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Bigg Boss Kannada (season 6)


Bigg Boss Kannada 6 (BBK6) will be the sixth season of the Kannada television series Bigg Boss Kannada, which is scheduled to go on air from 21 October 2018 at 6p.m. Sudeep will reprise his role as the host of the show. The auditions for commoners was launched through the Voot platform in July 2018. The show will be telecasted every day on the Colors Super and Colors kannada HD channels at 8p.m. IST. Along with the usual celebrity contestants, the housemates of this season includes contestants selected via an online
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against many anti-Kannada activities and organizations Kirik Keerthi sung a rap song called Namma Bengaluru along with Chandan Shetty and also Keerthi done a guest appeareance in Guruprasad's Eradane Sala movie. Bigg Boss Kannada Four Curtains came down on Bigg Boss Kannada Season 4. After 3 and half long months of fights, entertainment and laughter, the game show concluded with Pratham emerging victorious on the night of Grand Finale. Five contestants had reached the finale. Pratham, Keerthi, Rekah, Mohan and Malavika were the five finalists of this season
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Bigg Boss Kannada (season 4)


Bigg Boss Kannada 4 (BBK4) is the fourth season of the Kannada reality television series Bigg Boss Kannada. The show's grand opening was on and it was aired on Colors Kannada at 6pm. Sudeep, remained as the host as he hosted previous seasons. He had signed a deal with the channel Colors Kannada to host the next five seasons starting from the previous season. The first promo for the show aired on the channel on . None of the contestants' details were revealed until the grand opening of the show
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Bigg Boss Kannada (season 1)


Bigg Boss Kannada 1 (BBK1), ಬಿಗ್ ಬಾಸ್ ಕನ್ನಡ - ೧ was the first high budget show Kannada reality television series Bigg Boss Kannada. It was broadcast by the channel "ETV Kannada" in 2013. The show was hosted by Sudeep. A prize amount of 50,00,000 was announced for the winner. The show lasted for 99 days starting from 24 March 2013 ("Grand Premiere") to 30 June 2013 ("Grand Finale"). A total of 15 contestants and 2 guests had entered the show. The
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contestants. Immunity is automatically given to the week's captain and can be earned by contestants through winning specific tasks or achieving secret tasks given by Bigg Boss. Sometimes, the captain can make a contestant immune from nomination upon Bigg Boss' direction. The housemates are not allowed to discuss about the nominations or the nomination process with each other. The captaincy concept was introduced in the second season. A captain is selected for every week by the Bigg Boss through specific tasks or elected by the housemates. A captain will have additional
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Big Brother (franchise)


evicted, put into a small private apartment, and returned after 72 hours with immunity from eviction and with the power to put someone to eviction. In the first Turkish series, there is a fake eviction in week 10. The Indian version "Bigg Boss" sees frequent fake evictions.In Kannada Bigg Boss 4 (Karnataka state) season winner Pratham and co contestant Malavika were kept in secret room after fake eviction for one week and they were both allowed in the Bigg Boss house. Similarly in Kannada Bigg Boss 5 firstly
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a judge for the dance reality show "Thaka Dhimi Tha Dancing Star" (2014).Presently he is hosting Life Super Guru in Zee Kannada. Guruprasad's stay in Bigg Boss has been controversial, marred by his inability to get along with the other contestants. Prakash is well known as Bullet Prakash. He is a famous comedian in Kannada industry. He had acted with many legend actors like Ravichandran, Sudeep, Sadhu Kokila etc. The episodes were broadcast by Asianet Suvarna channel at a time slot of 8 to 9 pm daily.
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Bigg Boss Kannada


Bigg Boss Kannada (or simply Bigg Boss and ಬಿಗ್ ಬಾಸ್ in Kannada) is the Kannada version of the reality TV show Bigg Boss which is broadcast in India on Viacom 18's Colors Kannada. The show is produced by Endemol, currently through Endemol Shine India who owns the global format of Big Brother. Kannada actor Sudeep was roped in to host the reality show in 2013 for the first season on ETV Kannada (now Colors Kannada). Sudeep continues to be the part of the show as of sixth season in 2018-
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villain roles in Kannada film industry. Akul Balaji is a leading host of Kannada reality shows, "Thaka Dhimi Tha Dancing Star" (2014) being the most recent. Akul Balaji currently the winner of Bigg Boss Kannada Season 2.He also shot to fame for co-hosting the hit Kannada reality show "Pyate Hudgir Halli Lifu"[1] on Asianet Suvarna Channel, with Kannada Star Sudeep. Anita Bhat Prabhakar Mandya Anupama Bhat anchored morning show and "Kitchen Taare" on (Udaya TV) and was a contestant in "Thaka Dhimi
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. The final contest was between Kirik Keethi and Pratham. In the end Pratham managed to edge out Keerthi to win the prize money but Keerthi won Runner-up trophy along with Kiccha Sudeep personally gave 10 Lakhs to Keerthi for a special cause which planned by Keerthi for the development of Kannada medium schools across the State. Pratham is a film director yet to debut in the Kannada film industry through his film 'Devravne Bidu Guru' which is an ongoing project with the Bigg Boss Kannada Season 2 winner Akul Balaji in the lead
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conclusion of the season, a spin-off programming 'Bigg Boss Autograph' was aired on the same time-slot which consisted of interviews on the journey of fellow contestants in the show. As of date, the episodes from this season are not available online. The second season moved to Asianet Suvarna and was launched in 2014. A new logo and a house exclusive to the Kannada version were created for this season along with a new theme song, with Vijay Prakash reprising his singing role. The slogan for this season
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for every season. For the first two seasons, the house was located in Lonavala, Pune district of Maharashtra, where the Hindi version of Bigg Boss usually takes place. As the schedules for the Hindi and Kannada versions were expected to be overlapped, a house exclusive for Kannada version of the show was built at Innovative Film City in Bengaluru, Karnataka for the third season. This continues to be the location of the house for the next seasons of Bigg Boss Kannada as well. The house built for a season of Bigg
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season. During the grand finale of Season 4, it was announced that the next season will start with new contestants and a renovated Bigg Boss house built for the previous season in the Innovative Film City at Bidadi, Bangalore. This will be the first season to allow non-celebrities to the Bigg Boss house with online auditions taking place from July 2017. The application process of the auditions for non-celebrities was exclusively carried by mobile app called Voot. Nagendra Bhat Bilalige (Naabhi) was the reality writer for this season
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. The Bigg Boss house built for the previous season in the Innovative Film City at Bidadi, Bengaluru was reconstructed for this season. The show was aired on Colors Kannada and Colors Kannada HD simultaneously from 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM everyday. This is the first season of Bigg Boss Kannada to be shot and aired in High-Definition. A spin-off show, Bigg Boss Night Shift was produced and aired on Colors Super from 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM everyday. This contained unseen footage from the original airing and was hosted
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well to procure the 'luxury budget' for the next week. Captains should also keep an eye on house rules and may punish a housemate for violating the rules. The first season of Bigg Boss Kannada was launched in 2013 and derived many of its concepts from the sixth season of the original Bigg Boss including the visual elements and the house itself, with slight alterations. 'Howdu Swami!' ('Yes Sir!') was adopted as the slogan for this season and the theme song for the show was sung
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Kumar appeared in the television serials "Lakshmi Baaramma" and "Radha Kalyana". He has also acted in films like "Parinaya", "Katte", "Eradondla Mooru" and recently in "Luv U Alia". Huccha Venkat is an actor, director and producer. He was the first contestant to be ejected out of the house in the history of Bigg Boss Kannada for assaulting a housemate. Jayashree Ramaiah is a model and dancer by profession. Kruthika is a Kannada film and serial artist. She made her
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Bigg Boss Kannada (season 3)


Bigg Boss Kannada 3 (BBK3), () is the third season of the Kannada reality television series Bigg Boss Kannada. The show premiered on October 25, 2015 and the finale was aired on January 31, 2016 on Colors Kannada. Sudeep, the host of previous seasons remains as the host. He has signed a INR 18 crore deal with the channel Colors Kannada to host the next five seasons. Among 5 finalists Shruthi emerged as the title winner with maximum votes and performance in house followed by Chandan Kumar as runner
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Week's Story with Kiccha') returned and was aired on Saturdays and continued with 'Super Sunday with Sudeep' on Sundays. The 'Bigg Boss Autograph' for Season 3 was hosted by Rishika Singh, alumna of the first season of Bigg Boss Kannada. The show's finale was aired on 31 January 2016. The episodes from this season were not available online after the airing, however were later made available on Voot platform. The fourth season was aired on Colors Kannada and Colors Kannada HD and was the first season
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Bigg Boss Kannada (season 5)


Bigg Boss Kannada 5 (BBK5) was the fifth season of the Kannada television series Bigg Boss Kannada, that premiered on 15 October 2017. Sudeep reprised his role as the host of the show. The finale of the season took place 28 January 2018, and rapper Chandan Shetty was declared the winner of the show and was awarded the prize money of 50 lakh. Sales representative Diwaker was voted the runner-up. Sudeep had signed a deal with the channel Colors Kannada to host the next five seasons starting from the previous
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the day where the show host Sudeep converses with the contestants through the TV), no telephones, no access to internet, no clocks, no articles to write, complying with the rules of Big Brother around the world. Currently, the "Bigg Boss" house will be required to rebuild as it was completely reduced to ashes on 22 February 2018. It is also stated that majority of the materials used for building the house was candle wax. Each season gets its own 'Eye' logo similar to the Bigg Boss
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sound-proof room with controlled entrance called as the 'confession room' is built in the house where the housemates would be called in by the Bigg Boss for nomination process and other conversational activities. A secret room with bed and other facilities was incorporated into the house starting from season 2 where an evicted contestant, if selected by the Bigg Boss to continue the game, would be retained in this room for a week or two and would be put back into the game. The House has no television connection (except for
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Bigg Boss Kannada (season 4)


role. Pratham proclaims himself as 'Olle Huduga' (Good Boy) and 'Badavara Bandhu' (Friend of the Poor) on social media. It is said that he was not picked by the Bigg Boss team, instead he himself made it into their office and asked for a contestant slot on the show. The broadcaster broke the tradition and aired promos unveiling Pratham as the first contestant of Season 4 days before the premiere episode.known for kandhisthini and partibatanne he is always eating and sleeping which he is very proud off he
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Bigg Boss Kannada (season 2)


Bigg Boss Kannada 2 (BBK2), ಬಿಗ್ ಬಾಸ್ ಕನ್ನಡ - ೨ is the second season of the Kannada reality television series Bigg Boss Kannada. Asianet Suvarna channel acquired the broadcast rights from Endemol India. The show premiered on 29 June 2014 with Sudeep as the host. Among 4 finalists Akul Balaji emerged as the title winner with maximum votes and performance in house followed by Srujan Lokesh as runner-up, Deepika Kamaiah and Shwetha Chengappa as third and fourth respectively Adi Lokesh, son of late Mysore Lokesh, is famous for his
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was held on 28 and 29 January 2018 and Chandan Shetty emerged as the winner.Season 6 of Bigg Boss premiered on 21st october 2018 in colors super.After a successful season the grand finale was aired on 26th and 27th january 2019 and common man- modern farmer Shashi Kumar emerged as the winner,with runner up being singer Naveen Sajju,followed by Kavitha Gowda,Andrew Jayapaul and Rapid Rashmi in the 3rd,4th and 5th place respectively.Sudeep was the host of this season too. A 'Bigg Boss' House is constructed
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composer who is the frontman for the Raghu Dixit Project, a multilingual folk music band. Sheelaa Bajaj is a Numerologist and Tarot Card Reader. Sathish Neenasam, is an Indian actor who appears in Kannada films. Tsunami Kitty is an alumnus of reality shows - "'Indian'" and "'Dancing Star"'; he is also and alumnus of Bigg Boss Kannada from the third season. Neravanda Aiyappa is a cricketer who played for Karnataka team in Ranji and other domestic tournaments; he is an alumnus of Bigg Boss
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. The show was extended by one week (106 days) instead of 98 days. Among the five finalists Niveditha and Divakar are auditioned contestants, where as Chandan, Karthik and Shruti are celebrities. Along with the usual celebrity contestants, the housemates of this season includes contestants selected through online audition process. The total of 17 housemates include 11 celebrities and 6 commoners. Three contestants entered the house through wild cards. Presenter Akul Balaji was the second entrant who promoted his new dance reality television reality show "Master Dancer".
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an interview of the evicted contestant and a promotion for an upcoming movie would take place with a celebrity guest on the stage with Sudeep. The programming that included the unseen content, 'Bigg Boss Unseen' was aired from 11 PM to 12 AM on weeknights. A marathon of all the episodes of the week would run on Sundays from morning. All the episodes were available online on YouTube and the official website of Bigg Boss Kannada after the original airing. The finale of the show was aired on 30 June 2013. Post
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Nikita Thukral


Telugu as well as the anthological drama "Traffic" that would mark her Hindi debut. In addition to acting, Thukral has also done modelling work for designer Roopa Vohra. She also participated in the first season of the reality show "Bigg Boss Kannada", the Kannada version of "Bigg Boss". She completed 99 days in the "Bigg Boss" Home and was the second runner-up of the show. Nikita Thukral was reportedly banned from Kannada films for three years starting from 10 September 2011 by the Kannada
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show was the first south Indian adaption of "Bigg Boss". Popular actor Sudeep was roped in by ETV Kannada to play the host of the show for the first season in 2013. Star India acquired the license for the show and the second season was aired on Suvarna with Sudeep continuing his role as the host of the show. The same house at Lonavala, Pune which was used for the Hindi version was used for the first two seasons of "Bigg Boss Kannada". A new and bigger house was constructed at
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Sonali Raut


she described Bollywood as "not very welcoming". She dropped a commitment to be in a film entitled "99% Useless Fellows", angering Kannada film director S. K. Basheed, to act as a contestant in the Indian reality TV show "Bigg Boss". She became one of the contestants on "Bigg Boss 8" and was evicted after a surprise vote decision, but was later brought back by the "Bigg Boss". She was evicted again, along with Puneet Issar, after 105 days. In 2016
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by Rehman Haseeb, alumnus from Season 3 of Bigg Boss Kannada. The season was extended by two weeks (113 days) instead of the regular 98 days format of the show. The first 98 days of Season 4 was aired on Colors Kannada while the remaining 14 days were aired exclusively on Colors Super channel. The grand finale was aired on 28 and 29 January 2017 on Colors Kannada, Colors Kannada HD and Colors Super simultaneously. Among the five finalists, Pratham emerged as the winner with highest number public votes, followed
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participation by the common people from the ninth season. Atul Kapoor has been the 'voice' of "Bigg Boss" since the first season. All the episodes since the fourth season are available on Viacom 18's OTT platform Voot. Rahul Roy, Ashutosh Kaushik, Vindu Dara Singh, Shweta Tiwari, Juhi Parmar, Urvashi Dholakia, Gauhar Khan, Gautam Gulati, Prince Narula, Manveer Gurjar,Shilpa Shindeand Dipika Kakar Ibrahim have been the winners of the show. "Bigg Boss Kannada" is the Kannada version of the
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. She has bagged more number of awards in her career. She is a house hold name. She had starred many women oriented movies. She was famous for her tear jerking roles. She has acted with all the leading stars of the 90's.She has not only acted in Kannada but also in Tamil and Malayalam. She is serving as the chief Secretary in BJP women's wing of Karnataka. She won the Bigg Boss 3 thereby fulfilling her daughter's dream. Mithra is a famous Kannada comedian.(Janesha in "Silli Lalli
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child actress who came for the promotion of her serial Bangari. A unnamed guest appeared in Biggboss as a joker. Huccha Venkat is a contestant of Biggboss 3. Pooja Gandhi, is an actress. She is also a contestant of biggboss 3. Rakshith Shetty is a Kannada film actor and director. Rishab Shetty is a Kannada film actor and director. Rajesh Nataranga is a Kannada actor who has performed in movies, soaps and has hosted TV shows. Raghu Dixit is an Indian singer-songwriter, producer, and film score
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Huccha Venkat


with Pratham even after the completion of the show. This eventually led to his eviction from the house after he assaulted another contestant, Ravi Mooruru". Venkat also challenged Sudeep, later withdrew the challenge and didn't want to talk to Sudeep ever. Ravi Mooruru praised Venkat, post his eviction from Bigg Boss Kannada 3 house for Venkat's concern towards women. It is to be noted, Venkat was the most popular contestant in Bigg Boss Kannada 3, celebrities such as Raghu Dixit, Priyamani supported him. Venkat has since
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19. The first season of the show became popular and turned out to be a TRP magnet, eventually becoming the No.1 reality show in South India. Bigg Boss Kannada moved to Asianet's Suvarna (now under Star India) for the second season and grew even bigger in the market. The channel claimed an approximate increase of 25% in viewership and 400% in online engagement for the season. The show returned to Viacom 18 with Sudeep signing to host the next five seasons. The third season was aired on Colors Kannada
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Majaa Talkies


, and Girija Lokesh (Srujan Lokesh's mother) in the main cast. For unknown reasons, Arun Sagar was present only for first few episodes. Later, Shalini took up the hosting for "Comedy Circle" and the show successfully completed around 40 episodes. It is notable that, during the telecast of "Comedy Circle", Srujan Lokesh was inside the "Bigg Boss" house as a contestant for the Season 2 of "Bigg Boss Kannada" which was aired on Asianet Suvarna. Srujan also ended up as the
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Neethu


. She later starred in films which some were successful like Krishna Nee Late Aagi Baaro, Abhinetri and few others. She also starred in movies like Aithalakkadi and few others which garned negative reviews and failed at the box office. She was a contestant in Bigg Boss Kannada 2, where she survived 80 days, hence becoming the first contestant in the history of bigg boss Kannada to be kept in a 'secret room'.. She was a part of the comedy show Bengaluru Benne Dose alongside Arun Sagar . She later appeared as
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finale took place on 29 January 2017. The final 14 episodes were aired on Colors Super and the finale was simulcast on Colors Kannada, Colors Kannada HD and Colors Super. The 'Bigg Boss Autograph' for this season was hosted by Niranjan Deshpande, an alumnus from the same season. All the episodes were made available online on Voot platform after original airing. The fifth season was moved to Colors Super and premiered on 15 October 2017. The show duration was increased by 30 minutes from this season and the episodes were aired
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and Big Brother shows. The first season of Bigg Boss Kannada on ETV Kannada inherited its logo from the sixth season of its Hindi counterpart in the form of a human eye with an eyeball displaying the SMPTE color bars, against a purple background with lightning storm. The second season, moved to Suvarna TV and got its dedicated logo in the form of a more detailed human eye against a background which split the 'hot' (orange) and 'cold' (blue) sides of the personalities in the house. This
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Vishal Karwal


TV show, "Bigg Boss Season 6" on Colors, as a wild card contestant. Before entering the Bigg Boss show, he said in an interview, ""Being a part of Bigg Boss is a big thing. This reality show is really unique and interesting than other reality shows."" He was voted out of the show in December 2012 after spending about 40 days in the Bigg Boss house, and he said in an interview with PTI, "I was not expecting to be evicted. I wanted
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Arun Sagar


for Season 1 of "Bigg Boss Kannada" by ETV Kannada, where he stood out as the runner-up of the season. Arun Sagar, after coming out of "Bigg Boss" house, started another sketch comedy show on ETV Kannada named as Comedy Circle. Though this show appeared to be reincarnation of "Maja with Sruja" with all the recurring characters, it missed Srujan Lokesh on the show. The show was directed by Vijay Prasad again, and hosted by Arun Sagar initially. The casting was expanded for
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Vijay Raghavendra


2013, Vijay was a contestant and winner in the much talked about Kannada version of the reality show "Bigg Boss" in its first season, which started with 13 contestants. Vijay has been reportedly paid Rs. 5 million prize money. Vijay is the eldest child of producer S. A. Chinne Gowda and his wife Jayamma. His younger brother Sriimurali is a popular Kannada film actor. His paternal aunt Parvathamma Rajkumar was a prominent film producer and distributor in Kannada cinema. He is the cousin of actors Shiva Rajkumar, Raghavendra Rajkumar
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and a spin-off programming named 'Bigg Boss Night Shift' was aired on Colors Kannada's sister channel Colors Super from 10 PM to 11 PM everyday. This show acted as the supplement for the main show and contained unseen footage with commentary. The spin-off was hosted by Rehman Haseeb, the Bigg Boss alumnus from 3rd Season. Also, on the Viacom 18's OTT platform Voot, two exclusive short-shows (referred to as Voot Shorts) were being streamed; both hosted by Rehman. 'Doddmane
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unless directed by Bigg Boss. Each housemate nominates two other housemates for eviction. Housemates getting maximum nomination votes will be nominated for eviction from the house in that week and undergoes public vote (through SMS) for retention. On the weekend episode, usually one contestant with lowest public votes will be evicted from the house. A housemate may also be directly nominated for eviction by that week's captain of the house or for other reasons by the Bigg Boss. Housemates who are awarded 'immunity' can not be nominated by other
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available on Voot platform after original airing. The sixth season of the Kannada television series Bigg Boss Kannada premiered on 21 October 2018. All the episodes and daily highlights were made available on Voot platform after original airing. Each season has grown in terms of revenue and has attracted prominent brands to sponsor the show. The sponsors receive the privilege of getting their brands advertised on the show, in the house as well as during the commercial breaks. Few tasks on the show would be designed in a way such that the brand gets
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same time-slot. As of date, the episodes from this season are not available online. The third season returned to the previous broadcaster, then re-branded to Colors Kannada from ETV Kannada. This was the first season to take place inside Karnataka, in a house bigger than the previous ones, built exclusively for the Kannada version at the Innovative Film City in Bengaluru. The season used many elements including the theme song and the logo with slight modifications from the first season. The season was also the first one
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Bidadi, where the Bigg Boss house is located, demanding the actors not to participate or host reality shows on television, also tried to impose a ban on the show because of its popularity affecting the performances of movies in the box office. The fifth season of the show was aired in Colors Super, the second Kannada GEC by Viacom18 to increase the viewership for the channel. The season premiered on 15 October 2017 and has been the first season to include non-celebrity housemates selected through online audition process.. The grand finale
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, with different elements inside the eye, against a background that uses tech elements and logos from previous season on a dominant blue color. This logo was partially derived from the eye used for the 15th Season of Big Brother UK. The logo used for the 5th Season of Bigg Boss Kannada was adapted from 14th Season of Big Brother UK; shows a pile of old-generation television sets displaying the SMPTE bars hanging at the center from the top, surrounded by multicolored doors, cupboards, lights and windows forming the shape of
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house and resources with Sudeep and Mithun Chakraborty as hosts respectively. While the Kannada version became an instant hit, Bengali version did not turn out to be very successful. The Kannada version saw its subsequent seasons annually, similar to Hindi while Bengali version has completed only 2 seasons in 6 years. Upon completion of 10 seasons in Hindi, 4 seasons in Kannada and 2 seasons in Bengali, Endemol extended its presence in South India by creating Tamil and Telugu versions of the show with Star India in 2017 and roped in Kamal Haasan
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Boss is retained until the start of next season and is open for public at the venue, serving as an attraction. The house would be usually well-furnished and decorated. It would have all the modern amenities and a large, common bedroom with beds for all contestants. There was an addition in the form of a luxurious single bedroom for the captain starting from second season. The house would also have common toiletries, swimming pool, gymnasium and spacious gardens. Apart from these, show specific activity areas and a small
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Mumaith Khan


Mumaith Khan (born 1 September 1985) is an Indian film actress working in Indian film industry and also works on cameos in form of item number. Khan was born on 1 September 1985. Her father is from Tamil Nadu and her mother is a Pakistani. Khan has acted primarily in Telugu, Hindi, Tamil and Kannada language films. Besides movies, she has contested in the reality shows like "Jhalak Dikhla Jaa 6" and first season of "Bigg Boss Telugu". As of 2017 she had worked in 40
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Bigg Boss house, located in Lonavala, was fixed with 47 cameras to capture the activities in the house. Among the four finalists, Vijay Raghavendra emerged as the title winner with maximum votes, followed by Arun Sagar as runner-up. Nikita Thukral came third and Narendra Babu was fourth. Gurudas Shenoy was the Editor-in-chief for the house reality of this season. The episodes were broadcast by ETV Kannada channel at a time slot of 8 to 9 pm daily. After the Grand Finale, the channel continued
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to be the housemates in the initial seasons, general public have been auditioned to be on the show in the latest seasons of Hindi, Kannada and Telugu versions of the show. In the show, contestants called "housemates" live together in a specially constructed house that is isolated from the outside world. Housemates are voted out (usually on a weekly basis) until only one remains and wins the cash prize. During their stay in the house, contestants are continuously monitored by live television cameras as well as personal audio microphones
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as "Moodala Mane" and "Mukta". In 2013, she appeared as a contestant in the first season of the Kannada reality television show Bigg Boss, that aired on Etv Kannada. Since 2015, she has been appearing in the sketch comedy television show, "Majaa Talkies", as Varalakshmi, a vain and boastful sister-in-law of the character of Srujan Lokesh, and claims to be friends of popular personalities like the former American President Barack Obama and actor Salman Khan. In 2014, Aparna lent
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to the press that he went inside the house once again only to beat Pratham up as he disrespected women. Sudeep, the host of the show disliked these actions and threatened to discontinue as the host of Bigg Boss Kannada unless Venkat apologizes for his actions in public. Sudeep continued to host the show after Venkat appeared on the next episode and apologized in front of the camera. Post conclusion of Bigg Boss Kannada 4, Venkat and Pratham have been on good terms. Samyuktha Hegde was invited on the show as a guest for
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Bigg Boss (Hindi season 6)


Bigg Boss 6 was the sixth season of the Indian reality TV show Bigg Boss, which is telecast on the TV channel Colors. "Bigg Boss" is the Indian edition of "Big Brother" TV series. The season started from 7 October 2012. Salman Khan, who was the host of the previous two seasons, returned as the host for the show. The sixth season was launched as a "Parivarik" season with a Gujarati tagline- "Alag che!" (English: It's different). The producers
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Bigg Boss (Hindi season 8)


Bigg Boss 8, which merged into "Bigg Boss Halla Bol!", was the eighth season of the Indian reality television series "Bigg Boss", which premiered on TV channel Colors from 21 September 2014 and concluded on 3 January 2015 with five final contestants. "Bigg Boss" is the Indian edition of "Big Brother". Salman Khan returned as the host of the series for the fifth time and Snapdeal was chosen to be the new presenting sponsor after the end of Colors' five-year deal with Vodafone
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Bigg Boss Tamil


Bigg Boss Tamil is an Indian Tamil-language version of the reality TV programme Bigg Boss broadcast in India. It follows the "Big Brother" format, which was first developed by Endemol in the Netherlands. Kamal Haasan hosted the first season and hosted the second season of Bigg Boss Tamil, which were aired on Star Vijay. "Bigg Boss Tamil" is a reality show based on the original Dutch Big Brother format developed by John de Mol Jr. A number of contestants (known as "housemates") live in a
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Production: The channel claims that 14 contestants (initially) will compete for a cash prize of 50 lakhs and the show will last 100 episodes. The amount for retaining host Sudeep is about Rs 1.5 crores to Rs 2.5 crores Sources estimate that the production cost of the show is about Rs 16 crores to Rs 17 crores across the 100 episodes, with the total cost pegged at around Rs 30 lakh to Rs 35 lakh. Sponsors: the show has OLX.in as title sponsor, CERA as the powered sponsor, and Dollar Bigg
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Rakhi Sawant


"Rakhi Sawant (born Neeru Bheda"' on 25 November 1978) is an Indian dancer, model, Hindi film and television actress and television talk show host, who has appeared in many Hindi and a few Kannada, Marathi, Odia, Telugu and Tamil films. She was a contestant on the first season of the controversial Indian reality television series "Bigg Boss 1" in 2006. Throughout her career, she has established herself as a sex symbol. Sawant launched her own political party, headed by Jai Shah,
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Bigg Boss (Hindi season 6)


claimed that the contestants on "Bigg Boss 6" will be presented with a cleaner, more "family like image". The prize money was reduced to with an amount of 500,000s awarded to the "most entertaining" housemate each week from week 6 onwards. The award was discontinued after four weeks for unknown reasons. The series was won by soap actress Urvashi Dholakia on 12 January 2013. Imam Siddiqui was the first runner up while Sana Khan and Niketan Madhok were second and third runners-up respectively. Sana Khan returned
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Bigg Boss Kannada


privileges in the form of immunity from nomination for that particular week, exemption from participating in the task activities and a separate bedroom with facilities more than that of other contestants. The captain will be exempted from nomination procedure for his/her captaincy week and will have power to either nominate a housemate directly or make a housemate immune from nomination or rescue a nominated housemate, depending on Bigg Boss' decisions. Captain's main duty is to supervise the weekly task and make sure the conditions and stipulations are met and task is performed
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Bigg Boss


's OTT platform Voot. "Bigg Boss Bangla" is the Bengali version of the show which was produced by ETV Bangla with Mithun Chakraborty as the host while the first season of the Kannada version was wrapping up in 2013. The second season was aired on Colors Bangla in 2016 and was hosted by popular Bengali actor Jeet. The Lonavala house used for Hindi version was used in both seasons and the prize money for the show has been lesser than the other adaptions with and respectively for the first and second seasons. This is
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Bigg Boss Kannada (season 2)


Tha Dancing Star". Deepika Kamaiah is a Kannada actress notable for a leading role in the 2012 movie Chingari along with Darshan Thoogudeep. Harshika Poonacha is a Kannada actress notable for roles in movies "Thamassu", "Jackie" and "Mangana Kaili Maanikya". Laya Kokila, elder brother of Sadhu Kokila, is cast as a comedian in the movies "Devarane" (2013) and "Rangappa Hogbitna". Mayur Patel is an actor since 2003. Some of his movies are "Mani" (2003),
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Kavitha Gowda


Baramma", she was recognized as "Chinnu", creating a buzz among the fans. The actress has also acted in various Tamil soaps "Neeli", "Pandian stores" and was recently seen in the popular soap "Vidya Vinayaka" which was aired in Zee Kannada. She acted in the films "Srinivasa Kalyana" (2016) and "First Love" (2017). She participated in the "Bigg Boss Kannada" season 6, and she was the only female finalist to have completed 100 days journey
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Kruttika Ravindra


Kruttika Ravindra, is a popular Kannada television and Kannada cinema actress who is best known for her acting in "Radha Kalyana" TV show which was telecast on Zee Kannada. She also appeared in the Kannada TV reality show "Bigg Boss Kannada 3", and aired on Colors Kannada Channel from 25 October 2015. She entered in the house on the first day of the show and was in the Bigg Boss house for 63 day. Kruttika was born to Havyaka Brahmin Parents in Sagar Taluk in Shivamogga district of Karnataka. Her
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Bigg Boss Halla Bol


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 crowned regular entrants of the season 8 finale. Farah Khan host the new format of the show, as Salman bids adieu to the show because of his filming schedule of "Bajrangi Bhaijaan" . The series was won by Gautam Gulati.
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Divided (Indian game show)


5th episode of the reality show (on 12 August 2018) featured the former Bigg Boss contestants Snehan, Gayathri Raguram who were part of the "first season" of the "Bigg Boss Tamil" alongside Mamathi Chari who earlier participated in the "second season of Bigg Boss Tamil" before her eviction in the second week of the show also took part as contestants of the Divided game show. A team of three complete strangers attempts to answer up to 14 questions as they will have to answer uniformly to one question asked by
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Bigg Boss Kannada


throughout the week from 8:00 PM to 9:30 PM. The major addition to this season was that the housemates included contestants from the public, selected through audition process along with the celebrities. The format of the show continued to be the same as that of previous seasons while the Sunday's episode had a major change. The 'Super Sunday with Sudeepa' episodes included a special segment called 'Kicchan Time' ('Kiccha's / Kitchen Time'), a cookery show in which Sudeep, the host cooks with the celebrity
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Bigg Boss


. The show gained popularity after Shilpa Shetty emerged as the winner in Celebrity Big Brother 5 (UK) and replaced Warsi as the host in the second season of "Bigg Boss". From the second season, the show has moved to Viacom 18's Colors. The show's acceptance and success among the Indian audience paved way for its expansion into other Indian languages. After the sixth season was completed in Hindi in 2013, "Kannada" and "Bengali" adaptions were created by Endemol through ETV Network with the same
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Bigg Boss Kannada (season 3)


-up, Master Anand, Rahman Haseeb and Pooja Gandhi as third, fourth and fifth respectively The Bigg Boss house located in Lonavala is believed to be omitted for this season, replacing it with the venue to be built in Innovative Film City at Bidadi, Bengaluru. Gurudas Shenoy and Subramania.M were the reality episode directors. Chinmay Subraya Bhat was the reality writer of this season. Bhavana Belegere is a TV host and the daughter of journalist Ravi Belagere. She is married to actor Srinagar Kitty. Model and actor Chandan
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Bigg Boss Kannada


Sundays. The unseen content for the season, 'Innu Ide Nodi Swami!' ('There's more to watch, Sir!') was aired from 11 PM to 12 AM on weeknights. A marathon of all the episodes of the week would run on Sundays from morning. All the episodes were available online on YouTube and the official website of Suvarna after the original airing. The finale of the show was aired on 5 October 2014. After the season concluded, 'Bigg Boss Autograph' was aired on the
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Bigg Boss Tamil 3


Bigg Boss Tamil 3 is the ongoing third season of the reality TV game show "Bigg Boss Tamil", which commenced on 23 June 2019 with 17 contestants. Kamal Haasan returned for the third season as host. The show airs on Star Vijay. Hotstar also provides content not aired on television. The house, located at EVP World in Poonamallee, Chennai, has been completely renovated with a Chettinad-based theme for this season. And There is no commoner theme for this season. Following are the housemates taking part in
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Arun Sagar


show on Kasturi TV called 'Tarrle' that resembled a popular show "M.A.D." from Pogo TV that taught children about art, painting and crafting. He became popular during the telecast of "Maja with Sruja" that aired on Asianet Suvarna where he played various comical roles that parodied celebrities and politicians. The show was a huge hit for its satire-comedy structure. Arun Sagar was later roped in as the first contestant of Bigg Boss Kannada Season 1, where he emerged as the runner-up for the season.
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Majaa Talkies


despite being highly appreciated by the viewers. Srujan Lokesh hinted about a new season in the finale episode of "Maja with Sruja" but this did not happen. Srujan Lokesh then became busy with his home production "Lokesh Productions" and produced different shows including "Kaasige Toss" and "Chota Champion". He also hosted and judged a cookery reality show "Kitchen Kiladigalu" with Sihi Kahi Chandru in 2012. Later in 2013, Arun Sagar was roped in as a contestant for Season 1 of "Bigg Boss Kannada"
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Bigg Boss (Hindi season 7)


Bigg Boss 7 (tagline: "Jannat Ka Wow Aur Jahannam Ka Aaw Dekhege Saath Saath") is the seventh season of the Indian reality TV series "Bigg Boss" which aired on TV channel Colors TV from 15 September 2013, with Salman Khan returning as the host for the fourth time and this season is longer than its predecessor, "Bigg Boss 6" and lasted for 15 weeks (104 days) concluding on Saturday, 28 December 2013. The seventh season was launched with the tagline- 'Jannat Ka Wow Aur
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Aashka Goradia


Kalavati "Laagi Tujhse Lagan" on Colors TV, which were all negative characters. Goradia has also participated in some reality shows like "Kabhi Kabhii Pyaar Kabhi Kabhii Yaar", "Mr. & Ms. TV" and "". In 2012, she participated as a contestant in the sixth season of "Bigg Boss", the Indian version of the original UK show "Big Brother" entering the "Bigg Boss" house on 6 October 2012 and getting evicted on 28 December 2012 (on the 83rd day of the show
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Karishma Kotak


I was so blessed to get that job.” Continuing in the TV industry, she next worked with a travel show called "It’s In". In November 2010, Karishma took part in a Telugu dance reality show called "Naacho Rrey" on Zee Telugu. In October 2012, she participated in an Indian reality TV show, "Bigg Boss Season 6" as a contestant on the TV Channel Colors. However, she had to make an emergency exit from the Bigg Boss house after spending nearly four weeks due
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Huccha Venkat


a flop. In his 2014 movie "Huccha Venkat" that he directed and produced, he starred as the eponymous lead, which received negative reviews. Venkat has since appeared as a guest in television shows such as "Bengaluru Benne Dose" and "Divided". In October 2015 he appeared as a contestant on the reality television series "Bigg Boss Kannada 3" aired on Colors Kannada. While on the show Venkat clashed with other participants, primarily due to his insistence that his female contestants were dressing inappropriately also he fought
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Bigg Boss Kannada (season 2)


,"Maja Talkies" (Colors Kannada) and currently "Comedy Talkies" (Colors Kannada) Swetha Changappa is a Kannada telesoap actress who became a household name by her role of Kadambari in Kannada soap "Kadambari".She also hosted TV shows "Yaariguntu Yaarigilla" and "Kuniyonu Baara" on Zee Kannada. She also acted in ETV Kannada's serials "Arundhati" and "Sukanya". Guruprasad is a director of hit movies "Mata", "Eddelu Manjunatha" and "Director's Special". He was
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Bhuvann Ponnannaa


Bhuvann Ponnannaa is an Indian-American actor, best known as a contestant in the reality television show "Bigg Boss Kannada" on Colors TV Kannada. He started his career in theater and became a commercial model. In 2012 he became a full-time actor and entrepreneur in Los Angeles and Bangalore. His first onscreen appearance was for a guest role in Kiccha Sudeep's film "Just Maath Maathalli". His first Kannada film was "Kool" (2012), opposite Ganesh, in which he portrayed the antihero and
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Shwetha Chengappa


)which eventually became bigger hits in 2008 and 2010 respectively. She also hosted TV show "Yaariguntu Yaarigilla" on Zee Kannada which was themed on celebration of spirit of womanhood. She also hosted "Kuniyonu Baara" on Zee Kannada, which was a dance show for children. She also hosted "Dance Dance Juniors" on Star Suvarna which was a dance show for children. Shwetha has also acted in Kannada movies, "Thangigagi" with Darshan Thoogudeep and "Varsha" with Vishnuvardhan. Shwetha was a contestant of Bigg Boss
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Pradyumna Narahalli


did the script and talkback for Kiccha Sudeep in Bigg Boss Season 2 which was shot in Lonavala, Pune. The show was a bigger success than its previous season in terms of TV Ratings. After Bigg Boss, he started writing screenplay and dialogues for Khushi, a fiction show which was the remake of the Hindi superhit serial 'Iss pyaar ko kya naam doon Ek baar Phir'. Later in his career, Narahalli shifted to Zee Kannada where he was made a name for himself as a creative writer. He has been
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Suyyash Rai


to play negative roles. He was seen in the series "Badtameez Dil" on Star Plus. He was a contestant in "Bigg Boss" Season 9. He got evicted on Day 82. He has walked several ramp shows and has also done many advertisements. He has also captained cricket team Delhi Dragons in "Box Cricket League", and led them to the title victory in BCL's maiden season aired on Sony TV. Rai along with his then-girlfriend Kishwer Merchant entered the "Bigg Boss 9" Double
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Bigg Boss


Innovative Film City in Bidadi, Bengaluru and is being used since the third season. Sudeep's contract to host the show was extended to 5 seasons starting with the third season which returned to Viacom 18's Colors Kannada. The fifth season moved to Colors Super, a sister channel of Colors Kannada. It is notable that the Kannada version is the only adaption where the host, Sudeep alone would be hosting the show for seven consecutive seasons. All the seasons so far have had as the prize money. Commoners were allowed to
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Shruti Prakash


Shruti Prakash is an Indian actress and singer. She portrayed the parallel lead role in the long-running soap opera "Saath Nibhaana Saathiya" on Star Plus channel. She was a contestant in the fifth season of the reality show "Bigg Boss Kannada". Shruti Prakash has completed a BBA from Jain College of Business Administration in Belagavi, Karnataka. She hails from a family of military background. Prior to entering the acting industry, Shruti Prakash worked as a content editor for EduMedia India Pvt. Ltd., a Mumbai-
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Chandan Kumar


the making. Subsequently he starred in few low-budget films until the multi-starrer film, "Luv U Alia" (2015) directed by Indrajit Lankesh. Now he is seen in daily soap sarvamangala mangalye on star suvarna as Mahashankara an ardent follower of dharma and a strong believer of Lord Shiva. Apart from serials and films, Chandan has been contestant for the reality shows such as "Pyate Mandi Kadige Hodru" , "Dancing Stars season 1" and "Bigg Boss Kannada 3". From 2011 to 2014
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Big Brother (franchise)


also had two winners; one from the teens and one from the regular adults. Each of which received PHP1,000,000. "Bigg Boss 8" (India) ended with a twist, where the top five contestants were crowned 'champions'. The season was extended by 35 days (total 135) as a spin off called "Bigg Boss: Halla Bol", where ex contestants from previous seasons entered the house to compete with the five champions. In 2016, on season 4 of "Big Brother Canada" brothers Nick
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Pearle Maaney


In October 2014, she started hosting the dance reality show "GumOn D2" on Mazhavil Manorama, replacing host Jewel Mary. Her co-host was Govind Padmasoorya. She also hosted season 2 of the Kaumudy TV programme "Cinema Company". In 2018, she contested in the first season of the reality show "Bigg Boss Malayalam" on Asianet and emerged as the runner-up. She was the only female contestant to complete 100 days. During the season one of "Bigg Boss Malayalam" reality show in 2018
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Bigg Boss Kannada


and Venkat were involved in a heated exchange of words previously because of Pratham's offer of a cricket bookie role for Venkat in his upcoming film. The issue was shown on news channels during the start of the season and was portrayed that the two do not like each other. During the task on the show, Pratham tried to irritate Venkat with his choice of words only to end up getting assaulted by him. Venkat was escorted out of the Bigg Boss house by the bouncers, for the second time. Venkat said later
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Krishi Thapanda


Krishi Thapanda is an Indian film actress and model who works in Kannada cinema. She rose to fame with 2016 film "Akira". She made her debut with Akira, which was a super hit, she was also nominated for 2016 SIIMA Awards for best debutant actress for this film. She was also crowned Miss Karnataka 2014. Krishi was also a participant of Bigg Boss Season 5, on Colors Super, she was eliminated in the 12th week, but kept entering the Bigg Boss House a couple of times as a wild
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Bigg Boss Kannada


logo also had the text 'Season 2' inserted below the 'Eye'. The third season returned to the previous broadcaster, then re-branded as Colors Kannada and the logo was adopted from the one used for the first season. The same eye was used against a purple background with a tornado and the season number was not mentioned. Season numbers were omitted to be a part of the logo from this season. The fourth season had a make-over with the new 'Eye' that resembled a futuristic design
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Bigg Boss Kannada (season 4)


in the serial 'Shubha Vivaha' that aired on Zee Kannada. Bhuvan Ponnanna is a model and an alumnus of reality show 'Indian' that was broadcast on ETV Kannada. Sanjana is a model and a serial actress. She had a short stint in the serial 'Kulavadhu' aired on Colors Kannada. She became popular because of the triangular love story between her, Pratham and Bhuvan. Controversy star Chaitra is a famous singer who has sung various songs in Kannada films. Dodda Ganesh is a retired cricketer who played in
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Bigg Boss (Hindi season 3)


Bigg Boss 3 in 2009 was the third season of the Indian reality TV programme "Bigg Boss". It began airing on 4 October 2009 on Colors with Amitabh Bachchan as the host and aired for 84 days concluding on 26 December 2009. Vindu Dara Singh won the show while Pravesh Rana was declared the first runner-up and Poonam Dhillon was declared the second runner-up. Vindu was awarded with a prize money of INR 10 million. He was also announced the most stylish and bold contestant and won a Chevrolet Cruze
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Bigg Boss (Hindi season 5)


Bigg Boss 5 was the fifth season of the Indian reality TV show "Bigg Boss", which aired on Colors from 2 October 2011 to 7 January 2012 with Sanjay Dutt and Salman Khan as the hosts. During the launch on 2 October, fourteen hand-picked housemates entered the house located in Karjat, a town, about halfway between Mumbai and Pune in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Four additional wild card entries were made during the second, third, fourth and the end of seventh week taking the number of contestants
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Sukrutha Wagle


Bahuparaak". She acted in "Kiragoorina Gayyaligalu", directed by Sumana Kittur. It was a famous novel based film written by Poornachandra Tejaswi. In the film is "Megha Alias Maggi" she plays the role of a sadistic, tomboy villain. She is also playing a role of documentary filmmaker in the movie "Dayavittu gamanisi" as directed by Rohit Padaki. Wagle was also a wild card contestant in the Kannada reality show Bigg boss Kannada 4. She is also the brand ambassador for KSIC Mysore silk saree for their
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Archana Shastry


Archana Shastry is an Indian film actress, known for her works predominantly in Telugu cinema, and for a few Tamil cinema and Kannada cinema films. She was one of the contestants in the first season of "Bigg Boss - Telugu" and hosted by N. T. Rama Rao Jr. Also a trained classical dancer in Kuchipudi dance form and given numerous dance performances in India, USA, UK and Malayasia. Debuting as Veda in Tapana, she subsequently changed her stage name to Archana, by which she was more popularly known. She
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Shruti (actress)


Tamil film "Kalki" (1996) directed by the ace director K. Balachander won her the Filmfare Award and also the Tamil Nadu State Award for Best Actress. Shruti made her small screen debut in the Malayalam serial "Sthreethvam" aired on Surya TV during 2005. Also, her Tamil daily serial, "Karthigai Pengal" aired on Sun TV from July 2012. Shruti was a contestant in the reality television show Bigg Boss Kannada 3, winning the season, in January 2016. In 2017, she appeared as a judge
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Bigg Boss Kannada


(rebranded from ETV Kannada) and witnessed a slight fall in the TRP because of a controversy involving a fellow housemate following his immediate Elimination. A year later, during the press meet for the fourth season, it was clarified that the TRP fall was a false claim and the ratings actually went up after the Elimination. The fame of the show as of fourth season reached to an extent where the film producers from the Kannada Film Industry and the Karnataka Film Chamber of Commerce held a protest in front of Innovative Film City in
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