A mere entertainment reality show that challenges its contestants to live in a house for 100 days without any sort of communication with the outside world. Hence, there is no television, no mobile, no newspaper which makes you forcefully communicate with the others in the house. A contestant gets eliminated every week and things take shape accordingly sans that person.
The motive of the show was ideally to allow its contestants to socialize among each other and live in a society that was formed. However, whatever is happening within the House is something that is what this society outside is being exposed to. There are harassers – mostly the ones that disturb an individual’s mind and the double minded individuals that make it hard for everyone to live.
Gayathri, Namitha, Shakthi and Snehan are all a part of the bully group. As discussed in the previous article, the character trait of Gayathri and Namitha are dominating, bullying and this will go to any verbal extent to shape other contestants to their liking. They are these bullying senior kids at school who just exist to make their fellow classmates and their juniors’ life miserable. While Raiza, Sakthi, and Snehan are these other kids that just stand behind them and laugh at whatever they do because they do not want to get into any trouble.
Julie was initially the primary target of this bully gang where they brought to notice every thing she said and did. However, Julie is extremely weak and absolutely low on her self-esteem and decided to just abide by whatever they say and gave in to it. She decided to rather give in to it and let it suck her in. It completely changed her character after she decided to satisfy bully Gayathri and her gang. She failed to see the only person that decided to console her when everyone was against her.
She instead, to satisfy Gayathri, went against Bharani whom she called her “brother” once and Oviya who was by her side no matter what. That reflected as double standards to the audience. But have you wondered about something? When Julie gets out of this house, she will be perplexed trying to figure who she is and that will make her already low self-esteem lower.
The only way to deal with bullying should be learned from Oviya. The bully gang in yesterday’s episode made her sleepless and restless by singing songs directed towards her. She immediately got up and make a complaint to captain Sakthi. While the other mates advised her to sleep off here in an extra bed, she said, “Why should I? I prefer sleeping in my place and it’s them who have to shut up.”
That’s the kind of way to deal with bullies. You confront them, you talk to the world about them, shame their ideologies (note: not them. Remember what Oviya told Gayathri? “I don’t want your reputation to die because of me).
Julie has now shaped her character to be worse than Gayathri, she is dishonest, bullies Oviya along with the others, lies about her to others in order to gain a good name. The last episode saw Oviya shun the disloyal Julie the right way!
Bullying is a serious mistake, folks. It deeply affects an individual who is already not confident about oneself. If you are being bullied, confront them, tell them they are wrong and tell them they are making the people and the surroundings around them miserable. Talking helps, confrontation helps.
If you are the one witnessing bullying like Ganesh and Aarav did, make sure you are Aarav to support the victim at least some way and not be Ganesh to just stay ignorant about the entire situation.
Bigg Boss is a mere entertainer, yes. However, this grouping against a person is wrong and especially bullying is worse and it just taught us through Julie how not to deal with bullying and through Oviya how to shut bullies down the right way!