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One of the things I detest about the Bigg Boss series is its penchant for returning time and again to the master-servant theme for the tasks it assigns.
I have always found such tasks offensive, reeking of the remnants of colonialism. This week's Hotel task could have remained a battle of wits between simulated guests and staff of a fictional hotel, but swiftly became another installment on the same elitist master-servant line of thought, fueled by the materials and directions Bigg Boss himself sent over to them with the concept of Khwahishein and symbolic dog-bones.
The participants' creativity could have been better tested had the task remained true to the Hotel paradigm (where the services should only have included fulfilling requests for food, laundry, housekeeping and reasonable luxuries like massages, etc.), but as it happened, it became basically another series of provocative endurance tests where the 'guests' treated the 'hosts' not as the staff of a hotel, but as their personal slaves, leashed pets or worse.
It was not only unrelated to the theme of the task (which seven star hotel even considers such requests?), but also unpleasantly classist.
I hope the creatives don't repeat the theme ever again.
Anupamaa
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