Bachchan himself couldn’t take the adulation as he smiled and greeted each of them. Once inside the house, the housemates wasted no time in getting into their characters. While Dara Singh’s oversized son, who also goes by the name of Vindoo, can’t zip his mouth shut, Ismail Darbar’s roving eye is quite something (within minutes inside the house, he was ogling at Poonam), Kamaal Rashid Khan thinks that he’s God’s gift to the industry while Sherlyn Chopra looks perennially doped - and what’s with her hair (we think she can’t do without her hair-extensions as their length mysteriously changed in the first couple of days), Tanaaz and Bakhtiyar can’t do without their inane miya-biwi fights; she is a teekhi mirchi, it’s fun to see her behave like Bakhtiyar’s mom, worse, the latter even listens to her with a hangdog expression (though we can’t really forgive them for leaving their little son behind to enter the Bigg Boss hell) and last but not the least, Poonam sure is going through menopause. She’s proving to be quite a pain with her la di dah attitude. As for the others, they are slowly getting into the groove.

Shamita has already wept inside the confession room, though sweetie, you must try harder if you want to win it. They have already started bitching, squabbling, crying, ranting and dancing, just about everything to play to the gallery. While Raju regales everyone with his mimicry, Claudia has turned everyone into her Hindi tutors, Kamaal even went on a hunger strike to have her say “I love you” to him, fortunately she didn’t succumb and designer Rohit Verma with his long -flowing kurtas and feminine adas doesn’t know whether he is coming or going.
It’s quite a bunch this time. On one hand, you have the prim and propah ladies (Poonam, Aditi Gowitriker, Shamita and Tanaaz), on the other, you have the very loud and should we say uncouth Vindoo, Kamaal and gang.

We certainly don’t like the fact that the channel didn’t manage to get any decent men on the show for their women viewers. None of them are eye-candy, if at all, they are fit to give you an ugly bout of sore eyes. We, of course, like Bachchan, who lends a certain dignity to the proceedings as he gently talks to each of them, often pulling their legs (we particularly enjoyed the way he mimicked Tanaaz and her way of saying “Disappear”, simply meaning “Get lost” to the pesky Kamaal) and at the same time sharing with them some bitter-sweet truths of life. The idea of viewers calling in with a question for any of the housemates is taking things a bit too far.…come on, it’s a fun show, let’s not make it an interactive studio discussion. Some things are better left unexplained! Last but not the least, to borrow a line from Om Shanti Om, the lights have only dimmed, picture abhi baaqi hai.