It’s been 25 days since Bigg Boss Tamil hit the screens and ever since my social media feeds have been filled with various opinions from almost every friend of mine and their friends as well. Honestly agreeing, I have also been binge watching the show initially for Kamal and now for Oviya. This initially began as a craving for entertainment for me. However, I started to develop some sort of mixed emotions watching this every day.
I reminded myself that this is just entertainment and there are chances of this entire reality show being staged too. However, every individual’s character disturbed me on another level. Now, let’s stop looking at Bigg Boss as a reality television show and look at it as the society. A society that has different characters that keep judging each other due to their own personal low- self-confidence about themselves or over confidence.
A character like Gayathri that is bossy, has an over-the-limits superiority complex, wants to dominate everyone because she considers herself to be the most honest, righteous and overconfident about her being. Gayathri can never empathize with people around her but herself.
She annoys her mates, makes them feel horrible about themselves until they agree to what she says and makes them bow down to her. There hasn’t been a day where Gayathri has spoken high of someone. She is confined to a group that listens to whatever she says and supports her in every aspect.
A character like Raiza that cannot stand up for herself or others. She can only agree with everyone’s opinion and call it “true”. She is dishonest not just to the first friend (Oviya) but also to herself. Raiza has a partial character trait of Julie as well but speaks out the truth at very occasionally rare times.
Raiza isn’t loyal to other nor to herself. She is selfish, sometimes funny which is helpful and mostly gossiping that gets her into trouble.
A character like Namitha that again has a partial character trait of Gayathri when it comes to dominating every individual and expect them to match up to her level of liking. However, she is someone who doesn’t follow what she preaches. She is careless, sympathizes only with herself and doesn’t want to listen to others.
But what’s nice about her is that if she doesn’t like a person she tells them on their face and is very straight-forward about her opinions related to her most of the times.
Lastly, a character trait like Julie’s is the most harmful of them all. Julie has this saddening level of inferiority complex that is a lot more than what any human being usually has. Her trying to fit into Gayathri’s group despite being stamped upon and insulted time and again just shows the amount of low self-esteem she holds within. She isn’t happy with herself and doesn’t love herself which is the issue with most today in the society.
Julie cannot be happy being alone like Oviya. It’s not about winning for her, it’s about trying to adapt the character of Gayathri. She feels confident if she dominates or insult someone and the only person she could do that to is Oviya. In yesterday’s episode, Oviya was the only one that consoled Julie and allowed her to talk what she feels like. However, once she moves away from her, Julie demeans Oviya once again trying to satisfy Gayathri’s unbelievable ego.
Julie’s character trait hence consists being cunning, has double standards, absolutely unfaithful, plays the victim card, disloyal, dishonest and most of all completely low on self-confidence.
This is exactly why the audience love Oviya. They could relate to her nature, her trait, her honesty. They yearn for friends like her character and could even use some of the brilliant practical advises she provides.
The character traits of Julie, Gayathri, Namitha, and Raiza represent those in the society that aren’t happy with themselves and create rules that don’t allow the individuals in it to live as they please. If these individuals follow a different path or are different from them, they brand them, name them and keep them away (Bharani for example). Surprisingly, our society is doing just the same – it keeps away those who are different or try something different in life.
While many are like Bharani who give in to the pressure of the society and lose the essence of their life, many like Oviya, no matter what, prefer to keep away and still work towards progress.
Oviya represents those individuals that are fighting against those people in the society to provide its future generation a good platform to bloom, cherish and be successful.