Originally posted by: Snowfally
I think Shiv is an alert player. He picks up on hints given in Shekhar S. show and I believe he did get a lot of feedback from Golden Boys and modifies his game accordingly. Plus, he also sees who gets praised / bashed on WKV.
Rest mandli seem to be quite complacent. I wouldn't blame Abdu here as every promotional guest on WKV also praises him. That guy keeps hearing variations of India loves you, so cute, etc.
About Shiv. I have been extremely critical of him because of all the chaploosi he does of Sajid. Its irritating to see someone literally put another contestant and that too someone like Sajid on a pedestal and support him on every matter blindly and because the power has been concentrated in that mandali camp for a long time now, its made complacent, bullies to some extent, very obnoxious and over confident..Maybe if the power was reshuffled every week so that it didn't stay in one group or camp consistently, people wouldn't have been so mad at Shiv and company including me.. Because from game point of view, what I now feel is that Shiv's association with Sajid is a strategic move for the game and not so he can get work outside which many people have speculated.. I don't think anyone can be so foolish that they would ruin something they have in hand for something that they are not even sure about. Now in BB house, every contestant has a game plan or strategy to survive and team play is a big part of it.. Now Shiv knows he has no love angles in the house that can help him get visibility like PriyAnkit, ShaTina or Gautam Saundarya when the game started. Nimrit is committed and seems to be clear on that front from day 1 that she wouldn't get into all that messy business and Archana is ..well she is Archana. I guess that's why he chose to stick to Sajid from day1 and has been blindly loyal to him since then..Ofcourse the extreme lengths to which he has gone to stand by Sajid and Abdu/Stan has been very annoying at times but from his POV he has done everything, from exposing Archana, getting her almost evicted, taken on Priyanka, Shalin, Tina..all the strong contenders in the house.. Of course he has gone wrong multiple times, like supporting Stan in that big fight and jumping into fights of each and very member of his mandali whether or not they are right.. but that's his survival strategy.. One thing is appreciable though is that unlike the other teams in the house who have bitched about each other or even parted ways at diff points in the game, Shiv has remained loyal to Sajid..Now because majority atleast in DDT hate Sajid, he has been the collateral damage..a lot of times ofcourse for his own faults too.. but overall, as a contestant I think he's strong.
Edited by MistyDawn - 2 years ago