Bigg Boss
Season 16
Bigg Boss Season 16
Presented bySalman Khan
No. of days133
No. of housemates17
WinnerMC Stan
Runner-upShiv Thakare
No. of episodes135
Release
Original networkColors TV
Original release1 October 2022 (2022-10-01) –
12 February 2023 (2023-02-12)
Season chronology
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Bigg Boss 16 also known as Bigg Boss: Game Badlega, Kyunki Bigg Boss Khud Khelega was the sixteenth season of the Indian Hindi-language reality TV series Bigg Boss. It premiered on Colors TV on 1 October 2022. Salman Khan hosted the show for the thirteenth time.[1] The Grand Finale aired on 12 February 2023, where MC Stan emerged as the winner and Shiv Thakare ended up as the runner-up. The season went on to become one of the most successful seasons in the show's history.[2][3]

Production

Broadcast

For the first time ever, a new segment- Bigg Bulletin With Shekhar Suman[4] aired on Sunday Hosted by Shekhar Suman. Weekend Ka Vaar, namely- Shukravar and Shanivar Ka Vaar[5] aired on Fridays and Saturdays instead of Saturdays and Sundays respectively as in previous seasons.[6] For the first time ever, eviction took place on Saturdays instead of Sundays.

A five-hour Grand Finale aired on 12 February 2023.[7]

Casting

Colors TV teased the viewers, by giving a glimpse of the first two contestants answering several fan questions on their Instagram stories.[8][9] This segment was titled "#BB16ContestantFirstLook".[10][11] They were later on revealed to be Gautam Singh Vig and Soundarya Sharma.[12]

Concept

The concept for this season of Bigg Boss was "Upside Down", which meant everything would be opposite from the previous seasons.

Development

(left to right) Gauahar Khan with Salman Khan Bigg Boss 16 press conference

The press conference[13] and launch event[14] for this season was held on 27 September 2022,[15] anchored by Gauahar Khan,[16] wherein Abdu Rozik was officially introduced as first contestant.[17]

The eye logo is very similar to the logo of the thirteenth season. It features a bright red colour logo with a blue pupil.

House

The house of this season had a "Circus" theme.[18][19] The House was located in Goregaon for the fourth time. This season had four bedrooms: Fire Room, Black and White Room, Cards Room and Vintage Room and a lavish private Jacuzzi for the captain for the first time in the history of Bigg Boss.[20] The jail of the house was designed as Maut Ka Kuwa (Well of Death) located in a hanging position above the swimming pool.

Release

A promo featuring Salman Khan was released on 11 September 2022.[21][22] Promos featuring Gori Nagori,[23] Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia and Abdu Rozik with Khan were released one day prior to the premiere. Promos featuring Priyanka Chahar Choudhary, Ankit Gupta[24] and Tina Datta[25] were released just before the premiere.

Housemates status

Sr Housemates Day entered Day exited Status
1 MC Stan Day 1 Day 137 Winner
2 Shiv Day 1 Day 137 1st runner-up
3 Priyanka Day 1 Day 137 2nd runner-up
4 Archana Day 1 Day 40 Ejected
Day 42 Day 137 3rd runner-up
5 Shalin Day 1 Day 137 4th runner-up
6 Nimrit Day 1 Day 128 Evicted
7 Sumbul Day 1 Day 126 Evicted
8 Tina Day 1 Day 33 Walked
Day 34 Day 70 Evicted
Day 71 Day 114 Walked
Day 115 Day 119 Evicted
9 Soundarya Day 1 Day 112 Evicted by Housemates
10 Sajid Day 1 Day 106 Walked
11 Abdu Day 1 Day 77 Walked
Day 85 Day 105 Walked
12 Sreejita Day 1 Day 13 Evicted
Day 68 Day 105 Evicted
13 Vikkas Day 69 Day 90 Evicted
14 Ankit Day 1 Day 84 Evicted by Housemates
15 Gautam Day 1 Day 48 Evicted
16 Gori Day 1 Day 42 Evicted
17 Manya Day 1 Day 21 Evicted

Housemates

The list of housemates in the order of entering the house:

Original entrants

Wild card entrants

Guest entrants

Twists

Bedroom allotment

Housemates were chosen by the Captain / Task winners to be staying in four different bedrooms: Fire Room, Black and White Room, Cards Room and Vintage Room. Every week the bedrooms of the housemates were chosen newly and the housemates had to stay in the chosen bedrooms. In Week 7, members of the Vintage Room and Cards Room were safe from nominations. In Week 8, and Week 10, only members of Vintage Room were safe from nominations. Vintage Room was permanently closed from Week 17. Fire Room was closed from Week 17 but reopened in Week 19. Black & White Room and Cards Room were also closed in Week 19.

Key:

  indicates Captain's/King's or Queen's Room
  indicates Black and White Room (Room of 4)
  indicates Cards Room (Room of 3)
  indicates Vintage Room (Room of 2)
  indicates Fire Room (Room of 6)
Allotment by Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Week 16 Week 17 Week 18 Week 19
Nimrit Priyanka Abdu Archana None Sajid Shiv Nimrit Ankit Soundarya None
Gautam
MC Stan Sajid
Sajid
MC Stan Fire Cards Fire Cards Black & White Fire Captain Fire Black & White Fire
Shiv Fire Captain Vintage Fire Vintage King Cards Fire Captain Fire Captain Fire Black & White Fire
Priyanka Black & White Fire Black & White Fire Vintage Black & White Cards Fire
Archana Vintage Captain Vintage Fire Black & White Fire Cards Fire
Shalin Black & White Vintage Cards Vintage Black & White Fire Cards Vintage Black & White Fire
Nimrit Captain Cards Fire Black & White Cards Vintage Queen Fire Captain
Sumbul Black & White Cards Black & White Captain Vintage Black & White
Tina Fire Cards Fire Cards Black & White Vintage Cards Captain Vintage Black & White Cards
Soundarya Vintage Black & White Fire Cards Fire Cards Captain Fire Cards
Sajid Fire Black & White Fire King Cards Vintage Fire
Abdu Cards Fire Black & White Fire Captain Vintage Cards Black & White Fire Fire Captain Fire
Sreejita Cards Fire Black & White Captain Black & White
Vikkas Cards
Ankit Black & White Fire King Black & White
Gautam Cards Captain Vintage Cards Captain Cards Fire
Gori Fire Cards Fire
Manya Vintage Fire


Morning Anthem

For the first time, there was a Bigg Boss Anthem in the morning instead of the usual wake-up songs.[44]

Bigg Bulletin

A new segment, Bigg Bulletin with Shekhar Suman, was introduced which Shekhar Suman hosted every Sunday. In this segment, the host interacted with the contestants on the events that have transpired in the particular week. He would also roast the contestants, play games with them and pull off fun gags.[4][45]

MyGlamm Face of the Season

In Week 1, it was revealed that all the female housemates would be competitors for MyGlamm Face of the Season through which one female housemate would become the representative of the season. Moreover, the winner of the segment would win ₹25 lakhs and get a chance to shoot for an ad with Shraddha Kapoor for MyGlamm.

On Day 83, Priyanka Chahar Choudhary was declared the winner after 12 weeks through public votes.

Confinement punishment(s)

Week 3 Week 6 Week 7
Punishment by Shiv Abdu Sajid
Punishment given to Archana Priyanka Nimrit Priyanka
Shiv
Soundarya Shalin Ankit
Form of Punishment Maut Ka Kuwa The Box Maut Ka Kuwa Maut Ka Kuwa

Maahim (Dog)

On Day 87 (Week 13), "Maahim" a St. Bernard dog was sent in the house and it stayed in the house till the finale.[46][47][48]

Family week

In Week 15, family members of the 12 housemates, referred to as VVIPs, entered the house to meet and support them.[49][50]

Day Entered Day Exited Housemate Connection Name Connection
Day 100 Day 100 Sajid Farah Khan Sister
Day 101 Shiv Ashatai Thakare Mother
Priyanka Yogesh Choudhary Brother
Day 101 Day 102 MC Stan Vahida Tadavi Mother
Archana Gulshan Gautam Brother
Nimrit Gurdeep Singh Ahluwalia Father
Day 102 Day 103 Tina Madhumita Datta Mother
Shalin Sunita Bhanot Mother
Abdu Just Sul Friend
Day 103 Day 104 Soundarya Usha Sharma Mother
Sumbul Iqbal Khan Uncle
Sreejita Michael Blohm-Pape Fiancé

Guest appearances

Week(s) Day(s) Guest(s) Notes Ref.
First Day
First Show 		Day 0 Touqeer Khan To support daughter Sumbul Touqeer [51]
Shehnaaz Gill To support Sajid Khan via video message [52]
Week 1 Day 3 Kili Paul For taking part in the task [53]
Day 6 Rashmika Mandanna and Neena Gupta To promote Goodbye [54]
Week 2 Day 13 Touqeer Khan To interact with daughter Sumbul Touqeer [55]
Harrdy Sandhu and Parineeti Chopra To promote Code Name: Tiranga [56]
Sidharth Malhotra and Rakul Preet Singh To promote Thank God [57]
Bhavin Rabari To promote Chhello Show [58]
Week 3 Day 21 Karan Johar To host Weekend Ka Vaar [59]
Week 4 Day 29 Katrina Kaif, Ishaan Khatter and Siddhant Chaturvedi To promote Phone Bhoot [60]
Week 5 Day 34 Janhvi Kapoor and Sunny Kaushal To promote Mili [61]
Sonakshi Sinha, Huma Qureshi, Zaheer Iqbal and Mahat Raghavendra To promote Double XL [62]
Week 6 Day 41 Arjun Bijlani and Sunny Leone To promote MTV Splitsvilla X4 [63]
Varun Dhawan and Kriti Sanon To promote Bhediya [64]
Week 7 Day 49 Ayushmann Khurrana and Jaideep Ahlawat To promote An Action Hero [65]
Week 8 Day 56 Fahmaan Khan and Kritika Singh Yadav To promote their show Dharampatnii [42]
Kajol and Revathi To promote Salaam Venky [66]
Sumbul's father, Tina's mother and Shalin's parents To interact with the host [67]
Arbaaz Khan, Manav Vij, Sudhir Mishra, Waluscha De Sousa and Sumit Kaul To promote Tanaav [68]
Week 9 Day 63 Parth Samthaan and Niti Taylor To promote Kaisi Yeh Yaariaan [69]
Week 10 Day 69 Shehnaaz Gill and MC Square To promote Ghani Syaani [70]
Week 11 Day 76 Vicky Kaushal and Kiara Advani To promote Govinda Naam Mera [71]
Day 77 Ranveer Singh, Rohit Shetty, Varun Sharma, Pooja Hegde and Jacqueline Fernandez To promote Cirkus [72]
Week 12 Day 81-82 Vijay Vikram Singh To distract housemates from performing ration task [73]
Day 84 Genelia D'Souza, Riteish Deshmukh To promote Ved [74]
Manish Paul To co-host and celebrate Salman's birthday [75]
Week 14 Day 91 Dharmendra, Krushna Abhishek, Kashmera Shah, Karan Kundrra, Jannat Zubair Rahmani and Rajiv Adatia For New Year celebration [76]
Day 92 Ikka and Seedhe Maut To perform with MC Stan and celebrate New Year [77]
Week 15 Day 97 Shiv's mother, MC Stan's mother, Archana's brother, Nimrit's father, Tina's mother, Shalin's mother, Sumbul's uncle, Sreejita's fiancé To interact with the host [78]
Day 103-104 Simi Garewal To host a talk show [79]
Day 104 Bharti Singh, Haarsh Limbachiyaa and their son Laksh "Gola" To interact with the host and housemates [80]
Day 105 Dibang and Sandiip Sikcand [81]
Week 16 Day 112-113 Astrologer Saurish Sharma To predict future of housemates and interact with the host [82]
Day 113 Sajid Khan To interact with the host [83]
Abdu Rozik To promote his song Pyar
Day 114 Ekta Kapoor and Dibakar Banerjee To interact with the host and cast housemates for their upcoming film LSD 2 [84]
Week 17 Day 117 Mika Singh To promote his song Miss You [85]
Anil Kapoor To promote The Night Manager
Kartik Aaryan To promote Shehzada [86]
Week 18 Day 125 Badshah To promote his song Players [87]
Anupam Kher and Neena Gupta To promote Shiv Shastri Balboa [88]
Iulia Vântur To promote her song Raat Baaki
Week 19 Day 130 Krushna Abhishek To entertain the housemates [89]
Day 132 Rohit Shetty To select the first contestant of Khatron Ke Khiladi 13 [90]
Grand Finale Day 133 Bharti Singh and Krushna Abhishek To play with the housemates [91]
Sunny Deol and Ameesha Patel To promote their film Gadar 2: The Katha Continues [92]
Karan Kundrra, Gashmeer Mahajani and Reem Shaikh To promote Tere Ishq Mein Ghayal
Ankit Gupta, Neha Rana, Gautam Singh Vig To promote Junooniyatt

Weekly summary

First Day First Show Entrances Nimrit, Abdu, Ankit, Priyanka, MC Stan, Archana, Gautam, Shalin, Soundarya, Shiv, Sumbul, Manya, Gori, Tina, Sreejita and Sajid entered the house.[93]
Twist Nimrit was made the captain of the house by Bigg Boss as she was the first housemate.
Week 1 Nominations Shiv, Archana, MC Stan, Sajid, Gori and Gautam were nominated for the first-week eviction.[94]
Twists
  • Bigg Boss broke its 15-year ritual of morning wake-up song and replaced it with Bigg Boss Anthem.[95]
  • For the first time Bigg Boss will keep an eye on the captain 24/7 and if the captain is negligent, they will be fired from the post immediately.[96]
  • Bigg Boss again broke its 15-year ritual of nominating people by giving reasons and asked the housemates to nominate their co-contestants directly without reason.[97]
Captaincy Task Nimrit was fired from the captaincy post due to continuous violation of house rules. Nimrit was given a chance to save her captaincy. The contestant who rings the bell first in the garden will get a chance to challenge Nimrit. Shalin rings the bell and challenges Nimrit. The task was that both the contenders will stand on a platform and hold baskets on their heads. The one who drops it first will lose and the other one would become the captain. The other contestants will put things in their baskets. Sajid will be the sanchalak.
Winner – Nimrit
Failed – Shalin
Tasks
  • Stand-up comedy: Sajid was asked to do a stand-up comedy show for housemates. If the housemates liked it, Sajid would get a special advantage to distribute the ration among the 4 bedrooms.
  • Reel competition: There was a reel competition between MC Stan and Abdu. Their managers, Sumbul and Shiv would convince the housemates to do a reel with them. The person who does maximum reels with the housemates wins the task and would get a special advantage to change the bed positions of the housemates.
  • Immunity task: Gori was told to do a special dance performance for the housemates. If all housemates like her performance and join her. She will get an advantage to immune one nominated housemate including herself. If no one likes her performance, the rest of the nominated housemates will have to mutually decide to immune one housemate other than Gori.
Result
  • Stand-up comedy: Sajid won the task and distributed the ration among the 4 bedrooms.
  • Reel competition: MC Stan made maximum reels with housemates and won the task. MC Stan and Sumbul also got the advantage of changing the bed positions.
  • Immunity Task: Gori successfully completed the task and saved herself from nominations.
Punishments
  • Tina, Manya and Soundarya were punished for saying sorry during nominations and were told to do all the work in the house until the next notice.
  • Nimrit was fired from captaincy as she was negligent.
House Captain Nimrit
Notes Nimrit was asked to select one person from Tina, Manya and Soundarya who will be freed from doing all housework. She chose Manya and replaced her with Priyanka.
Exits On Day 8, no eviction took place.
Week 2
Nominations Gori, MC Stan, Sreejita, Tina and Shalin were nominated for second-week eviction by house captain Gautam.
Captaincy Task Gautam and Shiv competed for the captaincy task. The task was that both the contenders will stand on a platform and hold baskets on their heads. The one who drops it first will lose and the other one would become the captain. Other contestants will put things in their baskets and Nimrit will be the sanchalak.
Winner – Gautam
Failed – Shiv
Tasks Music video: Nimrit and Priyanka would have to make a music video with Abdu as the main lead on Chota Bhaijaan which was sung by Abdu. The one who made a better video will get a special advantage in changing the bed positions of the housemates.
Result Priyanka's music video was chosen as the best and she won the task and got the advantage in changing the bed positions of the housemates.
Punishments
  • Shalin was punished for being physical with Archana Gautam and was nominated for 2 weeks and also he would not be able to become a contender for captaincy for the entire season. (Shalin contended for captaincy after his punishment was called-off in Week 10)
  • Gori, MC Stan, Sreejita and Tina were chosen by captain Gautam for using derogatory language in the house and were nominated directly for eviction.
House Captain Gautam
Notes Bigg Boss asked contestants to name the most irritating person in the house. The housemates named Archana, and as a result, Bigg Boss asked Archana to stay silent and Shalin would be her voice for conveying her messages to all the housemates until his next order. They fulfilled their order and Archana got 1 kg of Ginger and Shalin got 1 week's supply of chicken.
Exits On Day 13, Sreejita De was evicted after facing public votes.
Week 3
Nominations Manya, Shalin and Sumbul were nominated for third-week eviction.
Captaincy Task Shiv and Priyanka competed for the captaincy task. Both contenders had to make as many lines as they can with wooden domino bricks of a specific colour. After the time ends, sanchalak Gautam will decide who won the task on the basis of the lengths of the lines of bricks and maintaining the rules.
Winner – Shiv
Failed – Priyanka
Tasks BB Train: Four favourite members including Abdu, Sajid, MC Stan and Gautam were selected from the choices of all the housemates. These four individuals got the exclusive right to include a housemate in their rooms.
Result [Check Bedroom Allotment]
Punishments
  • Archana and Soundarya were sentenced to jail Maut Ka Kuwa for the time being.
  • Priyanka was punished by Captain Shiv after the former refused to perform her duties and was kept in the Box for a certain amount of time.
  • Shiv was fired from Captaincy on Day 20 and Archana was made the House Captain by Bigg Boss.
House Captain

Shiv

Archana
Notes Karan Johar hosted Weekend Ka Vaar instead of Salman Khan as Salman was sick because of Dengue fever.
Exits On Day 21, Manya Singh was evicted after facing public votes.
Week 4
Nominations Abdu, Gautam, Gori, Nimrit, Shiv, Soundarya and Tina were nominated for the fourth-week eviction.
Captaincy Task All housemates had to fight to achieve the throne kept in Activity Area. The losing housemates will be confined in the cage by order under the throne with 2 options - remove the throne-winning person from Captaincy's race & take a particular amount of ration or keep that person as a candidate for Captaincy and sacrifice the extra ration.
Winner – None
Failed – All contestants
Tasks
Result Captaincy task was dissolved.
Punishments Nimrit and Soundarya were punished by Bigg Boss due to their overuse of English and punished to repeat the same sentence in Hindi again and again given by Bigg Boss until next command.
House Captain None
Notes
Exits On Day 29, no eviction took place.
Week 5
Nominations Archana, Soundarya and Sumbul were nominated for fifth-week eviction.
Captaincy Task
  • On Day 29 Salman Khan offered Captaincy to Gautam giving the condition that Gautam had to sacrifice the housemates' ration to achieve the captaincy. Gautam accepted the offer.
  • On Day 33, all the 4 ex-captains, Nimrit, Gautam, Shiv and Archana, will be the pied pipers and the remaining housemates except Shalin will be the contenders, There will be 4 rounds, each round, one pied piper will take 2 contenders to the swimming pool and tell them to go to the pool and explain why they are removed from captaincy contenders' race. The last housemate remaining will become the new Captain.
Winner – Gautam
Failed – None
Winner – Abdu
Failed – None
Tasks
Result
Punishments On Day 32, Gautam was fired from captaincy due to his failure to handle the house and housemates.
House Captain Gautam
Abdu
Notes Nominated contestants were asked to choose their representatives whom they trust. Archana, Soundarya and Sumbul chose Priyanka, Gautam and Sajid respectively. These three representatives were offered to choose between either saving all the nominated contestants from eviction and losing 25 lakh rupees from prize money, or keeping the prize money and letting one of them get evicted per public votes. They chose to save them, and the housemates lost 25 lahks from the 50-lakh prize money.
Exits
  • On Day 33, Tina Datta walked out of the house as she got the news that her pet dog died. She re-entered on the same day after some time.
  • On Day 35, no eviction took place.
Week 6
Nominations Gori, Priyanka and Sumbul were nominated for sixth-week eviction.
Captaincy Task On Day 39, Bigg Boss gave power to contestants on whether they want Abdu to remain captain or not. There were two godowns and every time two housemates will go and collect gold bars in a bag and put the bag in either the "For Abdu" rack or the "Change Abdu" rack, whichever compartment will have more gold will win. Priyanka was the sanchalak in this task. At the end of the task, Priyanka chose the "Change Abdu" godown for the win.[98]
Winner – Contestants who decided to change Abdu (Soundarya, Archana and Gautam)
Failed – Contestants who decided not to change Abdu (Tina, Nimrit and Sajid)
Tasks
Result
Punishments
  • Nimrit, Shiv and Shalin were sentenced to jail Maut Ka Kuwa by Captain Abdu Rozik for the time being.
House Captain Abdu
No Captain
Notes
Exits
  • On Day 40, Archana Gautam was ejected due to physical violence with Shiv Thakare.
  • On Day 42, Gori Nagori was evicted after facing public votes.
Week 7
Entrances On Day 43, Archana Gautam re-entered the house.
Nominations Gautam, Shalin, Soundarya and Tina were nominated for seventh-week eviction.
Captaincy Task Guide and tourist task: On hearing the buzzer, the contestants will be asked to take the form of a mannequin except for Sajid, as he is the guide for the activity. Sajid as a guide has to take two housemates on a house tour and while the tour is ongoing, he has to take the two selected inmates to every mannequin one by one. Later, Sajid will take the two chosen contestants to the activity room. In the activity room, the contestants will have to tell the names of three housemates with reasons on who and why they think should be out of captainship. The last housemate remaining will become the new captain.
Winner – Sajid
Failed – Other housemates
Tasks
Result
Punishments Sumbul was removed from King's favourite contestants and was put into the non-favourite ones for helping Captain Sajid to write by giving her lipstick.
House
King 		Sajid
Royal Favourites Abdu, Nimrit, Tina, MC Stan and Shiv
Notes From 7th week, there were King or Queen instead of Captain.
Exits On Day 48, Gautam Vig was evicted after facing public votes.
Week 8
Entrances On Day 55, Fahmaan Khan entered the house to support Sumbul and promote his upcoming show Dharampatnii.
Nominations MC Stan, Archana, Ankit, Sumbul and Soundarya were nominated for eighth-week eviction.
Captaincy Task Raja's favourite housemates (including Shiv, Nimrit, Abdu and excluding MC Stan due to his punishment) will have to do a task given by other non-favourite housemates (Priyanka, Archana, Ankit). Sajid was made the sanchalak. Nimrit was disqualified from the race as she broke the rule whereas Shiv and Abdu completed their tasks. For the tie-breaker, the rest of the other non-favorite housemates (Soundarya, Tina, Shalin) had to pick a captain between the two, resulting in the three choosing Shiv.
Winner – Shiv
Failed – Nimrit and Abdu
Tasks Nomination Task:

Nimrit, Shiv and Tina had to choose between 2 contestants to nominate for eviction. Contestants had to give reasons on why they deserved to be safe from nomination. After both contestants give their statements, Nimrit, Shiv and Tina will choose one contestant to save and nominate the other by shooting at him/her.

Housemates' list of each round:

  • Round 1 (Shiv)- Priyanka and Archana
  • Round 2 (Tina)- Sajid and Ankit
  • Round 3 (Shiv)- Abdu and Soundarya
  • Round 4 (Nimrit)- Shalin and Sumbul

Key:

  indicate the housemate is safe.
  indicate the housemate is nominated.
Result Archana, Ankit, Soundarya and Sumbul were shot and nominated by Shiv, Tina and Nimrit respectively.
Punishments MC Stan was nominated by Bigg Boss for four consecutive weeks for physical violence with Shalin.
House
King 		Shiv
Royal Favourites Nimrit and Tina
Notes
Exits
  • On Day 56, guest Fahmaan Khan exited the house.
  • On Day 56, no eviction took place.
Week 9
Entrances On Day 59, Sunny Waghchoure and Sanjay Gujar entered the house as guest entrants.
Nominations MC Stan, Priyanka, Sajid, Shalin, Shiv, Sumbul and Tina were nominated for ninth-week eviction.
Captaincy Task Royal favourites Nimrit and Tina were contenders to be Queen. Previous King Shiv had to decide who the Queen would be among the two. Shiv decided to make Nimrit the Queen. As a result, Nimrit became Queen for the week.
Winner – Nimrit
Failed – Tina
Tasks Nomination Task:

The garden area was turned into a war field. Contestants were divided into two teams: Team of 7 and Team of 4. Each contestant had one military camp after his/her name. Every time there is an emergency alarm, Nimrit had to spin the wheel of fortune. The winning team would send one contestant to blast the camp of any contestant according to their will. The blasted camp's owner contestant was nominated for eviction directly. Nimrit and MC Stan were out of the task as Nimrit was Queen and MC Stan was already nominated by Bigg Boss.

Round 1:
Winner - Team of 7
Blaster - Shalin
Blasted - Sumbul

Round 2:
Winner - Team of 4
Blaster - Archana
Blasted - Shiv

Round 3:
Winner - Team of 4
Blaster - Priyanka
Blasted - Sajid

Round 4:
Winner - Team of 4
Blaster - Soundarya
Blasted - Shalin

Round 5:
Winner - Team of 7
Blaster - Shiv
Blasted - Priyanka

Round 6:
Winner - Team of 4
Blaster - Ankit
Blasted - Tina

Result Sumbul, Shiv, Sajid, Shalin, Priyanka and Tina's camps were blasted and they were nominated for eviction.
Punishments
  • MC Stan's punishment given by Bigg Boss continued for the week and he was directly nominated for eviction.
  • Archana, Ankit, Priyanka, Shalin and Soundarya were punished by Bigg Boss for sleeping despite Bigg Boss's command not to sleep. As a punishment, other contestants had to splash water on them to wake them up. As Archana refused to accept the punishment and everyone failed to convince her the same, half of the ration was taken away by Bigg Boss.
House
Queen		 Nimrit
Royal Favourites None
Notes
Exits
  • On Day 63, guests Sunny Nanasaheb Waghchoure and Sanjay Gujar exited the house.
  • On Day 63, no eviction took place.
Week 10
Entrances
  • On Day 68, Sreejita De re-entered the house as the first wild card entrant.
  • On Day 69, Vikkas Manaktala entered the house as the second wild card entrant.
Nominations MC Stan, Nimrit, Tina and Sumbul were nominated for the tenth-week eviction.
Captaincy Task
Winner – Ankit
Failed – Priyanka, Shalin and Sumbul
Tasks
Result
Punishments MC Stan's punishment given by Bigg Boss continued for the week and he was directly nominated for eviction.
House
King		 Ankit
Royal Favourites Priyanka and Sajid
Notes Shalin was offered to choose between either saving Tina and Sumbul both from eviction and losing the remaining 25 lakh rupees of prize money, or keeping the prize money and letting one of them get evicted per public votes. Shalin chose the prize money.
Exits On Day 70, Tina Datta was evicted after facing public votes.
Week 11
Entrances On Day 71, Tina Datta re-entered the house.
Nominations Sajid, Shalin, Shiv and Tina were nominated for the eleventh-week eviction.
Captaincy Task
Winner – Soundarya, Sumbul and Tina
Failed – Priyanka and Shalin
Tasks
Result
Punishments
House
Captains		 Soundarya
Sumbul
Tina
Notes
  • Shalin was again offered to choose between either getting Tina back in the house and losing the remaining 25 lakh rupees of prize money, or keeping the prize money and letting Tina out of the house. Shalin chose Tina to come back, losing the remaining prize money.
  • Week 11 onwards, there were again Captain and not King or Queen, but the twist is that not one but three Captains would run the house.
Exits
  • On Day 77, no eviction took place.
  • On day 77, Abdu Rozik walked out of the House due to professional commitment.
Week 12
Nominations Ankit, Sreejita, Tina and Vikkas were nominated for the twelfth-week eviction.
Captaincy Task
Winner – Soundarya, MC Stan and Sreejita
Failed – Other Housemates
Tasks
Result
Punishments
House
Captains		 MC Stan
Soundarya
Sreejita
Notes
  • Priyanka was offered by Bigg Boss to choose between saving Ankit Gupta from on-the-spot eviction or getting 25 lakh rupees of prize money back. Priyanka chose to save Ankit from eviction.
  • Priyanka won the MyGlamm Face of the Season contest through public votes with a prize amount of ₹25 lakhs and a chance to shoot for an ad with Shraddha Kapoor for MyGlamm.
Exits On Day 84, Ankit Gupta was evicted after facing housemates' votes.
Week 13
Entrances On Day 85, Abdu Rozik re-entered the house.

On Day 87, a St. Bernard dog "Maahim" entered the house.

Nominations
  • Nimrit, Priyanka, Shalin, Soundarya, Sreejita, Sumbul, Tina and Vikkas were nominated for the thirteenth-week eviction.
  • Sumbul was saved from nomination by Shiv Thakare.
Captaincy Task Housemates were asked to choose any three among the five non-nominated contestants (including Archana, Shiv, Abdu, MC Stan, and Sajid) for the captaincy contenders' race. Shiv, Abdu, and MC Stan were chosen, and then fans were invited by the show in the Bigg Boss house to choose their favourite contestant amongst the three as the new captain. Shiv Thakare won, becoming the new captain.
Winner – Shiv
Failed – Abdu and MC Stan
Tasks Nomination Task

The nomination process of the week was held through ration tasks. The housemates had to take ration from the Activity Area in exchange for nominating other housemates. Housemates were to go to the Activity Area in pairs. They had to nominate 1 housemate for 5 items & 2 housemates for 10 items.

The pairs:

Pairs Nominated Housemates
Nimrit and Tina Priyanka and Sumbul
Archana and Shiv Sreejita and Vikkas
Shalin and Priyanka Soundarya and Nimrit
Soundarya and Sajid Tina and Shalin

MC Stan did not take part in the process as he was the House King.

Sreejita, Sumbul and Vikkas were banned from taking part in the task.

Result
Punishments
House
Captain		 Shiv
Notes Now again, not three but only a single Captain would run the house.
Exits On Day 90, Vikkas Manaktala was evicted after facing public votes.
Week 14
Nominations Archana, Sajid, Shalin, Soundarya, Sreejita, Sumbul and Tina were nominated for the fourteenth-week eviction.
Captaincy Task
Winner – Abdu
Failed – MC Stan, Nimrit and Priyanka
Tasks Nomination Task

The garden area was turned into a village called BBpur having separate houses for each contestant except Shiv. All the housemates were sorted in their houses while Shiv was sorted in the glass room. Every house had a bulb in them while electric fuses of the houses were under Shiv's control which referred the housemates to be safe from nomination. Shiv was asked to cut seven electric lines to nominate them. The contestants with lit bulbs will be safe from nomination.


Shiv's Nomination:

Nominated Contestants Saved Contestants
Archana Abdu
Priyanka
Shalin MC Stan
Soundarya
Sreejita Nimrit
Sumbul
Tina Sajid

After Shiv's nomination, it was revealed that 4 contestants chosen by the spinning wheel would get the power to swap one safe contestant with one nominated contestant.


Chosen Contestants' Nomination:

Chosen Housemate Saved Nominated
Nimrit Sumbul Sajid
Sreejita Priyanka Sumbul
Shalin Tina Nimrit
Abdu Nimrit Tina
Result
  • Nomination Task
    • At the end of the task, Abdu, MC Stan, Nimrit and Priyanka's houses had lit bulbs while others' electric lines were cut.
Punishments On Day 96, rations of all the housemates were asked to return, due to failure in the Ration or Nomination task by all the seven nominated contestants.
House
Captain		 Abdu
Notes
Exits

On Day 98, no eviction took place.

Week 15
Entrances
  • On Day 100, Farah Khan, Ashatai Thakare and Yogesh Chaudhary entered the house to meet Sajid, Shiv and Priyanka respectively.
  • On Day 101, Vahida Tadavi, Gulshan Gautam and Gurdeep Singh Ahluwalia entered the house to meet MC Stan, Archana and Nimrit respectively.
  • On Day 102, Madhumita Datta, Sunita Bhanot and Just Sul entered the house to meet Tina, Shalin and Abdu respectively.
  • On Day 103, Usha Sharma, Iqbal Khan and Michael Blohm-Pape entered the house to meet Soundarya, Sumbul and Sreejita respectively.
Nominations MC Stan, Nimrit, Sumbul and Sreejita were nominated for the fifteenth-week eviction.
Captaincy Task
Winner – Shiv
Failed – Other Housemates
Tasks
Result
Punishments
House
Captain		 Shiv
Notes
Exits
  • On Day 100, Farah Khan exited the house.
  • On Day 101, Ashatai Thakare and Yogesh Chaudhary exited the house.
  • On Day 102, Vahida Tadavi, Gulshan Gautam and Gurdeep Singh Ahluwalia exited the house.
  • On Day 103, Madhumita Datta, Sunita Bhanot and Just Sul exited the house.
  • On Day 104, Usha Sharma, Iqbal Khan and Michael Blohm-Pape exited the house.
  • On Day 104, Sreejita De was evicted after facing public votes.
  • On Day 105, Abdu Rozik made the 'Voluntary Exit' from the show due to professional commitments.[99][100]
  • On Day 106, Sajid Khan made the 'Voluntary Exit' from the show due to professional commitments.[101][102]
Week 16
Nominations Shalin, Soundarya, Sumbul and Tina were nominated for the sixteenth-week eviction.
Captaincy Task
Winner – Nimrit
Failed – Other Housemates
Tasks
  • Ration Task

The corner of the garden area was turned into a ration shop called 10 lakh ka ration . The contestants had to compete in order to get the rations. Whoever crosses the red line in front of the shop first gets a chance to shop. The rations were related to ₹10 lakh the prize money meaning that the spent money on ration will be deducted from the prize money. Captain Nimrit was declared as sanchalak and got the chance to take ration from any housemate according to her will.

Round Winning Housemate
1 Shalin
2 Shiv
3 Shiv
4 Soundarya
5 Shalin

At the end of the task, ₹8.2 lahks was spent on ration and the rest ₹1.8 were added to prize money making it ₹21.8 lakhs.

Result
Punishments
House
Captain		 Nimrit
Notes
Exits

On Day 112, Soundarya Sharma was evicted after facing housemates' votes.

Week 17
Nominations Priyanka, Shalin, Shiv and Tina were nominated for the seventeenth-week eviction.
Tasks
  • Nomination Task

The activity area was turned into a garden with a giant crow having a bowl in front of it. Another bowl was placed opposite the crow filled with red liquid (referred to as blood) in it. The housemates had to pick up given stone props, dip them in the blood and throw them in a bowl in front of the crow to nominate two housemates. Nimrit was declared safe in the task due to being the Captain & having the Ticket to Finale.

Nominating Housemate Nominated Housemates
Shalin Tina Priyanka
Nimrit Tina Priyanka
Archana Shiv Shalin
Tina Shalin Shiv
MC Stan Archana Tina
Shiv Archana Tina
Priyanka Shalin Shiv
Sumbul Tina Priyanka
  • Ration Task

The garden area was turned into a super shop having mini shops where the housemates had to earn their ration through tasks. Each time 2 housemates would shop for the ration. Mini shops were categorized as Vegetarian, Non-vegetarian, and Others.

Round Shopper Housemates Chosen shop
1 Tina Nimrit Vegetarian
2 Shalin Priyanka Others
3 Shiv Archana Vegetarian
4 MC Stan Sumbul Others

At the end of the task, 1 packet of chicken was given to Tina by Bigg Boss without any round due to her health issue. Though Shalin was offered to take the chicken by Tina in return she took it before, Shalin refused it and the chicken was taken by Tina. Later, Shalin was also given 1 packet of chicken by Bigg Boss.

Result
Punishments
House
Captain		 Nimrit
Notes
  • On Day 116, Fire Room and Vintage Room were permanently closed henceforth.
  • Farah Khan hosted Weekend Ka Vaar instead of Salman Khan.
Exits
  • On Day 114, Tina Datta walked out of the house for emergency medical treatment re-entering after a while.
  • On Day 119, Tina Datta was evicted after facing public votes.
Week 18
Nominations Shiv, MC Stan and Sumbul were nominated for the eighteenth-week eviction.
House
Captain		 Nimrit
Exits
  • On Day 126, Sumbul Touqeer was evicted after facing public votes.
Week 19
Finale Week
Nominations
  • Archana, MC Stan, Nimrit, Priyanka, Shalin and Shiv were nominated for the final eviction.
  • After Nimrit's eviction, the 5 finalists were nominated so the public would vote for their favourite housemate to win the season.
Tasks
  • BB Finale Ka Chunav: All 6 housemates had to entertain the live audience who entered the house and the live audience would vote for them. The housemate with less votes would be directly evicted.
Happenings
  • On Day 127, All the housemates had to rank themselves between 1-6, and accordingly, the Ration will be provided
  • On Day 128, the BB Finale Ka Chunav task was conducted and the final eviction was announced
  • On Day 129, Krushna Abhishek entertained the housemates
  • On Day 130, The media and press interview was conducted and they interviewed the 5 finalists
  • On Day 131, All 5 finalists' journey video was shown
  • On Day 132, Rohit Shetty entered the house and selected the first contestant of Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 13
Notes
  • After Nimrit's Eviction, All the rooms were closed and only the Fire Room was open.
Exits
  • On Day 128, Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia was evicted after facing live audience votes.
Finalists
4th Runner Up Shalin Bhanot
3rd Runner Up Archana Gautam
2nd Runner Up Priyanka Chahar Choudhary
1st Runner Up Shiv Thakare
Winner MC Stan

Nominations table

Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8 Week 9 Week 10 Week 11 Week 12 Week 13 Week 14 Week 15 Week 16 Week 17 Week 18 Week 19
Day 93 Day 94 Day 128 Day 135
Nominees for
Captaincy /
King & Queen 		None Gautam
Shiv 		Priyanka
Shiv 		None Abdu
Ankit
Gori
Stan
Priyanka
Sajid
Soundarya
Sumbul
Tina 		Abdu
Ankit
Archana
Gautam
Stan
Nimrit
Priyanka
Sajid
Shalin
Shiv
Soundarya
Sumbul
Tina 		Abdu
Nimrit
Shiv 		Nimrit
Shiv
Tina 		Sumbul
Ankit
Shalin
Priyanka 		Priyanka
Soundarya
Shalin
Sumbul
Tina 		Abdu
Soundarya
Vikkas 		Abdu
MC Stan
Shiv 		Abdu
Nimrit
Priyanka
MC Stan 		Abdu
Archana
Priyanka
Sajid
Shalin
Shiv
Soundarya
Tina 		None No
Captain
House Captain /
King & Queen 		Nimrit Gautam Shiv Archana Gautam Abdu Sajid Shiv Nimrit Ankit Tina Sumbul Soundarya Vikkas Soundarya MC Stan Sreejita Shiv Abdu Shiv Nimrit
Captain /
King & Queen's
Nominations 		Shiv
Archana 		Gori
Stan
Sreejita
Tina 		Sumbul
Manya 		Gori Not
eligible 		Nimrit
Sajid
MC Stan
Shiv
(to save) 		Not
eligible 		Priyanka
Abdu
(to save)
Archana
Soundarya
(to evict) 		Not
eligible 		Priyanka
Sajid
(to save) 		Ankit
Sajid
(to evict) 		Priyanka
Shalin
(to evict) 		Ankit
Nimrit
Priyanka
(to save) 		Not
eligible 		Priyanka
Ankit
(to evict) 		Tina
(to evict) 		Vikkas
Tina
(to evict) 		Sreejita
Vikkas
(to evict)
Sumbul (to save) 		Tina
Shalin
Priyanka
Archana
Soundarya
Sreejita
Sumbul
(to evict) 		Not
eligible 		Abdu
Shalin
Soundarya
Tina
(to evict) 		Shalin
Tina
(to evict) 		Tina
Priyanka
(to evict) 		Not
eligible
Vote to: Evict Save Evict Save Evict 9-Min None WIN
MC Stan Gautam
Priyanka 		Nominated Sumbul
Manya 		Tina Archana
Sumbul 		Safe Royal Cook Nominated Nominated Nominated Priyanka
Shalin
Ankit 		House
Captain 		Not
eligible 		Immuned Tina
Shalin
Soundarya
Abdu 		Soundarya
Archana 		Archana
Tina 		10:10 Min No
Nominations 		No
Nominations 		Winner
(Day 135)
Shiv Gautam
Sreejita 		Safe House
Captain 		Soundarya Soundarya
Sumbul 		Safe Royal Favourite House King Priyanka Tina
Soundarya 		Priyanka
Shalin
Ankit 		Ankit
Vikkas 		House
Captain 		Not
eligible 		House
Captain 		Shalin
Archana 		Archana
Tina 		9:50 Min No
Nominations 		No
Nominations 		1st runner-up
(Day 135)
Priyanka Sajid
MC Stan 		Safe Manya
Sumbul 		Soundarya Archana
Shalin 		Nominated Shalin Not
eligible 		Sajid Royal Cook
Tina
Nimrit 		Shiv
Nimrit 		Sumbul
Shiv 		Nimrit
Soundarya 		Not
eligible 		Nimrit
MC Stan
Sumbul
Sreejita 		Soundarya
Sumbul 		Shalin
Shiv 		12:34 Min No
Nominations 		No
Nominations 		2nd runner-up
(Day 135)
Archana MC Stan
Sajid 		Safe Sajid
Sumbul 		House
Captain 		Ankit
Sumbul 		Ejected
(Day 40) 		Not
eligible 		Nominated Shiv Tina
Nimrit 		Sumbul
Shiv
Nimrit
Tina
Shalin
Sajid
Ankit 		Ankit
Vikkas 		Sreejita
Vikkas 		Nominated Nimrit
MC Stan
Sumbul
Sreejita 		Shiv
MC Stan 		Shalin
Shiv 		14 Min No
Nominations 		No
Nominations 		3rd runner-up
(Day 135)
Shalin Sajid
Abdu 		Nominated Manya
Sumbul 		Shiv Priyanka
Soundarya 		Safe Gautam Not
eligible 		Sumbul Archana
Sumbul 		Sajid Archana
Sreejita 		Nimrit
Soundarya 		Nimrit Tina Nimrit
MC Stan
Sumbul
Sreejita 		Soundarya
Sumbul 		Tina
Priyanka 		7:27 Min No
Nominations 		No
Nominations 		4th runner-up
(Day 135)
Nimrit House
Captain 		Safe Manya
Sumbul 		Gautam Soundarya
Sumbul 		Safe Royal Cook Sumbul House
Queen 		Not
eligible 		Priyanka
Shalin
Ankit 		Priyanka
Ankit 		Priyanka
Sumbul 		Sajid Sumbul Tina
Shalin
Soundarya
Abdu 		House
Captain 		No
Nominations 		Evicted
(Day 128)
Sumbul Manya
Sajid 		Safe Sajid
Manya 		Abdu Archana
Shiv 		Nominated Royal Cook Nominated Not
eligible 		Tina
Shalin 		House
Captain 		Priyanka
Ankit 		Banned Nominated Tina
Shalin
Soundarya
Abdu 		Tina
Shalin 		Tina Priyanka 17:1 Min Evicted
(Day 125)
Tina Sajid
MC Stan 		Nominated Manya
Sumbul 		Gautam Archana
Soundarya 		Safe Soundarya Ankit Not
eligible 		Not
eligible 		Evicted
(Day 70) 		House
Captain 		Archana
Sreejita 		Priyanka
Sumbul 		Nominated Nimrit
MC Stan
Sumbul
Sreejita 		Soundarya
Sumbul 		Shalin
Shiv 		Evicted
(Day 118)
Walked
(Day 33) 		Walked
(Day 114)
Soundarya Abdu
Ankit 		Safe Sumbul
Manya 		Shiv Nimrit
Tina 		Safe Tina Nominated Shalin Tina
Sumbul 		House
Captain 		Tina
Shalin 		Nominated Nimrit
MC Stan
Sumbul
Sreejita 		Tina
Shalin 		Evicted by Housemates
(Day 112)
Sajid Shalin
Tina 		Safe Sumbul
Manya 		Nimrit Sumbul
Soundarya 		Immuned House
King 		Not
eligible 		Not
eligible 		Royal Favourite (Cook) Priyanka
Tina
Shalin
Ankit 		Vikkas
Sreejita 		Tina
Shalin 		Nominated Nimrit
MC Stan
Sumbul
Sreejita 		Walked
(Day 106)
Abdu Shalin
Soundarya 		Safe Manya
Sumbul 		Nimrit Sumbul
Priyanka 		House
Captain 		Royal Favourite Not
eligible 		Not
eligible 		Not
eligible 		Did not
nominate 		Walked
(Day 77) 		Tina Nimrit House
Captain 		Priyanka
Sajid
Shiv
Archana 		Walked
(Day 105)
Sreejita Tina
Gori 		Nominated Evicted
(Day 13) 		Tina House
Captain 		Banned Sumbul Priyanka Tina
Shalin
Soundarya
Abdu 		Evicted
(Day 105)
Vikkas Not In House Shiv
Nimrit 		House
Captain 		Archana
Sreejita 		Banned Evicted
(Day 90)
Ankit MC Stan
Gori 		Safe Sumbul
Manya 		Tina Shalin
Archana 		Safe Not
eligible 		Nominated Tina House
King 		Shiv
Nimrit 		Nimrit
Shiv 		Evicted by Housemates
(Day 84)
Gautam Gori
MC Stan 		House
Captain 		Sajid
Manya 		Abdu House
Captain 		Safe Not
eligible 		Evicted
(Day 48)
Gori Gautam
Ankit 		Nominated Sumbul
Manya 		Not
eligible 		Shalin
Archana 		Nominated Evicted
(Day 42)
Manya Gori
MC Stan 		Safe Sumbul
Soundarya 		Evicted
(Day 22)
Notes 1,2,3 5 5,6 7 8,9 None 10 10 10 None 11 None 12
Against Public Voting Archana
Gautam
Sajid
MC Stan
Shiv 		Gori
Shalin
MC Stan
Sreejita
Tina 		Manya
Shalin
Sumbul 		Abdu
Gautam
Gori
Nimrit
Soundarya
Shiv
Tina 		Archana
Soundarya
Sumbul 		Gori
Priyanka
Sumbul 		Gauutam
Shalin
Soundarya
Tina 		Archana
Ankit
MC Stan
Soundarya
Sumbul 		Priyanka
Sajid
Shalin
MC Stan
Shiv
Sumbul
Tina 		Nimirit
MC Stan
Sumbul
Tina 		Sajid
Shalin
Shiv
Tina 		Ankit
Sreejita
Tina
Vikkas 		Nimrit
Priyanka
Shalin
Soundarya
Sreejita
Sumbul
Tina
Vikkas 		Archana
Sajid
Shalin
Soundarya
Sreejita
Sumbul
Tina 		Nimrit
MC Stan
Sumbul
Sreejita 		Shalin
Soundarya
Sumbul
Tina 		Priyanka
Shalin
Shiv
Tina 		MC Stan
Shiv
Sumbul 		Archana
Nimrit
Priyanka
Shalin
MC Stan
Shiv 		Archana
Priyanka
Shalin
MC Stan
Shiv
Re-entered None Tina None Archana None Sreejita Tina Abdu None Tina None
Walked None Tina None Abdu None Abdu None Tina None
Sajid
Ejected None Archana None
Evicted No
Eviction 		Sreejita Manya No
Eviction 		Gori Gautam No
Eviction 		Tina No
Eviction 		Ankit Vikkas No
Eviction 		Sreejita Soundarya Tina Sumbul Nimrit Shalin Archana
Priyanka Shiv Stan

Color Key

  indicates the House Captain.
  indicates the House King/Queen.
  indicates the Royal Favourites.
  indicates the Nominees for house captaincy.
  indicates that the Housemate was directly nominated for eviction prior to the regular nominations process.
  indicates that the housemate went to the secret room.
  indicates that the housemate was granted immunity from nominations.
  indicates the winner.
  indicates the first runner up.
  indicates the second runner up.
  indicates the third runner up.
  indicates the fourth runner up.
  indicates that the contestant has re-entered the house.
  indicates that the contestant walked out of the show.
  indicates that the contestant was ejected out of the house.
  indicates that the contestant was evicted.

Notes

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