Bigg Boss (Tamil TV series)

This article is about the main edition. For the digital edition, see Bigg Boss Ultimate.

Bigg Boss
Show's eighth logo featuring host Vijay Sethupathi
Presented by	Kamal Haasan (1–7) [1] Vijay Sethupathi (8–present)
Voices of	Sasho Sathish Sarathy
Theme music composer	Arivu
Opening theme	"BB Anthem"
Country of origin	India
Original language	Tamil
No. of seasons	8
No. of episodes	734
Production
Production location	Chennai
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	90 minutes (seasons 1,2; weekdays) 120 minutes (seasons 1,2; weekends) 60 minutes (season 3 to 8; weekdays) 90 minutes (season 3 to 8; weekends)
Production company	Endemol Shine India
Original release
Network	Star Vijay
Release	25 June 2017 (2017-06-25) – present

Bigg Boss is an Indian Tamil-language version of the reality television program of the same name. The program follows the Big Brother format developed by Endemol in the Netherlands. Since its premiere on June 25, 2017 the show has rolled out eight seasons and one spin-off version. ^[2] The first seven season was hosted by Kamal Haasan, followed by Vijay Sethupathi from the eighth season onwards. As of now, a total of 159 contestants have participated in Bigg Boss. Bigg Boss has aired a total of 734 episodes and currently, season 8 is on air.

Overview

Concept

Bigg Boss is a reality show based on the original Dutch Big Brother format developed by John de Mol Jr.. Unlike original Big Brother, Bigg Boss features celebrity and commoner contestants. The contestants (known as "housemates") live in a house that is isolated from the world. Following anonymous internal voting by the housemates and external voting by television audiences, one housemate is "evicted" (removed) from the house each week. During the final week, the final four or five housemates vote to determine the show's winner. The eponymous Bigg Boss character serves as an omnipresent authority figure and represents the show's producers. He often interacts with the housemates to assign challenges and ask questions.

House

For all of the Bigg Boss seasons the house was located at EVP Film City, Chennai. The house is well-furnished and decorated. It has a variety of modern amenities, but just one or multiple bedrooms and four toilet bath rooms. There is a garden, outdoor seating, pool, activity area, smoking zone, gym, jail and lounge room in the house. There is also a Confession Room, where the housemates may be called in by Bigg Boss for any kind of conversation, and for the nomination process. In season seven, the house was split and there was another added confession room. ^{[3] [4]}

Rules

Housemates are bound by various rules. For example, contestants must speak Tamil. Tampering with any electronic equipment or other items in the house is strictly prohibited. They may not leave the premises at any time without permission. Physical violence is completely forbidden. Discussing the nomination process with anyone is also not allowed. Housemates must remain awake until the lights go off, and they can only converse outside of the designated smoking area. Additionally, singing is not permitted within the house, nor can they write anything while inside.

Occasionally, housemates may be nominated for various reasons, including being chosen by individuals with special privileges obtained through tasks, for breaking rules, or for other unspecified reasons. In serious cases, a contestant may face expulsion from the house

Airing

Daily episodes present the main events of the previous day while weekend episodes focus on discussion of the main problems of the week and interviews with evicted contestants. On the Sunday episode the host announces the evicted contestant.

Eviction

Contestants are nominated for eviction each week by their housemates. Viewers cast their votes in favour of the contestants they would like to save from eviction. Each viewer is entitled to cast one vote per day (used to be 50 votes for S1 -S4, 10 votes for S5). The contestant with the fewest votes is out. Contestants who break the rules or who leave the house for medical reasons are evicted. During week 14 or 15 (before finale), Contestants get an option to be evicted from the game by their own decision by accepting the cash prize eviction and self evict themselves.

Broadcast

Bigg Boss is aired on Star Vijay and also available on Disney+ Hotstar. Everyday episodes contain the main happenings of the previous day. Every Sunday episode mainly focuses on an interview of an evicted contestant by the host. The unseen episode will be available as Bigg Boss Unseen on Vijay Music (sister channel to Star Vijay).

From Season 6 onward, "Bigg Boss" introduced a 24/7 Live Channel for Disney+ Hotstar subscribers. This allowed viewers to enjoy direct engagement with the show’s happenings.

Series details

Series	Host	Location	House Theme	Tagline	Episodes		Originally aired			Housemates	Days	Launch TRP Ratings	Finale TRP Ratings	Prize Money	Winner	Runner up
							First aired	Last aired	Network
1	Kamal Haasan	Chennai	Middle Class House	Odavum Mudiyadhu, Oliyavum Mudiyadhu!	98		25 June 2017 (2017-06-25)	30 September 2017 (2017-09-30)	Star Vijay	19	98	7.4 TVR	14.25 TVR	₹50 lakh (US$60,000)	Arav Nafeez	Snehan
2			Steampunk Gear	Nallavar Yaar? Kettavar Yaar?	106		17 June 2018 (2018-06-17)	30 September 2018 (2018-09-30)		17	105	9.7 TVR	13.25 TVR	₹50 lakh (US$60,000)	Riythvika	Aishwarya Dutta
3			Chettinad Museum	Idhu Verum Show valla, Namma Life!	106		23 June 2019 (2019-06-23)	6 October 2019 (2019-10-06)		17	105	7.8 TVR	15.05 TVR	₹50 lakh (US$60,000)	Mugen Rao	Sandy
4			Indian Flora & Fauna	Thappunna Thatti Ketpen, Nalladhuna Thatti Kodupen!	106		4 October 2020 (2020-10-04)	17 January 2021 (2021-01-17)		18	105	11.61 TVR	16.60 TVR	₹50 lakh (US$60,000)	Aari Arujunan	Balaji Murugadoss
5			Nature & Five Elements of Earth	Inga Veedum Perusu, Galattavum Perusu!	106		3 October 2021 (2021-10-03)	16 January 2022 (2022-01-16)		20	105	8.60 TVR	10.50 TVR	₹50 lakh (US$60,000)	Raju Jeyamohan	Priyanka Deshpande
6			Luxury Mansion	Veedu Ready. Vettaiku Neenga Ready ah?	106		9 October 2022	22 January 2023		21	105	5.54 TVR	5.40 TVR	₹50 lakh (US$60,000) [a]	Mohammed Azeem	Vikraman Radhakrishnan
7			Fantasy Haven	Rendula Onnu Paathuralam!	106		1 October 2023	14 January 2024		23	105	9.90 TVR	8.67 TVR	₹50 lakh (US$60,000) [b]	Archana Ravichandran	Manichandra
8	Vijay Sethupathi		Enchanted Forest	Aalum Puthusu! Aatamum Puthusu!	106		6 October 2024 (2024-10-06)	TBA		24	105	9.00 TVR	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA

Reception

Season 1

The Bigg Boss Tamil program is regarded as the most expensive Tamil television show. ^[6] The show continued to scale new heights, with exceptional ratings averaging 8.4 TVR over the first 6 weeks. It received a 14.25 TVR on the grand finale day. ^[7]

Season 2

The launch of season 2 opened with 9.72 TVR. ^[8]

Season 3

The launch of season 3 opened with 7.8 TVR. ^{[9] [10]}

Season 4

The launch of season 4 opened with the highest ever 11.61 TVR, benefited from the impact of season 3 and lockdown, and also broke the records for viewership for Bigg Boss Tamil on a grand opening day. ^[11]

Season 5

Season 5 received a generally mixed response from the audience for the way they conducted Ticket to Finale week without any proper tasks, and it was one of the few seasons with a low viewership. ^[12] The TRP ratings for this season went down in the first three weeks. ^[13]

Season 6

The launch of season 6 received a TRP rating of 5.54 TVR, which is considered below average for a season premiere. ^[14] Season 6 recorded the lowest viewership for a season finale in Bigg Boss Tamil franchise.

Season 7

The launch of season 7 received a TRP rating of 9.9 TVR, which was seen as a comeback for the franchise. ^[15] The season finale had a TRP rating of 8.67 TVR. In its season finale, it was reported that this had been the biggest season in the Bigg Boss Tamil franchise in terms of viewership and number of votes. Throughout the season, the show consistently registered high ratings ^[16] reaching a peak in the later weeks with a TVR of 7.0 across Tamil Nadu ^[17]

Season 8

The launch of season 8 received a TRP rating of 9.0 TVR, which is seen as a continuous success of the Bigg Boss franchise. ^[18] In its first week, the show attracted over 32 million viewers on TV, while total watch time soared to 4.4 billion minutes across all platforms, including digital and Hotstar. ^[19]

Bigg Boss Ultimate

Main article: Bigg Boss Ultimate

The series is also set to roll out a digital version of the show called Bigg Boss Ultimate which is also going to be hosted by Kamal Haasan and broadcast by Disney+ Hotstar for 24×6 coverage. The series was eventually hosted by Silambarasan after Haasan had to opt out due to scheduling conflicts with his latest release, Vikram . ^[20]

Bigg Boss Fun Unlimited

Bigg Boss Fun Unlimited is an Indian Tamil-Indian language Reality Talk show with former housemates from the previous season of reality television series Bigg Boss Tamil. The show features former housemates talking about the present contestants in the current season, its aired on Disney+ Hotstar. However this show was only for Bigg Boss 2 and later discontinued from Bigg Boss 3.

The show once again continued from Bigg Boss 8 however with a change of the concept with the evicted housemates of that season being interviewed and speaking about their journey. The show aired on Vijay Super and Disney+ Hotstar.

Year	Season	Show	Host	Notes
2018	2	Bigg Boss Fun Unlimited	Rio Raj	Future Contestant in Bigg Boss 4
2024	8	Bigg Boss 8 Fun Unlimited	R Sabarinathan

Housemates pattern

Occupation	Season 1	Season 2	Season 3	Season 4	Season 5	Season 6	Season 7	Season 8
Film actor/actress	Anuya Bhagvath	Aishwarya Dutta	Fathima Babu	Aari Arjunan	Abhinay Vaddi	Maheshwari Chanakyan	Akshaya Udayakumar	Sachana Namidass
	Bharani	Daniel Annie Pope	Kasthuri	Gabriella Charlton	Ciby Bhuvana Chandran	Sheriina	Cool Suresh	Ranjith
	Bindu Madhavi	Janani Iyer	Reshma Pasupuleti	Jithan Ramesh	Sanjeev Venkat	Vikraman Radhakrishnan	Maya S. Krishnan	Soundariya Nanjundan
	Ganesh Venkatraman	Mahat Raghavendra	Sakshi Agarwal	Ramya Pandian	Varun Kamal	—	Pradeep Antony	Shiva Kumar
	Harish Kalyan	Mumtaz	Saravanan	Rekha	—	—	Vichithra	—
	Kaajal Pasupathi	Ponnambalam	Sherin Shringar	—	—	—	—	—
	Namitha	Riythvika	Vanitha Vijayakumar	—	—	—	—	—
	Oviya	Shariq Hassan	—	—	—	—	—	—
	Shakthi Vasudevan	Vijayalakshmi Feroz	—	—	—	—	—	—
	Sri	Yashika Aannand	—	—	—	—	—	—
	Suja Varunee	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Comedian	Aarthi	Dhaadi Balaji	Jangiri Madhumitha	Aranthangi Nisha	Imman Annachi	Amudhavanan	Annabharathi	—
	Ganja Karuppu	Sendrayan	—	—	—	—	—	—
	Vaiyapuri	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Choreographer	Gayathri Raghuram	—	Sandy	—	Amir	Robert Raj	Manichandra	—
	—	—	—	—	—	Shanthi Arvind	—	—
Model	Arav	—	Meera Mitun	Balaji Murugadoss	Akshara Reddy	—	—	Riya Thiyagarajan
	Raiza Wilson	—	Tharshan Thiyagarajah	Samyuktha Shanmuganathan	Nadia Chang	—	—	Raanav V C
	—	—	—	Sanam Shetty	Niroop Nandakumar	—	—	—
	—	—	—	—	Suruthi Periyasamy	—	—	—
Radio/video jockey	—	Vaishnavi Prasad	—	—	—	Ram Ramasamy	RJ Bravo	RJ Ananthi
	—	—	—	—	—	Kathirravan	—	—
Vocal coach	—	Ananth Vaidyanathan	—	—	—	—	—	—
Singer/Rapper/Song Writer	Snehan	Ramya NSK	Mohan Vaidya	Aajeedh Khalique	Chinnaponnu	Dinesh Kanagaratnam	Nixen	Jeffry
	—	—	Mugen Rao	Suchitra Ramadurai	Isaivani	Asal Kolaar	Yugendran	—
	—	—	—	Velmurugan	Iykki Berry	—	Gana Bala	—
Dancer	—	—	—	—	—	—	Ayshu ADS	—
	—	—	—	—	—	—	Vijay Varma	—
TV personality	—	Mamathi Chari	Abhirami Venkatachalam	Anitha Sampath	Pavni Reddy	Mohammed Azeem	Archana Ravichandran	Dharsha Gupta
	—	—	Kavin Raj	Archana Chandhoke	Priyanka Deshpande	Rachitha Mahalakshmi	Raveena Daha	Deepak Dinkar
	—	—	Losliya Mariyanesan	Rio Raj	Raju Jeyamohan	Myna Nandhini	Saravana Vickram	Sathya SK
	—	—	—	Shivani Narayanan	—	Ayesha Zeenath	Vinusha Devi	Sunita Gogoi
	—	—	—	Suresh Chakravarthi	—	Janany Kunaseelan	Vishnu Vijay	Pavithra Janani
	—	—	—	—	—	Manikandan Rajesh	Dinesh Gopalsamy	Arun Prasath
	—	—	—	—	—	Nivaashiyni Saravanan	—	Tharshika
	—	—	—	—	—	Queency Stanly	—	VJ Vishal
	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Anshitha Akbarsha
	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Arnav Amjath
	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Jacquline Lydia
	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Raanav
	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Varshini Venkat
—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Rayan
Director	—	—	Cheran	—	—	—	—	—
Martial artist	—	—	—	Som Shekar	—	—	—	—
Fashion Designer	—	—	—	—	Madhumitha Raghunathan	—	—	—
YouTuber / Instagram fame	—	—	—	—	Abishek Raaja	GP Muthu	Ananya Rao	Ravindar Chandrasekar
	—	—	—	—	—	—	Poornima Ravi	Muthukumaran Jegatheesan
Writer	—	—	—	—	—	—	Bava Chelladurai	—
Orator	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	Manjari Narayanan
Transpeople	—	—	—	—	Namitha Marimuthu	Shivin Ganesan	—	—
Non-Celebrity	Maria Juliana	Nithya Balaji	—	—	Thamarai Selvi	Dhanalakshmi	Jovika Vijayakumar	—
Winner  First runner-up  Finalist  Ticket to finale   Cash walkout
Winner	Arav	Riythvika	Mugen Rao	Aari Arjunan	Raju Jeyamohan	Mohammed Azeem	Archana Ravichandran	TBA
Runner-up	Snehan	Aishwarya Dutta	Sandy	Balaji Murugadoss	Priyanka Deshpande	Vikraman Radhakrishnan	Manichandra	TBA

Controversies

Main article: List of Bigg Boss (Tamil TV series) controversies

Notes

1. The winner won ₹50 lakh and was also awarded the new Suzuki Brezza car. ^[5]
2. The winner won ₹50 lakh and was also awarded the new Maruti Suzuki Nexa grand Vitara car and a plot worth ₹15.

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External links

• Bigg Boss at IMDb
• Official Website at Hotstar