Bigg Boss

Bigg Boss is a reality TV programme broadcast in India. It follows the Big Brother format, which was first developed by Endemol in the Netherlands.
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1 Concept

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1.1 The house 1.2 Rules 1.3 Nomination and eviction

2 Publication 3 Series details 4 Controversies

4.1 Partiality towards specific Housemates

5 See also 6 References

4.1.1 Season 4 4.1.2 Season 5

7 External links

[edit]Concept
Bigg Boss is a reality show where celebrity contestants stay in a single house for about three months, with no connection to the outside world. They are overseen by a mysterious person known as 'Bigg Boss', whose only presence in the house is through his voice.[1]

[edit]The

house

A Bigg Boss House is built for every season. The house was earlier located in the tourist place of Lonavala, Pune district of Maharashtra, however the house for the fifth season is located in Karjat. The house is wellfurnished 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.[2] The House has no TV connection, no phones, no Internet connection, clocks, pen or paper.[1]

[edit]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. [3]

[edit]Nomination

and eviction

Every week, each contestant is called into the 'Confession Room' by Bigg Boss, and are asked to nominate two of the other contestants. Bigg Boss selects two, and sometimes three (though the number goes higher at times) people with the highest votes, who are put up for a public vote via phone and text message. The one with the least votes is evicted on Friday. Occasionally, more than one person may be evicted at a time, like in the final episode.[4] 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.[5]

[edit]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.[6] 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.

[edit]Series

details
Launch date Finale date Days Housemates Winner

Season

Host

Arshad Warsi

3 November 2006

26 January 2007

86

15

Rahul Roy

Shilpa Shetty

17 August 2008 22 November 2008

98

15

Ashutosh Kaushik

Amitabh Bachchan

4 October 2009

26 December 2009

84

15

Vindu Dara Singh

Salman Khan

3 October 2010

8 January 2011

96

16

Shweta Tiwari

Sanjay Dutt

2 October 2011

7 January 2012

96

18

TBD

[edit]Controversies

[edit]Partiality [edit]Season 4

towards specific Housemates

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.[7]

[edit]Season 5
The fifth season saw a change in the selection of contestants. The launch night featured 14 housemates 12 of which were girls, one transgender and one man. The weekly selection of House Captain is usually dependent on the votes of the fellow housemates however on Day 1 Shakti Kapoor, who was the only male entrant on the show, was chosen by the Bigg Boss himself as captain for two week making him immune from two consecutive nominations and, hence, prolonging his stay inside the house. Three additional male entries were witnessed in the second, third and the fourth week. Akashdeep Saighal was very often seen abusing Mahek Chahal and Pooja Misrra on their personal backgrounds but was not warned of his conduct. During his reign as captain Akashdeep broke the captain's lounge bathroom door, while Pooja M. was inside, hurting her elbow.[8] Furthermore, Pooja M.'s hand was scratched by Amar Upadhyay to the extent that she needed medical aid and Siddharth Bhardwaj almost kicked Pooja M. while she was walking. Again, no action was taken against the two of them leaving the impact that Bigg Boss does indeed favors some participants on the show to extend their stay inside the house. Moreover, the male participants were also witnessed threatening Bigg Boss that they would exit the house and were often seen exhibiting irrational traits like throwing off their mics and speaking absolutely in english language which are against the rules of the house. On Day 58, Shraddha abused Akashdeep by calling him a swear word. Akashdeep was later called in the confession room and consoled to calm with Shraddha scolded for the act. However, when Siddharth hurled improper slang names toPooja Misrra's parents, the abusive act was ignored with no action taken over the issue.