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Bigg Boss Halla Bol
Bigg-boss-8-halla-bol.jpg
Presented by Farah Khan
No. of days28
No. of housemates10
Winner Gautam Gulati
Runner-up Karishma Tanna
No. of episodes29
Release
Original network Colors TV
Original release3 January (2015-01-03) 
31 January 2015 (2015-01-31)
Season chronology
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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]

The series was won by actor Gautam Gulati whilst actress Karishma Tanna emerged as the runner-up. [5]

Production

Farah Khan host of Bigg Boss 8, spin-off Bigg Boss Halla Bol. Farah Khan (Dec 2014).jpg
Farah Khan host of Bigg Boss 8, spin-off Bigg Boss Halla Bol.

In the fifteenth week Bigg Boss announced that show has been extended for four weeks [6] 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. [7] The spin-off series officially launched on 4 January, [8] 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. [9] 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 . [10]

Ratings and viewership

The ratings held a record for an all-time low with the final only managing to score a TRP of 2.82 until Bigg Boss 15 finale aired grabbing a rating of only 1.9. [11] 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. [12] 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. [13]

Broadcast syndication

CountryNetworkAiring DateSyndication TypeSource
Flag of India.svg India Colors 21 September 2014Off-Network
Syndication
[14]
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom Colors UK 21 September 2014International Syndication [15]

Events overview

MondayTuesdayWednesdayThursdayFridaySaturdaySunday
EventWeek 1 - Week 4 [16] [17]
Nominationsluxury budget taskHighlightsTabadlaEviction and Interview

Housemates status

SrHousemateDay enteredDay exitedResult
1GautamDay 1Day 105Winner
2KarishmaDay 1Day 1051st runner-up
3PritamDay 1Day 1052nd runner-up
4AliDay 1Day 1053rd runner-up
5DimpyDay 1Day 1054th runner-up
6SambhavanaDay 1Day 1055th runner-up
7RahulDay 1Day 1056th runner-up
8MehakDay 1Day 102Evicted
9SanaDay 1Day 98Evicted
10AjazDay 1Day 95Evicted

Notes

Housemates

Champions

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.

Guest appearances

Week(s)Guest(s)Notes
2 Mahesh Bhatt, Ali Fazal and Gurmeet Choudhary To promote their film Khamoshiyan . [28]
3 Mallika Sherawat To promote her film Dirty Politics. [29]
4Janardhan Baba (in-house guest only) [30]
Ajaz Khan (in-house guest only)He was ejected in first week due to violent behaviour against Ali. [31]
Finale Malaika Arora Khan [32]
Sonakshi Sinha
Siddharth Nigam and his teamTo promote their upcoming TV series Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat [33]
Rohit Shetty, Hussain Kuwajerwala, Sana Khan & Aashish Chaudhary To promote their upcoming TV series Khatron Ke Khiladi (season 6) [33]
Rajat Sharma [33]

Twists

Housemates allotment

HousemateWeek 1Week 2Week 3Week 4
Day 1Day 4Day 11Day 12Day 19Day 25
[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
GautamChampionChallengerChampion
KarishmaChampionChallengerChampion
PritamChampionChallenger
DimpyChampionChallenger
AliChampionChallengerChampion
SambhavnaChallengerChampionChallenger
RahulChallengerChampion
MahekChallengerChampion
SanaChallengerChampion
AjazChallenger
  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.

Weekly summary

The main events in the house are summarized in the table below. A typical week begins with nominations, followed by the shopping task, and then the eviction of a Housemate during the Saturday episode. Evictions, tasks, and other events for a particular week are noted in order of sequence.

Week 1Entrances
  • On Day 1, Challengers and ex contestants Ajaz, Mahek, Rahul, Sambhavna and Sana entered the Bigg Boss 8 house [34]
Nominations
  • On Day 1, Champions including Gautam, Karishma, Pritam, Ali & Dimpy could only nominate three people from the challengers team including Ajaz, Mahek, Rahul, Sambhavna & Sana. The housemates who were nominated at the end were Sambhavna, Ajaz and Mahek.
Tasks
Yeh Tera Ghar Yeh Mera Ghar
  • On Day 2, the housemates were split into two teams. One was champions and the other challengers. Champions are in house from many weeks, they have more right on house then challengers, Bigg Boss is giving a chance to challengers to claim right on parts of house. Challengers will challenge champions for every part of house. There will be tasks for every part of house, the team who wins that task will get that part of house, at end of luxury budget task, the team which has won more parts of house will win the task, then the losing team member will have to take permission to winning team to go in that won part of house and have to take visitor's pass from them, in start bedroom, living area, bathroom, kitchen are under champions, garden is of both champions and challengers. there is a task for the garden first. There are two trees in garden. The red one is for challengers and green is for champions. Both teams have to protect fruits on their tree from the other tree and have to try to steal fruits from other's tree at same time. At the end of the task, the team which has more fruit will win the garden.
ResultWon – Champions
Reward
  • The champions had won over the Living Area and Restrooms while the challengers have won over the Kitchen and Bedrooms.
Exit
  • On Day 2, Ajaz was ejected from the house after he hit Ali. On Day 7, there was no eviction as it was cancelled.
Week 2
Nominations
  • On Day 8, one champion will have to nominate three challengers by cutting their balloon. Sambhavana, Sana and Rahul were nominated.
Tasks
Bigg Boss Call Center
  • Champions will be call center employees while challengers will call them and can ask any question which they want, it can personal or related to house too, challengers can say anything to champions but champions have to sweetly answer them, challengers will try to break patience of champions, challengers will try to provoke to champions that they end call before 10mins or answer challengers back which will not go in their favor. Upen will be in challenger's team. Karishma will be part of champions, as captain she will be head of call center and will judge task too.
ResultWon – Challengers
Reward
  • Ali became capitain of the house.
Exits
  • On Day 14, Sana was evicted from the house after facing the public vote.

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 16Week 17Week 18Week 19
Day 120Day 123Day 127Day 133
Nominees for
Captaincy
No
Captain
Karishma
Pritam
Pritam
Ali
Sambhavna
NoneNo
Captain
House
Captain
KarishmaAliPritam
Captain's
Nominations
Rahul
Sambhavna
Sana
Rahul
Dimpy
GautamKarishma
Dimpy
ChallengersSambhavna
Rahul
Sana
Mahek
Ajaz
Gautam
Sambhavna
Mahek
Rahul
Ali
Gautam
Mahek
Rahul
Karishma
Ali
Gautam
Rahul
Pritam
Dimpy
Sambhavna
Pritam
Dimpy
Sambhavna
None
ChampionsGautam
Ali
Pritam
Karishma
Dimpy
Sana
Ali
Pritam
Karishma
Dimpy
Sambhavna
Pritam
Karishma
Dimpy
Mahek
Sambhavna
Pritam
Dimpy
Gautam
Karihsma
Ali
Rahul
Gautam
Karishma
Ali
Vote to:EvictSaveEvictWIN
GautamAjaz
Sambhavna
Mahek
Not
eligible
Karishma
Dimpy
KarishmaAli
Sambhavna
No
Nominations
Winner
(Day 133)
KarishmaSambhavna
Ajaz
Sana
House
Captain
Gautam
Dimpy
Ali
(to evict)
Ali
Pritam
Nominated1st runner-up
(Day 133)
PritamSambhavna
Ajaz
Mahek
Sambhavna
Sana
Rahul
Karishma
Dimpy
House
Captain
No
Nominations
Walked, 2nd runner-up
(Day 133)
DimpyMahek
Ajaz
Sambhavna
Rahul
Sana
Sambhavna
Karishma
Pritam
RahulSambhavna
Pritam
No
Nominations
3rd runner-up
(Day 133)
AliAjaz
Sambhavna
Mahek
Rahul
Sana
Sambhavna
House
Captain
GautamGautam
Karishma
No
Nominations
4th runner-up
(Day 133)
SambhavnaNot
eligible
Not
eligible
Karishma
Pritam
KarishmaGautam
Dimpy
Evicted
(Day 129)
RahulNot
eligible
Not
eligible
Karishma
Pritam
DimpyEvicted
(Day 126)
MahekNot
eligible
Gautam
Sambhavna
Sana
Karishma
Sambhavna
Evicted
(Day 122)
SanaNot
eligible
Not
eligible
Mahek
(to evict)
Evicted
(Day 119)
AjazEjected
(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
EjectedAjazNone
EvictedEviction
cancelled
SanaMahekRahulSumedh AsthaAryan
Akshara
PrakashSumit
  indicates that the Housemate was directly nominated for eviction prior to the regular nominations process.
  indicates that the Housemate was granted immunity from nominations.

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