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Won?t allow Paks in Bigg Boss: Bal Thackeray

Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray has said the presence of Pakistani artists on celebrity reality show Bigg Boss 4 would not be allowed.

According to reports, on Tuesday night, his party activists barged into the campus of the bungalow where the TV show is being shot and beat up some security guards.

The Shiv Sainiks shouted slogans and protested the move by Colors TV channel to include two Pakistanis on the show ?Veena Malik, Pakistani model and ex-girlfriend of cricketer Mohammed Asif, and cross-dresser TV actor Ali Saleem, whose TV persona Begum Nawazish Ali is very popular both in Pakistan and India.

Even the Raj Thackeray-led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) has protested the inclusion of Pakistani actors on the show and demanded that Colors TV evict them from it.

The Shiv Sena and MNS have even threatened to stall its run.

Sena spokersperson Sanjay Raut said the party won?t allow the show to run with the Pakistani participants.

?If Pakistanis are participating in the show, then allow Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru also (as contestants)? Sena will not permit to run the show,? Raut said.

Bigg Boss, hosted by Salman Khan in its fourth season, aired its introductory episode Sunday.

Not willing to take any chances, Mumbai police have beefed up security outside Colors TV offices in Andheri (East) since Monday.

Meanwhile, life inside the Bigg Boss house too was not free from controversies.

A participant of the show-Devinder Singh alias Super ?chor? (thief) Bunty- has been asked to leave Bigg Boss 4 following unruly behaviour in the house on the first day itself.

During his stay, Bunty received the maximum number of votes when ?Bigg Boss? asked the contestants to nominate any one person. While the inmates thought the nomination was for eviction, Bunty was actually made the captain of the house.

While Bunty was evicted, another Bigg Boss inmate Shweta Tiwari celebrated her birthday with other participants. A cake landed up in the house to celebrate her birthday on Oct 4, with an impromptu party.

The Bigg Boss 4 inmates:

Abbas Kazmi : Advocate SG Abbas Kazmi was the former lawyer of the only existing 26/11 Mumbai terror charged Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab.Kazmi wants to clear up his public image so he approached the channel himself after being discharged by special judge M L Tahaliyani last November.

Sameer Soni : Samir Soni (born 29 September 1968) is an Indian actor who appears in Bollywood films. Soni was born to a Punjabi Hindu family in London, United Kingdom and attended school at St. Xavier?s School, Delhi.He graduated from University of California, Los Angeles summa cum laude in Economics.Prior to his Bollywood career, Samir was an investment banker with one of the bulge bracket firms on Wall Street in New York, before coming back to India to start modeling.

Seema Parihar : Former woman bandit Seema Parihar, who had allegedly killed 70 people and abducted over 200 before surrendering to the police a few years ago.Parihar, who surrendered before Kanpur police in 2003, was facing 29 criminal cases. She has been acquitted in 15 cases.She is currently out on bail in 14 other cases. She was heading the Lalaram gang of bandits when she surrendered. Parihar took over the gang leadership after Lalaram was killed in a police encounter.Parihar has also allegedly committed over two dozen robberies before she gave herself up to the police.

Shweta Tiwari: Shweta Tiwari born (October 4, 1980) in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India is an Indian Film and Television Actress. She played the role of Prerna in Balaji Telefilms?s popular Television Show Kasautii Zindagii Kay that used to be aired on an Indian television channel STAR Plus, for which she has received so many awards. She has done several commercial advertisements, dance shows, plays and cameos in other television serials.

Ashmit Patel : Amshit Patel (born 13 January 1978 in Mumbai, India) is an Indian actor who works in Bollywood movies.Ashmit Patel is the son of Amit Patel and Asha Patel, younger brother of Amisha Patel.He worked in his father?s business for a while, before he decided to take a step and act in films like his sister Amisha.

Manoj Tiwari : Manoj Tiwari is an Bihari actor, singer and director who acts in Bhojpuri films. He has been credited with reviving the Bhojpuri film industry. He has appeared in over 30 Bhojpuri language films. At the start of his career, he was famous as a playback singer which gained him widespread attention among film viewers.

Sara Khan : Sara Khan is an Indian model and actress. She won the Miss Madhya Pradesh title in 2007, the Best New Talent award given by IndianTelevision.com in 2008,and the STAR Parivaar Award for the ?Best Patni? (Best Wife) category in 2009.Her first TV role was as Sadhna in Sapna Babul Ka?Bidaai.

Veena Malik : Veena Malik (born Zahida Malik on 26 February 1978) is a Pakistani actress, model and comedian. She has established herself as one of the leading women in the Pakistani television and film industry with her abilities to mimic others and improvise.

Rahul Bhatt : Rahul Bhatt (born on January 24, 1982), is an Indian fitness trainer and aspiring film actor.The son of famous film director Mahesh Bhatt, Rahul gained unwitting notoriety in 2009 following revelations that David Headley, an accused in the 2008 Mumbai attacks, had befriended him.

Ali Salim : ?Ali Saleem Khusra?, best known by his alter-ego Begum Nawazish Ali, is a Pakistani television host, actor, scriptwriter and impressionist. He broke into the mainstream audiences through his impersonations of late prime minister Benazir Bhutto, and later and playing the cross-dressing Begum Nawazish Ali on various television channels, including the Aaj TV network, Dawn News and Geo TV network.

Sakshi Pradhan : Winner of MTV?s reality show Splitsvilla 2, she was believed to be part of a MMS scandal making waves over the internet.

?Bunty Chor? alias Davinder Singh : Devinder Singh alias Bunty, the super chor who created quite a stir in Delhi with his clever robberies. Bunty robbed over 300 houses and 100 showrooms in Delhi, before he was finally nabbed in 2007.Oye Lucky Oye, move which was a decent box office success was loosely based on the life story of Devinder.

Hrishant Goswami : Hrishant is a model originally from Jammu and Kashmir. He completed his schooling from US and Nigeria. He has won the 2004 Gladrags Manhunt Contest.

Aanchal Kumar : Aanchal Kumar, Chandigarh based Mumbai girl, had wanted to be a model since childhood. She made it big in the world of modelling after winning the Gladrags Mega Model contest in 1999. At the tender age of 21, Anchal bagged a number of prestigious assignments like Rexona, Sunsilk, Bombay Dyeing etc. This light brown eyed super model has done few music videos which includes Jagjit Singh?s ?Aaina? and Hans Raj Hans?s ?Mukhra Tumahra?.

?Bigg Boss? presents the unique combination of reality and real unscripted drama. In the reality show where 14 handpicked strangers are locked in a house, for close to 85 days ? with 35 cameras following their every move 24?7 and Bigg Boss, the ultimate authority in the house, who ensures that their stay is anything but comfortable.

As the 14 hand-picked contestants vie with each other to survive in the Bigg Boss house, irritation, backbiting and backstabbing reach its prime. This is one show that brings out the best and the worst side of contestants.

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