Bigg Boss (Tamil TV series) season 9

Bigg Boss
Season Season 9
Presented by	Vijay Sethupathi
No. of days	42
No. of housemates	24
No. of episodes	43
Release
Original network	Star Vijay Colors Tamil JioHotstar
Original release	5 October 2025 (2025-10-05) – present
Season chronology
← Previous Season 8 Next → 10

Bigg Boss 9 is the ninth season of the Indian Tamil-language reality television series Bigg Boss, produced by Banijay. Vijay Sethupathi is returning as a host for the second time in a row. ^{[1] [2]} The season premiered on 5 October 2025 on Star Vijay and JioHotstar. ^{[3] [4] [5]} However, this season the unseen episodes will be aired on Colors Tamil.

Production

Creative Team: Deepak Dhar is the Project Head of this show. The show is produced by Banijay Entertainment group. Rupali Kanchankumar Bandawane is the production designer of this season. ^[6]

Promotions

The official first look and logo were unveiled on 1 September 2025, confirming the season's launch with Vijay Sethupathi once again as the host. ^{[7] [8]} On 5 September 2025, the second teaser released with Sethupathi is seen emphasizing the idea of “trying something new,” hinting at a season filled with surprises and unpredictability along with the tagline of the season being: “ Paakka Paakka thaan theriyum” (You'll know only by watching). ^[9] On 13 September 2025, the poster of the season was shared across social media platforms which also unveiled the launch date of the season. ^{[10] [11]}

Eye logo

The logo features a purple neon shades which symbolises the number 9 as the iris and with a sleek silver frame. ^{[12] [13]}

Broadcast

The show streams 24/7 on JioHotstar , with the main daily episode on Star Vijay reflecting a digital-first approach. An unseen episode is aired on Colors Tamil which shows extra footages which is not aired on the 1 hour episode. ^{[14] [15]}

Sponsors

Haier is the key sponsor for the season of Bigg Boss providing home appliances for the house. ^[16]

House

The Bigg Boss 9 house, located in EVP Film City, Chennai, features an Ancient Civilization-inspired theme, primarily influenced by Egyptian and Mesopotamian architecture. The interior design incorporates walls engraved with hieroglyphic-style symbols, colossal sculpted faces reminiscent of pharaohs and deities, and ornate golden and bronze detailing that evoke the grandeur of ancient temples. Symbolic motifs such as wings, triangular emblems, and carved relics highlight the mystical and regal ambience of the space, blending historical opulence with a modern aesthetic. ^[17]

• Living area: Circular sofa in sand, beach coloured with Egyptian carvings.
• Kitchen/Dining area: Round table with brown table and white chairs.
• Bedroom: 2 separate bedrooms, one common bed room following the Egyptian concept with Egyptian art and 9 beds, In contrast to the overall theme, the house also includes a super deluxe bedroom featuring an attached bathroom and a private Jacuzzi.
• Bathroom: Updated wallpapers with a unique palette of ancient architecture.
• Confession room: Sand coloured room theme of Egyptian palace for Bigg Boss and carvings of mummy behind room.
• Garden/Outdoor area: Artificial turf, pool and plenty of lounge chairs.
• Medical Room: A dedicated space for health check-ups and emergencies, ensuring contestant well-being.
• Activity Area: Located near the Medical Room, this space is designated for tasks and challenges.
• Smoking Area: A designated space for breaks, located in the garden area.
• This season also marks the return of the iconic jail feature, which was absent in the previous season, and the revival of the swimming pool, which had remained empty since Season 3 and had been missing entirely since Season 7.
• Additionally, for the first time in the show's history, the main entrance to the house, traditionally located in the garden area facing the house, has been shifted to the position that previously served as the activity area entrance, marking a notable structural change in the layout of the Bigg Boss house

Housemates

The list of housemates in the order of entering the house: ^[18]

• This season also marks the return of the iconic jail feature, which was absent in the previous season, and the revival of the swimming pool, which had remained empty since Season 3 and had been missing entirely since Season 7.
• Additionally, for the first time in the show's history, the main entrance to the house, traditionally located in the garden area facing the house, has been shifted to the position that previously served as the activity area entrance, marking a notable structural change in the layout of the Bigg Boss house

Housemates status

S.No	Housemates	Day entered	Day exited	Housemate Status
1	Aadhirai	Day 1	Day 21	Evicted
		Day 43
2	Amit	Day 28
3	Aurora	Day 1
4	Divya	Day 28
5	FJ	Day 1		House captain
6	Kamrudin	Day 1
7	Kani	Day 1
8	Kemy	Day 1
9	Parvathy	Day 1
10	Prajean	Day 28
12	Ramya	Day 1
13	Sabarinathan	Day 1
14	Sandra	Day 28
15	Subiksha	Day 1
16	Vikram	Day 1
17	Vinoth	Day 1
18	Viyana	Day 1
19	Diwagar	Day 1	Day 42	Evicted
20	Praveen	Day 1	Day 35	Evicted
21	Tushaar	Day 1	Day 34	Evicted
22	Kalaiyarasan	Day 1	Day 27	Evicted
23	Apsara	Day 1	Day 14	Evicted
24	Pravin	Day 1	Day 7	Evicted
25	Nandhini	Day 1	Day 5	Walked

Original entrants

• T. Diwagar, youtuber, physio therapist.

• Aurora Sinclair, model, influencer.
• Fredrick Johnson (FJ) Adhisayam, an actor and beat-boxer, who gained recognition through the web series Suzhal: The Vortex and the film Aranmanai 4 .
• VJ Parvathy , a video Jockey and TV presenter .
• Tushaar Jayaprakash, a Singaporean Indian and dancer, model and content creator.
• Kani Thiru, an actress and winner of Cooku with Comali season 2 who has mainly acted in the Tamil web series Parachute . She is the sister of Bigg Boss 2 contestant Vijayalakshmi Feroz.
• Sabarinathan, an actor in the Tamil industry, who has appeared in films including Natpe Thunai , Nenjamundu Nermaiyundu Odu Raja , and acted in TV shows like Velaikkaran, Bharathi Kannamma and Ponni .
• Pravin Gandhi, an Indian film director, known for directing films such as Ratchagan and Jodi .
• Vyshali Kemkar, popularly known as (Mirchi Kemy), who featured in a Tamil reality cooking show Cooku with Comali season 5 and began her screen-debut in shows like Yatrika and Office.
• Aadhirai Soundarajan, an Indian actress, known for her roles in Tamil films and television. She gained recognition through films like Bigil, Varalaru Mukkiyam and Theerkadarishi . She is also known for a TV show Mahanadhi , airing on Star Vijay.
• Ramya Joo, a stage dancer. ^[19]
• Vinoth Kumar, is an Indian folk music artist.
• Viyana, a model, actress and social media influencer, who has gained recognition through music videos, including the track Adiye Paduthadhe.
• Praveen Raj Devasagayam, a television actor and comedian, recognized for Tamil serials like Bharathi Kannamma, Kizhakku Vaasal and Eeramana Rojave.
• Subiksha Kumar, a social media influencer and YouTube blogger known for her blogs on fishing and marine life.
• Apsara CJ, a Tamil Transgender model and social media influencer from Kanyakumari.
• Nandhini R, a yoga teacher and commoner contestant.
• Vikkals Vikram, an Indian stand-up comedian, actor and content creator from Chennai.
• Kamrudin K, an Indian actor who appears in the Tamil television serial Mahanadhi.
• Kalaiyarasan, an Indian cultural trainer.

Wildcard entrants

• Prajean Padmanabhan, an actor known for his role in the serial Chinna Thambi and films such as Muthirai , Manal Nagaram and Ninaivellam Neeyada .^{[ citation needed ]}
• Sandra Amy, an actress known for her role in the serial Thangam , and fims such as 6 , Dharani and Kaatrin Mozhi .^{[ citation needed ]}
• Divya Ganesh, a television actress known for her roles in serials such as Sumangali , Baakiyalakshmi , Mahanadhi and Annam . ^[20]
• Amit Bhargav, an actor known for his role as lord Krishna in the show Mahabharatham as-well as other shows such as Kalyanam Mudhal Kadhal Varai, Heart Beat and Nenjam Marappathillai.^{[ citation needed ]}

Twists

Badge selection

Upon entering the house on launch day, housemates will be able to pick a badge from the fire or water column. This selection will decide their bedroom allotment. ^[21]

Housemates
Fire	Water
Aadhirai	Aurora
Apsara	Kamrudin
Diwagar	Pravin
FJ	Ramya
Kalaiyarasan	Vinoth
Kani	Subiksha
Nandhini	Tushaar
Praveen	-
Vikram	-
Viyana	-
Paarvathy	-
Kemy	-
Sabarinathan	-

Bedroom allotment

The 2 bedrooms are depicted as 2 different statues within the one house resembling a common bedroom while the other bedroom is a deluxe bedroom. While there is also separate exclusive bedroom for the house captain is also established. The bedrooms are:

•  Common bedroom: With a set of 9 beds and a separate attached room and bed located for the house captain, the room's serves as a standard room with combination of sand and Egyptian themed designs.
•  Deluxe bedroom: This room is surrounded by neon lighting of black, blue and purple creating a luxurious atmosphere. The room has comfortable beds and a attached spacious and high class toilet with gold finish and a personal Jacuzzi for the housemates in the room only.
•  Captain bedroom: An exclusive personal room has been designated for the house captain for this season. Hence the house captain will have his/her own bedroom in the house neither sharing a common or deluxe room.

•  BB Jail: The weak performers of the week will be sent to BB Jail.

Allotment	Launch Day
	Day 2	Day 5	Day 8	Day 11	Day 12	Day 15	Day 19	Day 21	Day 22	Day 25	Day 28	Day 29
Aurora	Deluxe Room			Common Room		Jail	Common Room						Bedroom allotment stopped
Diwagar	Common Room		Deluxe Room
FJ	Common Room						Deluxe Room
Kamrudin	Deluxe Room			Common Room				Jail	Common Room
Kani	Common Room						Captain Room			Deluxe Room
Kemy	Common Room
Parvathy	Common Room			Deluxe Room			Common Room	Jail	Common Room
Praveen	Common Room									Captain Room
Ramya	Deluxe Room
Sabarinathan	Common Room						Deluxe Room
Subiksha	Deluxe Room									Common Room
Tushaar	Deluxe Room	Common Room	Captain Room	Common Room
Vikram	Common Room
Vinoth	Deluxe Room		Jail	Deluxe Room
Viyana	Common Room	Deluxe Room	Jail	Deluxe Room			Common Room
Kalaiyarasan	Common Room									Deluxe Room		Evicted (Day 27)
Aadhirai	Common Room			Deluxe Room		Jail	Deluxe Room		Evicted (Day 21)
Apsara	Common Room						Evicted (Day 14)
Pravin	Deluxe Room			Evicted (Day 7)
Nandhini	Common Room		Walked (Day 5)

Secret task

In week 5, Sandra and Prajean were given a secret task. In that task if they successfully completed it they would be given a nomination free pass for one of them and a special power to directly nominate a housemate for eviction. Hence Prajean took the nomination free pass and was saved and both of them directly nominated Subiksha for the week 6 nomination.

Guest appearances

Week	Day	Guest(s)	Purpose of visit
Week 1	Grand Launch	Riya Thiyagarajan, Agathiyan, Aishwarya Appaya, Vikkals crew (Hari Muniyappan,Sibi Jayakumar and Vikram's wife)	To support the contestants Aurora, Kani, Praveen Raj, and Vikram, respectively.
Week 3	Day 15	Dhruv Vikram, Anupama Parameswaran, Rajisha Vijayan, Nivas K. Prasanna, Aruvi Madhan	As a part of Diwali celebrations, and to promote their film Bison Kaalamaadan .
Week 4	Day 24	Rio Raj, RJ Vigneshkanth, Malavika Manoj	To promote their film Aan Paavam Pollathathu .
	Day 28	Rithika Tamil Selvi, Sriranjani Sundaram	To support the wildcard contestants Divya and Amit respectively.
Week 5	Day 30-33	Priyanka Deshpande, Deepak Dinkar and Manjari Narayanan (Ex- Contestants)	As a part of the hotel task
	Day 32	Mano	To promote the upcoming film Vattakhanal
	Day 35	Deepak Dinkar	To interact with the housemates.

Weekly summary

The main events in the Bigg Boss 9 house are summarised in the table below.

Week 1	Entrances	During the grand premiere on 5 October 2025, host Vijay Sethupathi introduced 20 housemates. Diwagar, Aurora, FJ, Parvathy, Tushaar, Kani, Sabarinathan, Pravin, Kemy, Aadhirai, Ramya, Vinoth, Viyana, Praveen, Subiksha, Apasara, Nandhini, Vikram, Kamrudin and Kalaiyarasan entered the house in order. [22]
	Twists	On Day 0, when entering the house, housemates were given the option by Vijay Sethupathi to either pick a red (fire) band or a blue (water) band on the stage. When all the housemates entered the house, Bigg Boss announced that housemates with the blue (water) band will be able to stay in the deluxe bedroom of the house in which they will enjoy facilities like a Jacuzzi, high-class shower system. Where else housemates with the red (fire) band will be staying in a common bedroom with only a simple bed area and bathroom. [23] On Day 0, all the housemates came to an agreement to off the supply of the main water tap in the house, hence Bigg Boss announced that there will be no water supply to the house besides the bathroom toilet flush. All the housemates will need to manage with water in a bucket until further notice. On Day 2, housemates broke house rules. Hence as a punishment Bigg Boss announced housemates to discuss and swap one deluxe room housemate and a common room housemate to their opposites room. Housemates decided to swap Tushaar from the deluxe to the common room and Viyana from the common room to the deluxe room.
	Nominations	* On Day 1: Aadhirai, Apsara, Diwagar, Kalaiyarasan, Praveen, Pravin and Viyana were nominated for the first week's eviction process. [24]
	House Captain	No Captain
	Tasks	On Day 1, housemates had to selected a co housemate who they didn't really create a connection to with upon their entry into the house and a housemate who is unfit and not worthy to participate in show and paste a sticker on the housemate they select. [25] On Day 1–5, the house's water supply was cut off. [26] Story task On Day 2-5: Housemates of the Bigg Boss House shared their past life, their sorrows, strengths, and how they achieved their dreams, with the other housemates. 2 housemates with the best stories will win a nomination free pass in the following week. [27]
		Captaincy Tasks Captaincy task is divided into 3 tasks. Task 1 On Day 3: The task for captaincy was 'Pongudhe Pongudhe'. [28] Task 2 On Day 4: Housemates had only a tiny amount of water to wash some dirty jeans. Aadhirai, Praveen R and Tushaar were the top 3 who completed the task within the time frame. [29] Task 3 On Day 5: Aadhirai, Praveen and Tushaar had to pick a responsibility they will hold until Bigg Boss announced. Aadhirai picked a mask, Praveen picked a uniform and Tushaar picked a scaf to cover his mouth. Until the announcement of Bigg Boss they are not allowed to remove them. Housemates later had to vote and pick who out of the three candidates can perform best at captaincy. Tushaar received most votes and hence was captain for week 2.
	Jail	On Day 5, Vinoth and Viyana were sent to jail by housemates due to lack of participation in the weeks activities.
Exits	On Day 7: Pravin Gandhi was evicted after facing public votes.
Walked	On Day 5: Nandhini R voluntarily walked out of the Bigg Boss house after repeatedly requesting to leave the show.
Week 2
	Twists	On Day 11: Bigg Boss revoked Tushaar from his captaincy role since he wasn't able to perform and fulfil the roles of a house captain, hence as a punishment Tushaar lost his captaincy.
	Nominations	On Day 8: Apsara, Aurora, Diwagar, FJ, Kamrudin, Kemy, Parvathy, Ramya and Sabarinathan were nominated for the second week's eviction process.
	House Captain	Tushaar Jayaprakash
	Tasks	Story task On Day 8-12: Housemates of the Bigg Boss House shared their past life, their sorrows, strengths, and how they achieved their dreams, with the other housemates. 2 housemates with the best stories will win a nomination free pass in the end of the week. Mask Task On day 9-11: Eighteen face masks of housemates are kept on a rack, and a "safe house" rack with seventeen slots is placed next to the house's activity area door in the garden area. When the buzzer sounds, each housemate must take a housemate's face from that object and place it in any one of those slots. Housemates are not allowed to take a mask with their face on it. They may exchange the mask they have with another, provided they abide by the exchange conditions mentioned in the specific set of rounds. The housemates who advance to the subsequent rounds must return their mask before the next round begins. The housemate whose mask fails to enter the safe house rack at the end of each round will be eliminated from this task. After a housemate is eliminated, one of the slots using the boards marked with an X sign. The number of slots will decrease with each round. The housemate whose mask is placed into the safe house at the end of the final round will win this task and will be saved from Week 3's nomination process and granted safety from eviction. Bigg Boss Mask task Housemates Final position Kamrudin Winner Tushaar Eliminated in Round 13 Sabarinathan Eliminated in Round 12 Ramya Eliminated in Round 11 Praveen and Aadhirai Eliminated in Round 10 Viyana Eliminated in Round 9 Vikram Eliminated in Round 8 Diwagar Eliminated in Round 7 Kani and Subiksha Eliminated in Round 6 Kalaiyarasan Eliminated in Round 5 Aurora Eliminated in Round 4 Vinoth Eliminated in Round 3 Parvathy Eliminated in Round 2 Kemy Eliminated in Round 1 Since Kamarudin won the mask task, he was granted a special immunity to be automatically saved from nomination for the following week.
		Captaincy Task Kamrudin, Kani and Sabarinathan were selected to participate in the captaincy task, the task features a statue of each of the nominee. When the nominee is not looking at their statue another housemate who is against them can place a knife on their statue. The housemate with the least knife stabs will win captaincy. Kani received the least stabs and was elected house captain for week 3.
	Sponsored	On Day 12: All the housemates had to do a ramp walk dressed in the show's sponsor brand Jeyachandran Textiles where the brand offered all the housemates an outfit to be dressed during the ramp walk show. Aadhirai and FJ won the task.
	Jail	On Day 12: Aadhirai and Aurora were sent to jail by housemates due to lack of participation in the weeks activities.
Exits	On Day 14: Apsara CJ was evicted after facing public votes.
Week 3
	Twists	Host Vijay Sethupathi announced to the audience that there will be wildcard housemates entering the house soon.
	Nominations	On Day 15: Aadhirai, Aurora, Kalaiyarasan, Praveen, Ramya, Subiksha, Tushaar and Viyana were nominated for the third week's eviction process.
	House Captain	Kani Thiru
	Tasks	Bigg Boss Juice Factory On Days 16–19: Housemates will be divided into 3 separate groups. The owners group will need to be able to export the juices to Bigg Boss. The packet boxes will be sent to the owners and the bottle collectors for the juice will be able to clean the bottles and supply the bottles to the owners. If the owners are fulfilled with the quality of the bottles they are able to purchase the bottles and fill their juice in the bottle and paste their brand on the juice. There will be 2 juice judges who will judge the owners juice base on appearance, taste and quality. If the juices are approved they earn a point. Diwagar and Parvathy were appointed as the Quality Control judges for this task. Owners Coins received Aadhirai 14 FJ 9 Ramya 14 Sabarinathan 6 Subiksha 30 Vinoth 10 Since Subiksha received the most coins and eventually won the task, she was granted nomination free-pass from 4th weeks eviction process. On the supplier team from the common bedroom team Praveen received most coins hence he was also granted nomination free-pass from 4th weeks eviction process
	Sponsored	Dazller Glow Challenge On Day 19: Housemates had to get into 3 groups of 4 and the remaining 3 housemates will be the judges. Housemates will need to apply the Dazller products and perform an advertisement kind modelling shoot and a ramp walk along the stage. 1 member from each group will need to talk about the type of make-up look is performed on the members. Kalaiarasan, Kani and Ramya were appointed as the judges for the challenge. Aurora, FJ, Vikram and Vinoth won the challenge.
	Jail	On Day 19: Parvathy and Kamrudin were sent to jail by housemates due to lack of participation in the weeks activities.
Exits	On Day 21: Aadhirai Soundarajan was evicted after facing public votes.
Week 4
	Entrances	On Day 28, Amit, Divya, Prajean and Sandra entered the house as wildcard housemates.
	Twists	On Day 22, Bigg Boss announced to Praveen that since he became the house captain and have the power of nomination free pass which he received in the Bigg Boss Juice Factory task. That he can only select 1 of these 2 options while the unchosen option will be passed on to someone of Praveen's choice. Hence Praveen chose to remain as the house captain for the week and granted the nomination free pass power to Kani. On Day 22, Bigg Boss announced that all housemates will need to pack all their belongings which include clothes (except undergarments), make-up, hair products, soap, toothpaste and brush and accessories. And packed up in a luggage and left in the store room, housemates were then given a Bigg Boss uniform as a punishment.
	Nominations	On Day 22: Aurora, Kamrudin, Kalaiyarasan, Parvathy and Vinoth were nominated for the fourth week's eviction process.
	House Captain	Praveen Raj Devasagayam
	Tasks	Captaincy Task Kani, Praveen and Vikram were selected to participate in the captaincy task, the task features a ski board with velcro shoes attached to the board. Nominees should attach their feet on the velcro and start walking around, however they cant sit or stand still on the board. The nominee who survives the longest on the board and eliminating their co nominees will become captain of the week. Praveen was the last nominee standing and hence was elected house captain for week 4.
		Art and the Artist On Day 22, Team deluxe room and Bigg Boss common room housemates will split into 2 of their respective teams. In each team there should be 7 housemates and both teams should play their games at the same time. There is a total of 5 rounds, on the TV there will be a symbol shown to the housemates and housemates on both teams will need to recreate the symbols on the floor. If the team who creates the symbol within the time frame and most accurately depicted will earn a point. If team deluxe wins the house won't go through a swap, however if the common room wins the house will go through a swap. Praveen was the judge of the task. Task Points Teams Total Points Deluxe Room 1 Common Room 3 Team Common Room won the task. Hence there will be house swap.
		Redemption On Days 23–26, Housemates will participate in activities to win back their belongings which have been taken by Bigg Boss. Housemates will be divided into their respective teams of common room and deluxe room. The team which win most activities each round will be able to take certain belongings from the locker. Deluxe team won activity 1 Common team won activity 2 Common team won activity 3
Exits	On Day 28: Kalaiyarasan was evicted after facing public votes.
Week 5
	Twists	On Day 29, instead of the normal nomination process which is held private in the confession room. Bigg Boss asked the housemates to openly announce their nomination votes in a "open nomination". On Days 34 & 35, there were double evictions.
	Nominations	On Day 29: Diwagar, FJ, Kamrudin, Kemy, Parvathy, Praveen, Ramya, Sabarinathan, Tushaar, Vikram, Vinoth and Viyana were nominated for the fifth week's eviction process.
	House Captain	Divya Ganesh
	Tasks	Captaincy Task Bigg Boss announced that in this captaincy task the wildcard housemates will only be participating which include Amit, Divya, Prajean and Sandra. The task includes a hoop next to them with a rope attached to it and they will need to reach out to the middle where a ball is placed, the first nominee to pull the ball to their square in front of them wins the captaincy. Divya won the task.
		Aahaa Oohoo Hotel On Day 30, housemates take roles as hotel staff and will accommodate guests sent by Bigg Boss who are previous season housemates. Bigg Boss selected the candidates for the roles of the manager, chefs, room service, and housekeepers to look after the customers visiting the hotel. Guest Day Checked In Day Checked Out Deepak Dinkar Day 30 Day 33 Manjari Narayanan Day 30 Day 33 Priyanka Deshpande Day 30 Day 31 (Night) Day 31(Morning) Day 33 On Day 31, Priyanka checked out of the hotel due to some circumstances and re checked in on Day 31 Night.
	Sponsored	Healthy Grocer Perugayam On Day 33, housemates participated in the healthy grocer perugayam task. The task requires housemates to chose a co housemate who they have developed a strong connection and bond too in the house.
Exits	On Day 34: Tushaar Jayaprakash and Praveen Raj Devasagayam were evicted in double eviction after facing public votes.
Week 6
	Twists
	Nominations	On Day 36: Aurora, Divya, Diwagar, Kani, Parvathy, Ramya, Sandra, Subiksha, Vikram and Viyana were nominated for the sixth week's eviction process.
	House Captain	Sabarinathan
	Tasks	Captaincy Task On Day 36, the captaincy task took place with Divya, Parvathy and Sabarinathan as the nominees in the garden area. The task's layout is that there will be 4 cones in a squared box in the middle and nominees will have a box of their own in a distance where they are stood and once the buzzer goes they must run to take the cones that is in the middle box. However, if another nominee has taken the cones and placed it in their box they can run straight to their co nominees box and try to take one. The nominee with the most cones at the final buzzer wins the captaincy. Sabarinathan received most cones at the final buzzer hence he became the captain for the sixth week.
		Bigg Boss Samrajiyam On Days 37-40, the housemates will be in a royal kingdom. Hence they themselves will also occupy roles of royals. Housemates will divide into 2 separate kingdom and will have a rivalry among themselves. Each kingdom will have a raja and other royal roles. Gaana Samrajiyam Role Housemate Raja Vinoth Raja Mandri Kamrudin Raja Guru Divya Thalapathy Prajean Puzhavar Vikram Kingdom Dancer Ramya Servants Amit & Kemy Tharpees Samrajiyam Role Housemate Raja Diwagar Raja Mata Kani Illavarasi 1 Parvathy Illavarasi 2 Aurora Illavarasi 3 Viyana Thalapathy Sandra King Servent Sabarinathan Servants FJ & Subiksha
		Ranking task On Day 39, Bigg Boss assigned housemates to select three judges among them and let the judges rank all of the housemates from 1 to 14, based on how mature they believe they have been throughout Weeks 1 to 6. Rank Contestants 1 Sabarinathan 2 Subiksha 3 Kemy 4 Sandra 5 Prajean 6 Viyana 7 Aurora 8 Ramya 9 Divya 10 Kamrudin 11 Vinoth 12 FJ 13 Parvathy 14 Diwagar Judges: Amit, Kani and Vikram FJ, Parvathy and Diwagar who were ranked in 12th, 13th and 14th positions respectively were sent to the Bigg Boss Jail following Bigg Boss's announcement.
	Sponsored	—
Exits	On Day 42: t. Diwakar was evicted after facing public votes.
Week 7
	Twists
	Nominations
	House Captain	FJ
	Tasks	Captaincy Task Nominees will need to be attached to a board and only have 4 grips on the board for support. If all the grips are taken away from them they will be eliminated, however their co housemates who are not in the task will remove a grip from them with who they feel won't be suitable for a captain. FJ had the least grips removed hence he won the captaincy task.
	Sponsored
Exits
Week 8
	Twists
	Nominations
	House Captain
	Tasks
	Sponsored
Exits
Week 9
	Twists
	Nominations
	House Captain
	Tasks
	Sponsored
Exits
Week 10
	Twists
	Nominations
	House Captain
	Tasks
	Sponsored
Exits
Week 11
	Twists
	Nominations
	House Captain
	Tasks
	Sponsored
Exits
Week 12
	Twists
	Nominations
	House Captain
	Tasks
	Sponsored
Exits
Week 13
	Twists
	Nominations
	House Captain
	Tasks
	Sponsored
Exits
Week 14
	Twists
	Nominations
	House Captain
	Tasks
	Sponsored
Exits
Week 15 Finale Week
	Twists
	Nominations
	House Captain
	Tasks
	Sponsored
	Exits
	Grand Finale
	Finalists
	4th Runner Up
	3rd Runner-up
	2nd Runner-up
	1st Runner-up
Winner

Nomination table

#BB9	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	Week 15
				Day 22–27	Day 28											Grand Finale
Nominees for House Captain	No nominees	Aadhirai Praveen Tushaar	Kamrudin Kani Sabarinathan	Kani Praveen Vikram		Amit Divya Prajean Sandra	Divya Parvathy Sabarinathan Praveen	FJ Sabarinathan Subiksha Vinoth
House Captain	No captain	Tushaar	Kani	Praveen		Divya	Sabarinathan	FJ
Captain's Nomination	No captain nomination	Dhiwagar Parvathy	Subiksha Viyana	Kamrudin Tushaar		Parvathy Diwagar	Viyana Parvathy
BB Jail	Vinoth Viyana	Aadhirai Aurora	Parvathy Kamrudin	None		FJ Sandra	Diwagar Parvathy Kani FJ
Vote to:	Evict				Wildcard	Evict
Amit	Not in House				Entered (Day 28)	Parvathy Viyana	Divya Aurora
Aurora	Diwagar Kalaiyarasan	Diwagar Parvathy	Kalaiyarasan Subiksha	Parvathy Kalaiyarasan		Parvathy Diwagar	Sandra Amit
Divya	Not in House				Entered (Day 28)	House Captain	Vikram Aurora
FJ	Kalaiyarasan Pravin	Diwagar Parvathy	Subiksha Viyana	Parvathy Kamrudin		Diwagar Viyana	Diwagar Viyana	House Captain
Kamrudin	Apsara Diwagar	Diwagar Parvathy	Aadhirai Aurora	Aurora Kalaiyarasan		Vikram Kemy	Kani Vikram
Kemy	Diwagar Sabarinathan	Diwagar Parvathy	Aurora Parvathy	Parvathy Kamrudin		Parvathy Diwagar	Ramya Kani
Parvathy	Kani Pravin	FJ Kemy	Praveen Tushaar	Aurora Kemy		Vikram Kemy	Kani Vikram
Prajean	Not in House				Entered (Day 28)	Parvathy Diwagar	Subiksha (direct nomination)
Ramya	Aadhirai Diwagar	Parvathy Aurora	Aadhirai Kalaiyarasan	Kamrudin Viyana		Diwagar Tushaar	Aurora Sandra
Sabarinathan	Kalaiyarasan Parvathy	Parvathy Kamrudin	Vinoth Viyana	Parvathy Vinoth		Diwagar Kamrudin	House Captain
Sandra	Not in House				Entered (Day 28)	Parvathy Diwagar	Subiksha (direct nomination)
Subiksha	Kalaiyarasan Viyana	Parvathy Apsara	Kalaiyarasan Tushaar	Kamrudin Vinoth		Parvathy Diwagar	Kemy Ramya
Vikram	Kalaiyarasan Pravin	Kamrudin Parvathy	Aurora Kalaiyarasan	Parvathy Kamrudin		Parvathy Diwagar	Divya Aurora
Vinoth	Apsara Kalaiyarasan	FJ Parvathy	Aadhirai Kemy	Kalaiyarasan Diwagar		Parvathy Diwagar	Diwagar Viyana
Viyana	Kalaiyarasan Praveen	Aurora Parvathy	Aadhirai Aurora	Vinoth Aurora		Sabari FJ	Kani Sandra
Kani	Aadhirai Viyana	Kamrudin Parvathy	House Captain	Granted Nomination Free from Praveen		Parvathy Diwagar	Sandra Parvathy
				Parvathy Kamrudin
Diwagar	Kemy Praveen	Kamrudin Ramya	Praveen Ramya	Kamrudin Vinoth		Sabari Ramya	Ramya Vinoth	Evicted (Day 42)
Praveen	Kalaiyarasan Pravin	Aurora Diwagar	Aadhirai Ramya	Granted Nomination Free To Kani		Parvathy Diwagar	Evicted (Day 35)
				House Captain
Tushaar	Apsara Kalaiyarasan	House Captain	Aadhirai Kalaiyarasan	Parvathy Kamrudin		Praveen Vinoth	Evicted (Day 34)
Kalaiyarasan	Aadhirai Diwagar	Diwagar Sabarinathan	Ramya Viyana	Kamrudin Vinoth		Evicted (Day 27)
Aadhirai	Diwagar Kalaiyarasan	Parvathy Kamrudin	Subiksha Viyana	Evicted (Day 21)
Apsara	Aurora Kalaiyarasan	Diwagar Parvathy	Evicted (Day 14)
Pravin	Diwagar Praveen	Evicted (Day 7)
Nandhini	Kalaiyarasan Viyana	Walked (Day 5)
Notes	1, 2, 3	4, 5	6, 7	8, 9, 10, 11		12, 13	14
Against Public Vote	Aadhirai Apsara Diwagar Kalaiyarasan Pravin Praveen Viyana	Apsara Aurora Diwagar FJ Kamrudin Kemy Parvathy Ramya Sabarinathan	Aadhirai Aurora Kalaiyarasan Praveen Ramya Subiksha Tushaar Viyana	Aurora Kalaiyarasan Kamrudin Parvathy Vinoth		Diwagar FJ Kamrudin Kemy Parvathy Praveen Ramya Sabarinathan Tushaar Vikram Vinoth Viyana	Aurora Divya Diwagar Kani Parvathy Ramya Sandra Subiksha Vikram Viyana
Walked	Nandhini	None
Evicted	Pravin	Apsara	Aadhirai	Kalaiyarasan		Tushaar	Diwagar
						Praveen

Notes

  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.

  indicates the winner.

  indicates the first runner up.

  indicates the second runner up.

  indicates the third runner up.

  indicates the fourth runner up.

  indicates the contestant as the weak performer of the week.

  indicates the contestant has re-entered the house.

• ^1 : On Day 1 during first week nomination, Bigg Boss announced that all the housemates can come to a conclusion and grant 3 Deluxe room housemates an exemption from public voting. Hence they choose Ramya, Subhiksha and Tushaar to be exempt.
• ^2 : On Day 5, Nandhini left the house due to mental health reasons.
• ^3 : On Day 5, Vinoth and Viyana were sent to the BB jail due to lack of performance during activities.
• ^4 : On Day 8 during second week nomination, Bigg Boss announced that all the housemates can come to a conclusion and grant 3 Deluxe room housemates an exemption from public voting. Hence they choose Aadhirai, Vinoth and Viyana to be exempt.
• ^5 : On Day 11, Bigg Boss revoked Tushaar from his captaincy after failing to fulfil his duties as the house captain of the Bigg Boss house.
• ^6 : Since Kamrudin won the mask task he was granted an exemption in week 3's nomination process
• ^7 : On Day 15 during third week nomination, Bigg Boss announced that all the housemates can come to a conclusion and grant 2 Deluxe room housemates an exemption from public voting. Hence they choose Dhiwagar and FJ to be exempt.
• ^8 : Since Praveen and Subiksha received the most coins in the Bigg Boss juice factory task in their own respective teams they was granted an exemption in week 4's nomination process
• ^9 : Since Praveen was not able to be granted 2 powers which included the nomination free pass and captaincy, Bigg Boss announced that he should grant either his immunity to a co housemate and he chose to grant the free-pass to Kani, hence Kani was granted an exemption in week 4's nomination process
• ^10 : On Day 22 during fourth week nomination, Bigg Boss announced that all the housemates can come to a conclusion and grant 2 Deluxe room housemates an exemption from public voting. Hence they choose FJ and Sabarinathan to be exempt.
• ^11 : Since Subiksha won the Juice Factory task in week 3. Bigg Boss gave her a special power to save another housemate of her choice, she chose Viyana to be saved.
• ^12 : Since Kani won the story task in week 4. She won a nomination free pass in week 5.
• ^13 : Amit, Prajean and Sandra were given and exemption from nomination in week 5 since they entered the house only 1 week earlier.
• ^14 : In week 5, Sandra and Prajean were given a secret task. In that task if they successfully completed it they would be given a nomination free pass for one of them and a special power to directly nominate a housemate for eviction. Hence Prajean took the nomination free pass and was saved and both of them directly nominated Subiksha for the week 6 nomination.

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