Opening episode was aired on 2 October 2011 presented by Salman Khan and Sanjay Dutt. This extravagant introductory episode to the season 5 showcased different features of Bigg Boss house and introduced each of the participant.[1]
Twists[]
Gender Divide: There would be a female majority of housemates in the house, with fourteen women and four men.
Pahiya Ghumao Kismat Chamkao The task involves contestants teaming up for the rest of the week to fulfill the objective and earn points that will help determine their budgeting and rationing for the coming week. The task involves them riding a rickshaw and taking it to different cities that are marked on a map that is provided to the contestants. The contestants will then perform an act based on the peculiarities of the city that they have reached. In between the performances, at all times i.e. 24x7, someone will have to lead the rickshaw and keep pedaling so that the street lamp placed beside the cycle rickshaw remains lit. (100% bet of weekly luxury budget)
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Week 2
Day 8
Jiska Kaam Usi Ko Saanjhay All the contestants were alloted some official household duties. Juhi was made the PR of Bigg Boss and it is her duty to keep a track of everyone's performance. Gulabo was the head cook and had two kitchen assistants to help her. Shakti and Vida were in charge of security. Amar, Shonali and Raageshwari became the washroom attendants. Mahek and Shraddha were supposed to clean the house and the garden area. Pooja Bedi and Pooja Mishra formed the dishwashing team. (0% bet of the weekly luxury budget)
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Week 3
Day 16
Mai Chotta Sa Nanha Sa Bachcha Hu All the contestants were alloted a role of a parent or a child. A Parent will have to take care of their respective child. Amar, Pooja M, Laxmi, Shonali, Vida and Mahek were given the role of parents whereas Shakti, as applauded on her outstanding performance during the task, however, Sidharth, Pooja Misrra and Shraddha displayed inconsistent performances. As a result their luxury budget points (200 pts. from each) were cut. Shakti and Shonali were also told of their irregular roles in the task and hence 100 pts from both were not alloted. The housemates, overall, managed to grab 1800 points out of 2600. (70% bet of the weekly luxury budget).
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Week 4
Day 23
Diya Jalay Tou Diwali Nahi Jalay Tou Diwala To celebrate Diwali, the contestants were split into teams of two and asked to make candles (Diyaas). The team that will achieve the target of making 500 candles first, will be declared winner of the task. The housemates have to make 2000 diyas in one week. They have been provided a machine for the same. They were given a demonstration on the procedure of using the machine. Only one housemate can make diyaas on the machine at a time. The diyaas can be shaped from the wet clay even manually.
Team 1: Amar, Pooja B., Shonali, Shakti, Vida, Juhi.
Team 2 : Sidharth, Laxmi, Pooja M., Shraddha, Mandeep and Akaashdeep.
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Week 5
Day 30
Lambee Hai Dooree, Chadhhna Zarooree Bigg Boss house was converted to an army camp where the housemates were trainees and Mandeep was made the Drill instructor. The task is associated with Wall climbing and a crash obstacle course was set up for the housemates. Housemates had to cover 12000 ft hiking on a 20 feet wall created in the Activity area inside the house. Housemates are also instructed to wear Boot Camp uniforms as a part of the task. Bigg Boss announced that housemates have failed to accomplish the task due to the in-cooperative behavior of Mandeep as Colonel. Siddharth also inhibited irrelevant traits as opposed to the task i.e. Sleeping. Bigg Boss also stated that the only people who tried to do justice to the weekly task were Pooja B. and Amar. (0% bet of the weekly luxury budget).
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Week 6
Day 37
Shraddha Ki Riyaasat Shraddha will be treated as a queen and the rest will be her attendants. They've to call her Rajkumari. Every morning when Shraddha wakes up two of the housemates have to come to her and take her blessings. All her orders are essential to be acted upon otherwise the housemates might be locked into the jail as punishment. Every night all housemates have to line up to her room and praise her one by one. Sky was praised on performing the task with consistency, however, Shraddha was detested by the Bigg Boss due to her incorrect role play as the Queen. Bigg Boss rewarded 2200 points to the housemates. (100% bet of the weekly luxury budget).
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Week 7
Day 41
Raajneeti Housemates formed two teams - Team Amar and Team Sky. Pooja M., Pooja B.,Shraddha and Mahek under the leadership of Amar formed a team namely No Jhagra No bayhes, We are Shanti in Progress. On the other hand Juhi, Siddharth, Vida and Shonali joined Akashdeep's team Band Mutthi Haath ki. According to the phone call from Bigg Boss, which Akashdeep (Sky) attended, Shonali was told to form alliance with Amar's team. On Day 47, Amar's team with the majority of votes won the election with the vote count 6 - 4. As a result Amar was rewarded by being made the captain of the house for the coming week and his team granted full luxury budget.
Amar's team won the task with resulting Amar elected as captain as a reward.
Week 8
Day 51
Haseena Teri Misaal Kahan Boys are made mentors and have to form three teams. Amar selects Juhi, Shonali and Shraddha. Sky chooses Pooja M. and Pooja B. and Siddharth chose Mahek and Sunny. Girls referred as "Beauties" are given titles and have to wear sashes with their title label on it for the whole week. Bigg Boss granted 1500 points to the housemates.
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Week 9
Day 58
Vodafone 1 2 3 The task involves housemates to play various roles such as astrologer, match-making, chef, sports commentator and spicy gossip reporter by dialling 123 on the Vodafone Applet stored inside the house. (100% bet of weekly luxury budget)
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Week 10
Day 65
Jailor Ki Jay Jay Kaydi Ki Haye Haye Bigg Boss has turned the house into a jail. All the contestants have been provided appropriate costumes for the task. The criminals are supposed to sleep in the new jail created in the garden area. One of the jailers has to awake and keep an eye on the prisoners. The prisoners have been asked to steal an envelope from jailer's cupboard, and the jailers are supposed to stop them.
Juhi, Sidharth, & Shonali
Week 11
Day 72
Hookumat-e-Symonds As a part of their weekly task, housemates have to please and fulfill Andrew Symonds's wishes.
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Week 12
Day 79
Dhinchak Dhinchak Dhinchak Dhin Housemates were told to dance on solo and group on songs on a round platform in front of the pool facing the camera. Each housemate was given a specific song according to the theme which changed daily.
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Week 13
Day 86
Paatshaala Ka Bol Baala The House was turned into a school and housemates students. Desks and a blackboard were placed in the garden area. Uniforms were provided and Juhi was made the headmistress. Other housemates were to take turns in acting as teachers for the subjects allocated. Occasionally Quiz competitions took place as a part of the class.
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Week 14
Day 93
Kamaal Kursi Ka Housemates were provided a Royal Chair which was placed in the garden area near the pool. The housemate who sits on the chair is made the King/Queen of the house and all other inmates his/her servants. If for any particular reason the housemate leaves the chair, anyone else can claim possession of it and the rule of the latter will begin with the rule of the preceeder coming to an end. The housemate with the most favourable rule is awarded by the Bigg Boss. However, due to consistent breaking of rules by Mahek and Siddharth and their unsuccessful rule on their temporary kingdoms the task was cancelled and Bigg Boss decided to deprive both of them of any awards promised.
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Day 94
Lollipop Se Karo Talk Housemates were provided lollipop stands, each with a photo of an evicted housemate. The stands were placed in the garden area. Each housemate had to equip at least one lollipop stand and impersonate the housemate whose photo is depicted on it and talk through it to other housemates.
Through their time in the house, housemates will do or say things that are not acceptable to the rules that were explained to them before they entered the house. If an action is deemed too offensive to the viewing public, a housemate can be ejected or given a warning by the producers of the show. The following housemates were involved in a breach of the rules and were either given a warning or ejection by the Bigg Boss producers.
On Day 12, a fight started between Pooja Misrra and Shonali Nagrani after the former kicked a dustbin. Nagrani ordered Misrra to pick the bin up but Pooja started to react by saying "you pick it up if it bothers you". Later Pooja broke the broom infront of Shonali leaving everyone stunned.[2]
The clip went viral later in 2020 where it is titled as "Pooja What Is This Behaviour" which became an worldwide meme. Pooja became famous internationally with many famous celebrities participated in it including Khloe Kardashian, Jahnvi Kapoor and former contestant Nora Fatehi.[3][4]
Pooja Misrra's ejection[]
On Day 55, Pooja Misrra was removed from the house due to her violating the rules at 3am in the morning.[5] She was removed after pushing co-housemate Sidharth Bhardwaj.
The disappointed audience began posting hate comments against the reality show claiming that they want Pooja M. back in the house with Siddharth evicted in place of her, otherwise, they'll boycott the show and raise protests against it. Later due to the public demand, Pooja was brought back but as a guest. She entered with guest entrant Andrew Symonds as his translator.
Sunny Leone's entry[]
Sunny Leone managed to created much hype with her Bigg Boss stint, but her presence in the show did not go down well with The Indian Artistes and Actors Forum (IAAF), reports Headlines Today. IAAF requested I&B Minister Ambika Soni to take action against Colors for indirectly encouraging and promoting pornography in India via the introduction of an adult entertainer, as per the channel. According to a report published in a daily, Sunny Leone has become the most searched adult celebrity on web and it's becoming difficult to keep the children away from accessing her explicit videos and pictures. "As far as this particular complaint... I haven't heard about it... Of course these complaints come up from time to time over content issues of different channels across the television," Ambika Soni told Headlines Today.[41] Apart from the accusations on her, Sunny became the most searched Indian celebrity on Google.[6]