Bigg Boss Kannada

Bigg Boss Kannada (BBK) is the

The house would be usually well-furnished and decorated. It would have all the modern amenities and a large, common bedroom with beds for all contestants. There was an addition in the form of a luxurious single bedroom for the captain starting from second season. The house would also have common toiletries, swimming pool, gymnasium and spacious gardens. Apart from these, show specific activity areas and a small sound-proof room with controlled entrance called as the 'confession room' is built in the house where the housemates would be called in by the Bigg Boss for nomination process and other conversational activities.[5] A secret room with bed and other facilities was incorporated into the house starting from season 2 where an evicted contestant, if selected by the Bigg Boss to continue the game, would be retained in this room for a week or two and would be put back into the game.

The House has no television connection (except for the day where the show host Sudeep converses with the contestants through the TV), no telephones, no access to internet, no clocks, no articles to write, complying with the rules of Big Brother around the world.

The house was completely reduced to ashes on 22 February 2018, and had to be rebuilt for the sixth season.^[6]

The 'Eye' logo

Each season gets its own 'Eye' logo similar to the

While all the rules have never been disclosed to the audience, the most prominent ones are clearly seen.[7] The inmates should talk in Kannada at all times however, minimal use of English is allowed. The property of the house including the electronic equipment and the furniture should not be tampered or damaged by the housemates. The housemates can not leave the house premises at any time except when permitted to. Sleeping during the day time is prohibited and the contestants are allowed to sleep only when the lights go off in the night. Liquor is abandoned and the housemates with smoking habits can only smoke in the smoking area and are not allowed to smoke in any other parts of the house. A housemate can not assault another housemate physically; failing to follow this rule would result in Elimination of the assaulter from the house.

Nomination

Nomination is a mandatory activity, usually taking place on first day of the week in which all housemates need to take part unless directed by Bigg Boss. Each housemate nominates two other housemates for eviction. Housemates getting maximum nomination votes will be nominated for eviction from the house in that week and undergoes public vote (through SMS) for retention. On the weekend episode, usually one contestant with lowest public votes will be evicted from the house. A housemate may also be directly nominated for eviction by that week's captain of the house or for other reasons by the Bigg Boss. Housemates who are awarded 'immunity' can not be nominated by other contestants. Immunity is automatically given to the week's captain and can be earned by contestants through winning specific tasks or achieving secret tasks given by Bigg Boss. Sometimes, the captain can make a contestant immune from nomination upon Bigg Boss' direction. The housemates are not allowed to discuss about the nominations or the nomination process with each other.

House captaincy

The captaincy concept was introduced in the second season. A captain is selected for every week by the Bigg Boss through specific tasks or elected by the housemates. A captain will have additional privileges in the form of immunity from nomination for that particular week, exemption from participating in the task activities and a separate bedroom with facilities more than that of other contestants. The captain will be exempted from nomination procedure for his/her captaincy week and will have power to either nominate a housemate directly or make a housemate immune from nomination or rescue a nominated housemate, depending on Bigg Boss' decisions. Captain's main duty is to supervise the weekly task and make sure the conditions and stipulations are met and task is performed well to procure the 'luxury budget' for the next week. Captains should also keep an eye on house rules and may punish a housemate for violating the rules.

Broadcast

Bigg Boss Kannada is first aired on

The sixth season premiered on 21 October 2018.

The seventh season was moved back to Colors Kannada and an 'all-celebrity' model was re-introduced for the show. The show premiered on 13 October 2019^[14] and 18 celebrity contestants entered the house. Time-slot was also pushed to 9:00 pm to 10:30 pm with high-definition simulcast on Colors Kannada HD. All the episodes and daily highlights were made available on Voot platform after original airing. Voting continued to be exclusive to Voot platform and exclusive content in the form of 'Deep Agi Nodi' ('Watch it Deep'), 'Unseen Kathegalu' ('Unseen Stories'), 'Bigg Inn', 'Voot Weekly' and 'Voot Fryday' were produced. It was made possible for the audience to choose the Friday task for the contestants through 'Voot Fryday'; audience were also able to record and send a video of themselves sharing their opinions on the fellow contestants through 'Video Vichaara', through the Voot app and selected videos would be shown on the TV inside the Bigg Boss house. Another change was brought to the eviction episode where on the Saturday episode, the saved contestants would be declared, reducing the nominated contestants to 2 or 3 of which one would be evicted on the Sunday episode as opposed to the previous seasons where the evictions used to happen on the Saturday episode.

Series details

Bigg Boss Mini Season

Bigg Boss OTT

Note

Housemate summary

Seasons	S1	S2	S3	44	S5	S6	S7	S8	MS	OTT S1	S9	S10	S11
Order of Entry	Housemates
1	Narendra Babu Sharma	Akul Balaji	Bhavana Belagere	Pratham	Jaya Sreenivasan	Sonu Patil	Kuri Pratap	Dhanushree	Akul Balaji	Roopesh Shetty	Arun Sagar	Namratha Gowda
2	Leelavathi S M	Deepika Kamaiah	Chandan Kumar	Sheetal Shetty	Megha	Andrew Jaypaul	Priyanka Shivanna	Shubha Poonja	Kiran Raj	Aryavardhan	Mayuri Kyatari	Snehith Gowda
3	Arun Sagar	Laya kokolla	Huccha Venkat	Shalini Satyanarayan	Dayal Padmanabhan	Jayashree	Ravi Belagere	Shankar Ashwath	Kaustuba Mani	Rakesh Adiga	Deepika Das	Eshani Chandrashekar
4	Shwetha Pandit	Harshika Poonacha	Jayashree Ramaiah	Kirik Keerthi	Sihi Kahi Chandru	Rakesh	Chandana Ananthakrishna	Vishwanath Haveri	Chandana Ananthakrishna	Sanya Iyyer	Nawaz	Vinay Gowda
5	Vinayak Joshi	Santhosh	Kruthika Ravindra	Malavika Avinash	Shruthi Prakash	Murali	Vasuki Vaibhav	Vaishnavi Gowda	Prerna Kambam	Jashwanth	Divya Uruduga	Santhosh Kumar
6	Aparna	Neethu Shetty	Madhuri Itagi	Kavya Shastri	Anupama Gowda	Akshatha Pandavapura	Deepika Das	Aravind KP	Abhinav Vishwanathan	Sonu Sreenivas Gowda	Darsh Chandrapa	Neethu Vanajakshi
7	Anushree	Anitha Bhat	Master Anand	Bhuvan Ponnanna	Riyaz Basha	Rakshitha Rai	Jai Jagadish	Nidhi Subbaiah	Dhanush Gowda	Jayashree Aradhya	Prashant Sambaragi	Siri Sirija
8	Thilak Shekar	Srujan Lokesh	Neravanda Aiyappa	Sanjana Chidanand	Niveditha Gowda	Rapid Rashmi	Gurulinga Swamy	Geeta Bhat	Bhavya Gowda	Arjun Ramesh	Amulya Gowda	Snake Shyam
9	Nikitha Thukral	Rohith Patel	Neha Gowda	Chaitra	Sameer Acharya	Adam Pasha	Bhoomi Shetty	Shamanth Gowda	Vaishnavi	Lokesh	Roopesh Shetty	Bhagyashree Rao
10	Vijay Raghavendra	Shweta Chengappa	Pooja Gandhi	Dodda Ganesh	Karthik Jayaram	Kavitha Gowda	Kishan Belagali	Manju Pavagada	Trivikram	Uday Surya	Saanya Iyer	Gaurish Akki
11	Chandrika	Mayur Patel	Tsunami Kitty	Vanishree	Ashitha Chandrappa	AV Ravi	Duniya Rashmi	Divya Suresh	Gagan Chinappa	Nandini	Vinod Gobragala	Michael Ajay
12	Jayalakshmi	Anupama Bhat	Ravi Mooruru	Niranjan Deshpande	Diwakar	Shashi Kumar	Chandan Achar	Chandrakala Mohan	Ramola	Spoorthi Gowda	Neha Gowda	Drone Pratap
13	Rishi Kumar (WC)	Aadhi Lokesh	Rehman Haseeb	Karunya Ram	Tejaswini Prakash	Reema Das	Sujatha Satyanarayan	Raghu Gowda	Niranjan Deshpande	Chaithra Halikeri	Roopesh Rajanna	Tanisha Kuppanda
14	Rohan Gowda (WC)	Shakeela	RJ Nethra	Mohan Shankar	Chandan Shetty	Naveen Sajju	Raju Talikote	Prashanth Sambargi	Ritvvik Mathad	Somanna Machimada	Rakesh Adiga	Rakshak Sena
15	Rishika Singh (WC)	Guruprasad (WC)	Shruthi	Rekha	Suma Rajkumar	Sneha Acharya	Chaitra Vasudevan	Divya Uruduga	Nayana	Kiran Yogeshwar	Aryavardhan	Sangeetha Sringeri
16	Yogesh (actor) (Guest)	Bullet Prakash (Guest)	Mithra (WC)	Om Prakash Rao (WC)	Jagan Chandrashekhar	Anand Malagatti	Chaitra Kotooru	Rajeev	Yashasvini	Akshata Kukki	Aishwarya Pissay	Santhosh Varthur
17	Rajesh (Guest)	None	Gowthami Gowda (WC)	Sukrutha Wagle (WC)	Krishi Thapanda	Naina Puttaswamy	Shine Shetty	Nirmala Chennappa	None		Kavyashree Gowda	Karthik Mahesh
18	None		Sushma Veer (WC)	Masthan Chandra (WC)	Vaishnavi Menon (WC)	Dhanraj	Harish Raj	Chakravarthy Chandrachud(WC)			Anupama Gowda	Avinash Shetty
19	None				Lasya Nagraj (WC)	Jeevitha (WC)	RJ Prithvi (WC)	Priyanka Thimmesh(WC)			None	Pavi Poovappa
20					Samyuktha Hegde(Guest)	Meghashree (WC)	Raksha Somashekar (WC)	Vyjayanthi Adiga (WC)				None
Total	17	16	18	18	20	20	20	20	16	16	18	19
Winner   Runner-up   Finalist

Bigg Boss OTT

The series is also set to roll out a digital version of the show called Bigg Boss OTT, which is also going to be hosted by Sudeepa and broadcast by Voot for 24×7 coverage. The series is set to launch on 6 August 2022 at 7pm.^[16][17] Roopesh Shetty emerged as winner (Show Topper) Karthik

Awards and nominations

Sponsorship

Each season has grown in terms of revenue and has attracted prominent brands to sponsor the show.^[20] The sponsors receive the privilege of getting their brands advertised on the show, in the house as well as during the commercial breaks. Few tasks on the show would be designed in a way such that the brand gets advertised directly. Household articles such as pillows and coffee mugs would usually contain the branding from the sponsor. The sponsors for the show until date are listed in the table below.

Reception

The first season of the show became popular^[21] and turned out to be a TRP magnet,^[22] eventually becoming the No.1 reality show in South India.^[23]

Bigg Boss Kannada moved to

The show returned to Viacom 18[30] with Sudeep signing to host the next five seasons.^[31] The third season was aired on Colors Kannada (rebranded from ETV Kannada) and witnessed a slight fall in the TRP because of a controversy involving a fellow housemate following his immediate elimination.^[32][33] A year later, during the press meet for the fourth season, it was clarified that the TRP fall was a false claim and the ratings actually went up after the elimination.^[34]

The fame of the show as of fourth season reached to an extent where the film producers from the Kannada Film Industry and the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce held a protest in front of Innovative Film City in Bidadi, where the Bigg Boss house is located, demanding the actors not to participate or host reality shows on television, also tried to impose a ban on the show because of its popularity affecting the performances of movies in the box office.^[35]

The

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