Bigg Boss Halla Bol

Bigg Boss Halla Bol is the spin-off of the Indian reality television show Bigg Boss. It was a merger of Bigg Boss 8 similarly to the concept adopted by the Ultimate Big Brother. Five contestants from previous seasons enters the house to compete with five regular entrants of the season 8 finale.[1] Farah Khan hosted the new format of the show,[2] as Salman bid adieu to the show because of his filming schedule of Bajrangi Bhaijaan.[3][4]

Bigg Boss Halla Bol
Presented by	Farah Khan
No. of days	28
No. of housemates	10
Winner	Gautam Gulati
Runner-up	Karishma Tanna
Country of origin	India
No. of episodes	29
Release
Original network	Colors TV
Original release	3 January – 31 January 2015
Season chronology

The series was won by Gautam Gulati.

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.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7]

Farah Khan host of Bigg Boss 8, spin-off Bigg Boss Halla Bol.

Bigg Boss Halla Bol

In the fifteenth week Bigg Boss announced that show has been extended for four weeks[8] and unlike previous seasons crowned its five champions on 3 January concluding season 8 finale, where spin-off Bigg Boss Halla Bol launched and merged with the regular season.[9] The spin-off series officially launched on 4 January,[10] with the five Halla Bol Challengers from previous seasons which includes Ajaz Khan, Sambhavna Seth, Mahek Chahal, Rahul Mahajan and Sana Khan. Sana's entrance was disclosed later as a fifth challenger by production team.[11] Before the official announcement only Ajaz entered the house on Day 99. The new spin-off format of Champions and Challengers with ten contestants hosted by Farah Khan as contractually Salman bids adieu from the series concluding season finale. Confirming her participation Farah said:

"I have loved watching Bigg Boss and enjoy everything about it. The Bigg Boss Halla Bol Series is unlike anything that regular viewers of the show could have ever perceived. Salman Khan has been truly entertaining as a host with his affable style and quick wit. I am looking forward to building a unique experience for the viewers through this venture and hope they enjoy every bit of it."

— Farah Khan - Hindustan Times.[12]

Broadcast syndication

Country	Network	Airing Date	Syndication Type	Source
India	Colors	21 September 2014	Off-Network Syndication	[13]
United Kingdom	Colors UK	21 September 2014	International Syndication	[14]

Events overview

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday	Sunday
Event	Week 1 - Week 4[15][16]
	Nominations	luxury budget task		Highlights	Tabadla	Eviction and Interview

Housemates

Champions

• Champions
• Karishma Tanna is a television actress.[17][18][19]
• Gautam Gulati is a television actor.[20][21]
• Pritam Singh RJ is a radio jockey.[22][23]
• Ali Quli Mirza is a singer[24]
• Dimpy Ganguly is the winner of Season 2 of India's rendition of The Bachelor.[25][26]

Challengers

Five challengers returned, as veterans for the title, from previous seasons. While two housemates were chosen from Season 2 and one from Season 5, 6 and 7 each. No inclusions were made from Season 1, 3 and 4.

• Ajaz Khan is an actor who finished in third place in season seven.
• Mahek Chahal is an actress and model who was a runner-up in the fifth season.
• Rahul Mahajan is an actor and the son of politician Pramod Mahajan. He quit the show in the second season.
• Sambhavna Seth is an item girl and has appeared in Bhojpuri films. In the second season, she finished in tenth place.
• Sana Khan is an actress, model and dancer who participated in season six, finishing in third place.

Guests

Week(s)	Guest(s)	Notes
2	Mahesh Bhatt, Ali Fazal and Gurmeet Choudhary	To promote their film Khamoshiyan.[27]
3	Mallika Sherawat	To promote her film Dirty Politics.[28]
4	Janardhan Baba (in-house guest only)	[29]
	Ajaz Khan (in-house guest only)	He was ejected in first week due to violent behaviour against Ali.[30]
Finale	Malaika Arora Khan	[31]
	Sonakshi Sinha
	Siddharth Nigam and his team	To promote their upcoming TV series Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat[32]
	Rohit Shetty, Hussain Kuwajerwala, Sana Khan & Aashish Chaudhary	To promote their upcoming TV series Khatron Ke Khiladi (season 6)[32]
	Rajat Sharma	[32]

Contestant status

Housemate	Day 1	Day 4	Day 11	Day 12	Day 19	Day 25	Finale
	^[1]	^[2]	^[3]	^[4]	^[5]	^[6]
Gautam	Champion↔	Challenger↓			Champion↑		Winner (Day28)
Karishma	Champion↔			Challenger↓	Champion↑		Runner Up (Day28)
Pritam	Champion↔				Challenger↓		Walked (Day 28)
Ali	Champion↔		Challenger↓		Champion↑		3rd Runner Up (Day 28)
Dimpy	Champion↔				Challenger↓		4th Runner Up (Day 28)
Sambhavna	Challenger↔		Champion↑		Challenger↓		Evicted (Day 25)
Rahul	Challenger↔				Champion↑	Evicted (Day 21)
Mahek	Challenger↔			Champion↑	Evicted (Day 14)
Sana	Challenger↔	Champion↑	Evicted (Day 7)
Ajaz	Challenger↔	Ejected (Day 2)

1. ^ Five contestants from previous seasons entered the house as the challengers against the five remaining finalists of Season 8.
2. ^ On the basis of their performance in the luxury budget task, Mahek was upgraded to the champion level while Gautam was downgraded to the challenger level. Both of them were selected by their respective teams as the best and worst performer respectively.
3. ^ On the basis of their performance in the luxury budget task, Sambhavna was upgraded to the champion level while Dimpy was downgraded to the challenger level. Sambhavna chose herself for the best performer while the captain, Karishma chose Dimpy as the worst performer.
4. ^ Challengers chose Tabadla as Luxury Budget over Food where Sana was upgraded as Champion and Karishma was downgraded as Challenger. Both of them were selected by Challengers.
5. ^ Challengers win the task given by Bigg Boss. As a result, the challengers were upgraded as champions team and the champions were made the challengers.
6. ^ Sambhavna gets eliminated from the house and the remaining housemates are declared as finalists.

Nominations table

For previous details on the voting history, prior to the 'Halla Bol!' merger, see; Bigg Boss 8#Voting history from week 1 to week 15.

	Week 16	Week 17	Week 18		Week 19
			Day 120	Day 123	Day 127	Day 133
House Captain		Karishma	Ali	Pritam
Captain's Nomination		Rahul Sambhavna Sana	Rahul Dimpy	Gautam	Karishma Dimpy
Vote to:	Evict			Save	Evict	W I N
Gautam	Ajaz Sambhavna Mahek	Not eligible	Karishma Dimpy	Karishma	Ali Sambhavna	Nominated	Winner (Day 133)
Karishma	Sambhavna Ajaz Sana	House Captain	Gautam Dimpy	Ali (to evict)	Ali Pritam	Nominated	1st Runner Up (Day 133)
Pritam	Sambhavna Ajaz Mahek	Sambhavna Sana Rahul	Karishma Dimpy	House Captain		Nominated	Walked, 2nd Runner Up (Day 133)
Ali	Ajaz Sambhavna Mahek	Rahul Sana Sambhavna	House Captain	Gautam	Gautam Karishma	Nominated	3rd Runner Up (Day 133)
Dimpy	Mahek Ajaz Sambhavna	Rahul Sana Sambhavna	Karishma Pritam	Rahul	Sambhavna Pritam	Nominated	4th Runner Up (Day 133)
Sambhavna	Not eligible	Not eligible	Karishma Pritam	Karishma	Gautam Dimpy	Evicted (Day 129)
Rahul	Not eligible	Not eligible	Karishma Pritam	Dimpy	Evicted (Day 126)
Mahek	Not eligible	Gautam Sambhavna Sana	Karishma Sambhavna	Evicted (Day 122)
Sana	Not eligible	Not eligible	Mahek	Evicted (Day 119)
Ajaz	Not eligible	Ejected (Day 106)
Notes	1,2,3	3	4	5	6	7
Against public vote	Ajaz Mahek Sambhavna	Rahul Sana Sambhavna	Mahek Karishma Dimpy Pritam	Ali Dimpy Rahul Sambhavna	Ali Dimpy Gautam Karishma Pritam Sambhavna	Ali Dimpy Gautam Karishma Pritam
Ejected	Ajaz	none
Evicted	Eviction cancelled	Sana	Mahek	Rahul	Sambhavna	Dimpy	Ali	Pritam
							Karishma	Gautam

  indicates that the Housemate was directly nominated for eviction prior to the regular nominations process.

  indicates that the Housemate was granted immunity from nominations.

• ^1 : Ajaz entered the house before Season 8 finale on Day 99, but credited as a Halla Bol Challenger, his presence for seven days didn't affect any change.
• ^2 : On Day 1, Housemates nominated face to face, with each Housemate nominating three people as opposed to the usual two. Following Ajaz's ejection, the eviction scheduled to take place on Day 7 was cancelled.
• ^3 : Housemates with the 'Challenger' status were not eligible to vote. Housemates with the 'Champion' status were immune from nominations and held the right to vote.
• ^4 : Mehek was nominated by Sana via her "Bigg Bomb" after her eviction.
• ^5 : Pritam was given immunity from nominations for winning the luxury task. Karishma was given a special power to directly nominate a contestant for eviction, which she had earned by voluntarily walking out of the luxury budget task in order to get this power. She chose Ali.
• ^6 : All contestants were asked to give two names for nominations but from the opposite team only.
• ^7 : All 5 finalists were automatically placed in the nominations.

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External links

• Official website