Template:Big Brother endgame 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.[1] Farah Khan host the new format of the show,[2] as Salman bids adieu to the show because of his filming schedule of Bajrangi Bhaijaan .[3][4]
The series was won by actor Gautam Gulati while actress Karishma Tanna became the first runner-up.
This series was marked by a number of downfalls for the Big Brother franchise in India. The continuation of the regular celebrity season into an All-Stars version garnered initial media and viewer attention but the ratings for the show decreased to an all-time low with the final only managing to score a TRP of 2.82.[5] 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.[6] 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.
In the fifteenth week Bigg Boss announced that show has been extended for four weeks[7] 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.[8] The spin-off series officially launched on 4 January,[9] 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.[10] 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.
Broadcast syndication
| Country | Network | Airing Date | Syndication Type | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 India |
Colors | September 21, 2014 | Off-Network Syndication |
[11] |
 United Kingdom |
Colors UK | September 21, 2014 | International Syndication | [12] |
Events overview
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Event | Week 1 - Week 4[13][14] | ||||||
| Nominations | luxury budget task | Highlights | Tabadla | Eviction and Interview | |||
Bigg Boss Halla Bol Entrants
Champions
| Housemate | Occupation and Claim to fame |
|---|---|
| Karishma Tanna | Actress.[15] |
| Gautam Gulati | Actor. |
| Pritam Singh | Radio Jockey. |
| Ali Quli Mirza | Singer [16] |
| Dimpy Mahajan | Winner of Season 2 of India's rendition of The Bachelor.[17] |
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.
| Housemate | Rank (Original Season) |
Occupation and Claim to fame |
|---|---|---|
| Ajaz Khan | 3rd place (Season 7) | Actor. |
| Mahek Chahal | Runner-Up (Season 5) | Actress and Model. |
| Rahul Mahajan | Quit (Season 2) | Actor and Son of a politician Pramod Mahajan. |
| Sambhavna Seth | 10th Place (Season 2) | Item girl. She has also appeared in Bhojpuri films. |
| Sana Khan | 3rd Place (Season 6) | Actress, Model and Dancer. |
Guests
| Week(s) | Guest(s) | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Mahesh Bhatt, Ali Fazal and Gurmeet Choudhary | To promote their film Khamoshiyan.[18] |
| 3 | Mallika Sherawat | To promote her film Dirty Politics.[19] |
| 4 | Janardhan Baba (in-house guest only) | [20] |
| Ajaz Khan (in-house guest only) | [21] | |
| Finale | Malaika Arora Khan | [22] |
| Sonakshi Sinha | ||
| Siddharth Nigam and his team | To promote their upcoming TV series Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat[23] | |
| Rohit Shetty, Hussain Kuwajerwala, Sana Khan & Aashish Chaudhary | To promote their upcoming TV series Khatron Ke Khiladi (season 6)[23] | |
| Rajat Sharma | [23] |
Contestant status
| Housemate | Day 1 | Day 4 | Day 11 | Day 12 | Day 19 | Day 25 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | [2] | [3] | [4] | [5] | [6] | ||
| Ali | Champion | Challenger | Finalist | ||||
| Dimpy | Champion | Challenger | Champion | Finalist | |||
| Gautam | Champion | Challenger | Champion | Finalist | |||
| Karishma | Champion | Challenger | Champion | Finalist | |||
| Pritam | Champion | Challenger | Finalist | ||||
| Sambhavna | Challenger | Champion | Challenger | ||||
| Rahul | Challenger | Champion | |||||
| Sana | Challenger | Champion | |||||
| Mahek | Challenger | Champion | |||||
| Ajaz | Challenger | ||||||
- ^ 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 Dimpi 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.
Voting history
- 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 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day 15 | Day 18 | Day 22 | Final | |||||
| Vote to: | Evict | Save | Evict | |||||
| Gautam | Ajaz, Sambhavna, Mahek |
Not eligible |
Karishma, Dimpy |
Karishma | Ali, Sambhavna |
Winner (Day 28) | ||
| Karishma | Sambhavna, Ajaz, Sana |
Rahul, Sana, Sambhavna |
Gautam, Dimpy |
Ali to evict |
Ali, Pritam |
Runner-Up (Day 28) | ||
| Pritam | Sambhavna, Ajaz, Mahek |
Sambhavna, Sana, Rahul |
Karishma, Dimpy |
Gautam | Karishma, Dimpy |
Walked (Day 28) | ||
| Ali | Ajaz, Sambhavna, Mahek |
Rahul, Sana, Sambhavna |
Rahul, Dimpy |
Gautam | Gautam, Karishma |
Evicted (Day 27) | ||
| Dimpy | Mahek, Ajaz, Sambhavna |
Rahul, Sana, Sambhavna |
Karishma, Pritam |
Rahul | Sambhavna, Pritam |
Evicted (Day 27) | ||
| Sambhavna | Not eligible |
Not eligible |
Karishma, Pritam |
Karishma | Gautam, Dimpy |
Evicted (Day 24) | ||
| Rahul | Not eligible |
Not eligible |
Karishma, Pritam |
Dimpy | Evicted (Day 21) | |||
| Mahek | Not eligible |
Gautam, Sambhavna, Sana |
Karishma, Sambhavna |
Evicted (Day 17) | ||||
| Sana | Not eligible |
Not eligible |
Mahek | Evicted (Day 14) | ||||
| Ajaz | Not eligible |
Ejected (Day 2) | ||||||
| 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 | Dimpy | Ali | |
| 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.
- ^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.
Vote count
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Nominations received |
Evictions faced | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vote to: | Evict | Save | Evict | |||||
| Gautam | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| Karishma | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 3 |
| Pritam | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 |
| Ali | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Dimpy | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 |
| Sambhavna | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 4 | |
| Rahul | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | ||
| Mahek | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | |||
| Sana | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | ||||
| Ajaz | 5 | 5 | 0 | |||||
- Red numbers indicate nominations received by the housemates to remain Safe from eviction.
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