Bigg Boss (Hindi TV series) season 15


Bigg Boss 15, also known as Bigg Boss: Sankat in Jungle was the fifteenth season of the Indian reality TV series Bigg Boss. It premiered on 2 October 2021 on Colors TV. Salman Khan hosted the season for the twelve time. The grand finale aired on 30 January 2022 where Tejasswi Prakash emerged as the winner with Dino James as the runner-up.

Production

Teaser

The first teaser was released on 22 August 2021, in which Salman Khan is a forest officer talking to a wishful talking tree named Vishwasuntree in which veteran actress Rekha gave her voice. On the grand finale of Bigg Boss OTT, another promo was released revealing the date of the premiere.

Eye logo

This theme of the season was "Sankat in Jungle". The eye this time was covered with green grass and shows a tree in the pupil of the eye with flames coming from the centre of the eye.

House

The house this time had a "Jungle Theme" and was located in Goregaon for the third time. The house was divided into 2 parts, Jungle House and Main House. On Day 21, Jungle House was closed.

Telecast

Apart from the usual hour-long episode, viewers also had access to the direct 24x7 ''camera footage. The
viewers also had access to Before TV'' on Voot Select where the episode was telecast 30 minutes before it was telecasted on Colors TV. Also for the first time, Live Voting was conducted for the Eviction Process. On weekdays, the show was at 10.30 PM IST & weekend show was at 9.30 PM IST which was changed to 8 PM IST from Week 16.

Concept

All housemates will be given a survival kit with a few essentials throughout the season and will get fewer facilities this time. The housemates will enter a small jungle house which has a small kitchen, no beds and sofa and bathroom for the first 3 weeks. The housemates who will survive the jungle will enter the main luxurious house. There is a wishful tree in the garden area named Vishwasuntree who is the queen of the magical jungle in the house and will give advantages and privileges to the contestants who perform well in the jungle. On Day 36, Salman announced that there will be a new zone named VIP Zone. The members who are in VIP Zone are eligible to be in the finale.

Casting

On the grand finale of Bigg Boss OTT, finalist Pratik Sehajpal was officially revealed as the first confirmed contestant, which followed by Nishant Bhat and Shamita Shetty was announced as the other two contestants at the press conference held by Arti Singh and Devoleena Bhattacharjee.

Housemates status

SrHousemateStatus
1TejasswiDay 1Day 140
2DinoDay 1Day 140
3KaranDay 1Day 1402nd runner-up
4AksharaDay 1Day 7
4AksharaDay 21Day 1403rd runner-up
5MohitDay 1Day 1404th Runner-up
6RakhiDay 70Day 140
7RashmiDay 70Day 137
8DevoleenaDay 70Day 133
9AbhijitDay 70Day 126
10RajibDay 21Day 119
11UmarDay 1Day 100
12VikasDay 70Day 93
13ShilpaDay 35Day 91
14RahulDay 70Day 78
15JayDay 1Day 70
16VishalDay 1Day 70
17NehaDay 21Day 70
18DonalDay 1Day 63
19IshanDay 1Day 49
20SoundaryaDay 1Day 49
21RitvikDay 1Day 35
22Karan NDay 1Day 21
23VidhiDay 1Day 14

Housemates

The participants in the order of appearance and entered in the house are:

Original entrants

OTTians

Wildcard entrants

  • Rajiv Adatia — Former model and entrepreneur.
  • Ritesh Kumar — Businessman, software professional; Rakhi Sawant's husband.
  • Abhijit Bichukale — Politician. He participated in Bigg Boss Marathi 2.

Challengers

Twists

Housemates allotment



  1. The finalist of Bigg Boss OTT get direct access to Main House.
  2. By winning 'Zeher Ka Keher' Task, Team Tiger Jay, Vishal, Tejasswi and Akasa were upgraded to the Main house.
  3. Due to violation of the rules, All Main House members were downgraded to the Jungle House.
  4. By winning 'The Currency' Task, Karan & Tejasswi, Shamita & Vishal, Umar & Afsana and Sanchalak Nishant were upgraded to Main House.
  5. The last five jungle housemates had to come to a mutual decision of leaving the show or giving up the remaining 25 lakh prize money to stay and get access to Main House, They choose the latter and BB Magical Jungle started disappearing with all housemates in the Main House.
  6. House Captain Umar get to choose 3 more VIP contestants.
  7. By winning the 'BB Mine' Task, Vishal is now VIP Contestant.
  8. By winning the 'Scary Monster' Task, Nishant had got a special power that he could upgrade 2 Common Members to VIPs and downgrade 2 VIPs to Common Members, He upgraded Simba and Pratik and downgraded Tejasswi and Karan.
  9. Due to violation of rules Bigg Boss announced that VIP Zone will be temporarily closed and all became Common Housemates.
  10. The challengers entered as VIPs.
  11. Rakhi wins the 'Ticket to Finale' Task and becomes the sole VIP housemate with others downgraded.
  12. By surviving via public vote Rashmi won 'Ticket To Finale'.

Weekly summary

The main events in the house are summarised in the table below. A typical week begins with nominations, followed by the luxury budget task, punishment than a task for immunity or anything else and then the eviction of a housemate during the Sunday or Saturday episode called as "Weekend Ka Vaar". Evictions, tasks, and other notable events for a particular week are noted in order of sequence.

Nomination table



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