Santana Dharma Lakshmi Priya of Bigg Boss Malayalam 4 tops votes

 

Santana Dharma follower  Lakshmi Priya contestant in Bigg Boss Malayalam Season 4 is top ranked in votes polled last week ending June 10^th 2022. Second most votes polled is Riyas Salim , a social media influencer and feminist. Both are two ends of a pole. Till Dr Robin exited and post the event, Blesslie was ranked second and Lakshmi Priya in third spot. This jump to top spot and Riyas who till now in last three coming to second shows voters are now in two camps – Hindu God fearing Santana Dharma believer Lakshmipriya and Riyas a Muslim by birth- feminist and a man who does not like to define his gender and not shown to be a practicing Muslim.

When Mohan Lal asked Lakshmi Priya about what she felt was communicating  to audience through BB4 Malayalam , she said that as a person who follows Santana Dharma, she was able to spread the wisdom enshrined in it and practices. To this, Mohan Lal asked whether refusing to accept a piece of birthday cake from co- contestant Vinay was part of  the Dharma ?.  What Lal meant was that despite getting heaps of veiled `abuses’ from Vinay, she should have deleted the incident and taken it as part of a game and danced with Vinay in the birthday song. That is Santana Dharma definition of Mohan Lal.

Many  say that Santana Dharma is eternal duty of a human being and it includes protection of  beliefs. This is interpreted as espousing violence. A charge that DMK has levelled against Tamil Nadu Governor for saying that Santana Dharma was need of hour and saying that he was talking like a Hindu and not a constitution head. Let’s not digress.

Let’s rewind- Lakshmi Priya and Riyas are in the jail of BB. As Riyas mounts an attack on her submissive attitude and ``conservative’ look on the dress worn by female contestants, She gets up and begins to chant the evening bhajan to drown out the `progressive’ thoughts. Riyas in his jibes mixes  Santana Dharma with Manusmriti to portray Lakshmi Priya as a regressive Hindu woman who cannot accept feminism. These exchanges are now coming to central focus as the anti  Dr Robin group has lost a target.

Akhil’s eviction was because he took on Lakshmi Priya and he was not in the Riyas camp which includes ex contestant Jasmine Moosa  nor of Dr Robin fans groups to prop him up. Ronson who by not taking part in the Call Center task escaped the wrath of all camps and stayed put. Neutrality helped Suraj. Blesslie had Dr Robin fan groups and his own to back him. In coming days, it will be Lakshmi Priya v/s Riyas .

Kamal Haasan- Shankar ` Indian 2' abandoned ?

 Multiple sources seem to confirm the news that Indian 2, the mega budget film with Kamal Haasan and director Shankar has been given a silent burial. Checking out this news on many fronts related to Actor Kamal Haassan and director Shankar. events that are moving rapidly, Indian 2 will probably go down as a ill fated film project that took off in style and got a silent burial. 

For one Bigg Boss Tamil next season is fast getting ready to go on floors and as with Bigg Boss Ultimate, this will be a 24x7 on Disney Hotstar with a 90 minute capsule every day on Star Vijay. Kamal Haasan is the host and as things move on STR might step in. STR link with Disney- Hotstar and Star Vijay was the reason for his presence at Vikram' audio . Vikram OTT rights is with Disney- Hotstar.

Kamal Haasan is in talks with Rajmouli for a Mahesh Babu Pan Indian film. His next as actor is with Pa Ranjith as director and once again with Lokesh Kanakraj and followed by  Mahesh Narayanan as director. All are his own productions. Apart from this he is to produce a film with Sivakarthikeyan as hero. Though production side will be handled by Mahendran , executive producer, Kamal as actor has his calendar full. In this calendar, Indian 2 does not figure.

For Shankar, Ram Charan film will keep him occupied for rest of the year. The film is releasing only for Pongal ( January 2023). Reshoot of portions of comedian Vivek and making changes to bring in another heroine  in place of Kajal Aggarwal ( got married and is mother of a baby girl) are the two major headaches. Secondly, Lyca Productions who wanted the film to be ready for Diwali release finds that it is sitting on a project that is ill fated as spending more money on it to reassemble the broken pieces  might not be a good decision. Apart from this, the death of crew members in an accident too is seen an ominous.  Lyca needs to put in Rs 50 crores more and another half of it on promotion. After Marudhanayagam, Sabhash Naidu, Indian 2 is likely to be Kamal Haasan's third film that took off and got shelved ,if  trends are any indicators.

In May 2020, India Today reported the film was shelved but a LYCA spokesperson replied saying " We have completed almost 60 percent of the film’s shoot. How will we consider dropping the project?. We will start after lockdown".