Bigg Boss Tamil-2 was commenced on 17 June 2018 with Kamal Hassan as host. Like Telugu Bigg boss season-1, Tamil Bigg boss also was a stupendous hit. Especially girls like Oviya became super sensation after the show. Now the second season of Bigg boss Tamil also started and it seems, Tamil Bigg boss has better list of contestants compared to Telugu (“Better” in terms of being known to audience before entering Bigg boss house).
At least 10 to 11 of these contestants are known well to Tamil audience even before they joined Bigg boss house. While in Telugu, not even half of the audience known well to Telugu audience. Bhanu Sri, Roll Rida, Kaushal, Deepthi Sunaina, Ganesh, Sanjana, Nandini and Nutan are all not known to Telugu audience and most of the Telugu audience first saw them only on the day-1 of Bigg boss.
Below is the list of Tamil contestants:
- 1. Mumtaj, an actress and dancer – needs no introduction to Tamil or Telugu audience. Telugu audience still remember her dances in Khushi and Attarintiki Daredi.
2. Riythvika – Remember the girl in Super star Rajni’s Kabali whom he calls – you are like my daughter? She got good applause for her role in Kabali.
3. Ponnambalam, many Telugu people too know him. Remember him in the fights of Gharana Mogudu and other Chiranjeevi movies? He is an actor and stunt master and was seen in several movies in 90s.
4. Yashika Aannand, a model and actress, who acted in 5 movies out of which one movie is a good hit (that thriller movie dubbed into Telugu as ’16’) and also known to Tamil people because of several controversies she was involved in earlier.
5. Mahat Raghavendra,is an actor and he acted in more than 10 movies and he acted in movies of star heroes like Vijay (Jilla).
6. Janani Iyer actress who worked in more than 15 movies, including Vishal and Arya starrer ‘Avan Ivan’ (Vaadu veedu in Telugu).
7. Sendrayan, comedian in Tamil films who acted in more than 20 movies. He acted with Dhanush, Simbu and Mammootty in movies.
8. Thadi Balaji, is a comedian in Tamil films, Tamil TV serials and he is known to more people as a judge in Vijay TV’s program.
9. Ramya is playback singer and filmfare award winner. She sang hundreds of songs including “Poovai poovai” song in Dookudu (parvathi melton song).
10. Ananth Vaidyanathan, appeared in Vijay TV’s Super Singer Junior/Senior.
11. Daniel Annie Pope, acted as a comedian in Tamil films. He acted in Vijay Sethupathi’s movie.
12.Vaishnavi, a journalist and radio jockey -not well known personality
13.Mamathi Chari, TV actress, anchor and radio jockey.
14.Nithya Balaji, ex-wife of actor Thadi Balaji, not very well known personality.
15.Shariq Hassan, an actor and athlete – not well known personality.
16.Aishwarya Dutta, an actress who acted in 5 films – not very well known though people recognize her for her role in a critically acclaimed film.
As per Bigg boss format, no big actor or busy actor agrees to stay in the house isolated by leaving all his commitments. So what Bigg boss gets is the artistes who are not very busy. But within the constrains, they can select someone whom people already know and have some interest or they can go for unknown names. It seems Tamil program organizers chose somewhat better contestants. In addition to having around 10-11 contestants who are well known to audience, it also has a comedian and his ex-wife in the house. Also there is very dominating Mumtaj in the house.
We will have to wait and see how Bigg boss Tamil 2 does in upcoming weeks.
