Bigg Boss 11 blog: Why Vikas Gupta's sexuality and Hina Khan's age became a controversy
Safeguarding personal life on the sets of the Bigg Boss house is difficult. It becomes more difficult when the Bigg Boss pits one against another in innovative tasks like it did on Tuesday that triggered discussion over Vikas’s sexuality and Hina’s age.
In BB Lab task, which will continue on Wednesday too, Hina, Hiten, Akash, Priyank became "robots". Their task was to sit like robots, without expressing any emotions, while others - Arshi, Shilpa, Luv, Vikas - would try to make them emotional. Puneesh was monitoring the task. The laboratory staff were asked to make the "robots" angry, sad and happy.
The line between the task and reality got blurred as the housemates became too real to make the opposite side emotional.
Vikas slams Priyank for discussing his sexuality
Although the Bigg Boss house contestants are otherwise hot-headed, the "robots" put up a deadpan face when Vikas and Shilpa tried to irk them. As part of the task, Vikas slammed Priyank for discussing Vikas's sexuality with Hina. He tried hard to make Priyank angry, raking up the issue of his alleged ex-girlfriend Divya, who visited the house recently. He also held him responsible for Benafsha’s eviction. Understanding that he had let many skeletons out of the cupboard, he said, “I am not lying. Whatever I am saying is truth. Who is he to talk about my sexuality? Did he date me?”
Hina hides her age?
The task became an extension of Vikas-Hina fight, which ended abruptly last weekend. Vikas accused Hina of showing fake friendship with Luv and Priyank. Then he said Hina always hides her age. “She does this always. She is 30 years old. But she never tells her actual age. She pretends to be 28, 29.” But it was more than just another awkward moment in the Bigg Boss house as the contestants keep commenting on each others’ age. Shilpa is often referred to as the "40-year-old woman".
Will Shilpa and Arshi become friends?
It seems Arshi has mended her ways and will not be reluctant to extend olive branches towards Shilpa for survival. After last week’s face-off, followed by host Salman Khan’s criticism, Arshi is seen talking nicely with Shilpa. In this task too, as they were in the same team, they exchanged ideas on how to make the “robots” emotional. Making Hina cry was apparently easy, Arshi thought. She started talking about Hina’s boyfriend Rocky Aggarwal, and succeeded.
Making robots smile was easy
Making the “robots” smile was easy. Luv dressed like a girl and everyone started smiling at once. Arshi too made an appearance with a fake baby bump and started blaming Akash and Hiten for that.
But as the preview for the next episode suggests, it won’t be easy for team Hina to make the other team smile today.
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