People orchestrate mood changes in ‘Bigg Boss’ house: Candy Brar

By Subhash K. Jha

Mumbai – Former model Candy Brar, latest to be evicted from “Bigg Boss – Saath 7”, says she was a “nervous wreck” inside the house because of the atmosphere. She feels most of the contestants are actors and they manipulate their moods to be in the limelight.

“It was the atmosphere in there. Everybody was eager to make his or her presence felt. Most of them are actors, so they can orchestrate mood changes to suit their needs,” said Candy, who was evicted Saturday.

“Someone like Aijaz Khan knows exactly how to manipulate his moods to provoke others. I couldn’t do that. I am not someone from the limelight. I didn’t know how to attract attention to myself. I didn’t want to,” she added.

This was not her first reality show — she was the runner up of MTV’s adventure reality show “Roadies 2”.

But she feels that she is not cut out for something like “Bigg Boss”.

“That place was not for me. I was there for barely two weeks, and it was suffocating. I just couldn’t take it,” said Brar, who currently looks after the business and marketing of Showman Entertainment.

“Not that anyone had a fight with me or was rude to me, or anything. Nothing like that. But there was so much negativity in there. If I had stayed one more week, I’d have fallen ill,” she added.

Candy has no complaints against the contestants.

“They were all very nice to me. And I’ve come away with at least four very good friends – Armaan Kohli, Tanisha Mukherjee, Eli Avram and VJ Andy. And yes, from among the new entrants Sofia Hayat. Even the others were okay with me. Nobody raised his or her voice at me.”

In fact, Armaan and Tanisha were heard imploring viewers to not eliminate Candy.

“Usually contestants go behind each other’s backs and vote against the very people they swear are their friends. But here some of them were actually asking that I not be eliminated. It was heart-warming… but I had to get out.”

Candy confesses that on many occasions she found herself on the verge of breaking down.

“I am the kind of person who gets nervous at the slightest of negativity. Very frequently in there (inside Bigg Boss) when tempers flew high, my heart started palpitating. I’d try to find a corner away from the camera to cry. Maybe I shouldn’t have gone in there.”

Candy says the reason she went in there was not money.

“Nowadays Rs.50 lakh can’t even even buy you a home. So money was not the criteria. I went in there because someone I didn’t know at all (Vivek Mishra) took my name in the context of (her ex-boyfriend) Kushal Tandon. I suddenly began getting calls from all and sundry asking what was that all about. I am not used to being questioned by relative strangers.

“I’ve a very small circle of close friends whom I’m comfortable with. Here I was suddenly getting calls and messages from strangers. I just wanted to go in there and confront this guy. And look at my luck. The guy, who had put me in a compromising position, left. So I was basically left to wonder what I was doing in there.”

Candy comes away from “Bigg Boss” swearing never to be part of any reality show.

“I was on ‘Roadies’, but it was nothing like ‘Bigg Boss’. Here everyone was constantly playing mind games trying to provoke one another for no rhyme or reason.

“This was no place for me… But it was a learning experience. I’ve come out maybe a little stronger. I value my loved ones even more now. I can’t wait to meet my family again,” she said.

Right now Gauhar Khan, Kamya Punjabi, Pratyusha Banerjee, Aijaz, Tanisha, Andy, Armaan, Elli, Sofia and Sangram Singh are battling it out inside the house.