Bigg Boss

Bigg Boss
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Network
Channels Sony TV 2006–07 Colors 2008–present
Presenters
Current presenters Salman Khan 2010–present
Former presenters Farah Khan 2015 Sanjay Dutt 2011 Amitabh Bachchan 2009 Shilpa Shetty 2008 Arshad Warsi 2006
Shows
Editions Bigg Boss 2006–present
Current shows Weekend Ka Vaar 2014–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 Weeked Ka Halla Boll 2014–15
Seasons
Previous season Bigg Boss 10 Winner: Manveer Gurjar Runner-up: Gurbani Judge Others:Swami Om, Lopamudra Raut, Nitibha Kaul, Rohan Mehra, Lokesh Kumari Sharma(walk), Karan Mehra, Akanksha Sharma, Manu Punjabi, Gaurav Chopra, Priyanka Jagga, Rahul Dev, Navin Prakash , Antara Biswas Bigg Boss 9 Winner: Prince Narula Runner-up: Rishabh Sinha Others:Mandana Karimi, Rochelle Maria Rao, Keith Sequeira, Priya Malik, Kishwar Merchant(walk), Suyyash Rai, Nora Fatehi, Gizele Thakral, Kawaljit Singh, Digangana Suryavanshi, Rimi Sen, Aman Yatin Verma, Puneet Vashishtha, Yuvika Chaudhary, Vikas Bhalla, Arvind Vegda, Roopal Tyagi, Ankit Gera 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 11 years of telecast, Bigg Boss has rolled out 10 Seasons and one spin-off version thus establishing itself as one of the most popular Reality TV Series in India.

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.^[1]

The house

A Bigg Boss 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.^[2][3] 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.^[4]

The House has no TV connection, no telephones, no Internet connection, clocks, pen or paper.^[1]

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.^[5] 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.^[6]

Airing

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.^[7] 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

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Housemate pattern

Controversies

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.^[24]

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'.^[25] 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.^[26][27][28] Despite demands and complaints from viewers, the broadcaster declined the opportunity to explain the addition.^[29] 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.^[30]

Halla Bol

• This series was marked by a number of downfalls for the Big Brother franchise in India. The continuation of the regular celebrity season into an All-Stars version garnered initial media and viewer attention but the ratings for the show decreased to an all-time low with the final only managing to score a TRP of 2.82.^[31] The official tabulators for the show being Ernst & Young allegedly had formed the final result based on a number of votes which was not only less than the previous seasons but also the evictions for the same series.^[32] An additional statement released by the firm revealed that the percentage separating the final two contenders was lower than one whole unit indicating figurative comparison to a photo finish.^[33]

Season 10

• The voting rules for the final week were changed abruptly following Rohan Mehra's eviction. The previous rule which allowed multiple votes, capped at 99, per IP and phone number were brought down to 1. This created uproar from the viewers who were not officially or appropriately informed of the tweak. The voters were not refunded money for any additional votes they had made since 1 vote submission from online and offline sources was recorded and the rest were discarded. Viacom 18 received 570 complaints during the night of the final when Manu Punjabi was shown to have quit the competition before the results were announced. Realizing that the final was pre-recorded with the outcome known to the producers before the episode aired the viewers were appalled that voting lines for Manu were kept open throughout. The complaints increased overnight to a record 1140 after the final had finished airing.

Guests appearances

Celebrity guests to appear on the series include:

Other versions

The show's Kannada language version, currently in fifth season will be broadcast on Colors Kannada from September 2017, with Sudeep as host.^[34]

The show's Tamil language version (first season) is broadcast from June 2017 on Star Vijay, with Kamal Haasan as host.^[35]

The show's Telugu language version (first season) will be broadcast from July 2017 on Star Maa, with Jr.Ntr as host.^[36]

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