Bigg Boss Halla Bol Explained

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Module1:	Num Days: 28 Num Housemates: 10 Runner Up: Karishma Tanna
Num Episodes:	29
Network:	Colors TV
Prev Series:	Season 8

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

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:

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.^[10] 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.^[11] 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.^[12]

Broadcast syndication

width=130	Country	width=120	Network	width=140	Airing Date	Syndication Type	Source
India	Colors		Off-Network Syndication	^[13]
United Kingdom	Colors UK		International Syndication	^[14]

Events overview

Event	height=25 colspan="7"	Week 1 - Week 4^[15] ^[16]
	bgcolor=Lavender	Nominations	bgcolor=Cornsilk colspan="2"	luxury budget task	bgcolor=#D1E8EF	Highlights	bgcolor=Cornsilk	Tabadla	bgcolor=PeachPuff height=20 colspan="2"	Eviction and Interview

Housemates status

Sr	Housemate			Result
1	Gautam	Day 105	Day 133	Winner
2	Karishma	Day 105	Day 133
3	Pritam	Day 105	Day 133
4	Dimpy	Day 105	Day 133
5	Ali	Day 105	Day 133	4th runner-up
6	Sambhavna	Day 105	Day 129
7	Rahul	Day 105	Day 126
8	Mahek	Day 105	Day 122
9	Sana	Day 105	Day 119
10	Ajaz	Day 105	Day 106

Notes

• Continuation of Bigg Boss 8

Housemates

Champions

• Karishma Tanna is a television actress.^{[17] [18] [19]}
• Gautam Gulati is a television actor.^{[20] [21]}
• Pritam Singh RJ is a radio jockey.^{[22] [23]}
• Ali Quli Mirza is a singer^[24]
• Dimpy Ganguly is the winner of Season 2 of India's rendition of The Bachelor.^{[25] [26]}

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.

• Ajaz Khan is an actor who finished in third place in season seven.
• Mahek Chahal is an actress and model who was a runner-up in the fifth season.
• Rahul Mahajan is an actor and the son of politician Pramod Mahajan. He quit the show in the second season.
• Sambhavna Seth is an actress and dancer and has appeared in Bhojpuri films. In the second season, she finished in tenth place.
• Sana Khan is an actress, model and dancer who participated in season six, finishing in third place.

Guest appearances

Week(s)	Guest(s)	Notes
2	Mahesh Bhatt, Ali Fazal and Gurmeet Choudhary	To promote their film Khamoshiyan.^[27]
3	Mallika Sherawat	To promote her film Dirty Politics.^[28]
align=center rowspan="2"	4	Janardhan Baba (in-house guest only)	^[29]
Ajaz Khan (in-house guest only)	He was ejected in first week due to violent behaviour against Ali.^[30]
align=center rowspan="5"	Finale		^[31]
Sonakshi Sinha
Siddharth Nigam and his team	To promote their upcoming TV series Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat^[32]
Rohit Shetty, Hussain Kuwajerwala, Sana Khan & Aashish Chaudhary	To promote their upcoming TV series Khatron Ke Khiladi (season 6)
Rajat Sharma

Twists

Housemates allotment

Housemate	Week 1		Week 2		Week 3	Week 4
	Day 1	Day 4	Day 11	Day 12	Day 19	Day 25
Gautam	Champion↔	Challenger↓	Champion↑
Karishma	Champion↔	Challenger↓	Champion↑
Pritam	Champion↔	Challenger↓
Dimpy	Champion↔	Challenger↓
Ali	Champion↔	Challenger↓	Champion↑
Sambhavna	Challenger↔	Champion↑	Challenger↓
Rahul	Challenger↔	Champion↑
Mahek	Challenger↔	Champion↑
Sana	Challenger↔	Champion↑
Ajaz	Challenger↔

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 1	Entrances	On Day 1, Challengers and ex contestants Ajaz, Mahek, Rahul, Sambhavna and Sana entered the Bigg Boss 8 house^[33]
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 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 si be task for garden first, there are two trees in garden, red one is of challengers and green is of champions, both team have to protect fruits on their tree from other tree and have to try to steal fruits from other's tree at same time, at end of task, the team which have more fruits will win garden.
Result	Won – 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.
Result	Won – 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 16	Week 17	Week 18	Week 19
Day 120			Day 123	Day 127	Day 133
	Nominees for Captaincy	No Captain	Karishma Pritam	Pritam Ali Sambhavna	None		No Captain
	House Captain		Karishma	Ali	Pritam
Captain's Nominations	Rahul Sambhavna Sana		Rahul Dimpy	Gautam	Karishma Dimpy
	Challengers	Sambhavna Rahul Sana Mahek Ajaz	Gautam Sambhavna Mahek Rahul	Ali Gautam Mahek Rahul	Karishma Ali Gautam Rahul	Pritam Dimpy Sambhavna	Pritam Dimpy Sambhavna	None
	Champions	Gautam 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:	Evict			Save	Evict	WIN
Gautam	Ajaz Sambhavna Mahek	Not eligible	Karishma Dimpy	Karishma	Ali Sambhavna	No Nominations	Winner (Day 133)
Karishma	Sambhavna Ajaz Sana	House Captain	Gautam Dimpy	Ali (to evict)	Ali Pritam	Nominated	(Day 133)
Pritam	Sambhavna Ajaz Mahek	Sambhavna Sana Rahul	Karishma Dimpy	House Captain		No Nominations	(Day 133)
Dimpy	Mahek Ajaz Sambhavna	Rahul Sana Sambhavna	Karishma Pritam	Rahul	Sambhavna Pritam	No Nominations	3rd runner-up (Day 133)
Ali	Ajaz Sambhavna Mahek	Rahul Sana Sambhavna	House Captain	Gautam	Gautam Karishma	No Nominations	4th runner-up (Day 133)
Sambhavna	Not eligible	Not eligible	Karishma Pritam	Karishma	Gautam Dimpy	Evicted (Day 129)
Rahul	Not eligible	Not eligible	Karishma Pritam	Dimpy	Evicted (Day 126)
Mahek	Not eligible	Gautam Sambhavna Sana	Karishma Sambhavna	Evicted (Day 122)
Sana	Not eligible	Not eligible	Mahek (to evict)	Evicted (Day 119)
Ajaz	Ejected (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
Ejected	Ajaz	None
Evicted	Eviction cancelled	Sana	Mahek	Rahul	Sambhavna	Ali		Dimpy
						Pritam
						Karishma		Gautam

indicates that the Housemate was directly nominated for eviction prior to the regular nominations process.

indicates that the Housemate was granted immunity from nominations.

Ajaz entered the house before Season 8 finale on Day 99, but credited as a Halla Bol Challenger, his presence for seven days didn't affect any change.

On Day 1, Housemates nominated face to face, with each Housemate nominating three people as opposed to the usual two. Following Ajaz's ejection, the eviction scheduled to take place on Day 7 was cancelled.

Housemates with the 'Challenger' status were not eligible to vote. Housemates with the 'Champion' status were immune from nominations and held the right to vote.

Mehek was nominated by Sana via her "Bigg Bomb" after her eviction.

Pritam was given immunity from nominations for winning the luxury task. Karishma was given a special power to directly nominate a contestant for eviction, which she had earned by voluntarily walking out of the luxury budget task in order to get this power. She chose Ali.

All contestants were asked to give two names for nominations but from the opposite team only.

All 5 finalists were automatically placed in the nominations.

Notes and References

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6. Web site: Colors confirms 'Bigg Boss 8′ extension. Medi 24/7. 28 December 2014. 31 December 2014.
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12. Web site: Bigg Boss Halla Bol: Gautam Gulati crowned the winner. 31 January 2015.
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