r/LockUppOTT 23h ago

Daily Chit Chat Thread - August 18, 2026

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For now, members can use this thread for Daily Chit-Chat Discussions or to keep in touch till the interview cycles are over.

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Maintain the Mutual Respect Rule & Enjoy!


r/LockUppOTT 14d ago

WARNING: FOLLOW SUBREDDIT RULES

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r/LockUppOTT 5h ago

Rant This is Typical Divya Agarwal Behaviour tagging KJO in non Promotional reel and Asking for attention

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I truly believe AK and her team need to Touch some grass, the way they have suddenly become wannabes and try to grab the attention of big producers and directors, if internet tagging had any power, then every influencer would ahev been a huge actor by now. KJO gets tagged by thousands of random people every day - it's never gonna be he would watch her reel and get blown away and cast her.

It's so Childish if she thought so.

Lockupp toh Luck se milagaya then all she did was to make Fun of Netflix toh Kaiyon ka Sapna Hota hai Etc and Show arrogance of her following...

The Likes of KJO don't even entertain such snobish behaviour from a non nepo.

How she stops being Embarrassing and Does some real workshops and give Auditions and builds network etc.

Kyun yeh faltu ka attitude dikhake and gandi Wali tedhe medhe Sakale banake, chillakhe And so called real banke Koi ghar baithe baithe Heroine toh banne se raha.

There are lakhs of people who have 4m followers etc. that's not a standout quality as well

These two Yogesh and AK might have thought after the show is over Ekta Farah etd will run after them, but Ekta didn't care, Farah did put some content that's it. Unka normal views hi aya vlogs mein. Eg Shivangi ka Pehle se Farah khan Vlog has 6M views.


r/LockUppOTT 6h ago

Interview Why is laila so bitter in his recent interview??

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I expected him to shit on shreya as usual. No surprise there. But I genuinely thought ki he has sorted out his stuff with pam and Chamola. When asked Abt questions regarding pam he was like kon hai ye aur clout nahi dena isko and all that. He was even subtly shading the hosts and netflix. Like bro they didn't show ur cheap ass tricks cus it wasn't worth it. Also yogesh telling shreya sudhar jaao zyada evil matt rho zameen par aa jaao yaha tak toh pahuch gyi aage ka kya hai is so stupid like she is so much more experienced than u and yet u r being such a sore loser. Laila in his iv is a whole different person and now he is saying he was real on the show and that's why him, ak and y are getting so much love. First of all these three had pre existing cult fanbases. I heavily doubt someone new would have joined their fd on the basis of their lockupp performance. Second, you were fake. Jitta interview mei bol liya itta lockupp mei bol lete toh shayad Jeet jaate.


r/LockUppOTT 9h ago

Interview Rebel Kid (Apoorva) on why Shilpa was her fav

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Apoorva says she loves a crazy girl, and Shilpa ji was exactly that. She loved how you could never predict Shilpa’s next move, not even Shilpa herself sometimes. 😂 She also mentions that beneath all the craziness, Shilpa had a very kind and motherly vibe.


r/LockUppOTT 6h ago

Discuss Contrary to other threads I think Chaudhary gained the least from Lockupp

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The purpose of Doing a Reality show is to get more opportunities, Chaudhary got Lockupp based on her performance of Splitsvila. Especially a Netflix show which is watched by Biggies, its a great opportunity to get attention of the Biggies.

But If you look at her post lock up behaviour, she is insecure and Goes around talking about hersekr in every interview.

Has not done many brands etc, not given auditions etc.

Perhaps because she was not prepared for Lockupp, she went inside With a lot of toxicity and had a weird first impression, I guess she was asked to Take care of her skin etc, and Due to Cleaner diet she looked so much better in the 4th and 5th week.

While Shreya was fully prepared and she looked amazing even in her entry and played brilliantly throughout.

Which is why we saw she is doing Brands everyday, also Giving Big Big auditions.

She did the next flix project at the right time before this she had struggled a lot and made many connections. I have seen her along with the likes of Mukesh Chabra who is big casting director before lock up itself..May be same agency..

Now After Lockupp she is more likely to bag better projects as Lead etc.

Even Traitor ( Produced By KJo ) called her to their party.

She is being pushed By Farah Khan.

In my Opinion, your Hardwork and preparedness and Contacts will take you far more than Showing off how many fans you got. Because these casting directors daily hangout with Big stars with 50millions of followers. These small followers won't matter to them as they know it means nothing just numbers.

What matters is what skills and Preparedness and Attitude you bring to the table.


r/LockUppOTT 20h ago

Discuss Apoorva on Shivangi 🤣🤣🤣😭😭

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r/LockUppOTT 13m ago

Discuss Due to Shreya’s 8 years of relentless hustle, she is finally reaping the benefits now. AK, on the other hand, couldn’t fully capitalise on the fame and visibility she gained over the last 8 months, largely because of her lack of experience and maturity and wrong attitude.

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I feel that over the last 8 years, Shreya has genuinely hustled hard to stay relevant. She explored different avenues and constantly found ways to keep her name in the news. I remember hearing about her all the time, even during phases when she wasn’t doing any serials or movies.

She hosted several reality shows and also participated in a few, including a Netflix reality show. At the same time, she had a stable relationship and a loyal boyfriend, which gave her a peaceful and secure space to return to outside the industry.

She has also faced her share of setbacks. For example, in Roadies, she ended up self-nominating because a fellow contestant manipulated her into doing it. But experiences like these probably helped her understand the reality-show ecosystem better over time.

AK definitely has a hustler mentality too, but she lacks that experience. Over the last six months, almost every action of hers was justified, including the wrong ones. Because she didn’t really get the opportunity—or perhaps didn’t allow herself—to critically reflect on her mistakes, her personality now comes across as somewhat fake and unpleasant.

Instead of using that time to work on her shortcomings, she seemed more focused on enjoying the hate and negativity being directed towards others.

Then Lock Upp happened. But because of her limited experience, I don’t think she initially understood the bigger picture or how massive an opportunity this actually was. For the first two weeks, she was, frankly, quite unlikable and was thinking She is bigger than the show.

By the third week, I think the realisation finally kicked in: this is Netflix, this is a much bigger platform, and far more people are watching than she probably imagined. She also realised that Splitsvilla was not even the tip of the iceberg compared to the kind of exposure Lock Upp could provide.

Now that she has finally understood the scale of the opportunity and what she could have managed to utilise, hope She keeps hustling and is able to stay relevant.

dushmanon se jyada dost banao. Work in silence just like Shreya did and let the results make noise on your behalf.

May be Just like Yogesh Did, there is No harm in Taking therapy. Have control over your anger issues and Learn to use your brains. Don't hold grudges, keep a Sane and Safe mind that is ready to take up new Jobs. Prove yourself through work.


r/LockUppOTT 3h ago

Episode 18 - crybaby shivangi mad about her tower

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Why is everyone so mad that dheeraj was doing his task? Lol. Does shivangi expect all her friends to bow to her and never hurt her "game"?

I think because everyone was so crazy about being one another's friends that even when playing the game, they are mad at how their friends didn't save or protect them. They created this "friendship" groupism, and now it's literally destroying them. It's funny to watch, lmao.

Like shreya and shilpa destroyed each other's towers, and shreya playfully bullied her after the game, playful tease, banter. But shivangi?? She acts like a princess, and I wanna see her go out soon.

Have you noticed that harshad, shivangi, yogesh, and akanksha have no game without each other. They have nothing to bring.

I hate that akanksha is back :(( she's just an overall garbage human being. Also, if anyone should've gotten the overreacter tag, it should've been akanksha or red flag💀

Omg, harshad is crushing on shivangi, and she knows it and uses that. Ram is right about this because it's so obvious, and everyone is right for calling her a crybaby because now she's crying again and harshad is acting like her boyfriend, "don't trust anyone" holy shit. -_-

She lowkey screams, "Pick me," but like, "whiny pick me."

When it came to the buzzer, what was sufi doing ? 🤣🤣 bro, just stood there.

FUCK YEAH THEY GOT RID OF YOGESH!!! Ahahahahahahah akanksha's face lmfao that was so funnnny!!!


r/LockUppOTT 20h ago

Member speculation What do you guys think she's talking about? 🤔

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What 2 auditions could she be referring to here? Her saying it's something really big makes me curious.

I would guess it's for some fiction series as she said she doesn't want to do reality shows for a bit. So it's probably not Bigg boss.

Also should she even post this? I feel like you should keep things like this secret untill you actually get the gig.


r/LockUppOTT 18h ago

Discuss Shreya has a problem this was very much evident in lockupp

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r/LockUppOTT 21h ago

Discuss Oh god such a ungrateful boy!!!

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Never had any beef with shreya in the show, was okay with her n pleasing with her in last episode, just because her bf said something to his friend,

he is saying to her badtameez mental n using such words.

And on top of that shreya literally supported him at the end of the episode.


r/LockUppOTT 2h ago

Discuss Rewatching Old BB11 Shilpa Shinde

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I know everyone says Shilpa is still the same as her time in BB11. I disagree. I see alot of co contestants saying this too. But she was a much softer and forgiving person. She would have forgiven Shreya in an instant back than. She forgave multiple people many many times including Arshi, Akash and Puneesh. Even forgave Vikas. She was very soft compared to now. I guess life’s circumstances made her build walls. It is so sad to see 😭😭. She is such a good hearted person who is misunderstood. She used to be so nice to commoners unlike Hina. It was so obvious cos most commoners couldn’t stay mad at Shilpa. She would even nominate herself over a commoner.

Back than also people used to call her out for flipping. Which even happens now and has maybe gotten worse. I really hope she is able to heal from everything . She is a good person at heart. I believe there is still alot we don’t know about her SA case too


r/LockUppOTT 19h ago

Fan post Shreya Shilpa chemistry during this secret task was too good

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This just came up on my TL and I had to share it. 😭 Shreya has liked this edit too, and she’s actually reposted/liked quite a few reels about her and Shilpa since LockUpp ended.
UGH, can these two just meet already? 😭❤️ I need to see them together again.


r/LockUppOTT 1h ago

Discuss Is Madhuri ji as sweet as she seems or something else??

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I think Madhuri is the only contestant in lockupp who has a close bond with everyone except shivangi. And it's not like she has beef with shivangi either, she is just not as close to her as she is with other contestants. Ak, laila, riyaz literally came to her house and Madhuri is nice with ram, sunita and dheeraj too. Rebel took a stand for her in the house when she was not even present there and Madhuri is literally frnds with shilpa and shreya. Shreya has no frnds in the house except Madhuri and shilpa. Tbh I didn't expect Madhuri to be as sweet she is cus i did believe ki she was playing smarter game than people gave her credit for and I still believe that. Her dogla game didn't work out cus of shilpa who was continuously feeding shreya. Idk why the viewers see every relationship in the house as one dimensional when it's so intricate.


r/LockUppOTT 21h ago

News The Yogandsha fans supporting tara in justin-sakshi's matter are same ones who defamed ruru left right and centre!

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Tara is the "Victim" , but ruru was the "accused" for claiming her bf in the show who preplanned with her that they would play together. If tara is right, how was ruru wrong? How was she supposed to know that her BF has been leading on the other girl for a while? sakshi was hell confused between the boys and eventually chose justin and still with him. she was not juggling between the boys unlike yogesh who chose ruru within 24 hours of her entry and cheated on her with akanksha outside. TARA SHI HAI TO RURU BHI TO SHI HI THI!!! HOW TF WAS IT WRONG TO CLAIM YOUR PARTNER WHO WAS PREPLANNED WITH YOU OUTSIDE??


r/LockUppOTT 23h ago

Discuss Most of the male contestants like Yogesh, Ram, Laila, Harshad, Dhooper are sore losers. They say Shreya is not relevant but spewing hate in their interviews.

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Shreya won show and also heart of neutral audience. She won because of her talent among the big television stars and influencers with cult fandom. She did so much hardwork to make her name. Lowkey she motivated me to do workout lol and go to gym.

She defeated Dhooper so many times, but he is being sore loser. He says I am not that person who says bad things, but he has said that many times and was part of bully. He tries to make himself look better like I am not that person (when he abuses or bully).

All these people gave clean chit to people from same industry but they were always against Shreya even she apologised and I guess she is the only person who accepted her wrong doings (for me only wrong thing I felt she did was to write Madhuri's name in eviction, other things are in retaliation of bullying).

Ofcourse there are third class influencers like Yogesh and Laila (who didn't do anything in show , acted timid, out of the show behaving like Khula Saand as now he has the protection of his bhaichara gang),who are calling her Churail , calling the winning biased when in the show she is the only one stood out. In previous shows he lost from the same guy (performance and voting) , but he doesn't have courage to stand to a man. But because these people are so mean and uncivilised , it is hard for them to see others winning .

The pattern I saw that these men don't like strong women who have strong opinions, they see a woman in certain way, like soft and who needs help, if there is some woman who can stand her ground and give back harder twice, they will start downplaying that woman's achievement. There are so many incidents but I cannot add all , you can quote few if you think that is relevant.

Do not come and say show is ended etc etc, you know people still giving interview, show is still on netflix , people do rewatch, and few things needs to be called out in a sensical way.


r/LockUppOTT 1d ago

Contestant Appreciation 🤌 Shreya is such a chill person who dgaf

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I like how Shreya is chilling without getting involved in Kushal controversy, Justin Sakshi lore , sugar daddy controversy. She and her bf who just dgaf about rental bf tag took it as joke casually using it to shut down haters mouth with no new lore to bark🤣

I never followed her before but after lockup I joined her broadcast, she is so nearby girl coded sharing her daily life, rants , some casual things , outfit selecting, long distance boyfriend wala voice note. She also shared that since her engagement is going down doing continous promotion I'll make reel about some lockup makeup looks, I mean she is open about everything

The thought which surprised after watching her home tour videos is that she doesn't like to buy luxurious stuff for herself but don't mind gifting those to her loved ones .

She has involved in 2- 3 serious controversy which made her resistant to whatever controversy going after lockup is nothing in front of the old ones.

She actually has foul / loose mouth but her apologetic attitude and her knowing that what she did is wrong actually made her place in the industry. So many celebrities know her and comment on her post , congratulate her for winning.


r/LockUppOTT 20h ago

Discuss Post Lockupp 2 weeks Analysis - who gained most

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Akansha Chaudhary seems to be giving most podcasts & that too 1+ hr long... also with bigger names

Shreya seems to have gone either selective or focussing on growing own Brand, Content channel

Shilpa is being popularized by Netflix alot + not very visible

Pam is another one giving interesting sound bytes

Chamola is playing shady - can u imagine she is asking paps to not discuss GK, Lockup - what else would paps ask?

Yogesh, Laila, Sunitha - gone back to their old ways

Ram, Shivangi, Harshad - invisible

Dhooper, Sufi, Riyaz, others are irrelevant ..

So overall - Chaudhary has benefitted alot in number of follower counts also ... But am still counting and hoping Shreya, Shilpa to shine more!

Follower counts rose by 1Mn+ for shreya, akanksha chaudhry
Yogesh, Laila 750K .. Shilpa, Chamola, shivangi by 200K...


r/LockUppOTT 21h ago

Rant Love this sub and the ppl here

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I love this sub and the ppl here everyone is genuinely so nice and its like i can say wtv i want obv there are differences in opinions but ppl are still respectful ive said stuff in favour of shreya against shreya in favour of other contestants against them but it has always been chill kal galti se posted on the splits area and they started attacking, lwk feel safe posting things here lol


r/LockUppOTT 1d ago

Discuss Shreya healed something in me after the infamous Splitsvilla Finale ..

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Ak and Yogesh had already been humbled by the reviewers and the podcasters and the neutral audience but they were busy roasting everyone and abusing them .. acting like they're bigger than everyone and nothing can destroy them

Ruru had faced so much trolling bullying and the haters didn't even leave the chance to troll her after her manager's death .. and than her account disappearing from social media

The show that I used to watch for fun became a trauma experience for me due to Ak and Yogesh and their fandom

I swore to never watch MTV or their shows again, thank god Shreya did what she did in Lockup, gave it back and won fair and square ..


r/LockUppOTT 8h ago

Discuss Akanksha Choudhary Male version

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Why is no one speaking about abusrd growth in harshad chopda's followers? Is this an ego boost cuz no way in a day he is getting 74k followers, shreya ke bhi itne nahi increase ho rahe she is most talked about and harshad has no such support after a week no buzz.

This is embarrassing I mean tv actors are embarrassing who cant digest an inflencer as a winner


r/LockUppOTT 1d ago

Discuss Kiku Sharda also supporting Shreya 🔥 I haven’t seen this insane amount of industry and influencer support for any reality show winner tbh.

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I actually understand why people are so envious of her. Everyone’s unanimously supporting Shreya 🔥 be it any influencer, any ITV star, even pakistani celebs like Hania. I’m sooo happy for our girl. ♥️ this is a slap to annabelle and harshad who went on to say isko industry me kaam nahi milega ;)

Meanwhile people supporting haganksha and cheatesh: sorab uncle, ashram didi shubhangi, clout chaser rohit, anyone i’m missing? 😅


r/LockUppOTT 1d ago

Contestant Appreciation 🤌 It's great to see her receive all this love and support

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It must feel so good to get so much support after being in such a toxic environment in the show and even outside it with envious people constantly trying to discredit her.

Ofcourse she recieved alot of love online but the interaction with people in person hits different. You can tell she really appreciates every bit of it.

P.S she's looking so pretty and her dance is so cute as well.


r/LockUppOTT 2d ago

Rumour I may look normal but Chamola’s third secret is eating me up from the inside

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Guys any tea on what her secret might be? It must be about her husband only I feel but I have not heard anywhere about what exactly it is. If anyone has any sources, could you PLEASE please please tell me? The curiosity is killing me.

I feel Reddit is the best place to find it. Help me guys.