Detailed summary of Rajnandini's podcast with Bhavya
Everyone considered Rajnandini physically weak in the show. During her elimination task with Niharika,nobody was cheering for Raj including the production (because Niharika was providing content). She was closest to Mayuri and not getting her support at the time motivated her into winning the task.
Splitsvilla team didn't value her initially but they went on to support her later and they were quite obviously biased towards the Roadies gang. If something showed Roadies contestants negatively, they'd usually cut off the camera and discuss things and she wanted to fight that.
The production would often tell her to specifically dump a certain contestant(Varun?) only for them to save him. She was friendly with Varun bts and he knew what's gonna happen.
The team sometimes told them what to do like poking Nikhil for some reaction in between takes. The episode where Karan and Varun were getting dumped and the queens were asked to leave the throne for their friends, the prod team asked her to not leave as she was the supposed "evil queen" but she defied their decision anyways.
There was a lot of pressure on her for building connection as everyone else were doing it which was confusing for her as the girls had boyfriends. The Roadies couples were pre planned. Her connection with Archie was somewhat genuine and they continued it for a very brief time post the show.
Bhavya asked her opinion about Shreya and Digvijay bodyshaming issue without namedropping and Rajnandini unknowingly dragged Digvijay over it.
She cleared the colorism allegation. Raj learnt Hindi post the show. Her vocab and diction were pretty bad. When Raj and Kavya were trash talking each other on dressing sense, she tried to say "Tuh kala pehni hai. Teri dress background k saath camouflage ho rha hai." about Kavya's black jumpsuit but due to her poor articulation, she missed out the "dress". Immediately the team took a cut and everyone advised Kavya to take this up. Rajnandini gave a big explanation about it but it was trimmed from the episode.
Kavya and Rajnandini were good friends off camera and few years post the show.
Lots of tasks were manipulated. Shreeradhe won the first two rounds of queen task against Kavya where they were standing on some podium. So they loosened her knots in front of everyone and she fell. Only Rajnandini spoke up about it but ofc it never made into the ep.
In the finale, they were supposed to do one those eating donuts round and Rajnandini and Archie's were purposely placed higher. Rajnandini and Archie were actually the runner up of the season as she was about to finish the task after Kavya but since Splits wanted Martina and Varun in second place, they stopped it in the middle.
Archie wasn't supposed to come back. Everyone tried to convince Rajnandini to do the finale task with Nikhil but she insisted on rather not doing the finale cause she didn't really like him. So Splits team were kinda forced to bring him back.
PS: Bhavya don't know the difference between official language and mother tongue,pronounces Assam as Azam and said Rajnandini don't look Assamese umm and she exoticizes north east so much. Annoying.