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Bigg Boss OTT
Season 1
File:Bigg Boss Ott image.jpg
Presented byKaran Johar
No. of days42
No. of housemates13
No. of episodes18
Release
Original networkVoot
Original release8 August 2021 (2021-08-08) –
Present
Season chronology
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Season 15

Bigg Boss OTT, also known as Bigg Boss: Over-The-Top, is the first season of the Indian reality TV series Bigg Boss to be made for and aired on a streaming platform exclusively. It premiered on 8 August 2021 on Viacom18's streaming service Voot and premium streaming service Voot Select with Karan Johar as the host of this digital-only season.[1]

It will stream for six weeks, ahead of its television version Bigg Boss 15 - which it will then merge into.[2] In this season, some new features are being made accessible for the audience such as Nominations, Punishments & Report Card.

Production

Teaser
On 24 July 2021, Voot unveiled a poster with Karan Johar as the host of this digital exclusive season.[3] On 3 August, Voot unveiled a third promo with Karan Johar revealing the format of the season being much more bolder and crazier ever in the history.[4]

Broadcast
Apart from the usual hour-long episode, viewers will also have access to the direct 24x7 camera footage. The show will be streamed Monday-Saturday at 7pm and on Sunday at 8pm. The episodes will be first telecasted through 24 Hours Live Channel at 7pm Mon-Sat and at 8pm Sun on paid subscription of Voot Select, then it will be shown for free next morning at 9am on Voot. The episodes also started to telecast on Colors TV late night.

House
The house[5] this year is made with the theme "Stay Connected". The house consists of a Patio, Living Room, Kitchen, Bathroom, Bedroom, Garden Area, Confession Room, Dining Table, Swimming Pool and specially for the theme, they added a special room called "Stay Connected Room". The bedroom contains bunk beds this year and the house seems to be carnival-type designed one.

Concept

This season is a first-time ever in the history of Bigg Boss, that launched 6 weeks before the television version on an OTT platform Voot. The season's theme is "Stay Connected" and the contestants will play the game as connections where they have to work on making the bond with their partner stronger and survive in the game. The makers have also launched many new features that will give powers to the audience such as Nominations, Punishments and Report Card.[6]

Housemates status

Housemates Day entered Day exited Status
Akshara Day 1 Nominated
Divya Day 1
Millind Day 1 Nominated
Muskan Day 1
Neha Day 1 Nominated
Nishant Day 1
Pratik Day 1 Nominated
Raqesh Day 1
Shamita Day 1
Zeeshan Day 1 Day 18 In Secret Room
Ridhima Day 1 Day 15 Evicted
Karan Day 1 Day 15 Evicted
Urfi Day 1 Day 8 Evicted

Housemates

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

Connections

Housemates Week 1 Week 2 Week 3
Day 1 Day 4 Day 8 Day 15 Day 16 Day 18 Day 22
[1] [2] [3] [4]
Shamita Paired With Raqesh
Raqesh Paired With Shamita
Millind Paired With Neha Paired With Akshara TBA
Akshara Paired With Pratik Paired With Milind
Neha Paired With Millind Paired With Pratik
Pratik Paired With Akshara Paired With Neha
Muskan Paired With Nishant
Nishant Paired With Muskan
Divya No Connection Paired With Zeeshan No Connection
Zeeshan Paired With Urfi Paired With Divya In Secret Room
Ridhima Paired With Karan Evicted
Karan Paired With Ridhima Evicted
Urfi Paired With Zeeshan No Connection Evicted

Notes

  • ^ Divya Agarwal was directly nominated on the Premiere Night as there was no connection left for her.
  • ^ On Day 4, during the Buzzer Task, there was an opportunity given to the boys where any one boy could press the buzzer within 2 hours and make Divya his connection. Zeeshan Khan pressed the buzzer and now his connection is Divya Agarwal while Urfi Javed got nominated as no connections were left for her.
  • ^ On Day 16, the housemates were given a chance to change their connections in the Game Of Hearts Task. Pratik-Neha and Milind-Akshara became the new connections.
  • ^ On Day 18, Zeeshan was ejected from the house after getting in a physical fight with Pratik. However, it was later revealed that he has been sent to the Secret Room.

Weekly Summary

Week
1
Entrances
Twists
  • The theme of the season is #StayConnected.
  • On the Premiere Night, Bigg Boss announced that the girls will have to win tasks in order to get their luggage.
  • On Day 4, Bigg Boss announced that boys have an opportunity to break off their existing connection and make a connection with Divya. The girl whose connection breaks will be nominated in her place[21].
Tasks
  • BB Live Night (Day 1): Bigg Boss announced that housemates will entertain Voot 24×7 Live Audience[22].
  • BB Candy Shop (Day 2): The girls have a chance to win their luggage. Their connections will play on girls behalf. All guys will pick their connection's dolls and take them to the candy shop. There are 5 gates to enter the candy shop and there will be 5 buzzers, The candy shop will open when the buzzer plays. Each boy will enter one gate. Divya will supervise the task. After every round, Divya will seal one gate.
Supervisor: Divya
Contenders: Raqesh, Karan, Milind, Pratik, Zeeshan and Nishant
Winner: Nishant
After considering the performance of the housemates, Bigg Boss Announced that all girls can take 25 items from their luggage.
  • Boss Lady and Boss Man Task (Day 3): Indian Matchmaker Sima Taparia enters the house to motivate the connections and to choose the No. 1 connection[23].
  • Nomination Task (Day 4): In this Task, one partner will sit in the room and the other partner will be performing. They will be given tasks to win. Pratik & Akshara are safe from the nomination as they are captains and they will supervise the task. In the end, four connections will be safe and one will be nominated. Urfi won't be a part of the task as she is already nominated[24].
Supervisor: Akshara & Pratik
1. The first task was that to color the hair of your connection
Winner: Neha & Milind
2. The second task was that the connection pair will have to announce that they would be nominated for next week.
Winner: Muskaan & Nishant
3. The Third Task was that the connection pair would have to put all veggies and fruits in the storeroom and give it to Bigg Boss.
Winner: Divya & Zeeshan
Shamita & Raqesh quit the task to protest Pratik's decision as supervisor. They get nominated while Ridhima & Karan are safe from nominations.
Bigg Boss announced that Voot Select Audience have the right to nominate 1 connection.
  • 1 2 3 Statue (Day 5 & 6): One team is supposed to maintain a statue-like pose for an extended amount of time, whereas the other team will try to disturb them. The Boss Lady & Man will be chosen from winning team. Urfi is supposed to be the supervisor of the task[25].
Supervisor: Urfi
Contenders: Team A (Raqesh & Shamita, Milind & Neha, Zeeshan & Divya) VS Team B (Akshara & Pratik, Nishant & Muskaan, Ridhima & Karan)
Winner: Team A
  • Immunity Task (Day 7): Bigg Boss announced that Nominated housemates would have to entertain the Voot Select 24x7 Live Audience in order to be safe from nominations. The Audience would vote for them in a given time interval[26].
Contenders: Shamita & Raqesh, Muskaan & Nishant and Urfi
Winner: Muskaan & Nishant
Boss Lady & Man
  • Day 3: Based on Sima Taparia's ranking of the connections, the No.1 Connection was declared the first Boss Lady & Man of the house[27].
Contenders: Shamita & Raqesh, Ridhima & Karan, Neha & Milind, Urfi & Zeeshan, Muskaan & Nishant and Akshara & Pratik
Winner: Akshara & Pratik
  • Day 6: The winning team of 1 2 3 Statue task got the chance to decide the next Boss Lady & Man among them[28].
Contenders: Team A (Shamita & Raqesh, Neha & Milind and Divya & Zeeshan)
Winner: Shamita & Raqesh
Nomination
  • Shamita Shetty (Via Task)
  • Raqesh Bapat (Via Task)
  • Urfi Javed (No connection)
  • Muskaan Jattana (by Voot Select Audience)
  • Nishant Bhat (by Voot Select Audience)[29]
Report Card

On Day 2, Bigg Boss Announced that there will be a daily report card which will show the performance of the housemates . The housemates' performance will be decided by Voot Select 24x7 Live Audience. If the performance of housemates is good they can get extra privileges or no problems for the next day. If the performance of housemates was bad, Bigg Boss can take away some privileges[30].

  • Day 2: Audience were happy with the performance of the housemates.
  • Day 3: Audience were happy with the performance of the housemates. As a result, the girls got all their luggage back.
  • Day 4: Audience were happy with the performance of the housemates.
  • Day 5: Audience were happy with the performance of the housemates.
  • Day 6: Audience were happy with the performance of the housemates.
  • Day 7: Audience were happy with the performance of the housemates.
Exits Urfi Javed was evicted on Day 8 by public vote[31].
Week
2
Tasks
  • Nomination Task (Day 9 & 10): In this Task, Shamita & Raqesh will be the head sarpanch as they are the Boss Lady & Man (they are safe from nominations). Every round Bigg Boss declares one connection to be the sarpanch along with them. He also declares a title which must be given to one of the remaining connections. After discussing with all the connections, the four sarpanchs must declare the name of the connection who they think is the must suitable for that title. Then the 24x7 Live Voot Select Audience will decide if they agree with their decision or not. If the audience agrees, then the connection who got that title will be nominated and if they don't, then the connection who was the sarpanch for that round will be nominated[32].
Supervisor/Head Sarpanch: Shamita & Raqesh


1. The first connection to be the sarpanch was Divya & Zeeshan and the title to be discussed was sabse kaamchor (laziest) connection.
Sarpanch Decision: Muskaan & Nishant
Audience Decision: Do not agree with the sarpanchs
Nominated: Divya & Zeeshan


2. Ridhima & Karan were the next sarpanch and the title to be discussed was sabse aswachh (most unhygienic) connection.
Sarpanch Decision: Muskaan & Nishant
Audience Decision: Do not agree with the sarpanchs
Nominated: Ridhima & Karan


3. On Day 10, Muskaan & Nishant were the next sarpanch and the title to be discussed was sabse kamzor (weakest) connection .
The four sarpanchs couldn't agree to a mutual decision and after a lot of time Bigg Boss had no choice but to end the task and
nominated everyone as a punishment, including the Shamita & Raqesh by making their immunity invalid[33].
  • BB Factory (Day 11 & 12): In this Task, all connections will work as factory workers. They have to make dominos using blocks and paint. They will paint the initials of the connection which they don’t want to make the next Boss Lady & Man . After each round, the connections will keep getting eliminated on the basis of how many connections wrote their initials. In the end and the last connection will become Boss Lady & Man. Shamita & Raqesh will be the supervisors and they will decide which connection’s name was written the most on the blocks[34].
Supervisor: Shamita & Raqesh
Contenders: Ridhima & Karan, Neha & Milind, Divya & Zeeshan, Muskaan & Nishant and Akshara & Pratik
  1. Out: Akshara & Pratik
  2. Out: Ridhima & Karan
  3. Out: Muskaan & Nishant
  4. Out: Neha & Milind
Winner: Divya & Zeeshan
  • CoinDCX Task (Day13): The housemates had to choose the Most Valuable Player amongst all by giving ratings, on the basis of the 5 qualities: Safe, Simple, Compliant, Transparent and Reliable, to the trending contestants according to them[35].
Contenders: Nishant, Pratik, Shamita, Milind and Neha
Winner: Milind
Boss Lady & Man
  • Day 12: Divya & Zeeshan became the new Boss Lady & Man after winning the BB Factory task[36].
Contenders: Ridhima & Karan, Neha & Milind, Divya & Zeeshan, Muskaan & Nishant and Akshara & Pratik
Winner: Divya & Zeeshan
Nomination
  • Divya Agarwal (via Task)
  • Zeeshan Khan (via Task)
  • Karan Nath (via Task)
  • Ridhima Pandit (via Task)
  • Akshara Singh (by Bigg Boss)
  • Pratik Sehajpal (by Bigg Boss)
  • Neha Bhasin (by Bigg Boss)
  • Milind Gaba (by Bigg Boss)
  • Muskaan Jattana (by Bigg Boss)
  • Nishant Bhat (by Bigg Boss)
  • Shamita Shetty (by Bigg Boss)
  • Raqesh Bapat (by Bigg Boss)
Punishments
  • Day 14: Bigg Boss asked the housemates to choose 2 connections who deserve punishment based on their journey so far by mutual agreement. They choose Akshara & Pratik and Shamita & Raqesh[37].
These 2 connections are allowed to stay in the garden area only and they must continuously rotate a mill until Bigg Boss' next update. If they need anything from the house like water, only Divya & Zeeshan can bring it for them.
Report Card
  • Day 9: Audience were happy with the performance of the housemates.
  • Day 10: Audience were happy with the performance of the housemates.
  • Day 11: Audience were not that happy with the performance of the housemates and it was just okay. As a result, the next day they will have a gas supply for 4 hours only. 2 hours in the morning, 2 hours in the evening[38].
  • Day 12: Audience were not that happy with the performance of the housemates and it was just okay. As a result, the next day they will have a gas supply for 4 hours only. 2 hours in the morning, 2 hours in the evening.
  • Day 13: Audience were happy with the performance of the housemates.
  • Day 14: Audience were happy with the performance of the housemates.
Exits Ridhima Pandit & Karan Nath were evicted on Day 15 by public vote[39].
Week
3
Entrances
Twists
  • Zeeshan Khan was ejected on Day 18 by Bigg Boss for getting into a physical fight with Pratik during the Boss Lady & Man task[40]. However, it was later revealed that he has been sent to the Secret Room and will re-enter the house soon.
Tasks
  • Game Of Hearts (Day 16): Before the task, Bigg Boss dissolved all the connections and gave the housemates the opportunity to change their connections. But unlike the premier day, where girls made the decisions, this time boys had the power. The girls had to decide the order in which they will do the task by mutual agreement and were required to present their heart to a guy they want to form a connection with. The guy in question could either accept the heart or break it and toss it in the dustbin. The task won't end utill everyone has a connection[41].
1. Shamita: Gave the heart to Raqesh
Raqesh: Accepted
2. Muskaan: Gave the heart to Nishant
Nishant: Accepted
3. Akshara: Gave the heart to Pratik
Pratik: Accepted
4. Neha: Didn't give the heart to anyone
Pratik: Broke the heart given by Akshara
5. Divya: Gave the heart to Zeeshan
Zeeshan: Accepted
6. Akshara: Gave the heart to Pratik
Pratik: Broke the heart given by Akshara
7. Neha: Gave the heart to Pratik
Pratik: Accepted
8. Akshara: Gave the heart to Milind
Milind: Accepted
Connections: Shamita & Raqesh, Muskaan & Nishant, Divya & Zeeshan, Neha & Pratik, Akshara & Milind[42]
  • Nomination Task (Day 17):
Boss Lady & Man
Nomination
  • Akshara Singh (via Task)
  • Milind Gaba (via Task)
  • Neha Bhasin (via Task)
  • Pratik Sehajpal (via Task)
Report Card
  • Day 16: Audience were happy with the performance of the housemates.
Exits

Nominations table

Captains Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 Week 5 Week 6
Boss Lady Akshara Shamita Divya
Boss Man Pratik Raqesh Zeeshan
Captains' Nominations Not eligible
Vote to Task Task Task
Akshara Boss
Lady
Nominated Nominated
Divya Immune Nominated Boss
Lady
Millind Immune Nominated Nominated
Muskan Nominated by
Voot Select Audience
Nominated Saved by
Housemates
Nishant Nominated
Neha Immune Nominated Nominated
Pratik Boss
Man
Nominated Nominated
Raqesh Nominated Boss Man
Nominated
Saved by
Voot Select Audience
Shamita Nominated Boss Lady
Nominated
Zeeshan Immune Nominated Boss Man
Ejected/
In Secret Room (Day 18)
Karan Immune Nominated Evicted
(Day 15)
Ridhima Immune Nominated Evicted
(Day 15)
Urfi Nominated Evicted
(Day 8)
Notes 1, 2 3, 4 5
Against Public Vote Muskan
Nishant

Raqesh
Shamita
Urfi
Akshara
Divya
Karan
Millind
Muskan
Nishant
Neha
Pratik
Raqesh
Ridhima
Shamita
Zeeshan
Akshara
Millind
Neha
Pratik
Secret Room None Zeeshan
Ejected None Zeeshan
Evicted Urfi Karan
Ridhima

Color Keys

  indicates that the Housemate was nominated for eviction.
  indicates that the Housemate was safe that week.
  indicates the winner.
  indicates the first runner up.
  indicates the second runner up.
  indicates the third runner up.
  indicates that the housemate has been evicted.
  indicates that the housemate has been ejected.
  indicates that the housemate was sent to the Secret Room.
  indicates the housemated walked out due to emergency.
  indicates the Boss Lady and Boss Man.

Nomination notes

  • ^1 : Divya was directly nominated on premiere night as there were no connections left but was saved on Day 4 when Zeeshan broke his connection with Urfi and chose Divya as his connection during the Buzzer Task.
  • ^2 : Shamita & Raqesh were nominated as they quit the task.
  • ^3 : Muskaan and Nishant saved themselves from Nomination in Week 1 on a condition that they would be nominated for Week 2. They later won the Immunity Task on Day 7 and this condition no longer applied.
  • ^4 : Bigg Boss nominated everyone including the Boss Lady & Man as punishment when the housemates couldn't reach a decision during the Nomination Task on Day 10.
  • ^5 : Zeeshan was ejected on Day 18 by Bigg Boss after getting into a physical fight with Pratik. However, it was later revealed that he has been sent to the Secret Room.

Guests

Week Day Guest(s) Purpose of Visit
1 Premiere Night Arjun Bijlani and Karan Wahi For introducing Nishant Bhat
Malaika Arora For introducing and to advise the girl housemates[43]
Day 3 Sima Taparia To advice connections and rank their bond[44]
Sunday Ka Vaar Sidharth Shukla and Shehnaaz Gill For answering fan questions and interacting with the housemates[45]
2 Sunday Ka Vaar Rakhi Sawant and Hina Khan For interacting with the housemates[46]

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