Bigg Boss Malayalam season 3 shoot at EVP Film city in Chennai was stopped by Police after Chennai Corporation directed it to do so. The remaining contestants wearing PPE suits were shifted to the city hotel, Dimple Bhal ,one of the contestant, had left for Delhi- Meerut to attend the cremation of her father and two weeks later reported back on the show sets. Corporation officials have asked producers to show the negative result of Dimple on the day of joining the set.
On the 94th day, Corporation officials got 17 positive results from the camera unit of the show. They were asked to stop shoot. The shoot continued at EVP film city citing that Govt had not informed them and that the affected were removed from the film city. Tamil Media reports pointed out the stance of Show must go on of the Producer despite the citing of positive cases in the unit. Producers said that the crew did not come into contact with contestants as per the show's rules and other than contestants no body were inside the Bigg Boss House and all equipment and cooking provisions were given after sanitised.
The police was asked to seal the EVP film city exit points and the Bigg Boss house. Crew members numbering 60 were taken away in vans from the spot and contestants shifted to a city hotel for quarantine.
Complaint has been raised about the exit of contestant Manikuttan for a brief period and said to be in the secret room and coming back as he should have been tested but no mention was made about it by the producer in the show. Similarly Dimple Bhal was in Delhi- Meerut during the peak of Covid 19 surge in these cities.
As she was attending the cremation of her father, her coming into contact with outsiders was possible. Her being in quarantine or her test result was not mentioned in the time of re-entry to the show. Every week the host Mohanlal undergoes a RT PCR test before the shoot starts. Corporation has filed charges against EVP on various sections of the Pandemic Act and levied a Rs 1 lakh penalty. The show that ends in 100 days extended for 14 days as the contestant were quarantined for that period before entering the Bigg Boss House.
Film- TV trade unions apex body FEFSI had publicly announced that they were withdrawing their members from TV shoots as many were dying or in serious condition. FEFSI had got TN CM Stalin to allow 16 TV shoots to continue despite lock down. As toll mounted, FEFSI withdrew the members. Bigg Boss crew has majority of crew members who come from Mumbai and not members of FEFSI. When Bigg Boss Tamil started , it was all Mumbai crew. FEFSI threatened to stop shoot and even barged into shooting spot. Host Kamalhassan struck a deal with FEFSI by which 40% members were from the Chennai union.There was a grouse that Mumbai technicians were paid as per rates for Hindi TV shows while local guys got paid one third of it.
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