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Bigg Boss is the Indian version of the popular reality franchise Big Brother.

How it Works[]

Big Brother is a reality television show in which a group of people live together in a large house, isolated from the outside world but continuously watched by television cameras. Each series lasts for around three months, and there are 10-17 participants. The housemates try to win a cash prize by avoiding periodic evictions from the house.

History[]

The idea for the show is said to come during a brainstorm session at the production house of John de Mol Produkties (an independent part of Endemol) on 4 September 1997. The first Big Brother broadcast was in the Netherlands in 1999 on the Veronica TV channel. It was picked up by Germany, Portugal, USA, UK, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland and Italy the following year and became a world-wide sensation. Since then it has been a prime-time hit in almost 70 countries. The show's name comes from George Orwell's 1948 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Franchises[]

Hindi[]

Bigg Boss Hindi Seasons
Season Channel Host Season Run Days Housemates Winner Runner-Up

Bigg Boss 1 (Hindi)
SET Arshad Warsi November 3, 2006 -
January 26, 2007
85 15
Rahul Roy
Carol Gracias

Bigg Boss 2 (Hindi)
Colors TV Shilpa Shetty August 17, 2008 -
November 22, 2008
98
Ashutosh Kaushik
Raja Chaudhary

Bigg Boss 3 (Hindi)
Amitabh Bachchan October 4, 2009 -
December 26, 2009
84
Vindu Dara Singh
Pravesh Rana

Bigg Boss 4 (Hindi)
Salman Khan October 2, 2010 -
January 8, 2011
99 16
Shweta Tiwari
Khali Singh Rana

Bigg Boss 5 (Hindi)
Salman Khan
Sanjay Dutt
October 2, 2011 -
January 7, 2012
98 18
Juhi Parmar
Mahek Chahal

Bigg Boss 6 (Hindi)
Salman Khan October 7, 2012 -
January 12, 2013
19
Urvashi Dholakia
Imam Siddiqui

Bigg Boss 7 (Hindi)
September 15, 2013 -
December 28, 2013
105 20
Gauahar Khan
Tanishaa Mukerji

Bigg Boss 8 (Hindi)
September 21, 2014 -
January 3, 2015
19 No Winner

Bigg Boss Halla Bol
Farah Khan January 3, 2015 -
January 31, 2015
29 10
Gautam Gulati
Karishma Tanna

Bigg Boss 9 (Hindi)
Salman Khan October 11, 2015 -
January 23, 2016
105 20
Prince Narula
Rishabh Sinha

Bigg Boss 10 (Hindi)
October 16, 2016 -
January 30, 2017
106 18
Manveer Gurjar
Bani Judge

Bigg Boss 11 (Hindi)
October 1, 2017 -
January 14, 2018
19
Shilpa Shinde
Hina Khan

Bigg Boss 12 (Hindi)
September 15, 2018 -
December 30, 2018
20
Dipika Kakar
Sreesanth Nair

Bigg Boss 13 (Hindi)
September 29, 2019 -
February 15, 2020
140 21
Sidharth Shukla
Asim Riaz

Bigg Boss 14 (Hindi)
October 3, 2020 -
February 21, 2021
144 23
Rubina Dilaik
Rahul Vaidya

Bigg Boss OTT 1 (Hindi)
Voot Karan Johar August 8, 2021 -
September 18, 2021
42 13
Divya Agarwal
Nishant Bhat

Bigg Boss 15 (Hindi)
Colors TV Salman Khan October 2, 2021 -
January 30, 2022
121 24
Tejasswi Prakash
Pratik Sehajpal

Bigg Boss 16 (Hindi)
October 1, 2022 -
February 12, 2023
135 17
Altaf Shaikh
Shiv Thakare

Bigg Boss OTT 2 (Hindi)
JioCinema June 17, 2023 -
August 14, 2023
59 15
Elvish Yadav
Abhishek Malhan

Bigg Boss 17 (Hindi)
Colors TV October 15, 2023 -
January 28, 2024
106 21
Munawar Faruqui
Abhishek Kumar

Bigg Boss OTT 3 (Hindi)
JioCinema Anil Kapoor June 21, 2024 -
August 2, 2024
43 17
Sana Makbul
Naezy Shaikh

Bigg Boss 18 (Hindi)
Colors TV Salman Khan October 6, 2024 -
January 19, 2025
107 23
Karanveer Mehra
Vivian Dsena

Bengali[]

Bigg Boss Bangla Seasons
Season Channel Host Season Run Days Housemates Winner Runner-Up

Bigg Boss Bangla 1
ETV Bangla Mithun Chakraborty June 17, 2013 -
September 14, 2013
90 15
Aneek Dhar
Rudranil Ghosh

Bigg Boss Bangla 2
Colors Bangla Jeet April 4, 2016 -
July 10, 2016
98
Joyjit Banerjee
Priya Paul

Kannada[]

Bigg Boss Kannada Seasons
Season Channel Host Season Run Days Housemates Winner Runner-Up

Bigg Boss Kannada 1
ETV Kannada Sudeep March 24, 2013 -
June 30, 2013
99 15
Vijay Raghavendra
Arun Sagar

Bigg Boss Kannada 2
Suvarna TV June 29, 2014 -
October 5, 2014
Akul Balaji
Srujan Lokesh

Bigg Boss Kannada 3
Colors Kannada October 25, 2015 -
January 31, 2016
18
Shruthi Priyadarshini
Chandan Kumar

Bigg Boss Kannada 4
Colors Kannada
Colors Super
October 9, 2016 -
January 29, 2017
113
Pratham (Bigg Boss Kannada 4 Housemate)
Pratham
Kirik Keerthi

Bigg Boss Kannada 5
Colors Super October 15, 2017 -
January 28, 2018
106 19
Chandan Shetty
Diwakar

Bigg Boss Kannada 6
October 21, 2018 -
January 27, 2019
99 20
Shashi Kumar
Naveen Sajju

Bigg Boss Kannada 7
Colors Kannada October 13, 2019 -
February 2, 2020
113
Shine Shetty
Kuri Prathap

Bigg Boss Kannada 8
February 28, 2021 -
May 9, 2021
118
Manju Pavagada
Aravind KP
June 23, 2021 -
August 8, 2021

Bigg Boss Kannada: Mini Season
August 14, 2021 -
September 5, 2021
6 15 No Winner

Bigg Boss Kannada OTT 1
Voot August 6, 2022 -
September 16, 2022
43 16
Roopesh Shetty
Rakesh Adiga

Bigg Boss Kannada 9
Colors Kannada September 24, 2022 -
December 31, 2022
99 18
Roopesh Shetty
Rakesh Adiga

Bigg Boss Kannada 10
October 8, 2023 -
January 28, 2024
113 19
Karthik Mahesh
Drone Prathap

Bigg Boss Kannada 11
September 29, 2024 -
January 26, 2025
120 20
Hanumantha Lamani
Trivikram

Malayalam[]

Bigg Boss Malayalam Seasons
Season Channel Host Season Run Days Housemates Winner Runner-Up

Bigg Boss Malayalam 1
Asianet Mohanlal June 24, 2018 -
September 30, 2018
99 18
Sabumon Abdusamad
Pearle Maaney

Bigg Boss Malayalam 2
January 5, 2020 -
March 20, 2020
76 22 Season Discontinued

Bigg Boss Malayalam 3
February 14, 2021 -
May 20, 2021
96 18
Manikuttan James
Sai Vishnu
August 1, 2021

Bigg Boss Malayalam 4
March 27, 2022 -
July 3, 2022
99 20
Dilsha Prasannan
Mohammed Blesslee

Bigg Boss Malayalam 5
March 26, 2023 -
July 2, 2023
21
Akhil Marar
Reneesha Rahiman

Bigg Boss Malayalam 6
March 10, 2024 -
June 16, 2024
25
Jinto PD
Arjun Syam

Bigg Boss Malayalam 7
2025

Marathi[]

Bigg Boss Marathi Seasons
Season Channel Host Season Run Days Housemates Winner Runner-Up

Bigg Boss Marathi 1
Colors Marathi Mahesh Manjrekar April 15, 2018 -
July 22, 2018
99 18
Megha Dhade
Pushkar Jog

Bigg Boss Marathi 2
May 26, 2019 -
September 1, 2019
17
Shiv Thakare
Neha Shitole

Bigg Boss Marathi 3
September 19, 2021 -
December 26, 2021
Vishhal Nikam
Jay Dudhane

Bigg Boss Marathi 4
October 2, 2022 -
January 8, 2023
19
Akshay Kelkar
Apurva Nemlekar

Bigg Boss Marathi 5
Riteish Deshmukh July 28, 2024 -
October 6, 2024
71 17
Suraj Chavan
Abhijeet Sawant

Tamil[]

Bigg Boss Tamil Seasons
Season Channel Host Season Run Days Housemates Winner Runner-Up

Bigg Boss Tamil 1
Star Vijay Kamal Haasan June 25, 2017 -
September 30, 2017
98 19
Aarav Kizar
Snehan

Bigg Boss Tamil 2
June 17, 2018 -
September 30, 2018
106 17
Riythvika Kasayam
Aishwarya Dutta

Bigg Boss Tamil 3
June 23, 2019 -
October 6, 2019
Mugen Rao
Sandy Master

Bigg Boss Tamil 4
October 4, 2020 -
January 17, 2021
18
Aari Arjunan
Balaji Murugadoss

Bigg Boss Tamil 5
October 3, 2021 -
January 16, 2022
20
Raju Jeyamohan
Priyanka Deshpande

Bigg Boss Ultimate
Disney+ Hotstar Kamal Haasan
Silambarasan
January 30, 2022 -
April 10, 2022
71 16
Balaji Murugadoss
Niroop Nandakumar

Bigg Boss Tamil 6
Star Vijay Kamal Haasan October 9, 2022 -
January 22, 2023
106 21
Mohamed Azeem
Vikraman Radhakrishnan

Bigg Boss Tamil 7
October 1, 2023 -
January 14, 2024
23
Archana Ravichandran
Manichandra Mani

Bigg Boss Tamil 8
Vijay Sethupathi October 6, 2024 -
January 19, 2025
24
Muthukumaran Jegatheesan
Soundariya Nanjundan

Telugu[]

Bigg Boss Telugu Seasons
Season Channel Host Season Run Days Housemates Winner Runner-Up

Bigg Boss Telugu 1
Star Maa Jr. NTR July 16, 2017 -
September 24, 2017
71 16
Sivabalaji Manoharan
Aadarsh Balakrishna

Bigg Boss Telugu 2
Nani June 10, 2018 -
September 30, 2018
113 18
Kaushal Manda
Geetha Madhuri

Bigg Boss Telugu 3
Akkineni Nagarjuna July 21, 2019 -
November 3, 2019
106 17
Rahul Sipligunj
Sreemukhi Rathod

Bigg Boss Telugu 4
September 6, 2020 -
December 20, 2020
19
Abijeet Duddala
Akhil Sarthak

Bigg Boss Telugu 5
September 5, 2021 -
December 19, 2021
VJ Sunny
Shanmukh Jaswanth

Bigg Boss Non-Stop
Disney+ Hotstar February 26, 2022 -
May 21, 2022
85 18
Bindu Madhavi
Akhil Sarthak

Bigg Boss Telugu 6
Star Maa September 4, 2022 -
December 18, 2022
106 21
LV Revanth
Shrihan Shri

Bigg Boss Telugu 7
September 3, 2023 -
December 17, 2023
19
Pallavi Prashanth
Amardeep Chowdary

Bigg Boss Telugu 8
September 1, 2024 -
December 15, 2024
22
Nikhil Maliyakkal
Gautham Krishna

Bigg Boss Telugu 9
2025

Trivia[]

References[]

Big Brother Franchises
Africa Africa (Secret) · Angola · Cameroon · Liberia · Nigeria · South Africa
Americas Argentina · Brazil · Canada (Quebec) · Chile · Colombia · Ecuador · Mexico · Pacific · Panama · Peru · United States (Spanish)
Asia-Pacific Arab States · Australia · China · India · Indonesia · Israel · Mongolia · Pakistan · Philippines · Thailand · Vietnam · Turkey
Europe Albania · Balkans · Belgium · Bulgaria · Croatia · Czechia · Denmark · Finland · France (Loft) · Germany · Greece · Hungary (Való Világ) · Italy · Kosovo · Lithuania · Malta · Netherlands · Norway · Poland · Portugal (Secret) · Romania · Russia · Scandinavia · Slovakia · Slovenia · Spain (SecretSweden · Switzerland · Ukraine · United Kingdom
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