After a long time today Rahul looked like a winner

As Salman has said many times across the seasons, the winner has to be the one who has shown 'all shades' in the house. Sometimes this is used to congratulate winners who had low moments in the show like Gauahar, and sometimes it is used to justify actions of shitty winners (*ahem* Shuka) as being 'real.'

I am not a Rahul fan from any angle lol, but I can't deny - Rahul looked like a winner today.

He showed the following shades:

- empathetic and caring: handling Rakhi's breakdown

- opportunistic and task-minded: casually prompting Rakhi to share more

- open-minded: was determined to tear up the doll but listened to his friend and decided to just hide it

- content generating: superb scenes with arshi designed to capture the cameras out of thin air

- manipulative: sitting with devo and using her to get his 'dil ko chhu gaya' dialogue out to justify it

- attention grabbing: rubinav were both pretty much obsessed with how he was doing the task instead of focusing on how they were doing today (which is quite rare for them, esp abhinav)

Rahul has been so problematic this season that his chances of winning are next to none for me. I definitely see him in the top 2 with Rubina though, based on how the show is going. Plus he did leave the show at one point, so according to history, BB is hesitant to make wildcards/returnees winners. Still, I must begrudgingly admit he really looked like a winner today...

Yeah from the initial weeks I have observed he's always involved in the house and plays tasks actively while at the same time, has maintained equations with everyone in the house. Even today majority of focus was on him and Rakhi as they were very skillfully managing to garner footage to their areas through different instances. In a game like BB it's really important to show involvement in the house and the house affairs which he rightly has shown.

For a fact, I know BB has never made contestants who have re-entered the show as winners, but he's indeed secured a place in the finale coz of his game in the house which is commendable!!

I am hoping he will win because his case is not like re-entries that happened in previous seasons. He was allowed to leave voluntarily and the show clarified two or three times that he was actually safe and would not have been eliminated. In all other cases, re-entering contestants were actually evicted by votes or ejected for breaking rules. This is the sole reason I am hoping he will be the first to break the tradition. Also, Gauhar won after leaving voluntarily although it was just one or two days.

but he is not going to WIN

He seriously needs to stay away from aly😛

Aly is playing a very sly game...earlier it was subtle but now it has become more and more obvious how he is being a shaani double dholki😆

If he wins, it will be a nail in the coffins of BB.

I used to never like him, but this week he looked very positive 👍🏼 👏