Salman Khan Admits Bigg Boss 20 Casting Missed The Mark

Salman Khan finally addressed the noise around this season's contestant lineup, and he didn't dodge it. On the latest Weekend Ka Vaar episode of Bigg Boss 20, talking to Amrapali Dubey, he owned up to the gaps in casting rather than defending every name on the list.

"We had thought we would handpick contestants, but sometimes our selection also falters," he said. It's a rare bit of candour from a host who usually plays cheerleader for his own show. He went further, taking a swipe at contestants who lean on the excuse that they're doing plenty in the house even when none of it makes it to air. "The truth is whatever you are saying or doing is not worthy of airing," he told them, adding that a house without at least one or two genuinely 'kameena' characters just doesn't work as television.

Salman also walked through how the casting actually happens, presumably to push back on the idea that this year's picks were random or lazy. According to him, the Bigg Boss team meets and interviews thousands of hopefuls before whittling that number down to sixteen, a process that stretches across eight months and pulls names from wildly different fields. "When you guys came here, people asked what kind of casting this was, but after a week, everyone is loving a few characters," he pointed out, framing early scepticism as something the show has weathered before.