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Today, Anupama Varma was thrown out of the Bigg Boss's house. For those of you who have not been keeping track of Bigg Boss on Sony, they were the couple very much in love in Bigg Boss. Last week, Aryan Vaid was thrown out by the pubic in voting, and this week, Anupama followed him.

Why did this happen? If we try to do a psyhological analysis of the votic public, they would be seen to have two motivations. The first is that having a romantic couple on Bigg Boss makes for more interesting watching. Second, perhaps sympathy would take over. And they would vote out one, and then the next so they could take their loving off TV and into their own private lives.

The romance was real corny, at least to me. Aryan would hang around wherever Anupama Varma was in the house, and generally keeping mouthing sentimental stuff, and Anupama would go all baby-baby -i- am-choo-chweet on him. As Ragini later said in provate camera in the confession room in the Bigg Boss' House, its a little discomforting to see someone aged 30 speak like a baby all the time. I agree, but my feeling is that the public ha no such hassles. Anyway, once they were offered the option of voting Aryan out, they did that.

In the post-eviction interview, Aryan was overly emotional and looked like he would cry. If he was acting, that was probably his best performance in his career. It seems he declared his true love for Anupama and said that he could nto live without her, though he wished she would survive and win the game and stay on in the House. The public thought otherwise - they were too taken in and in the next week, prompty voted Anupama out so she could join Aryan in the real world outside.

Somehow, I got the feeling that Anupama knew this would happen - and love or not, did not want much to lose the game. The baby talk was gone the next day, she made attempts to patch up frayed relations with everyone, there was a newfound friendship with slimy Deepak Tijori guaranteed to backfire -- and occasionally looked a little pissed that Aryan said he could not live without her, and now the public might vote me out too, boo hoo.

But the traume I referred to in the title is not this. It is the traume the couple faced due to live TV and Sony's idea of what the public wanted. Once it was clear that there was something brewing betwene these two, Sony started playing up as the start of a true love in the Bigg Boss House. Every intimate moment (that could be shown on TV) was shown, and every weekend, Arshad Warsi, the host, would pose questions at both designed to make them squirm, or at least, force them to profess true love.

Folly of follies - they went and asked the parents of both Anupama Varma and Aryan Vaid what they thought about the relationship, and whether they would be happy to see the couple get married. The parents said its their kids' wishes that matter. Now imagine what normally happens in the lives of celebrities - they would flirt, they would start an affair, they would get to know each other better, sometimes they would realise that its all hormones and happily sleep with each other, and no one would even bother. Marriage may or may not come into the picture at all. And here, after 2 weeks where they haven't managed a single hot smooch because of cameras that are tracking them everywhere, Sony asks them about marriage. In their real lives, such a question would probably provoke ringing epithets. Sony, on the other hand, wants it to be a Hindi movie from the 70s or a Saans-bahu serial with appropriate morals. I truly, truly wish Arshad was cringing inwardly every time he had to ask them and their parents about marriage and intrusive questions about their private lives and feelins which only a senile middle class auntie these days would pose.