Bigg Boss Tamil 5 season ended with the title winner Raju and Priyanka , both employees of Star Vijay, the channel on which it is aired, walking away with the trophy and Rs 50 Lakh cash prize. With utter disregard to ethics and taking into account a conflict of interest, Star Vijay blatantly advertised that two of their winners were from their own ranks. The channel that conducts the reality show made it look as if the most talented genius are from their stable and Kamal Haasan chipped in with his bit that the guys out there slogging behind the camera for the show can now think of making it as title winner of Bigg Boss Tamil 5.
In any contest for the public conducted by a company, first golden rule is that employees working directly or indirectly offering services to them should not compete in the competition. Some even say that close relatives of employees are not allowed to take part in the contest. The idea is that the selection of winners and contestants can be clouded and charges of favouritism can arise. The audition is done by Star Vijay and each week the person who goes out of the contest is decided by a votes cast through the Disney Hotstar app by the public.
For argument sake, channel can say they are contract employees hired from show to show and are not on the rolls. Secondly, it may say that some audit company like Deloitte or PWC are handling the vote counting and show process. I remember that I as a kid would regret that I cannot fill the gallop coupon of Filmfare winners as there was a clause that said close relatives of any employee working in Bennet and Coleman was not allowed to take part. My uncle was head of the Research desk in Economic Times.
There was a rule in Indian Express that employees should not sit as judges or participate in any contest that was conducted by a company who is our advertiser. Star Vijay onwards many channels give away awards for film and TV and mainly they are for the inhouse serials and actors- films and actors whose telecast rights they have bought.
Imman Annachi who became popular through Sun TV's kids show anchor and a comedian in many films along with Abhishek Raaja, A YouTuber did not take part in the finale. Abhishek figured in a spoof skit held at the finale. A video shot a few years back in which Abhishek lampooning Kamal says that all the gimmicks that is done in front of camera for 100 days to become Tamil Nadu CM and saying it as Bigg Boss cannot be understood has gone viral. He told Kamal on entering as contestant in BB 5 that he saw the past shows for few minutes to see the fashion statement of Kamal.
Kamal Haasan also did a publicity plug for his production house upcoming project with Sivakarthikeyan as hero and Raja Periasamy ( he directed a film Rangoon and worked in Star Vijay on shows with Kamal). Sivakarthikeyan was formerly an anchor in Star Vijay. Star Vijay's biz man Mahendran ( he used to decide on which films to be bought for the channel) is now co- producer of Rajkamal and according to UlagaNayakan ( Universal actor), Mahendran has filled in the void created by the demise of his brother Chandrahaasan who looked after the production house biz. Kamal had announced Indian 2 on BB floor almost 3 years back and Dil Raju was to produce it. Rest is history.
Kamal's Kamal House of Khaddhar ( Khadi) has added perfume too to it's clothing inventory and gifted a set to Raju and Priyanka. It was a trip to Chicago to open his cloth store that the actor got Covid.
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