Bigg Boss

Bigg Boss
Bigg Boss Halla Bol title card
Network
Channels Sony TV 2006-2007 Colors 2008–present
Presenters
Current presenters Farah Khan 2015
Former presenters Salman Khan 2010 - 2015 Sanjay Dutt 2011 Amitabh Bachchan 2009 Shilpa Shetty 2008 Arshad Warsi 2006
Shows
Editions Bigg Boss 2006-present
Current shows Weeked Ka Halla Boll 2015-present
Former shows Janta Ka Faisla 2006-07 Aapka Faisla 2008 Desh Ka Aadesh 2009 Aakri Salaam 2010-11 Aapka Farmaan 2011-12 Jumme Ki Raat Salman Ke Saath / Super Saturday with Salman 2012-13 Weekend Ka Wow 2013 Weekend Ka Vaar 2014-15
Seasons
Previous season Bigg Boss Halla Bol Winner: Gautam Gulati Runner-up: Karishma Tanna Others: Pritam Singh (walked), Ali Quli Mirza, Dimpy Mahajan, Sambhavna Seth, Rahul Mahajan, Mahek Chahal, Sana Khan, Ajaz Khan (ejected) Bigg Boss 8 Champions: Ali Quli Mirza, Dimpy Mahajan, Gautam Gulati, Karishma Tanna, Pritam Singh Others: Puneet Issar, Sonali Raut, Upen Patel, Praneet Bhat, Diandra Soares, Ranee Dhyani, Nigaar Khan, Arya Babbar, Sushant Divgikar, Minissha Lamba, Soni Singh, Natasa Stankovic, Deepshikha Sukirti Kandpal Bigg Boss 7 Winner: Gauhar Khan Runner-up: Tanisha Mukherjee Others: Ajaz Khan, Sangram Singh, VJ Andy, Armaan Kohli, Kushal Tandon, Kamya Punjabi, Sofia Hayat, Elli Avram, Pratyusha Banerjee, Candy Brar, Apurva Agnihotri, Asif Azim, Vivek Mishra Shilpa Saklani, Ratan Rajput, Anita Advani, Rajat Rawail, Hazel Keech Bigg Boss 6 Winner: Urvashi Dholakia Runner-up: Imam Siddiqui Others: Sana Khan , Niketan Madhok, Rajev Paul, Delnaaz Irani , Sapna Bhavnani, Aashka Goradia, Karishma Kotak, Vishal Karwal, Santosh Shukla, Dinesh Lal Yadav, Mink Brar, Vrajesh Hirjee, Navjot Singh Sidhu (walked), Sampat Pal Devi, Aseem Trivedi, Sayantani Ghosh, Kashif Qureshi Bigg Boss 5 Winner: Juhi Parmar Runner-up: Mahek Chahal Others: Siddharth Bhardwaj , Akashdeep Saighal, Amar Upadhyay, Sunny Leone , Pooja Misrra (ejected), Shonali Nagrani, Shraddha Sharma, Pooja Bedi, Vida Samadzai, Laxmi Narayan, Mandeep Bevli, Shakti Kapoor, Raageshwari, Gulabo Sapera, Sonika Kaliraman, Nihita Biswas Bigg Boss 4 Winner: Shweta Tiwari Runner-up: Khali Others: Ashmit Patel, Dolly Bindra, Samir Soni, Veena Malik, Sara Khan, Seema Parihar, Manoj Tiwari, Hrishant Goswami, Aanchal Kumar, Rahul Bhatt, Begum Nawazish, Sakshi Pradhan, Abbas Kazmi, Devender (ejected) Bigg Boss 3 Winner: Vindu Dara Singh Runner-up: Pravesh Rana Others: Poonam Dhillon, Bhakhtiyaar M Irani (walked), Aditi Govitrikar, Claudia Ciesla, Raju Srivastav, Rohit Verma, Vinod Kambli, Shamita Shetty (walked), Tanaaz Irani, Ismail Darbar, Sherlyn Chopra, Kamal Rashid Khan (ejected), Jaya Sawant Bigg Boss 2 Winner: Ashutosh Kaushik Runner-up: Raja Choudhary Others: Zulfi Syed, Rahul Mahajan (walked), Monica Bedi, Diana Hayden, Debojit Saha, Ahsaan Qureshi, Payal Rohatgi, Sambhavana Seth, Alina Wadiwala, Ketaki Dave, Rakhee Tandon, Sanjay Nirupam, Jade Goody (walked) Bigg Boss 1 Winner: Rahul Roy Runner-up: Carol Gracias Others: Ravi Kissen, Rakhi Sawant, Amit Sadh, Roopali Ganguly, Baba Sehgal, Ragini Shetty, Deepak Tijori, Anupama Verma, Aryan Vaid, Kashmira Shah, Deepak Parashar, Bobby Darling, Salil Ankola (ejected)

Bigg Boss is a television reality show broadcast on Colors channel in India. It follows the Big Brother format, which was first developed by Endemol in the Netherlands. Within a span of 9 years of telecast, Bigg Boss has rolled out 8 Seasons and one spin-off version thus establishing itself as one of the most popular Reality TV Series in India.
The show has, at times, proved to be a great ratings churner with the viewership at a constant high since the appointment of Salman Khan as the main presenter. Season 4, 5 and 7 have each topped the ratings charts for their respective tenures whereas Season 8 and Halla Bol have scored lowest figures for the channel to date.^[1]

Concept

Bigg Boss is a reality show based on the original Dutch Big Brother format developed by John de Mol. A number of contestants (known as "housemates") live in a purpose-built house and are isolated from the rest of the world. Each week, housemates nominate two of their peers for eviction, and the housemates who receives the most nominations would face a public vote. Of these, one would eventually leave, having been "evicted" from the House. However, there were exceptions to this process as dictated by Bigg Boss. In the final week, there were three housemates remaining, and the public voted for who they wanted to win. The housemates in the Indian version are primarily celebrities with the exception of one who is a non-celebrity selected via auditions. Housemates are overseen by a mysterious person known as 'Bigg Boss', whose only presence in the house is through his voice.^[2]

The house

A Bigg Bosss House is built for every season. The house was earlier located in the tourist place of Lonavla, Pune district of Maharashtra, however the house for the fifth season was located ND Studios in Karjat.^[3][4] The house is well-furnished and decorated. It has all kinds of modern amenities, but just one or two bedrooms and four toilet bath rooms. There is a garden, pool, activity area and gym in the House. There is also a Confession Room, where the housemates may be called in by Bigg Boss for any kind of conversation, and for the nomination process.^[5]

The House has no TV connection, no telephones, no Internet connection, clocks, pen or paper.^[2]

Rules

While all the rules have never been told to the audience, the most prominent ones are clearly seen. The inmates are not permitted to talk in any other language than Hindi. They are not supposed to tamper with any of the electronic equipment or any other thing in the House. They cannot leave the House premises at any time except when permitted to. They cannot discuss the nomination process with anyone.^[6] They cannot sleep in day time.

Sometimes, the housemates may be nominated for other reasons, such as nomination by a person who has achieved special privileges (via tasks or other things), for breaking rules or something else. If something is very serious, a contestant may be evicted directly.^[7]

Publication

The main television coverage takes the form of a daily highlights programme and the weekly eviction show on Fridays that are aired on Colors TV, while the first season was aired on Sony TV.^[8] Everyday's episodes contain the main happenings of the previous day. Every Saturday episode mainly focuses on an interview of the evicted contestant by the host. The episode on Sunday, named differently across seasons, contains extra footage of the week, which was not included in any episode.

Series details

Season	Main host	Launch date	Finale date	Days	Housemates	TRP			Prize money	Winner
						Launch	Finale	style="background:#ffdead;" "width:8%;"| Average
1	Arshad Warsi	3 November 2006	26 January 2007	86	15	2.36[9]	2.87	2.72	1 crore (US$160,000)	Rahul Roy
2	Shilpa Shetty	17 August 2008	22 November 2008	98		2.42[10]	3.02	2.89		Ashutosh Kaushik
3	Amitabh Bachchan	4 October 2009	26 December 2009	84		1.96[11]	3.06	2.83		Vindu Dara Singh
4	Salman Khan	3 October 2010	8 January 2011	96	16	3.60[9]	6.70[12]	5.15[13]		Shweta Tiwari
5	Sanjay Dutt[1]	2 October 2011	7 January 2012	98	18	4.30[14]	3.97	4.19[15]		Juhi Parmar
6	Salman Khan	7 October 2012	12 January 2013	97	19	3.21[16]	4.40[17]	3.81[18]	50 lakh (US$79,000)	Urvashi Dholakia
7		15 September 2013	28 December 2013	105	20	3.85[19]	4.80[20]	4.32[21]		Gauahar Khan
8		21 September 2014	3 January 2015	105	19	3.80	3.74[22]	3.77[23]		N/A [2]

     Highest viewing figures.      Lowest viewing figures.

Awards

Year	Award	Title	Winner
2007	Indian Television Academy Awards	Best Anchor Game/Quiz Show	Arshad Warsi
		Best Reality Show	Bigg Boss 1
		Best Art Director	Nitin Desai
	Indian Telly Awards	Best Reality Show	Bigg Boss 1
2008	Indian Telly Awards	Best Reality Show	Bigg Boss
2009	New Talent Awards	Best New Host (Female)	Shilpa Shetty
2010	Indian Television Academy Awards	Best Anchor Talk/Chat Show	Amitabh Bachchan
		Best Art Director	Samir Chanda
	Indian Telly Awards	Scriptwriter (Non Fiction)	RD Tailang
2011	The Global Indian Film and TV Honours	Best Non Fiction Series	Bigg Boss 4
2011	The Global Indian Film And TV Honours	Best Host Television	Salman Khan
	Golden Petal Awards	Most Chahita Personality	Salman Khan
		Most Lokpriya Reality Show	Bigg Boss 4
		Best Debutante Personality	Sanjay Dutt
2012	Indian Telly Awards	Best Reality Show	Bigg Boss 5
		Art Director (Non-Fiction)	Shyam Bhatia
2013	Golden Petal Awards	Most Lokpriya Dharavahik(Non-Fiction)	Bigg Boss 7[24]

Records

Most Nominations received (to evict)

Rank	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Housemate	Gautam	Pooja M.	Sambhavna, Karishma T.	Ashutosh, Sonali	Roopali, Raja, Sana, Rahul, Mahek	Vindu, Veena	Ashmit	Carol, Sara, Kushal	Samir, Sapna, Tanisha	Sherlyn, Pritam Singh
Total votes	42	35	33	29	28	27	26	25	24	23

Most Nominations received by male housemates (to evict)

Rank	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Housemate	Gautam	Ashutosh	Raja, Rahul	Vindu	Ashmit	Kushal	Samir	Pritam Singh	Praneet	Kamaal
Total votes	42	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22	20

Most Nominations received by female housemates (to evict)

Rank	1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th
Housemate	Pooja M.	Sambhavna, Karishma T.	Sonali	Roopali, Sana, Mahek	Veena	Urvashi	Carol, Sara	Sapna, Tanisha,	Sherlyn	Seema
Total votes	35	33	29	28	27	26	25	24	23	22

Up for eviction the most times

Evictions faced	Housemate(s)
12	Gautam
11	Sonali1
10	Karishma T.1, Mahek1
9	Tanishaa1
8	Sapna, Rajev, Gauahar, Pritam, Dimpy1

Italicized font indicates housemate who returned for the spin-off Halla Bol as challenger. Hence the count remained continuous.

Eviction votes to Survival ratio

Pooja Misrra of season 5 holds the record for the most eviction votes received in the shortest possible timespan spent in the house. Her ratio to date has not be beaten by any other housemate on the show.

Votes	Days	Ratio	Housemate(s)
35	55	0.636	Pooja Misrra
28	72	0.389	Roopali Ganguly
25	67	0.373	Sara Khan
27	83	0.326	Veena Malik
21	63	0.333	Pratyusha Banerjee

Time spent in the house

Karishma Tanna of season 8 holds the record for staying in the house for the longest time span, without any interruption. Although, Pritam Singh and Gautam Gulati also lasted from Day 1 to the final night, Pritam spent his initial 6 days in a special room instead of the main house and Gautam went out to go grocery shopping as it was a luxury budget task, thus rendering her stay the longest in the history of the show.

Order	Days	Housemate(s)
Longest	133	Karishma Tanna
Shortest	2	Jade Goody, Devender Singh

Housemate pattern

Clique	Season 1	Season 2	Season 3	Season 4	Season 5	Season 6	Season 7	Season 8
Politically acclaimed	None	Sanjay	None	Seema	None	Sampat	None
Reality show Alumni		Ashutosh		Sakshi P.	Siddharth	Mink	Ratan	Renee
					Pooja M.	Vishal		Dimpy
LGBT	Bobby	None	Rohit	Begum	Laxmi	Imam	Andy	Sushant
							Viveik
Pageant winner	Aryan	Diana	Aditi	None	Shonali	None	Gauahar
					Vida
On the Wrong Side of the Law	None	Monica	None	Devender	None	Aseem	None
		Rahul M.		Abbas
Item girl	Rakhi S.	Sambhavna	Sherlyn	Veena	Mahek	Sana	Hazel	Natasa
							Gauahar
International star	None	Jade	Claudia	Veena	Sunny	None	Elli
				Begum			Sofia
Seasoned model	Anupama	Zulfi	None	Aanchal	Shraddha	Niketan	Asif	Diandra
	Carol	Payal		Hrishant		Karishma K.		Nigaar
Soap actor	Amit	Ketaki	Bakhtiyaar	Shweta	Juhi	Aashka	Shilpa	Gautam
						Sayantani	Kamya	Karishma T.
	Roopali	Rakhi T.	Tanaaz	Sara	Amar	Urvashi	Kushal	Sukirti
						Rajev	Pratyusha	Praneet
Singer	Baba	Debojit	Ismail	Manoj	Raageshwari	None		Ali Quli
Sportsperson	Salil	None	Vinod	Khali	Sonika	Sidhu	Sangram	None
Film star	Ravi	Payal	Shamita	Ashmit	Akashdeep	Dinesh	Tanishaa	Sonali
								Arya
	Deepak T.	Raja	Poonam	Samir	Shakti	Delnaaz	Armaan	Upen
	Kashmira	Sambhavna	Vindu	Dolly	Pooja B.	Sayantani	Apurva	Minissha
Ajaz							Puneet
Comedian	None	Ahsaan	Raju	Veena	None	Vrajesh	Rajat	Pritam
Non-celebrity	Ragini	Alina	Pravesh	None	Nihita	Kashif	Anita	None

Controversies

Production manipulation, Interference and Partiality

Unlike the international versions of Big Brother, in Bigg Boss, the hosts are seen to be intimidating contestants on the show for their conduct and are often witnessed interfering in almost everything exhibiting a partial stance towards few. Furthermore incidents which breach the contract clause which say that no interaction or hearsay from the outside world would be planted into the house have also been often witnessed.

Season 3

• In the third season, housemate Vindu Dara Singh was often credited as Akshay Kumar's favourite housemate after playing Kumar’s sidekick in "Kambakkht Ishq"^[25] and becoming good friends with him. With being hated by fellow inmates inside the house for his conduct accompanied by the resentment against him from the audiences Vindu survived seven evictions after consecutively getting nominated from eighth week onwards. Vindu went on to win the season and was also announced the most stylish and bold contestant consequently winning a Chevrolet Cruze and Rs. 10 million.

Season 4

• During the fourth season, TV actress Sara Khan, openly objected to the Bigg Boss' behaviour towards fellow-housemate Dolly Bindra. Ever since Dolly Bindra re-entered the house, there had been quite a bit of a change in her stance and attitude towards the inmates of the house. Dolly became quite polite and got some benefits like she was made the queen immediately after she re-entered, thereby enabling her to get certain benefits that the others couldn't even dream of. Thus, with almost everyone quite flabbergasted, Sara protested against partiality towards Dolly. Sara kept on complaining that 'Bigg Boss' was not fair at which Samir Soni, who too, had re-entered agreed with what Sara had to say. Sara was later strictly warned by the Bigg Boss and host Salman Khan regarding these vague accusations.^[26]

Season 5

• On the Opening of the season five Salman and Sanjay ridiculed Shakti Kapoor after he entered the house saying, "Bigg Boss ko maanna padega! Shakti Kapoor jaise logon ko apne ghar bulaya, hum toh kabhi na bulayen! (It is quite surprising that Shakti Kapoor got the invitation to enter the Bigg Boss' house, I wouldn’t have invited him, ever.)".^[27] Shakti was hurt by these remarks and demanded an apology from Salman, however, was never reached by either Khan or Dutt.^[28]

Season 6

• Soon after the entry of Kashif Qureshi, a common man chosen via auditions held across India, as an inmate of the house the whole exercise of selecting an unknown person to be part of Bigg Boss seemed to have come into question and has been reportedly a planned one. After Kashif was selected from the three short-listed hopefuls to enter the house the media scrutinized every detail that linked to Kashif's background. Unexpectedly Qureshi was found to personally know Salman Khan since he was shooting Wanted.^[29]

Season 8

• The introduction of special panel members on occasional eviction episodes came under controversy during the season. The production team was mainly accused for violating the concept of the original Big Brother franchise and allowing interference from external agents into the house environment. The second week saw appearances from Andy and Kamya who were seen forcing their opinions on the housemates by calling it a guide to their stay. However Kamya, on a relative off-note, went on to malign targeted housemates' stance and reputation by wording her take as the 'viewer's point of view'.^[30] Subsequent to the episode's airing critics termed her conduct as 'adding script to a rather spontaneous programme'. A similar incident took place in the fourth week where Sargun Mehta's argument with Minissha received much backlash from viewers.^[31][32][33] Despite demands and complaints from viewers, the broadcaster declined the opportunity to explain the addition.^[34] Furthermore Salman Khan was also criticized for siding with Sonali Raut without a hint of care for housemates' or viewers' opinion and judgement citing the live feed as enough proof for evaluation. However viewers expressed disapprobation since the live feed being released on the channel's website was only broadcasting previously recorded content.^[35]

Bullying and Violence

Season 8

• On Day 8, during the weekly task, Gautam Gulati directed an outburst of rage and abuse at Karishma Tanna who during the time was applying chilli powder on his body in order to force him out of the seat. Rebuffing the concept of the purpose of the task Gulati threw a fit set to threaten Tanna.^[36] On retaliation Tanna appealed immediate disqualification of Gulati alongside support from other housemates however producers refrained from intervention. The task was consequently abandoned by both teams.^[37][38] Viacom allegedly upheld 2550 complaints from viewers, saying that the footage was "distressing to watch" and "exceeded the viewers' expectations".^[39][40] The censorship board in India claimed to edit the part out from repeat transmissions.^[41][42]
• On Day 45, after a record of previous five warnings regarding use of deliberate force towards fellow housemates, Puneet Issar assaulted Arya Babbar to the extent that his neck muscles cramped and his vocal ability strained.^[43][44] Due to apparent protests from housemates Bigg Boss decided to remove Puneet from the house as a result of his violent behaviour. Two days later Puneet returned to the house but was caged in the garden. The decision to bring back an ejected housemate created an uproar amongst the viewers. Where the viewers vehemently expressed disapproval for this action on social media, Endemol and Viacom received a record of 5700 complaints from all over India contesting barring the show from mainstream network.^[45][46] Housemates from previous seasons were seen encouraging followers to avoid watching the season which later, on proving successful, resulted in loss of a major section of TRPs for the show.^[47]

Guests

The Bigg Boss house has witnessed temporary stays of illustrious celebrities and even some ex-contestants during some seasons. Ajaz Khan & Upen Patel are the only two ex-contestants who returned in a season other than the season they participated in, as guests who stayed in the house with the contestants.

Inhabitant	Season	Days
Ali Merchant	4	11
Pamela Anderson		3
Swami Agnivesh	5	3
Andrew Symonds		7
Yamamotoyama		1
Jyoti Amge	6	3
Ajaz Khan	8	6
Upen Patel	Halla Bol	14

See also

• Big Brother (UK)
• Celebrity Big Brother 5 - Controversial series of the UK's Celebrity Big Brother involving Season 2 host Shilpa Shetty and Season 2 Housemate Jade Goody.
• Jade Goody - Appeared on the same UK version of Celebrity Big Brother with Season 2 presenter Shilpa Shetty, later to become a Season 2 Housemate.
• Bigg Boss Bangla, and Bigg Boss Kannada, regional language versions, that follow the same or similar format.

References

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