Bigg Boss Marathi season 5

Bigg Boss Marathi 5 is the fifth season of Marathi version of reality television show Bigg Boss broadcast in India. The grand premiere was held on 28 July 2024 on Colors Marathi and JioCinema which recorded TRP of 2.4 TVR for grand premiere episode which is highest ever for grand premiere episodes of all 5 seasons of show along with TRP reaching up to 5 TVR which broke all records of in history of Non-Fiction Shows and Bigg Boss Marathi season 5 became most highest ever rated season in history of all Bigg Boss seasons combined. Riteish Deshmukh hosted the show for the first time. The Grand Finale of the show took place on October 6, 2024, where Suraj Chavhan emerged as the winner, with Abhijeet Sawant securing the runner-up position.

Production

Teaser

The season was announced on 21 May 2024 by makers and the channel. Mahesh Manjrekar who presented the first four seasons announced his departure from the show and later replaced by Riteish Deshmukh.

Development

The press conference and launch event for this season was held on 22 July 2024, anchored by journalist Dnyanada Kadam.

Eye logo

The eye logo features a new golden color scheme, numerous open and closed windows, and two nails supporting the eye.

House

The house of this season had a “Maze” theme. This house is referred as “Chakravyuh”. The house is located in Film City, Mumbai for the fourth time.

Bhaucha Dhakka

This season's weekend episodes were named as Bhaucha Dhakka. Stage was recreated as Bhaucha Dhakka where host Riteish Deshmukh who is fondly called as Bhau will officiate in his style and it would be his reign.

Tanta Ghar

This season's weekend episodes had a special setup created in Activity Area which was named as Tanta Ghar. In this housemates who queried during a week will feature and would express their anger against each other by taking it on kept objects and at the end if bell rings due to that then they will get surprise by Bigg Boss.

Week	1	2
Housemates	Aarya Jahnavi	Arbaz Abhijeet
Surprise	Personal 30,000 BB currency to each	Personal 50,000 BB currency to each

Trophy

The trophy was revealed on 04th October which had a maze covering eye of Bigg Boss standing on a platform.

Housemates status

S.No	Housemates	Day entered	Day Exited	Housemates status
1	Suraj	Day 1	Day 70
2	Abhijeet	Day 1	Day 70
3	Nikki	Day 1	Day 70	2nd Runner-up
4	Dhananjay	Day 1	Day 70	3rd Runner-up
5	Ankita	Day 1	Day 70	4th Runner-up
6	Jahnavi	Day 1	Day 70
7	Varsha	Day 1	Day 67
8	Pandharinath	Day 1	Day 63
9	Arbaz	Day 1	Day 56
10	Sangram	Day 43	Day 55
11	Vaibhav	Day 1	Day 49
12	Arya	Day 1	Day 48
13	Ghanshyam	Day 1	Day 41
14	Irina	Day 1	Day 28
15	Yogita	Day 1	Day 21
16	Nikhil	Day 1	Day 21
17	Purushottam	Day 1	Day 7

Housemates

Original entrants

Varsha Usgaonkar - A Marathi and Hindi film and television actress. She has appeared in Gammat Jammat, Hamaal De Dhamaal, Saglikade Bombabomb, etc. She is also known for her role in TV series Sukh Mhanje Nakki Kay Asta!.
Nikhil Damle - Television actor known for appearing in the Rama Raghav.
Ankita Prabhu-Walawalkar- Social media influencer and YouTuber. She is known as Kokanheartedgirl.
Pandharinath Kamble - A Marathi comedian. He did many roles in films and television. He is known for his appearance in Maharashtrachi Hasyajatra.
Yogita Chavan - Television actress. She is known for her portrayal of Antara Khanvilkar in Jeev Majha Guntala.
Janhavi Killekar - Television actress. She is known for her negative role in Bhagya Dile Tu Mala.
Abhijeet Sawant - Singer. He was the winner of Indian Idol.
Ghanshyam Darvade - Political commentator. He is also known as Chota Pudhari.
Irina Rudakova - Russian model and yoga enthusiast. She was a cheerleader for the Indian Premier League.
Nikki Tamboli - Film actress. She is predominantly working in Tamil and Telugu films. She was also the 2nd runner up of Bigg Boss 14.
Vaibhav Chavan - Television actor. He is known for playing lead role in Man Jhala Bajind.
Arbaz Patel - Reality television actor. He is the contestant of MTV Splitsvilla season 15.
Aarya Jadhao - Rapper. She is known for being a contestant of MTV Hustle 2. She is widely known as QK.
Purushottam Dada Patil - Kirtankar.
Dhananjay Powar - Social media influencer, YouTuber and businessman.
Suraj Chavan - Social media influencer.

Wild-Card entrants

Sangram Chougule - Bodybuilder. He won the title of Mr. Universe in 2012 in the 85 kg category.

Weekly summary

The main events in the Bigg Boss Marathi 5 house are summarised in the table below.

Week 1

Entrances

On the Grand Premiere, host Riteish Deshmukh welcomed new housemates and introduced them to all. Varsha Usgaonkar, Nikhil Damle, Ankita Prabhu-Walawalkar, Pandharinath Kamble, Yogita Chavan, Jahnavi Killekar, Abhijeet Sawant, Ghanshyam Darode, Nikki Tamboli, Vaibhav Chavan, Arbaz Patel, Aarya Jadhao, Purushottam Dada Patil, Dhananjay Powar and Suraj Chavan entered the house as the original housemates.

Week 1

Twists

On the Grand Premiere, host Riteish Deshmukh announced that housemates have to buy facilities in house for that they have to go through dilemma in which they need to select between BB currency and a personal luxury.

Nominations table

Color keys
Nomination notes

: On Day 2, every housemate had to win power of nomination by winning in particular round in which set of three housemates was against nomination among which one will be nominated. After nominating once, winner of round would allocate another housemate who would get power of nomination. In last round, set of four will be up amongst them two will be nominated.
: On Day 9, housemates would nominate two pairs for eviction in pair itself by coming on mutual decision.
: On Day 14, Host Riteish Deshmukh announced that there was no eviction in second week so all nominated contestants were carried forward and got directly nominated.
: On Day 16, Arbaz and Abhijeet got to use power cards where they chose Vote to Save Power Card while Vaibhav as chosen by winning team of weekly task got to use Replace Someone from Nominations Power Card.
: On Day 24, Photographs of each housemate was given to other housemate. Any housemate can directly nominate the other housemate of whose photo they have.
: On Day 29, Housemates individually will swap one pair from danger zone to safe zone other than self pair if it is in danger zone while one pair from safe zone to danger zone. After all housemates are done with their nominations, two pairs which are present in danger zone would be nominated As Captain Nikki started process, there was none in danger zone she had right to put two pairs in danger zone. Also Nikki would remain captain but as she had consumed immunity in former week, she will be also in nominations.
: On Day 36, housemates would nominate two housemates for eviction.
: On Day 44, Photographs of each housemate was given to other housemate. Any housemate who wants to immune the housemate of whom photo they had while they can also nominate them while from immunity by placing away their lamp on immunity stone.
: On Day 50, task was conducted in which housemates were divided in teams. Team whichever wins will be safe while team that loses task will be nominated.
: On Day 57, Bigg Boss nominated all housemates and later divided housemates in two teams where they had to target two housemates from opponent team.
: On Day 64, Nikki won Ticket to Finale and became first finalist while all other housemateswere nominated for midweek eviction process by Bigg Boss.
: On Day 67, Bigg Boss nominated all top 6 housemates for winning the season.