Bigg Boss Kannada season 1


The season one of the Kannada version of Indian reality television series Bigg Boss was broadcast on 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 to 30 June 2013. A total of 15 contestants and 2 guests had entered the show. The 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.

Housemate status

SrHousemateStatus
1VijayDay 1Day 99
2ArunDay 1Day 99
3NikitaDay 1Day 99
4NarendraDay 1Day 99
5ChandrikaDay 1Day 83
5ChandrikaDay 84Day 90
6AnushreeDay 1Day 76
7RishikaDay 42Day 62
8RohanDay 38Day 55
9JayalakshmiDay 1Day 6
9JayalakshmiDay 27Day 48
10AparnaDay 1Day 41
11ThilakDay 1Day 41
12VinayakDay 1Day 34
13RishiDay 14Day 27
14ShwetaDay 1Day 20
15SanjjanaaDay 1Day 14

Episodes

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 to telecast Autograph series in which the contestants shared their experience in the house.
Programmes

Nominations table



Reception and viewership

As per Indiantelevision.com's news release, the show achieved the highest TRPs than any other Kannada GEC. The launch episode had a rating of 4.7 TRP and the eviction episodes on Fridays reached 6.3 TRP. The week average was about 4.7 TRP.
The SMS votes by the audience were claimed to be approximately 47,000 per contestant and touched a lakh during the finals.

Awards

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