Bigg Boss (Hindi season 6)

Bigg Boss 6 is the sixth season of the Indian reality TV show Bigg Boss, which is telecast on the TV channel Colors. Bigg Boss is the Indian edition of Big Brother TV series. The season started from 7 October 2012. Salman Khan, who was the host of the previous two seasons, returned as the host for the show.[1] The sixth season was launched as a Parivarik season with a Gujarati tagline- Alag che! (English: It's different). The producers claimed that the contestants on Bigg Boss 6 will be presented with a cleaner, more "family like image". The prize money was reduced to ₹5 million (US$70,100.00) with an amount of 500,000s awarded to the "most entertaining" housemate each week from week 6 onwards. The award was discontinued after four weeks for unknown reasons.Atul Kapoor is the voice of Bigg Boss from season 1 to present.

Bigg Boss
Season 6
Title of season 6
Presented by	Salman Khan
No. of days	97
No. of housemates	19
Winner	Urvashi Dholakia
Runner-up	Imam Siddique
Country of origin	India
Release
Original network	Colors TV
Original release	7 October 2012 – 12 January 2013
Season chronology

The series was won by soap actress Urvashi Dholakia on 12 January 2013. Imam Siddiqui was the first runner up while Sana Khan and Niketan Madhok were second and third runners-up respectively.

Sana Khan returned as challenger to compete with champions in Bigg Boss Halla Bol!. However she was evicted first on Day 14.

The final episode on 12 January had a 4.4 TVR (television rating points), becoming the highest-rated non-fiction show during the week.[2] The finale also fared better than its previous season, which had dropped to 3.6 TVR. In the fourth season, the finale had rated a 6.7 TVR. The show averaged 3.3 TVR in the week ended 12 January compared to 2.8 in the trailing week.[3]

The game

House themes

Luxury house

The purpose built house is located at Lonavla, Maharashtra. It is designed by renowned art director Sabu Cyril. The house is built over an area of 15000 square feet. Featuring a more subtle and home-like feel with shades of red and white, it follows a completely different look from the previous year's house.

Rooms/Areas in the house include

• Confession room
• Captain's Quarters (the reward room)
• Living room
• Kitchen/Dining room
• The utility room
• Two separate bedrooms, along with storage shelves to store the housemates possessions
  • One with Sunflower beds, wherein the petals act as beds, other with normal beds
• Bathroom
• Garden area which has a small pool with four white chairs placed next it

Secret Village

The Padosi Ghar (Neighbour house) or the Secret village was revealed on Day 41, following the eviction of Aashka. Bigg Boss revealed that this year some evicted housemates and new entries will move to the village house where they will live for an undisclosed amount of time. Eventually, some of the housemates living in the village may return to the main house. The house is built on grounds adjacent to the luxury house on a space only one-fourth of the size of the former. This rustic squatters' area has been designed by Leena Chanda. It is not equipped with amenities like air conditioning, microwave ovens, sink and swimming pool.[4] 4 days after re-entering the village house Imam was relocated to the main house. 6 days after Imam was moved, the village was intruded by masked men who destroyed the house completely and abducted all five housemates in an attempt of move them to the main house via a tunnel.

Rooms/areas in the village include

• A small confession room
• Single bedroom consisting of 6 beds
• A well
• Couches have been replaced with chatayis for comfort on the floor
• A vintage television set which shows live feed from the main luxury house

Housemates Status

Housemates	Entered	Exited	Result
Urvashi	Day 1	Day 97	Winner
Imam	Day 41	Day 97	1st Runner Up
Sana	Day 1	Day 97	2nd Runner-up
Niketan	Day 1	Day 97	3rd Runner-up
Rajeev	Day 1	Day 96	Evicted
Delnaaz	Day 1	Day 94	Evicted
Sapna	Day 1	Day 90	Evicted
Aashika	Day 1	Day 83	Evicted
Karishma	Day 1	Day 24	Walked
	Day 41	Day 80	Evicted
Vishal	Day 34	Day 76	Evicted
Santosh	Day 46	Day 69	Evicted
Dinesh	Day 1	Day 6	Evicted
	Day 42	Day 66	Evicted
Mink	Day 29	Day 62	Evicted
Vrajesh	Day 1	Day 62	Evicted
Sidhu	Day 1	Day 34	Walked
Sampat	Day 1	Day 34	Evicted
Aseem	Day 1	Day 27	Evicted
Sayantani	Day 1	Day 20	Evicted
Kashif	Day 1	Day 13	Evicted
Jyoti	Day 46	Day 51	Guest

Housemates

Original entrants

The participants in the order of appearance and entrance in the house are:[5]

• Navjot Singh Sidhu – Former Indian cricketer and Indian Member of Parliament from Amritsar (Lok Sabha constituency).[6][7] He appeared as a judge on The Great Indian Laughter Challenge for all for its seasons and also acted in the serial Kyaa Hoga Nimmo Kaa which starred Sanjeeda Sheikh.
• Sana Khan – Actress, model and dancer.[8][9] Sana has appeared in many films like Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal (in item song Bilo Rani) and Halla Bol.
• Vrajesh Hirjee – Actor. He is known for appearing in films such as Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai, Tum Bin, Rehnaa Hai Terre Dil Mein, Kucch To Hai, Krishna Cottage, Fanaa, Golmaal, Salaam-E-Ishq, Heyy Babyy, Sunday and Golmaal Returns. He also appeared in the show Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin.
• Sampat Pal Devi – Social activist. She is the founder and leader of a group of women activists in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state's Banda District, called the "Gulabi Gang".
• Urvashi Dholakia – Television actress. She is known for playing the role of Komolika in the show Kasautii Zindagii Kay.
• Aashka Goradia – Television actress. She is known for her role of Kumud in the show Kkusum and later appeared in shows like Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, Kahiin to Hoga, Sinndoor Tere Naam Ka and Laagi Tujhse Lagan. She participated in Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi in 2011.
• Dinesh Lal Yadav – Bhojpuri actor.
• Delnaaz Irani – Actress who separated from her marriage to fellow contestant Rajev Paul in 2010. She is known for playing the role of Sweety in Kal Ho Naa Ho. She also appeared in shows like Karam Apnaa Apnaa, Baa Bahoo Aur Baby and Kya Huaa Tera Vaada. She participated in the reality show Nach Baliye.
• Sapna Bhavnani – Celebrity hairstylist.
• Rajeev Paul – Indian television and theatre actor and writer who split from his marriage to fellow contestant Delnaaz Irani in 2010. He is known for his role of Deven Garg in the Ekta Kapoor show Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii. He later participated in Nach Baliye.
• Sayantani Ghosh – Model, television and film actress. She is known for her role of Amrita in the Zee TV show Naaginn. She also appeared in shows like Kumkum – Ek Pyara Sa Bandhan, Sabki Laadli Bebo, Geet – Hui Sabse Parayi and Mrs. Kaushik Ki Paanch Bahuein.
• Niketan Madhok – Model.
• Karishma Kotak – Model. Karishma is a model born from London.
• Kashif Qureshi – Non-celebrity martial arts trainer. He got selected to be the "Common Man" (non-celebrity) via auditions held across India.

Wild Card Entrants

• Mink Brar – Model, actress and producer.[10][11]
• Vishal Karwal – Television actor.[12]
• Imam Siddique – Fashion stylist and reality television personality.[13][14]
• Santosh Shukla – Actor.[15]

Guest appearances

• Daler Mehndi, Mona Lisa, Himesh Reshammiya and Rani Mukherjee made appearances on the premier of the season to welcome housemates to the new house.
• On 13 October 2012, Producer/Director Karan Johar and Bollywood Actors Alia Bhatt, Varun Dhawan and Sidharth Malhotra appeared on the eviction interview night to promote their upcoming film Student of the Year.
• On 20 October 2012, Bollywood Actors Sanjay Dutt, Sonakshi Sinha and Ajay Devgn appeared on the eviction interview night to promote their upcoming film Son of Sardaar.
• On 27 October 2012, Bollywood Actress Preity Zinta appeared on the eviction interview night to promote her upcoming film and production Ishkq in Paris.
• On 3 November 2012, Bigg Boss 4 winner Shweta Tiwari and finalist Dolly Bindra appeared on the eviction interview night.
• On 10 November 2012, Producer/Director & Salman's brother Arbaaz Khan appeared on the eviction interview night to promote Khan's upcoming film Dabangg 2. Hip hop singer and rapper Hard Kaur also appeared on the same night.
• On 24 November 2012, Bigg Boss 1 contestant and item girl Rakhi Sawant entered the Village as a guest for a short amount of time.
• On 28 November 2012, Actress Anjana Das and Stand-up comedian Bharti Singh entered the house as part of a task for a short amount of time.
• On Day 5 in the village, Jyoti Amge entered as a guest and stayed in the house for five days.
• On 30 November 2012, Kareena Kapoor to have the first look of her song Fevicol se in Dabangg 2.
• On 8 December 2012, Akshay kumar and Asin to promote their movie Khiladi 786.
• On 15 December 2012, Rashmi Desai appeared to flirt with Salman Khan.
• On 22 December 2012, Bipasha Basu appeared on the Eviction episode to promote her new fitness album "Break Free".
• On 29 December 2012, Anil Kapoor and Jacqueline Fernandez appeared on the eviction interview night to promote their movie Race 2.
• On 12 January 2013, Emraan Hashmi to promote his film Ek Thi Daayan. Prabhu Deva and Remo D'Souza to promote their film ABCD: Anybody Can Dance. Neha Dhupia, Tusshar Kapoor and comedians to promote their show "Nautanki". Yana Gupta to perform in the "Bigg Boss House". Asha Negi, Pooja Gaur, Rashami Desai and Rati Pandey to perform with Sampat Pal Devi on the "Bigg Boss" stage, Kapil Sharma for a comedy act. All of the evicted contestants also appeared for the Grand Finale.

Nominations 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
														Day 63	Day 66		Day 80	Day 81	Day 83	Day 84	Day 91	Day 97
Nominees for Captaincy		Aashka Aseem Delnaaz Dinesh Karishma Kashif Niketan Rajev Sampat Sana Sapna Sayantani Urvashi Vrajesh	No Captain	Aashka Aseem Delnaaz Karishma Niketan Rajev Sampat Sana Sapna Sayantani Urvashi Vrajesh	Aashka Aseem Delnaaz Karishma Niketan Rajev Sampat Sana Sapna Urvashi Vrajesh	Aashka Delnaaz Niketan Urvashi	Rajev Sana Urvashi		Rajev Sana Vishal		Delnaaz Karishma Niketan		No Captain	Imam Sana Sapna Vishal		Delnaaz Imam	Delnaaz Imam Karishma Niketan Rajev Sana Sapna Urvashi Vishal		Delnaaz Imam Niketan Rajev Sana Sapna Urvashi		No Captain
House Captain		Niketan		Vrajesh	Delnaaz	Aashka	Urvashi		Rajev	Sana	Karishma			Sapna		Delnaaz	Imam		Niketan
Captain's Nomination		Sampat Sana (to save)		Not eligible	Sidhu (to save)	Sampat	Sapna		Captaincy Removed	Vishal Delnaaz (to save)	Rajev Delnaaz Urvashi Sana Vishal			Not eligible	Karishma Aashka Urvashi	Imam	Not eligible		Imam Delnaaz	Imam
Vote to:		Evict		Save	Evict								None	Evict	Save	Evict	Win	None	Evict
	Urvashi	Karishma Sapna	Niketan Rajev	Sidhu Aashka	Aseem Sampat	Niketan Vrajesh	House Captain		Vrajesh Delnaaz		Vishal Sana		No Nominations	Delnaaz Aashka	Niketan Santosh	Vishal Rajev	Niketan Delnaaz Urvashi	Not eligible	Imam Delnaaz	Delnaaz Sapna	No Nominations	Winner (Day 97)
Imam		Not In House							Secret Village (Days 41–42)	Ejected (Day 42)	Secret Village (Days 42–51)		No Nominations	Dinesh Rajev	Sana Delnaaz	Sapna Niketan	House Captain		Urvashi Delnaaz	Rajev Urvashi	No Nominations	1st Runner Up (Day 97)
	Sana	Aseem Dinesh	Sampat Sayantani	Karishma Aashka	Sampat Karishma	Sapna Niketan	Vrajesh Niketan		House Captain		Urvashi Delnaaz		No Nominations	Urvashi Karishma	Aashka Delnaaz	Karishma Sapna	Delnaaz Aashka Rajev	Nominated	Imam Sapna	Sapna Urvashi	No Nominations	2nd Runner Up (Day 97)
Niketan		House Captain	Kashif Urvashi	Sidhu Karishma	Sampat Aashka	Sapna Sana	Sana Sapna		Sapna Vrajesh		Sana Vishal		No Nominations	Vishal Santosh	Urvashi Karishma	Vishal Sana	Urvashi Niketan Karishma	Not eligible	House Captain		No Nominations	3rd Runner Up (Day 97)
	Rajev	Aseem Dinesh	Kashif Aseem	Delnaaz Sidhu	Sampat Karishma	Sapna Sana	Vrajesh Aashka		Sapna Vrajesh		Urvashi Vishal		No Nominations	Vishal Karishma	Sana Delnaaz	Vishal Aashka	Urvashi Delnaaz Rajev	Not eligible	Imam Sapna	Sapna Urvashi	No Nominations	Evicted (Day 96)
	Delnaaz	Sampat Sana	Sampat Karishma	Sidhu Aashka	House Captain	Sana Sapna	Niketan Mink		Sapna Mink		Urvashi Vishal		No Nominations	Urvashi Rajev	Aashka Sana	House Captain	Urvashi Aashka Delnaaz	Not eligible	Imam Sapna	Sana Urvashi	No Nominations	Evicted (Day 94)
	Sapna	Aashka Urvashi	Rajev Sampat	Aseem Sampat	Nominated	Sana Vrajesh	Niketan Mink		Rajev Urvashi		Vishal Urvashi		No Nominations	House Captain		Vishal Sana	Urvashi Delnaaz Rajev	Nominated	Imam Delnaaz	Sana Urvashi	Evicted (Day 90)
	Aashka	Karishma Sapna	Sampat Kashif	Sidhu Delnaaz	Karishma Niketan	House Captain	Vrajesh Niketan		Secret Village (Days 41–56)				No Nominations	Urvashi Imam	Sana Delnaaz	Rajev Karishma	Delnaaz Urvashi Sana	Nominated	Evicted (Day 83)
	Karishma	Aashka Urvashi	Sampat Kashif	Sidhu Sapna	Nominated	Walked (Day 24)			Vrajesh Rajev		House Captain		No Nominations	Sana Imam	Niketan Urvashi	Sana Vishal	Niketan Urvashi Delnaaz	Evicted (Day 80)
Vishal		Not In House					Exempt		Vrajesh Mink		Urvashi Rajev	Secret Village (Days 55–56)	No Nominations	Niketan Rajev	Sana Santosh	Rajev Aashka	Evicted (Day 78)
Santosh		Not In House									Secret Village (Days 48–56)		No Nominations	Rajev Niketan	Vishal Karishma	Evicted (Day 69)
	Dinesh	Karishma Sapna	Evicted (Day 6)						Secret Village (Days 42–57)				No Nominations	Imam Aashka	Evicted (Day 66)
Mink		Not In House				Exempt	Aashka Sana		Delnaaz Vishal		Vishal Sana		No Nominations	Evicted (Day 62)
	Vrajesh	Sampat Sana	Kashif Rajev	House Captain	Rajev Sapna	Sapna Sana	Aashka Rajev		Sapna Vishal		Secret Village (Days 48–56)		No Nominations	Evicted (Day 62)
	Sampat	Aseem Dinesh	Kashif Aseem	Sidhu Delnaaz	Niketan Sapna	Sana Sapna	Evicted (Day 34)
	Sidhu	Aseem Dinesh	Niketan Vrajesh	Aseem Niketan	Nominated	Sana Vrajesh	Walked (Day 34)
	Aseem	Karishma Sapna	Kashif Rajev	Sidhu Sapna	Nominated	Evicted (Day 27)
	Sayantani	Sampat Sana	Sapna Kashif	Delnaaz Sidhu	Evicted (Day 20)
	Kashif	Sampat Sana	Rajev Karishma	Evicted (Day 13)
Notes		1	2	3	4	5	6		7		8		9	10	11	12	13		14		15	16
Against Public Vote		Aseem Dinesh Karishma Sampat Sana Sapna	Kashif Rajev Sampat	Rajev Sana Sayantani Urvashi	Aseem Karishma Sampat Sapna Sidhu	Sampat Sapna Vrajesh	Aashka Niketan Sapna Vrajesh		Delnaaz Mink Rajev Sapna Vishal Vrajesh		Sana Urvashi Vishal		Aashka Delnaaz Dinesh Imam Karishma Mink Niketan Rajev Sana Santosh Sapna Urvashi Vishal Vrajesh	Delnaaz Dinesh Sana Santosh	Imam Niketan Rajev Santosh Vishal	Imam Sana Rajev Vishal	Aashka Karishma Sana Sapna	Aashka Sana Sapna	Delnaaz Imam Sapna Urvashi		Delnaaz Imam Niketan Sana Rajev Urvashi	Imam Niketan Sana Urvashi
Re-entered		none					Dinesh	Karishma	Imam		Aashka	Vishal	none
											Vrajesh
Secret Village		none					Aashka	Imam	Santosh	Vrajesh	Vishal		none
Walked		none			Karishma	Sidhu	none
Ejected		none							Imam		none
Evicted		Dinesh	Kashif	Sayantani	Aseem	Sampat	No Eviction		No Eviction		No Eviction		Vrajesh	Dinesh	Santosh	Vishal	Karishma	Aashka	Sapna		Delnaaz	Niketan	Sana
													Mink								Rajev	Imam	Urvashi

  indicates that the Housemate was directly nominated for eviction.

  indicates that the Housemate was immune prior to nominations.

  indicates the contestant has been evicted.

  indicates the contestant walked out due to emergency.

  indicates the contestant has been ejected.

  indicates the house captain.

Nomination notes

• ^Note 1 : Housemates were grouped into seven pairs. Niketan, for not being chosen by any housemate to form a pair, was made the House captain. Each pair nominated another pair with consensus when called into the confession room. Vote against a pair added one vote against each individual in the respective pair. The housemates however faced eviction individually.
• ^Note 2 : Sidhu refused to vote when called into the confession room, therefore, as punishment Bigg Boss nominated all housemates. This created conflicts among housemates and resulted in protests against Bigg Boss. Sidhu was asked to reconsider nominating two housemates. Nominations concluded when Sidhu contemplated on giving the two names.
• ^Note 3 : In a twist to nominations housemates were told to nominate two houses they would like to save from eviction. Vrajesh being the house captain was immune and was not asked to nominate. With receiving no save votes Rajev, Sana, Sayantani and Urvashi were, therefore, nominated.
• ^Note 4 : Aseem, Karishma, Sapna and Sidhu were nominated as punishment. Sampat having received the highest number of nominations was also added to the nominations list.
• ^Note 5 : Before nominations Sana was given a secret task to garner the highest nominations by convincing her fellow housemates to vote for her. Succeeding in the task will save her from eviction however if she did not receive the highest number of votes, she will be automatically nominated by Bigg Boss. Aashka as captain nominated Sampat directly placing her up for eviction. Sana having received seven out of eight potential votes was spared eviction and Sapna and Vrajesh were, in turn, added to the nominations list.
• ^Note 6 : Prior to the voting Urvashi as captain was asked to directly nominate one housemate for eviction. She chose Sapna. Remaining housemates nominated Aashka, Niketan and Vrajesh.
• ^Note 7 : Rajev was removed from captaincy as he was found discussing nomination with Niketan and Vishal. Hence, Sana was made captain. Post nominations she was asked to save two housemates from eviction. She chose Vishal and Delnaaz.
• ^Note 8 : Karishma as the house captain was asked to take names of five housemates whom she would like the housemates to vote for nominations. Consequently, Sapna, Mink and Niketan became immune. Housemates nominated Sana, Urvashi and Vishal.
• ^Note 9 : After the housemates living in the secret village entered the main house, Bigg Boss announced that all fourteen housemates will be put up for eviction and two of them will be evicted. Hence, no nominations took place.
• ^Note 10 : In a twist to nominations, housemates with the fewest votes were nominated for eviction.
• ^Note 11 : Housemates were asked to save two of their fellow inmates from eviction. With receiving the lowest number of save votes Imam, Niketan, Rajev, Santosh and Vishal were nominated.
• ^Note 12 : As a reward for her being successful in the secret task, Urvashi was made immune from nominations. Housemates voted to evict and Imam, Sana, Rajev and Vishal were nominated for eviction.
• ^Note 13 : In a twist to nominations, housemates were asked to name three housemates, which may include theirs as well, who they think deserve to win. Owing to receiving the fewest votes Aashka, Karishma, Sana and Sapna were put up for eviction. Karishma was evicted from the house in a surprise mid-week eviction with the aid of a teleportation Magical act. Bigg Boss revealed that the voting lines have remained open only for a day and another housemate will be evicted on Friday.
• ^Note 14 : Two nominations took place. For the first housemates voted openly on the interview night before Salman. The other involved housemates' family/friends who nominated on their behalf.
• ^Note 15 : During the final week the public initially voted for who they wanted to evict. Delnaaz and Rajev were evicted respectively as a consequence. Audience voted for the four remaining housemates to win Bigg Boss, the three housemates with the fewest votes were evicted on Day 97 (the finale) with the Winner revealed on the same night.
• ^Note 16 : In the grand finale; Niketan and Sana was evicted from the house and was declared in 3rd & 4th place. Later the top 2 housemates Imam & Urvashi left the house and entered the stage where Urvashi was declared as the winner.

Ratings, Reception and Viewership

• The final episode on 12 January clocked a 4.4 TVR (television rating points), becoming the highest-rated non-fiction show during the week.[16] The finale also fared better than its previous season, which had dropped to 3.6 TVR. In the fourth season, the finale had clocked a 6.7 TVR. The fall in the ratings last year had forced the channel to tweak the format a bit and make it more family-oriented. The show averaged 3.3 TVR in the week ended 12 January compared to 2.8 in the trailing week.[17]

References

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11. "Mink Fresh!". The Hindu. 24 July 2006.
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13. Chatterjee, Swasti (28 October 2013). "Last year's Imam Siddique to enter Bigg Boss 7?". The Times of India. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
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External links

• Official Website