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Well almost all of you know that I'm die-hard Mandy's fan so you can think that I'm making this thread in her favor but to be very honest right now I'm in neutral critical analysis mood.
I was thinking that how one contestant's company impacted the game of some other contestant. I agree that in the end all contestants are themselves responsible for their game but this is a fact too that when two people are together then either other person's company put some impact on your game or vice versa. I thought about many pairs like Keith-Roch, Priya-Rish, Kish-Suyyash, Prince-SuKish etc. Not going to discuss all of them here. But most of the time benefit of one person in a pair was the loss of the other person.
But when I thought about Mandy's impact on other contestants' game, I realized that this impact was always beneficial for the other person plus Mandy's own game was not impacted at the same time.
I'll start from Keith. When he was tied with Mandy in initial weeks, we saw the best side of his personality. And almost all the fan base he got was due to those days. Mandy did some really annoying fights and arguments with him. Some times Mandy was right, sometimes she was wrong. But the point is Keith was free to express himself. But this is not the case when he was free and did almost same kind of fights with Roch. In the fights or arguments with Roch, his personality was totally diminished. Roch was dominating and he was always seen surrendering and later consoling her. This impacted his game and his image in a negative way.
Then I'll talk about Roch. When Keith was away and she was with Mandy. In those days we saw the most powerful aspects of her personality. That was best phase of her game and she gained huge fan base in those days. Mandy was a crucial part of Roch's screen time. Sometime she took stands for Mandy, sometimes she did arguments with Mandy. But Mandy neither overshadowed her not she let Roch overshadow herself. In those days Roch was fun, confident and outspoken. But since Keith came back, she become an insecure cry baby and that was the downfall of her game and popularity.
Now Rish. I won't say that minus Mandy his game became bad. But yes, with Mandy we saw his best side. His romantic and naughty side. His funny/cool/romantic morning dances. Plus as Mandy is an individual player so she let him play individually too. In contrast, Priya has a very loud and dominating personality. She talk to Rish as if she's his mother or teacher. Though Rish is not submissive but even then his personality somehow become boring and dull in Priya's company. Priya's voice is so loud and she talk that much that when she's talking to someone we only listen to her and that happens in all of Rish-Priya's discussions that she was looking like a teacher and he as a student. With Mandy, he looks equal. I'll also add that his impact on Mandy is also very positive. Mandy looks very happy, joyful, fun and full of life in his company.
Above were the examples of friendly relations but even in rivalry relations Mandy was the best rival in the sense that Kish and Priya did some memorable fights when Mandy was on the other end. During those fights the entire episodes revolves around Kish-Mandy and Piriya-Mandy and we can never say that either Kish or Priya overshadowed by Mandy or Mandy overshadowed by Kish or Priya.
There is something in Mandy that she play and let play the other person who's sharing screen with her. She never dominate or overshadow the other person nor she let the other person dominate or overshadow her. Otherwise in all other parings like Keith-Roch, Priya-Rish, Kish-Suyyash, Prince-SuKish etc benefit of person is the loss of the other person.
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I'm not trying to give all credit to Mandy. We can add many other factors and circumstances in it that played a part in their games as never only one thing is the base of some failure or success, there are always many factors that collectively result in something. My point is just that Mandy never tried to dominate or overshadow the person who's in friendly or rivalry relation with her nor she let that person to dominate or overshadow herself. And that this thing happened in many other pairings.
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