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]
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."
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]
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.
^ Five contestants from previous seasons entered the house as the challengers against the five remaining finalists of Season 8.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ 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[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.
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.
indicates that the Housemate was directly nominated for eviction prior to the regular nominations process.
indicates that the Housemate was granted immunity from nominations.
^1 : 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.
^2 : 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.
^3 : 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.
^4 : Mehek was nominated by Sana via her "Bigg Bomb" after her eviction.
^5 : 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.
^6 : All contestants were asked to give two names for nominations but from the opposite team only.
^7 : All 5 finalists were automatically placed in the nominations.
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