The hit TV game show ‘Jackpot’ is back with its second season ‘
Jackpot 2
’, with the first episode of the season premiering on Tuesday at 9.30 PM.
Hosted by
Anasuya Bharadwaj, the anchor posted the show’s promo on her social media, captioning it, “Presenting #Jackpot2 !! Starting from today.. #tuesdaysAreforJackpot2 9:30pm onwards” (sic)
In the promo,
Anasuya
can be seen wearing a gorgeous dress and dancing on dais with backup dancers. Later, she can be seen blowing flying kisses. Dhanraj,
Seshu
and few other artistes participated in the episode, taking part in all the fun and revelry.
Styled by Gauri Naidu, the TV star looks gorgeous and even took to social media to repost a few pictures of herself in the outfit. In a scene in the promo, Seshu even asks Anasuya if they never forget anything.
Previously, controversy was made out of a conversation between Anasuya and Seshu in the first season. Some of the dialogues shown in the promo of the episode back then were cut in a manner to insinuate sleaze, when in fact; the episode had nothing of that sort. People called out for censorship of TV shows too, citing ‘
Jabardasth’ and
Sreemukhi and
Anchor Ravi’s ‘
Pataas
’ as examples of how TV shows keep banking on such dialogues.
Later, Seshu had even posted a video to explain his side of the story. In the video he could be seen saying that in all his years in the industry, never has anything been spoken against him. But now, due to the way the promo was cut, his name was being dragged through the mud. He even claimed that the way it was cut was for the makers’ benefit. He said because of the makers, it was artistes like him who gain a bad name.
He rued on the fact that it had come down to it that artistes like him have been brought down to the level that they have to unfortunately explain even when they aren’t wrong.
Now that the second season of the show has begun, let’s hope such promos do not repeat.
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