got evicted this week from the house. When she entered into the house, many thought she was finalist candidate but she had to exit this week while all the housemates were into tears. As of today, only Samrat and Tejaswi are in the list of nominations and audience were curious to see who will get evicted this week. Moreover, as both developed a special bond during the earlier episodes, no matter who gets evicted, they will be separated in the house. As reported earlier, before the telecast of the episode, social media is agog with the rumor that Tejaswi will be eliminated this week, which now became true.( https://www.telugu360.com/biggbossleaks-continue-tejaswi-out-this-week/ )

Manchu Lakshmi entered into house today as part of her promotions of her recent movie “Wife of Ram”.Bigg boss housemate Samrat also acted in the movie as her husband. After Nani’s request, Manchu Lakshmi announced eviction this week. As soon as Manchu Lakshmi announced it’s Tejaswi, who is getting evicted from house this week, Samrat is seen with tears in his eyes and through out episode, he was very emotional.

Nani also fired on social media (yet again) today for people trolling Tejaswi in abusive language on the net. He questioned those netizens, why so much hatred on Tejaswi. But after eviction, Tejaswi told she is happy because the game she expected is quite different from actual reality and she told it is not sufficient to ‘be myself’ in the house.

Anyway, with Tejaswi’s eviction, the most cheerful candidate in the house left the house today. We will have to wait and see how the show turns in coming episodes.

BiggBoss season-2 Telugu has been facing issues of information leaking. Earlier we have seen how the information leaking beforehand is killig suspense of the show (https://www.telugu360.com/bigg-boss-leaks-in-telugu-season-2/). Now, this week, it seems Tejaswi is eliminated.

The episode of Sunday was shot yesterday. After her eviction from the house, one of the audience took selfie with her and posted it in internet and the pic went viral immediately. With this, no suspense in the episode now as everyone now knows who will be evicted this week.

Earlier, last week also exactly same thing happened as one of the audience took a selfie with Bhanu Sree after her eviction and posted it in the internet and almost by Sunday afternoon everyone knew that she is the one who will be evicted that day. Syamala’s eviction also leaked as she herself tweeted before the episode got telecast. Couple of days back there was another leak in which votes polled for nominated candidates were revealed and as per that votes polled for Samrat were very less.

Season 1 was shot in Pune and so there were no leakage of info like this. However, as shooting is happening in Hyderabad now, this kind of things are happening and it is high time makers of the show need to focus on these #Bigboss leaks.

Anchor Pradeep Machiraju surprised housemates as well as audience today by appearing in Bigg boss house. Pradeep entered into house with a suit case that is typical with all bigg boss housemates. There have been rumors on possible wild card entry into the house among housemates as well as audience. So housemates assumed Pradeep as wild card and were in sweet surprise.

All the housemates gave a warm welcome to him and couldn’t hide their surprise. Housemates like Deepthi Sunaina were excited so much and she was staring at Pradeep throughout the episode and kept on telling other housemates like Babu Gogineni “I love him (Pradeep)”. As usual, Pradeep cheered the housemates in his own style. He asked Tejaswi “Inkenti sangatulu” reminding the way Nani teased her in earlier episodes ( https://www.telugu360.com/biggboss-tidbits-nanis-teasing-of-samrat-and-tejaswi-evoked-laughs/ ). As usual, his spontaneity enthralled audience as well as housemates.

Some of the housemates still had doubts whether he came as guest or really wild card entry and went to check his suit case. They found it was dummy and understood Pradeep is not a wild card entry but just a guest and put him in jail. Later, they all watched the movie they made yesterday as part of luxury task.

Finally he announced about his next show, “Pelli choopulu” that will be telecast in STAR MAA after completion of Bigg boss show. This will be “Swayamvar” program in which prospective brides will interact with Pradeep. Similar programs were made on Indian TV earlier , like rakhi ka swayamvar (with Rakhi Sawant) and very recent “Enga Veetu Mapillai” in Tamil with Tamil hero Arya (Varudu and Nene Ambani fame). All these programs created many controversies as well as huge TRPs.

We will have to wait and see how Pradeep’s “Pelli Choopulu” will be.

Bigg boss show runs on suspense factor. Thats the reason they dont announce the names of contestants who will join the show, who will be wild cards entries and when will be wild card entry etc. But recently, it seems, there have been incidents of news leaking before the show is telecast and so it is killing suspense factor. Recent “leak” of some inside news in social media surprising the audience.

Initially, before the first episode itself social media widely reported probable contestants and the list almost matched final list. However, this was ok because the show not yet started and it only shows how curious are audience about the show. But later, the leakage of news in past 3 weeks, really spoiling the suspense factor.

Couple of weeks back, Syamala’s eviction was leaked one day before and immediately it became viral because it was reported not only in social media but also in online versions of Sakshi and Andhra jyothy papers. It is known news that there will be just one day lag between the shoot and show telecast. As Syamala’s eviction was done on Saturday (shooting), she tweeted, “Back to home and playing with Ishan (her son)”. This tweet went viral and within a few minutes, she deleted the tweet but people already saved and shared the screenshots.

Bhanu Sree’s elimination also was leaked 6 to 7 hours before the show was telecast. Once she got evicted from the bigg boss house, she share stage with Nani and spoke a few words about the housemates. After the shoot, one of the audience (probably unit member f bigg bos) took a selfie with her and the photo circulated in social media widely. In the twitter handle of STAR MAA itself, someone posted that photo in the comments and so whoever follow STAR MAA twitter handle knew the evicted contestant before the start of the show.

Now the latest “leak” doing rounds in social media is about Samrat. As per that leak, the votes polled for Samrat till date are so less compared to others who are nominated – Deepthi, Tejaswi, Roll Rida, Tanish etc. The leaked image contains the graph showing votes polled for nominated contestants and the names of cameramen who are in shifts this week . The leaked doc looked like some assignment passed to one of Bigg boss unit members. However, netizens also expressed doubt whether Bigg boss unit members intentionally leaked this so that, Samrat will get more votes and avoid eviction.

We will come to know whether this is true or not by this weekend. But anyway, these kind of leakages spoil the show and it is high time Bigg boss makers need to take care fixing these leakages.

-ZURAN