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Bigg Boss
Season 15
Presented bySalman Khan
No. of days120
No. of housemates24
WinnerTejasswi Prakash
Runner-upPratik Sehajpal
No. of episodes121
Release
Original networkColors TV
Original release2 October 2021 (2021-10-02) –
30 January 2022 (2022-01-30)
Season chronology
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Bigg Boss 15, also known as Bigg Boss: "Sankat in Jungle" was the fifteenth season of the Indian reality TV series Bigg Boss. It premiered on 2 October 2021 on Colors TV. Salman Khan hosted the season for the twelve time. The grand finale aired on 30 January 2022 where Tejasswi Prakash emerged as the winner while Pratik Sehajpal as the runner-up.[1] The season marked a series of disappointments for the franchise and the show recorded the lowest TRP of just 0.8.[2]

Production

Teaser

The first teaser was released on 22 August 2021, in which Salman Khan is a forest officer talking to a wishful talking tree named Vishwasuntree in which veteran actress Rekha gave her voice.[3] On the grand finale of Bigg Boss OTT, another promo was released revealing the date of the premiere .[4]

This theme of the season was "Sankat in Jungle". The eye this time was covered with green grass and shows a tree in the pupil of the eye with flames coming from the centre of the eye.

House

The house this time had a "Jungle Theme" and was located in Goregaon for the third time. The house was divided into 2 parts, Jungle House and Main House.[5] On Day 21, Jungle House was closed.

Telecast

Apart from the usual hour-long episode, viewers also had access to the direct 24x7 camera footage. The viewers also had access to Before TV on Voot Select where the episode was telecast 30 minutes before it was telecasted on Colors TV. Also for the first time, Live Voting was conducted for the Eviction Process. On weekdays, the show was at 10.30 PM IST & weekend show was at 9.30 PM IST which was changed to 8 PM IST from Week 16.

Concept

All housemates will be given a survival kit with a few essentials throughout the season and will get fewer facilities this time. The housemates will enter a small jungle house which has a small kitchen, no beds and sofa and bathroom for the first 3 weeks. The housemates who will survive the jungle will enter the main luxurious house. There is a wishful tree in the garden area named Vishwasuntree who is the queen of the magical jungle in the house and will give advantages and privileges to the contestants who perform well in the jungle. On Day 36, Salman announced that there will be a new zone named VIP Zone. The members who are in VIP Zone are eligible to be in the finale.

Casting

On the grand finale of Bigg Boss OTT, finalist Pratik Sehajpal was officially revealed as the first confirmed contestant, which followed by Nishant Bhat and Shamita Shetty was announced as the other two contestants at the press conference held by Arti Singh and Devoleena Bhattacharjee.[6]

Housemates status

Sr Housemate Day entered Day exited Status
1 Tejasswi Day 1 Day 120 Winner
2 Pratik Day 2 Day 120 1st runner-up
3 Karan Day 1 Day 120 2nd runner-up
4 Shamita Day 2 Day 44 Walked
Day 50 Day 120 3rd runner-up
5 Nishant Day 2 Day 120 Walked, 4th runner-up
6 Rashami Day 56 Day 120 5th runner-up
7 Rakhi Day 56 Day 117 Evicted
8 Devoleena Day 56 Day 114 Evicted
9 Abhijit Day 58 Day 107 Evicted
10 Umar Day 1 Day 99 Ejected
11 Rajiv Day 22 Day 78 Evicted
Day 108 Day 114 Guest
12 Ritesh Day 56 Day 72 Evicted
13 Neha Day 33 Day 56 Evicted
14 Jay Day 1 Day 56 Evicted
15 Vishal Day 1 Day 56 Evicted
16 Simba Day 1 Day 53 Evicted by Housemates
17 Afsana Day 1 Day 40 Ejected
18 Raqesh Day 33 Day 40 Walked
19 Ieshaan Day 1 Day 37 Evicted
20 Miesha Day 1 Day 36 Evicted
21 Akasa Day 1 Day 29 Evicted
22 Donal Day 1 Day 18 Evicted by Housemates
23 Vidhi Day 1 Day 18 Evicted by Housemates
24 Sahil Day 1 Day 7 Evicted

Housemates

The participants in the order of appearance and entered in the house are:

Original entrants

OTTians

Wildcard entrants

  • Rajiv Adatia — Former model and entrepreneur.[30]
  • Ritesh Kumar — Businessman, software professional; Rakhi Sawant's husband.
  • Abhijit Bichukale — Politician. He participated in Bigg Boss Marathi 2.

Challengers

Twists

Housemates allotment

Housemate Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Week 16 Week 17
Days 1–7 Days 8-12 Days 13-17 Day 18 Day 19 Day 20 Day 21 Day 22
[1] N/A [2] [3] [4] [5] N/A [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] N/A [12]
Karan Jungle House↔ Main House↑ Jungle House Closed Housemate↔ VIP↑ Housemate↓ VIP↑
Pratik Main House↔ Jungle House↓ Main House↑ Housemate↔ VIP↑ Housemate↓ VIP↑
Nishant Main House↔ Jungle House↓ Main House↑ Housemate↔ VIP↑ Housemate↓ VIP↑
Rashami Not in House Not in House VIP↔ Housemate↓ VIP↑ Housemate↓ VIP↑
Shamita Main House↔ Jungle House↓ Main House↑ Housemate↔ Housemate↔ VIP↑
Tejasswi Jungle House↔ Main House↑ Jungle House↓ Main House↑ Housemate↔ VIP↑ Housemate↓ VIP↑
Rakhi VIP↔
Devoleena VIP↔ Housemate↓ VIP↑ Housemate↓
Abhijit VIP↔ Housemate↓
Umar Jungle House↔ Main House↑ Housemate↔ VIP↑ Housemate↓ VIP↑
Rajiv Housemate↔ Guest↔
Ritesh VIP↔ Housemate↓
Neha Housemate↔
Jay Jungle House↔ Main House↑ Jungle House↓ Main House↑ Housemate↔
Vishal Jungle House↔ Main House↑ Jungle House↓ Main House↑ Housemate↔ VIP↑ Housemate↓
Simba Jungle House↔ Main House↑ Housemate↔ VIP↑ Housemate↓
Afsana Jungle House↔ Main House↑ Housemate↔
Raqesh Not in House Not in House Housemate↔
Miesha Jungle House↔ Main House↑ Housemate↔
Ieshaan Jungle House↔ Main House↑ Housemate↔
Akasa Jungle House↔ Main House↑ Jungle House↓ Main House↑ Housemate↔
Donal Jungle House↔
Vidhi Jungle House↔
Sahil Jungle House↔
  1. ^ The finalist of Bigg Boss OTT get direct access to Main House.
  2. ^ By winning 'Zeher Ka Keher' Task, Team Tiger Jay, Vishal, Tejasswi and Akasa were upgraded to the Main house.
  3. ^ Due to violation of the rules, All Main House members were downgraded to the Jungle House.
  4. ^ By winning 'The Currency' Task, Karan & Tejasswi, Shamita & Vishal, Umar & Afsana and Sanchalak Nishant were upgraded to Main House.
  5. ^ The last five jungle housemates had to come to a mutual decision of leaving the show or giving up the remaining 25 lakh prize money to stay and get access to Main House, They choose the latter and BB Magical Jungle started disappearing with all housemates in the Main House.
  6. ^ House Captain Umar get to choose 3 more VIP contestants.
  7. ^ By winning the 'BB Mine' Task, Vishal is now VIP Contestant.
  8. ^ By winning the 'Scary Monster' Task, Nishant had got a special power that he could upgrade 2 Common Members to VIPs and downgrade 2 VIPs to Common Members, He upgraded Simba and Pratik and downgraded Tejasswi and Karan.
  9. ^ Due to violation of rules Bigg Boss announced that VIP Zone will be temporarily closed and all became Common Housemates.
  10. ^ The challengers entered as VIPs.
  11. ^ Rakhi wins the 'Ticket to Finale' Task and becomes the sole VIP housemate with others downgraded.
  12. ^ By surviving via public vote Rashmi won 'Ticket To Finale'.

Guest appearances

Week(s) Day(s) Guest(s) Notes
Premiere Night Day 0 Asim Riaz To support his brother Umar
Ranveer Singh To promote The Big Picture
Week 1 Day 1 Mouni Roy For special task
Day 8 Rakhi Sawant For interaction with housemates
Rahul Vaidya, Nia Sharma, Aastha Gill, Meet Bros, Bhoomi Trivedi, Khushboo Grewal and Dhvani Bhanushali Navratri celebration
Arjun Bijlani, Karan Patel, Nikki Tamboli and Neha Bhasin As special panelists
Yohani Special appearance
Week 2 Day 15 Farah Khan To interact with housemates
Bhuvan Bam To promote Dhindora
Bappi Lahiri and Swastik Bansal Celebrating Bappi Lahiri's 50 years in the industry
Week 3 Day 22 Manish Paul For fun task
Hina Khan For fun task
Week 4 Day 29 Rohit Shetty and Katrina Kaif To promote Sooryavanshi
Badshah For fun task
Week 5 Day 30 Rashami Desai, Devoleena Bhattacharjee, Gautam Gulati, Kamya Punjabi For nominations
Day 34 Ranveer Singh and Aayush Sharma For help from Housemates in The Big Picture
Day 37 Bhagyashree, Abhimanyu Dassani and Sanya Malhotra To promote Meenakshi Sundareshwar
Ekta Kapoor, Surbhi Chandna and Anita Hassanandani Announcement of Naagin 6 and for fun task
Week 6 Day 43 Rani Mukherji, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Sharvari Wagh To promote Bunty Aur Babli 2
Kartik Aaryan To promote Dhamaka
Week 7 Day 50 John Abraham and Divya Khosla Kumar To promote Satyameva Jayate 2
Aayush Sharma and Mahima Makwana To promote Antim: The Final Truth
Bharti Singh, Haarsh Limbachiyaa and Mubeen Saudagar To promote the game show
Mahesh Manjrekar To interact with housemates and new wild cards
Week 8 Day 55 Bharti Singh and Haarsh Limbachiyaa For fun task and eviction process
Day 57 Ravi Dubey and Ravi Kishan For the celebration of the success of Matsya Kaand
Vivian Dsena and Eisha Singh To promote Sirf Tum
Suniel Shetty, Ahan Shetty, Tara Sutaria and Sajid Nadiadwala To promote Tadap
Neha Dhupia To interact with housemates and judge
Week 9 Day 64 Raftaar and Surbhi Jyoti To celebrate success of Ghana Kasoota song
Raveena Tandon To promote Aranyak
Sara Ali Khan To promote Atrangi Re
Week 10 Day 72 Farah Khan To host the show
Ayushmann Khurrana and Vaani Kapoor To promote Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui
Week 11 Day 78 Remo D'Souza To promote Moj
Govinda To promote his YouTube channel Govinda Royalles
Kanika Kapoor and Sunny Leone To promote Madhuban
Week 12 Day 85 Shahid Kapoor and Mrunal Thakur To promote Jersey
S.S. Rajamouli, Ram Charan, Jr. NTR and Alia Bhatt To promote RRR
Guru Randhawa and Nora Fatehi To promote Dance Meri Rani song
Week 13 Day 91 Anu Malik To entertain housemates
Dharmendra To interact with housemates
Sheykhar Ravjiani To promote Sheykhar - Rang song
Siddharth Nigam, Jannat Zubair and Ishaan Khan To promote Wallah Wallah song
Palak Tiwari To promote Bijlee Bijlee song
Waluscha De Sousa To promote Bollywood Wala Dance
Bharti Singh and Haarsh Limbachiyaa For fun task
Shilpa Shetty To interact with housemates
Week 14 Day 93 & 94 Munmun Dutta, Akanksha Puri, Surbhi Chandna and Vishal Singh To perform task
Day 99 Arbaaz Khan To challenge housemates
Nia Sharma To promote "Phoonk Le"
Vishal Singh, Neha Bhasin, Rahul Mahajan, Divya Agarwal, Kashmera Shah, Debina Bonnerjee & Geeta Kapoor To Support their favourite housemates
Week 15 Week 106 Kings United For dance performance
Gauahar Khan To unveil Bigg Boss 15 Trophy
Janardhan Baba To predict the future of housemates
Joyeeta Mitra Suvarna, Amith Tyagi & Dibang As expert panellists
Week 16 Day 113 Mithun Chakraborty, Bharti Singh & Haarsh Limbachiyaa To promote "Hunarbaaz: Desh Ki Shaan"
Iulia Vantur & Pragya Jaiswal To promote "Main Chala"
Mika Singh To promote "Majnu"
Week 17 Day 115 RJ Karan and RJ Palak To interview housemates
Day 118 Bharti Singh, Haarsh Limbachiyaa, Siddhartha Dey To interact with housemates
Grand Finale Day 120 Deepika Padukone, Siddhant Chaturvedi, Ananya Panday, Dhairya Karwa To promote Gehraiyaan
Rubina Dilaik, Gautam Gulati, Gauahar Khan, Urvashi Dholakia, Shweta Tiwari To offer ₹10 lakhs cash to the finalists
Shehnaaz Kaur Gill To pay tribute to Sidharth Shukla
Reem Shaikh, Zain Imam and Akshit Sukhija To promote Fanaa: Ishq Mein Marjawaan
Adaa Khan To promote Naagin 6 and reveal the main actress

Weekly summary

The main events in the house are summarised in the table below. A typical week begins with nominations, followed by the luxury budget task, punishment than a task for immunity or anything else and then the eviction of a housemate during the Sunday or Saturday episode called as "Weekend Ka Vaar". Evictions, tasks, and other notable events for a particular week are noted in order of sequence.

Week
1
Entrances
  • On Premiere Night, Jay, Vishal, Tejasswi, Vidhi, Umar, Ieshaan, Donal, Akasa, Karan, Afsana, Miesha Sahil, Simba entered the Jungle House.[34]
  • On Day 1, Pratik, Shamita and Nishant entered the main house.[35]
Twist
  • On Day 1, Bigg Boss announced that the members of the main house would have special powers and they would all be protected from nominations. The contenders for the captaincy will be from the main house. The rest of the contestants have to live in a jungle house with only a kitchen and have to win tasks to reach the main house.[36]
Nominations
  • On Premiere Night, Ieshaan was nominated in a mutual decision between Donal and Ieshaan.[37]
  • On Day 3, All the contestants who live in the Bigg Boss jungle were nominated.[38]
Tasks
  • Entrance Task: On Day 3, the housemates of the jungle were given the task of entering the main house, for which they had to place the puzzle piece on the map to complete the path from the main gate to the glass door to gain entry into the main house.[39]
  • Captaincy Task: On Day 7, in the garden area there were 2 chickens of each captaincy contender. At the sound of the wolf, the people of the jungle will take 1 chicken of a person and feed it to the wolf. The contender who has the most chickens left at the end of the task will be the captain of the house.[40]
Results Entrance Task was cancelled by Bigg Boss on Day 20
Winner (Captaincy Task) – Shamita
Failed (Captaincy Task) – Nishant, Pratik
Punishments On Day 3, All Jungle Housemates were nominated as a result of Pratik damaging the house property.[41]
Exits
  • On Day 8, Sahil Shroff was evicted by public vote.[42]
Week 2 Nominations
  • Main House members are safe. All the jungle housemates will stand near their names boards. Bigg Boss will call 2 jungle housemates and will have to mutually decide who will be nominated.
    • Miesha & Ieshaan: Afsana
    • Karan & Tejasswi: Donal
    • Jay & Umar: Akasa
    • Vidhi & Vishal: Ieshaan
    • Afsana & Simba: Vishal
    • Akasa & Donal: Vidhi
Tasks
  • Daaku Ka Kabza: Jungle inmates are living a difficult life while 3 OTT members have all amenities. One of the main amenities is the mattress. If Jungle inmates want to become housemates then they have to get puzzle pieces and make a pathway to the house. Today's task name is ‘Daaku Ka Kabza’. The housemates will be against jungle inmates in this task. If the jungle inmates win this task then they will have 30 more puzzle pieces but if housemates win this task then jungle inmates will have to give their existing puzzle pieces. In this task, Vishal will lead the gang that has overtaken the house. Tejasswi will be Vishal's wife as a thief, she will take care of Vishal. Jay and Karan will be right and left-hand men of Vishal as chiefs. They will guide Vishal. Akasa, Miesha, Afsana, and Donal will be cook for the gang. They will keep stirring the food. Simba, Ishaan, Umar and Vidhi will be guards of the game. She reads that Shamita, Pratik and Nishant will have to kill the gang members. They will kill from level up, first guards then cook then chiefs and then Vishal. Bigg Boss says only Shamita, Pratik and Nishant will know the ways to kill the jungle inmates. Shamita reads to Pratik and Nishant that if they want to kill the jungle inmate then they have some options. They can kill by:
    • taking their photo
    • take their trimmer
    • take their luggage bag
    • dip their shoe in the paint
    • take their photo when they are angry and show it to Bigg Boss
    • paste ‘killed’ sticker on their back.
  • Zeher Ka Kehar:The tsk will be among jungle housemates. They will be divided into 3 teams;
    • Team Tiger: Jay, Tejasswi, Vishal and Akasa
    • Team Deer: Ieshaan, Donal, Afsana and Simba
    • Team Plant: Karan, Miesha, Vidhi and Umar

In the first round, the teams will take canes from Shamita and use the machine to take out the juice. Only Shamita will decide which team will get how many canes. The team will have to protect their juice from the other team. After the round ends, Shamita will decide which team has the most juice. In the next round, the winner of the first round will take the juice to Pratik and Nishant's lab and get poison from them. They can use that poison to kill other inmates. It's a jungle so tigers can only kill deer. Deers can only kill plants. Plants can only kill tigers. If one team is killed completely then the remaining two teams can kill each other. At the end of the task, the team with the most alive members will win the task and have the chance to be upgraded to main house members and can enter the main house. Shamita will be the referee of the task.

House Captain Shamita Shetty
Notes After winning Zeher Ka Kehar task; Jay, Vishal, Tejasswi and Akasa were upgraded to Main House Members and entered the main house and got luxury items.
Results Winner (Daaku Ka Kabza) – All jungle housemates
Failed (Daaku Ka Kabza) – Nishant, Pratik, Tejasswi
Winner (Zeher Ka Kehar) –Team Tiger (Jay, Akasa, Simba, Vishal)
Failed (Zeher Ka Kehar) - Team Deer (Karan, Miesha, Umar, Vidhi), Team Plant(Ieshaan, Afsana, Donal )
Exits On Day 15, No Eviction took place
Week 3 Nominations
  • On Day 18, Bigg Boss asked all the 15 housemates to name 2 housemates mutually in which their contribution to the show was zero. The 2 housemates will be directly evicted.
  • Right after the eviction, 2nd Nominations Process started in which Captain Nishant has to nominate 8 junglemates for violating the rules. As a result, Karan, Vishal, Miesha, Ieshaan, Umar, Shamita, Afsana and Simba were nominated by captain but all 8 nominated members have a chance to get safe from nomination. Any 4 members mutually can go to the Room of Illusion and They have 2 options.
    • Option 1: To be nominated.
    • Option 2: To nominate any other contestant and save themselves
Round Inmate Options Nominations
Round 1 Shamita Option 1 Shamita
Round 2 Karan Option 1 Karan
Round 3 Afsana Option 2 Vishal
Round 4 Cancelled

Finally, The nominated contestants were Shamita, Karan, Vishal, Ieshaan, Simba, Umar and Miesha

Twist
  • On Day 20, Bigg Boss ordered all the Jungle Housemates to return the path pieces.
  • On Day 21, Vishwasuntree announced that The jungle will be closed and gave 2 options to all the Jungle Housemates i.e., Miesha, Ieshaan, Jay, Pratik, Akasa and Simba
    • Option 1:If they use the rest of the 25 lakh rupees and enter the main house.
    • Option 2:If they do not use the rest of the 25 lakh rupees, they will have to leave the house.

All of them chose the 1st option and the prize money became zero and all Jungle Housemates became Main House Members and The Jungle House was officially closed.

Task
  • Captaincy's Race: This task will be between 3 contenders that is Jay, Pratik and Nishant but the jungle inmates will play an important role. The contenders will have to make a buggy carriage. They have to convince the jungle inmates to make a carriage for them and keep it running on the treadmill. At the end of the task, whoever has run the treadmill the most will win the task. Tejasswi will be the referee of the task and decisions will be final. The jungle inmates will use 7 parts to make a carriage, once Tejasswi approves it then the inmates will start running on the treadmill. Nishant, Pratik and Jay can't take part in the task. They have to convince the jungle inmates to work for them. Shamita, Akasa and Vishal won't help any contender in the task. The jungle inmates have a chance to choose their support.
  • Ticket To Mukhya Ghar:- This task will be between all jungle housemates, They are divided into 6 pairs, Ieshaan & Miesha, Karan & Tejasswi, Jay & Pratik, Shamita & Vishal, Simba & Akasa and Afsana & Umar. Captain Nishant will be the task supervisor. In the task, Bigg Boss will announce the cost of the access card at the beginning of each round. At the sound of the alarm, Bigg Boss will send materials to make BB points. All pairs will run to get the material so they can make their points. The material will be sent through a tunnel. Nishant will decide which pair will get what time to make their points. Nishant will approve their points. All pairs have to protect their BB points. After the round ends, Nishant will accept or reject the BB points. After every round, Nishant will announce the winning pair who will be able to earn the access card, enter the house and then they won't play the next round.
Round Cost of the Ticket Winner
Round 1 5 Lakh Rupees No Winner
Round 2 7 Lakh Rupees Karan & Tejasswi
Round 3 8 Lakh Rupees Simba & Vishal

& a & Vishal

Round 4 10 Lakh Rupees Umar & Afsana
Punishments
  • As a result of violating the rules, All the main house members including the Captain were downgraded to Jungle Housemates and The Main House was sealed.
  • As Ieshaan, Akasa, Umar and Miesha couldn't decide on sending a contestant to the Room of Illusion, Bigg Boss nominated them for that week
House Captain Nishant Bhat
Notes
  • As a result of winning the Ticket To Mukhya Ghar; Karan, Tejasswi, Shamita, Vishal, Umar and Afsana entered the Main House by spending 25 lakhs rupees. All the 6 main house members had to mutually decide whether Nishant should come inside the Main House or not. All members allowed him and Nishant also became the Main House Member.
  • On Day 20, Jungle House Kitchen's gas supply was closed and was replaced by an Induction top
Results Winner (Captaincy's Race) – Nishant
Failed (Captaincy's Race) – Jay, Pratik
Winner (Ticket To Mukhya Ghar) – Karan, Tejasswi, Simba, Vishal, Umar and Afsana
Failed (Ticket To Mukhya Ghar) – Rest of the contestants
Exits
  • On Day 18, Bigg Boss asked all the 15 housemates to evict 2 housemates mutually in which their contribution to the show was zero. As a result, Donal Bisht and Vidhi Pandya were evicted.
  • On Day 22, No eviction took place
Week 4 Entrances

On Day 24, Rajiv Adatia entered the house as the 1st Wild Card Contestant.

Nominations
  • On Day 23, Bigg Boss asked the contestants to choose two candidates who they want to put in nominations. As a result, Vishal, Akasa and Simba were nominated
Task
  • Torture Task:Team A will have Tejasswi, Pratik, Nishant, Miesha, Rajiv and Simba. Team B will have Vishal, Jay, Afsana, Akasa, Umar and Ishaan. Team B will stand in the big alphabets in the garden area and team A will try to make them come out of the alphabets. They will send 2 players at a time. Team A will try to make them lose their positions. Team B will take their places in the alphabet and if they leave the alphabet then you are out of the task. It's on them till when they want to stay in the alphabet. Karan and Urfi will be referees of the task but they can't make their own rules.
Results Task was cancelled by Bigg Boss as the result was drawn and there would be no captain
Exits On Day 29, Akasa Singh was evicted by Public Vote
Week 5 Entrances
  • On Day 35, Neha Bhasin and Raqesh Bapat entered as Wild Cards
Nominations
  • On Day 31, Some celebrities came to save 4 contestants:
    • Rashami Desai saved Vishal
    • Gautam Gulati saved Tejasswi
    • Devoleena Bhattacharjee saved Jay
    • Kamya Punjabi saved Karan
  • On Day 32, Karan, Tejasswi, Jay and Vishal were asked to nominate one contestant. They nominated Miesha
  • The remaining inmates will play a task. Simba will choose one safe inmate to play for his as he has a finger injury. Miesha is nominated so she won't be part of it. In the task, there is a coconut tree, when the buzzer plays then the inmates have to collect coconuts in their baskets, the coconuts will be thrown from the tree by the safe inmates. They have to protect their baskets. When the round ends, then the referee will announce who has the most number of coconuts. The winner of that round will nominate someone else. Simba chooses Vishal as his proxy
Round Winner Nominations
Round 1 Afsana Simba
Round 2 Simba Umar
Round 3 Afsana Nishant
Round 4 Pratik Ieshaan

In the end, Miesha, Simba, Umar, Nishant and Ieshaan were nominated

Tasks
  • House Matters:There will be a family. The family's head is Jay and his wife is Afsana. Jay-Afsana is an irritating uncle-aunt of the house, their kids are Rajiv and Miesha. Miesha is married and Vishal is her husband who lives with Miesha's parents. Rajiv's friend is Ishaan who lives with him. Jay's brother's sons are Nishant and Karan. They are Jay's nephews. Nishant's wife will be Tejasswi and Pratik will be their adopted child. Karan's wife is Shamita and their kids are Simba-Umar. Nishant and Karan's family don't like each other. In the task, each person knows a secret about another person. When the buzzer plays, a person will go to the recording room and tell the secret of another member which they want to eliminate from the task. The 2 members who are left in the end and their secrets are safe will win the task. At the end of each round, the secrets will be exposed and the gift hampers will be given to them.
  • Captaincy Task:. There are Diwali gifts from their families but they have to play a task to get them. This will be a captaincy task between Umar and Miesha. There is a happiness station in the garden which has all the gifts. Bigg Boss will announce the name and then that person can take the gift using fuel. Miesha and Umar will be gas stations so the inmate will have to convince them to give them fuel so they can sit in the car and reach their gifts. It depends on Miesha and Umar to give them fuel or not. Whoever has more fuel, in the end, will become the captain.
Results Winner (House Matters) – Umar, Miesha
Failed (House Matters) – Rest of the contestants
Winner (Captaincy Task) – Umar
Failed (Captaincy Task) – Miesha
Exits
  • On Day 37, Miesha Iyer and Ieshaan Sehgaal were evicted by Public Vote
Week 6 Twist On Day 37, Salman announced that there will be a new zone named VIP Zone. The VIP Members will be eligible for the trophy and can discuss nominations and have special privileges. The VIP Inmates are safe from nominations. The contenders for the captaincy will be from the VIP Zone.
Nominations Rest of the Non VIP Inmates, Neha, Rajiv, Afsana, Jay, Pratik, Simba were nominated.
Task
  • Ticket to VIP Zone: Umar and 3 other inmates will become VIP members. Simba is punished so he won't be part of the task. All inmates will be tied to Umar, till they are tied to him, they can become VIPs. When the gong plays, Umar will let go of 2 inmates and eliminate them from the task. The inmates can eliminate themselves also. 3 Inmates tied to Umar till the end will become VIPs. Umar will be tied to the inmates using ropes and carabiners
  • BB Mine: They can win the VIP zone membership through this task. In the task, the weather of the house will change 6 times. All inmates except VIPs will be miners in the task. In the gold mine, the inmates will try to collect gold as much as they can. VIPs will be shopkeepers who will sell clothes against the gold. When the weather changes, the miners will buy clothes and enter the campsite. The one entering the campsite last will lose that round. Simba won't play for himself as he is punished but he will play on Shamita's behalf as she is injured. The miners will purchase the clothes as per the weather requirement.
  • Luxury Budget Task:Non VIP Inmates can earn ration. In the task, they will hunt eggs in the garden. There are 6 eggs hidden in the garden, they have to find them in 2 minutes. 3 inmates will win the task and get luxury items. VIP members won't be part of the task. Karan will be the referee of the task.
Results Winner (Ticket to VIP Zone) – Karan, Tejasswi and Nishant
Failed (Ticket to VIP Zone) – Rest of the contestants
Winner (BB Mine) – Vishal
Failed (BB Mine) – Pratik, Jay, Urfi, Rajiv, Neha, Simba, Afsana
Winner (Luxury Budget Task) – Rajiv Simba, Jay
Failed (Luxury Budget Task) – Pratik, Neha, Afsana
Punishments
  • Simba was not allowed to take part in the VIP Zone Race for the week as a result of pushing Umar.
  • Bigg Boss took away the ration due to violation of rules.
House Captain Umar Riaz
Notes
  • Since Umar was the Captain, He was upgraded to VIP Zone
Exits
  • On Day 40, Raqesh Bapat left the house due to poor health conditions. Later On Day 43, Salman announced that Raqesh will not be coming back to the show
  • On Day 40, Afsana Khan was ejected due to harming herself with a knife.
Week 7 Nominations Jay, Karan, Neha, Rajiv and Tejasswi were nominated
Twists
  • On Day 50, Salman announced that out of the present 11, Only 5 will go-ahead
Tasks
  • Scary Monster: One VIP member can earn power. The task is a ‘scary monster’, all VIPs will play against each other in the task .that there are 5 boxes allotted to each VIP. They have to fill their boxes with items. There is a monster who will sit on the chair. Pratik, Neha, Simba and Jay will be the monster of this task. They will select two VIPs with the lowest weights and then the monster will eliminate one of them after giving a reason. Rajiv won't part of the task. there will be 4 rounds, after every round, the one with the least items in their box will be out of the tasks. The housemates will check their boxes and announce the winner. The VIP who remains in the task till the end will win it.
Results Winner (Scary Monster) – Nishant
Failed (Scary Monster) – Rest of the VIPs
Notes
  • Nishant had got a special power that he could upgrade 2 Common Members to VIPs and downgrade 2 VIPs to Common Members, He upgraded Simba and Pratik and downgraded Tejasswi and Karan.
Jail On Day 45, VIPs had to decide to send one Non-VIPs to Jail, They chose Rajiv and He was sent to Jail
Exits
  • On Day 44, Shamita Shetty left the house due to health issues
  • On Day 50, There was no eviction
Week 8 Entrances
  • On Day 50, Shamita Shetty re-entered the House
  • On Day 56, Rashami Desai, Rakhi Sawant, Shamita Shetty and Ritesh Kumar entered the House as Wild Cards and became VIP Members
Twist
  • On Day 51, Bigg Boss announced That VIP Zone will be closed and All became Common Members.
Nominations
  • On Day 55, Voot Select Viewers had to save one of their bottom 5 during the Live Task
Notes
  • On Press Conference, The Media chose Jay, Simba, Rajiv, Neha, Vishal and Umar as Bottom 6
Exits
  • On Day 53, Vishal Koitan was evicted
  • Simba Nagpal was evicted by Top 5 Housemates
  • On Day 55, Jay Bhanushali, Neha Bhasin and were evicted by Public Vote
Week 9 Entrances
  • On Day 58, Abhijit Bichukale entered the House as a Wild Card and 5th VIP Member
Nominations
  • Karan, Nishant, Pratik, Tejasswi, Shamita, Umar and Rajiv were nominated.
Twists
  • The VIPs will have the entire prize money i.e.; 50 Lakhs and Non VIPs will have to win tasks to get their prize money and store it in the BB Vault
Tasks
  • BB Games: There are 2 teams, VIPs vs. housemates will play the task. Devoleena will be the captain of her team and Shamita will be the captain of her team. They will be referees and won't take part in the tasks. They will get games from time to time. The winners will earn money in each game, at the end of the task, the winning amount will be transferred to the housemates’ briefcase. The housemates will try to win as many games as they can while VIPs will try to make them lose. The games will start with the announcement. When the buzzer plays, a new game will start. At the end of each game, the captains will announce the winners. They will write their winning amount on the board also.
    • Game 1: The winning amount is 5 lacs. One member from each team will be in the swimming pool. There are coins in the swimming pool, they have to collect them and give them to their team member. The other team member will put their coins in the boxes that are beside the pool, they can't remove the boxes from there. They have to protect their boxes. Shamita and Devoleena will follow these rules only. Bigg Boss asks them to announce who will take part in this game. Devoleena announces that Rashami will go in the pool and Ritesh will be by the pool. Shamita announces that Tejasswi will go in the pool and Umar will be by the pool from their side.
    • Game 2: The winning prize is 10 lacs. There will be two inmates from each other, one will be a horse and the other will sit on his back and play polo. Karan-Tejasswi, Rakhi-Ritesh will play the game. They have to play with a ball and make sure to have more goals. Shamita and Devoleena are referees. Rakhi and Tejasswi will try to the goal while sitting on their partner's backs.
  • Immunity Task: Non-VIP members have a chance to get saved from the nominations. The spider is the VIPs’ friend and each leg of it has a winning prize in it. The non-VIP members have to use clay to make their knives and then break the spider's leg. There will be 3 rounds, in each round, VIPs will give clay to non-VIP members. Then non-VIP members will make their knives and protect them also. The one who makes the full knife will earn immunity and then cut a spider's leg and earn the prize money. But that non-VIP member will have to do 2 sacrifices from the VIPs before cutting the leg. If he or she can't fulfil the sacrifices then they will earn immunity but not the prize amount
Results Task was cancelled by Bigg Boss as the result was draw and The prize money was reduced to 45 Lakhs
Winner (Immunity Task) – Simbaand Nishant
Failed (Immunity Task) – Rest of the Non VIPs
Punishments
  • BB Vault was closed due to Non VIPs breaking the rules
Notes
  • Simba and Nishant won the task and earned 3 Lakhs
Exits
  • No Eviction
Week 10 Twist
Nominations Ritesh & Karan were nominated by housemates
Ticket To Finale Task
Luxury Budget Task
Punishments
House Captain
Notes
Exits Ritesh Kumar was evicted by public votes
Week 11 Exits
  • On Day 78, Rajiv Adatia was evicted by public votes.
Week 12 Exits
  • No Eviction
Week 13 Twist
Nominations
Captaincy Task
Luxury Budget Task
Punishments
House Captain
Notes
Exits
  • No Eviction
Week 14 Twist
Nominations Housemates nominated Karan, Tejasswi, Abhijit & Simba. Umar got nominated by Bigg Boss
Captaincy Task
Luxury Budget Task
Punishments
House Captain
Notes
Exits
  • On Day 99, Umar Riaz was ejected from the house due to physical violence with Pratik Sehajpal
Week 15 Twist
Nominations Rashami & Abhijit were nominated by housemates.
Captaincy Task
Luxury Budget Task
Punishments
House Captain Shamita Shetty
Notes
Exits No eviction took place.
Week 16 Entrances
  • On Day 108, Rajiv Adatia entered the house as a guest.
Twist
Nominations Rajiv nominated Devoleena and Rashami.
Captaincy Task
Luxury Budget Task
Punishments
House Captain Shamita Shetty
Notes
Exits
  • On Day 114, Abhijit Bichukale and Devoleena were evicted by Public Vote.
Week 17 Nominations
Task
Happenings
Exits On Day 116, Rakhi Sawant was evicted by Public Vote.
Grand Finale
Day 120
5th Runner Up Rashami Desai
4th Runner Up Nishant Bhat
3rd Runner Up Shamita Shetty
2nd Runner Up Karan Kundrra
1st Runner Up Pratik Sehajpal
Winner Tejasswi Prakash

Nomination table

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Week 16 Week 17
Day 18 Day 19 Day 53 Day 54 Day 87 Day 89 Day 90 Day 101 Day 104 Day 114 Day 117 Day 120
Nominated for Captaincy No
Captain
Nishant
Pratik
Shamita
Jay
Nishant
Pratik
No
Captain
Miesha
Umar
No
Captain
Karan
Rakhi
Shamita
Tejasswi
No
Captain
House
Captain
Shamita Nishant Umar Shamita
Captain's
Nominations
Not
eligible
Donal
Vidhi
Ieshaan
Miesha
Umar
Simba
Afsana
Shamita
Karan
Vishal
Not
eligible
Tejasswi
(to evict)
Not
eligible
VIP
Members
No
VIP Members
Karan
Nishant
Tejasswi
Vishal
Umar
Nishant
Pratik
Simba
No
VIP Members
Abhijit
Devoleena
Rakhi
Rashami
Ritesh
Rakhi Abhijit
Karan
Rakhi
Rashami
Shamita
Tejasswi
Umar
Karan
Pratik
Rakhi
Shamita
Karan
Nishant
Pratik
Rakhi
Shamita
Tejasswi
No
VIP Members
Vote to: None Evict Save / Evict Task Save Task None Evict Task Evict Task 28-Min Task Evict Task None WIN
Tejasswi No
Nominations
Donal Donal
Vidhi
Exempt Akasa
Simbha
Saved by
Gautam
VIP
Member
Nominated Vishal Safe Nominated Not
eligible
Nominated Not
eligible
Rashami Lost 25:57 mins
Shamita (to evict)
Won Abhijit
Rashami
Lost
Nominated
Won
VIP Member
VIP
Member
No
Nominations
No
Nominations
Winner
(Day 120)
Pratik Safe Exempt Donal
Vidhi
Exempt Jay
Ieshaan
Ieshaan
(to evict)
Nominated VIP
Member
Neha Safe Nominated Not
eligible
Safe Not
eligible
Rashami Won Nominated by
Karan
Lost Rashami
Abhijit
Won
VIP Member
VIP
Member
No
Nominations
No
Nominations
1st runner-up
(Day 120)
Karan No
Nominations
Donal Donal
Vidhi
Karan Vishal
Miesha
Saved by
Kamya
VIP
Member
Nominated Umar Safe Nominated Not
eligible
Nominated Nishant Abhijit Lost 34:02 Mins
Pratik (to evict)
Won Rashami
Abhijit
VIP
Member
No
Nominations
No
Nominations
2nd runner-up
(Day 120)
Shamita Safe House
Captain
Donal
Vidhi
Shamita Ieshaan
Vishal
Not
eligible
Nominated Walked
(Day 44)
Rajiv Safe Nominated Not
eligible
Safe Umar Abhijit Won Nominated by
Tejasswi
Won Abhijit
Rakhi
House Captain
VIP Member
VIP
Member
No
Nominations
No
Nominations
3rd runner-up
(Day 120)
Nishant Safe Exempt House
Captain
Akasa
Vishal
Not
eligible
VIP
Member
Jay Safe Safe Not
eligible
Nominated Devoleena Rashami Won Safe Lost Rakhi
Abhijit
Nominated Won
VIP Member
VIP
Member
No
Nominations
No
Nominations
Walked, 4th runner-up
(Day 120)
Rashami Not In House VIP
Member
Umar Safe Umar Abhijit Nominated 33:58 mins Won Abhijit
Tejasswi
Lost Lost Nominated No
Nominations
No
Nominations
5th runner-up
(Day 120)
Rakhi Not In House VIP
Member
Karan
Nishant
VIP
Member
Not
eligible
Abhijit VIP
Member
Shamita
Nishant
VIP
Member
No
Nominations
Evicted
(Day 117)
Abhijit Not In House VIP
Member
Umar Nominated Not
eligible
Rashami Nominated 01:09 hrs Won Rashami
Shamita
Nominated Lost Nominated Evicted
(Day 114)
Devoleena Not In House VIP
Member
Umar Safe Not
eligible
Rashami Won Nominated By
Rashami
Lost Abhijit
Tejasswi
Lost Lost Nominated Evicted
(Day 114)
Umar No
Nominations
Akasa Donal
Vidhi
Rejected Simba
Ieshaan
Not
eligible
House Captain
VIP Member
VIP
Member
BTM 5 BTM 6 Nominated Not
eligible
Nominated Shamita Abhijit Lost 34-35 mins Won
Nominated
Ejected
(Day 99)
Rajiv Not In House Vishal
Miesha
Not
eligible
Nominated Nominated BTM 5 BTM 6 Safe Not
eligible
Nominated Evicted
(Day 78)
Guest
(Days 108–114)
Left
(Day 114)
Ritesh Not In House VIP
Member
Tejasswi Nominated Evicted
(Day 78)
Jay No
Nominations
Akasa Donal
Vidhi
Exempt Pratik
Vishal
Saved by
Devoleena
Nominated Nominated BTM 5 BTM 6 Evicted
(Day 54)
Neha Not In House Nominated Nominated BTM 5 BTM 6 Evicted
(Day 55)
Vishal No
Nominations
Ieshaan Donal
Vidhi
Not
eligible
Akasa
Simba
Saved by
Rashami
VIP
Member
BTM 5 BTM 6 Evicted
(Day 54)
Simba No
Nominations
Vishal Donal
Vidhi
Rejected Ieshaan
Akasa
Umar
(to evict)
Nominated VIP
Member
BTM 5 Evicted By Housemates
(Day 53)
Afsana No
Nominations
Vishal Donal
Vidhi
Vishal Akasa
Simba
Simba
Nishant
(to evict)
Not
eligible
Ejected
(Day 40)
Raqesh Not In House Not
eligible
Walked
(Day 40)
Ieshaan No
Nominations
Afsana Donal
Vidhi
Rejected Akasa
Simba
Not
eligible
Evicted
(Day 36)
Miesha No
Nominations
Afsana Donal
Vidhi
Rejected Vishal
Umar
Nominated Evicted
(Day 35)
Akasa No
Nominations
Vishal Donal
Vidhi
Exempt Vishal
Afsana
Evicted
(Day 29)
Donal No
Nominations
Vidhi Donal
Vidhi
Evicted By Housemates
(Day 18)
Vidhi No
Nominations
Ieshaan Donal
Vidhi
Evicted By Housemates
(Day 18)
Sahil S No
Nominations
Evicted
(Day 8)
Notes 1,2,3 3 4 5 6 7, 8 9,10,11 11,12,13 14 15 None
Against
Public
Vote
Afsana
Akasa
Donal
Ieshaan
Jay
Karan
Miesha
Sahil
Simba
Tejasswi
Umar
Vidhi
Vishal
Afsana
Akasa
Donal
Ieshaan
Vidhi
Vishal
None Ieshaan
Karan
Miesha
Shamita
Simba
Umar
Vishal
Akasa
Simba
Vishal
Ieshaan
Miesha
Nishant
Simba
Umar
Jay
Pratik
Rajiv
Shamita
Simba
Jay
Karan
Pratik
Rajiv
Simba
Tejasswi
Jay
Rajiv
Simba
Umar
Vishal
Jay
Rajiv
Umar
Vishal
Karan
Nishant
Pratik
Rajiv
Shamita
Tejasswi
Umar
Karan
Nishant
Pratik
Shamita
Tejasswi
Umar
Abhijit
Karan
Nishant
Rajiv
Ritesh
Tejasswi
Umar
Nishant
Pratik
Shamita
Umar
Abhijit
Karan
Pratik
Shamita
Tejasswi
Umar
Nishant
Pratik
Umar
Abhijit
Nishant
Tejasswi
Abhijit
Devoleena
Rashami
Karan
Nishant
Pratik
Shamita
Tejasswi
Karan
Nishant
Pratik
Rashami
Shamita
Tejasswi
Re-entered None Shamita None
Left None Rajiv None
Guest None Rajiv None
Walked None Raqesh Shamita None
Ejected None Afsana None Umar None
Evicted Sahil S No
Eviction
Donal No
Eviction
Akasa Miesha No
Eviction
Simba Jay No
Eviction
Rajiv No
Eviction
Abhijit Rakhi Rashami Nishant Shamita
Vidhi Ieshaan Vishal Ritesh Devoleena Karan
Neha Pratik Tejasswi

Color Key

  indicates the House Captain.
  indicates VIP Member.
  indicates that the Housemate was directly nominated for eviction prior and during regular nominations process.
  indicates that the housemate has Re-Entered.
  indicates that the Housemate was granted immunity from nominations.
  indicates the Housemate was ejected
  indicates the contestant has walked out of the show.
  indicates the contestant has been evicted by housemates.
  indicates the contestant has been evicted.

Notes

  • ^1 : Donal and Ieshaan were given a condition to return to the Bigg Boss Jungle, the condition was one of them should be nominated in this week, Ieshaan was nominated in a mutual decision.
  • ^2 : Bigg Boss nominated all housemates in the BB Jungle, for Pratik's behaviour and for damaging the Bigg Boss property.
  • ^3 : The main house members are safe from nominations.
  • ^4 : As a punishment for not following the house rules, all housemates had to mutually decide to evict two housemates immediately from the house.
  • ^5 : Captain Nishant had to nominate 8 housemates. Those 8 housemates took part in a Room of illusions Task to get a chance to save themselves.
  • ^6 : No Captain during this week's nominations.
  • ^7 : 4 celebrities entered the house for nominations and had the power to save one housemate each. Rashami Desai saved Vishal, Gautam Gulati saved Tejasswi, Devoleena saved Jay, Kamya saved Karan.
  • ^8 : Karan, Tejasswi, Jay and Vishal had the power to nominate one housemate directly for eviction. They nominated Miesha.
  • ^9 : Raqesh left the house due to a poor health condition
  • ^10 : Afsana was ejected from the house due to harming herself with a knife
  • ^11 : VIP Members are safe from Nominations
  • ^12 : Shamita left the house due to health issues
  • ^13 : After Nishant won the task, He got a special power to replace 2 VIPs with 2 Non VIPs, They replaced Karan and Tejasswi with Simba and Pratik.
  • ^14 : All 5 Safe Housemates Have to save 1 bottom housemate each from getting Evicted, Since No one saved Simba, He was evicted
  • ^15 : The Voting Lines were opened for the Bottom 5 for Live Task, Out of 5, Jay, Vishal and Neha received the Least Votes and were evicted
  • ^16 : The Top 5 finalists were offered ₹10 lakhs but to obtain the sum of money, they had to walk out of the show. Nishant agreed and thus walked out with the money.

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