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Veena takes up the responsibility of preparing the breakfast on day 4. She is busy preparing eggs for the housemates.

Hrishant is unhappy with excess oil in the breakfast and passes nasty comments across the table criticizing Veena’s cooking. Post breakfast, Veena has a confrontation with Hrishant and admitted to the fact that he should have told her if he had complaints with her food. Hrishant’s nasty comments and ca

Sakshi too gets emotional as she is accused of not doing household work by Hrishant and Ashmit. While Sakshi defends herself and thinks she has been contributing enough!

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MUMBAI: The third episode of “Bigg Boss 4” was for Ali Saleem to finally get his 15 minutes of fame on the show. After being instructed by ‘Big Boss’ to change his Begum Nawazish Ali avatar and interview house mates, Saleem hurried off to prepare.

The actor’s transformation into the begum was quite a sight to watch, as he got into his sari, shaved, applied copious amounts of make-up and did his hair. As reformed bandit Seema Parihar sniggered silently, Saleem’s housemates helped him change into a sari. But as Begum Nawazish Ali – without a script or prepared questions – he didn’t make much of an impact. While it is understandable that he is used to a great deal of preparation before interviews, the questions he asked were fairly average. “Na koi pen diya, na paper diya, script hota hai, cue card hote hain,” was Saleem’s comment about his performance as a host.

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City police yesterday rounded up about 25 Shiv Sainiks for staging a protest in front of a bungalow at Lonavala hill station where the shooting of reality show Big Boss is in progress. The Sena activists raised slogans for half an hour condemning the participation of two Pakistani artistes in the show, anchored by Bollywood actor Salman Khan, police said, adding adequate security had been provided at the place of shoot.

The protest follows the party’s stand against the show on Colors television channel, featuring two participants from Pakistani – actress Veena Malik and talk show host Begum Nawazish Ali.

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MUMBAI: Indian police on Tuesday detained 25 activists of the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena party protesting against two Pakistani artists appearing on “Bigg Boss”, an Indian reality television show.
“Bigg Boss”, the local version of British reality show “Big Brother”, started a new season on Sunday and includes Pakistanis Veena Malik and Ali Saleem among the contestants. “They (activists) were shouting slogans outside the “Big Boss” studio. We have detained them,” a police officer told AFP.
Security has been strengthened at the studio — where the reality TV stars live — in the holiday township of Lonavala in western Maharashtra, after Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray threatened to disrupt the show.
“Come what may, we will not allow the show,” Thackeray told media last week. The show’s producers were unavailable for comment. Another personality taking part in “Bigg Boss” is Abbas Kazmi, a lawyer who represented Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the sole surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai attacks, at his trial. Kazmi was removed by an Indian court towards the end of the trial for “not co-operating and delaying” the proceedings.

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Reality television is quite possibly the best place to share sob stories and risque tales. That is exactly what two of the contestants on “Bigg Boss 4” did on the show’s second episode which aired Tuesday night. While actor Ashmit Patel discussed a compromising MMS message with a video of him that had made the rounds in India, Veena Malik held court and discussed cricketer Mohammad Asif.

Malik, who was talking to actor Shweta Tiwari (of “Kasauti Zindagi Ki” fame) about her love life, wiped away tears as she shared the story of her relationship with Asif.

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KARACHI: The premiere of the fourth season of the Indian reality television show “Bigg Boss” was crime-meets-Bollywood glitz. Some 14 contestants will live together in the same house, cut off from the world doing chores such as cooking.

Contestants will nominate their housemates for eviction, who will also be voted for or against by viewers. The process of elimination will lead to an eventual winner.

Hosted by Salman Khan, the show’s biggest draws for a Pakistani audience at least will be the two contestants – comedian and cross-dressing host Ali Saleem aka Begum Nawazish Ali and comedian Veena Malik, who has received a lot of airtime in India because of her past involvement with cricketer Mohammad Asif.

However, the ban on Indian television channels, imposed by the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority in compliance with a Supreme Court order, has led to an increase in sales of satellite dishes by consumers. In 2006, the government limited the amount of foreign programming that could be shown by private television channels.

Reality shows and soap operas aired on Indian television channels are extremely popular in Pakistan.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 4^th, 2010.

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