# Bigg Boss Halla Bol

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. Farah Khan hosted the new format of the show, as Salman bid adieu to the show because of his filming schedule of Bajrangi Bhaijaan.
The series was won by actor Gautam Gulati whilst actress Karishma Tanna emerged as the runner-up.

## Production

In the fifteenth week Bigg Boss announced that show has been extended for four weeks 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. The spin-off series officially launched on 4 January, 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. 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."

### Ratings and viewership

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. 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. 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.

### Broadcast syndication

| Country | Network | Airing Date | Syndication Type | Source |
| India | Colors | 21 September 2014 (2014-09-21) | Off-Network Syndication | |
| United Kingdom | Colors UK | 21 September 2014 (2014-09-21) | International Syndication | |

### Events overview

| | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday |
| Event | Week 1 - Week 4 | Week 1 - Week 4 | Week 1 - Week 4 | Week 1 - Week 4 | Week 1 - Week 4 | Week 1 - Week 4 | Week 1 - Week 4 |
| Event | Nominations | luxury budget task | luxury budget task | Highlights | Tabadla | Eviction and Interview | Eviction and Interview |

## Housemates status

| Sr | Housemate | Day entered | Day exited | Result |
| 1 | Sumit | Day 1 | Day 105 | Winner |
| 2 | Prakash | Day 1 | Day 105 | 1st runner-up |
| 3 | Akshara | Day 30 | Day 105 | 2nd runner-up |
| 4 | Aryan | Day 1 | Day 105 | 3rd runner-up |
| 5 | Astha | Day 1 | Day 105 | 4th runner-up |
| 6 | Prince | Day 1 | Day 105 | 5th runner-up |
| 7 | Sumedh | Day 1 | Day 105 | 6th runner-up |
| 8 | Ansh | Day 1 | Day 102 | Evicted |
| 9 | Bhumika | Day 1 | Day 98 | Evicted |
| 10 | Tanishk | Day 1 | Day 95 | Evicted |
Notes
* ^ Continuation of Bigg Boss 8

## Housemates
### Champions

* Karishma Tanna is a television actress.
* Gautam Gulati is a television actor.
* Pritam Singh RJ is a radio jockey.
* Ali Quli Mirza is a singer
* Dimpy Ganguly is the winner of Season 2 of India's rendition of The Bachelor.

### 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.
* 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.
* Rahul Mahajan is an actor and the son of politician Pramod Mahajan. He quit the show in the second season.
* Sambhavna Seth is an actress and dancer and has appeared in Bhojpuri films. In the second season, she finished in tenth place.
* Sana Khan is an actress, model and dancer who participated in season six, finishing in third place.

## Guest appearances

| Week(s) | Guest(s) | Notes |
| 2 | Mahesh Bhatt, Ali Fazal and Gurmeet Choudhary | To promote their film Khamoshiyan. |
| 3 | Mallika Sherawat | To promote her film Dirty Politics. |
| 4 | Janardhan Baba (in-house guest only) | |
| 4 | Ajaz Khan (in-house guest only) | He was ejected in first week due to violent behaviour against Ali. |
| Finale | Malaika Arora Khan | |
| Finale | Sonakshi Sinha | |
| Finale | Siddharth Nigam and his team | To promote their upcoming TV series Chakravartin Ashoka Samrat |
| Finale | Rohit Shetty, Hussain Kuwajerwala, Sana Khan & Aashish Chaudhary | To promote their upcoming TV series Khatron Ke Khiladi (season 6) |
| Finale | Rajat Sharma | |

## Twists
### Housemates allotment

| Housemate | Week 1 | Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 |
| Housemate | Day 1 | Day 4 | Day 11 | Day 12 | Day 19 | Day 25 |
| Gautam | Champion↔ | Challenger↓ | Challenger↓ | Challenger↓ | Champion↑ | Champion↑ |
| Karishma | Champion↔ | Champion↔ | Champion↔ | Challenger↓ | Champion↑ | Champion↑ |
| Pritam | Champion↔ | Champion↔ | Champion↔ | Champion↔ | Challenger↓ | Challenger↓ |
| Dimpy | Champion↔ | Champion↔ | Champion↔ | Champion↔ | Challenger↓ | Challenger↓ |
| Ali | Champion↔ | Champion↔ | Challenger↓ | Challenger↓ | Champion↑ | Champion↑ |
| Sambhavna | Challenger↔ | Challenger↔ | Champion↑ | Champion↑ | Challenger↓ | Challenger↓ |
| Rahul | Challenger↔ | Challenger↔ | Challenger↔ | Challenger↔ | Champion↑ | |
| Mahek | Challenger↔ | Challenger↔ | Challenger↔ | Champion↑ | | |
| Sana | 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 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 |
| Week 1 | 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. |
| Week 1 | 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. |
| Week 1 | Result | Won – Champions |
| Week 1 | Reward | The champions had won over the Living Area and Restrooms while the challengers have won over the Kitchen and Bedrooms. |
| Week 1 | 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 |
| Week 2 | Nominations | On Day 8, one champion will have to nominate three challengers by cutting their balloon. Sambhavana, Sana and Rahul were nominated. |
| Week 2 | 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. |
| Week 2 | Result | Won – Challengers |
| Week 2 | Reward | Ali became capitain of the house. |
| Week 2 | 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.
   | | Week 16 | Week 17 | Week 18 | Week 18 | Week 19 | Week 19 | Week 19 | Week 19 | Week 19 |
   | | Week 16 | Week 17 | Day 120 | Day 123 | Day 127 | Day 133 | Day 133 | Day 133 | Day 133 |
   | Nominees for Captaincy | No Captain | Karishma Pritam | Pritam Ali Sambhavna | None | None | No Captain | No Captain | No Captain | No Captain |
   | House Captain | No Captain | Karishma | Ali | Pritam | Pritam | | No Captain | No Captain | No Captain | No Captain |
   | Captain's Nominations | No Captain | Rahul Sambhavna Sana | Rahul Dimpy | Gautam | Karishma Dimpy | No Captain | No Captain | No Captain | No Captain |
   | Challengers | Sambhavna Rahul Sana Mahek Ajaz | Gautam Sambhavna Mahek Rahul | Ali Gautam Mahek Rahul | Karishma Ali Gautam Rahul | Pritam Dimpy Sambhavna | Pritam Dimpy Sambhavna | None | None | None |
   | Champions | Gautam Ali Pritam Karishma Dimpy | Sana Ali Pritam Karishma Dimpy | Sambhavna Pritam Karishma Dimpy | Mahek Sambhavna Pritam Dimpy | Gautam Karihsma Ali Rahul | Gautam Karishma Ali | None | None | None |
   | Vote to: | Evict | Evict | Evict | Save | Evict | WIN | WIN | WIN | WIN |
   | Gautam | Ajaz Sambhavna Mahek | Not eligible | Karishma Dimpy | Karishma | Ali Sambhavna | No Nominations | Winner (Day 133) | Winner (Day 133) | Winner (Day 133) |
   | Karishma | Sambhavna Ajaz Sana | House Captain | Gautam Dimpy | Ali (to evict) | Ali Pritam | Nominated | 1st runner-up (Day 133) | 1st runner-up (Day 133) | 1st runner-up (Day 133) |
   | Pritam | Sambhavna Ajaz Mahek | Sambhavna Sana Rahul | Karishma Dimpy | House Captain | House Captain | No Nominations | Walked, 2nd runner-up (Day 133) | Walked, 2nd runner-up (Day 133) | Walked, 2nd runner-up (Day 133) |
   | Dimpy | Mahek Ajaz Sambhavna | Rahul Sana Sambhavna | Karishma Pritam | Rahul | Sambhavna Pritam | No Nominations | 3rd runner-up (Day 133) | 3rd runner-up (Day 133) | 3rd runner-up (Day 133) |
   | Ali | Ajaz Sambhavna Mahek | Rahul Sana Sambhavna | House Captain | Gautam | Gautam Karishma | No Nominations | 4th runner-up (Day 133) | 4th runner-up (Day 133) | 4th runner-up (Day 133) |
   | Sambhavna | Not eligible | Not eligible | Karishma Pritam | Karishma | Gautam Dimpy | Evicted (Day 129) | Evicted (Day 129) | Evicted (Day 129) | Evicted (Day 129) |
   | Rahul | Not eligible | Not eligible | Karishma Pritam | Dimpy | Evicted (Day 126) | Evicted (Day 126) | Evicted (Day 126) | Evicted (Day 126) | Evicted (Day 126) |
   | Mahek | Not eligible | Gautam Sambhavna Sana | Karishma Sambhavna | Evicted (Day 122) | Evicted (Day 122) | Evicted (Day 122) | Evicted (Day 122) | Evicted (Day 122) | Evicted (Day 122) |
   | Sana | Not eligible | Not eligible | Mahek (to evict) | Evicted (Day 119) | Evicted (Day 119) | Evicted (Day 119) | Evicted (Day 119) | Evicted (Day 119) | Evicted (Day 119) |
   | Ajaz | Ejected (Day 106) | Ejected (Day 106) | Ejected (Day 106) | Ejected (Day 106) | Ejected (Day 106) | Ejected (Day 106) | Ejected (Day 106) | Ejected (Day 106) | Ejected (Day 106) |
   | Notes | 1,2,3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 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 | Ali Dimpy Gautam Karishma Pritam | Ali Dimpy Gautam Karishma Pritam | Ali Dimpy Gautam Karishma Pritam |
   | Ejected | Ajaz | None | None | None | None | None | None | None | None |
   | Evicted | Eviction cancelled | Sana | Mahek | Rahul | Sumedh | Astha | Astha | Aryan | Aryan |
   | Akshara ||||
   | Evicted | Eviction cancelled | Sana | Mahek | Rahul | Sumedh | Prakash | Prakash | Sumit | Sumit |
    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.