Production
Teaser The first teaser was released on 22 August 2021, in which
Salman Khan is a forest officer talking to a wishful talking tree named
Vishwasuntree in which veteran actress
Rekha gave her voice. On the grand finale of
Bigg Boss OTT, another promo was released revealing the date of the premiere .
Eye logo This theme of the season was "Sankat in Jungle". The eye this time was covered with green grass and shows a tree in the pupil of the eye with flames coming from the centre of the eye.
House The house this time had a "
Jungle Theme" and was located in
Goregaon for the third time. The house was divided into 2 parts, Jungle House and Main House. On Day 21, Jungle House was closed.
Telecast Apart from the usual hour-long episode, viewers also had access to the direct
24x7 camera footage. The viewers also had access to
Before TV on
Voot Select where the episode was telecast 30 minutes before it was telecasted on
Colors TV. Also for the first time, Live Voting was conducted for the Eviction Process. On weekdays, the show was at 10.30 PM IST & weekend show was at 9.30 PM IST which was changed to 8 PM IST from Week 16.
Concept All housemates will be given a survival kit with a few essentials throughout the season and will get fewer facilities this time. The housemates will enter a small jungle house which has a small kitchen, no beds and sofa and bathroom for the first 3 weeks. The housemates who will survive the jungle will enter the main luxurious house. There is a wishful tree in the garden area named
Vishwasuntree who is the queen of the magical jungle in the house and will give advantages and privileges to the contestants who perform well in the jungle. On Day 36, Salman announced that there will be a new zone named VIP Zone. The members who are in VIP Zone are eligible to be in the finale.
Casting On the grand finale of
Bigg Boss OTT, finalist Pratik Sehajpal was officially revealed as the first confirmed contestant, which followed by Nishant Bhat and
Shamita Shetty was announced as the other two contestants at the press conference held by
Arti Singh and
Devoleena Bhattacharjee. ==Housemates status==
Weekly summary
The main events in the house are summarised in the table below. A typical week begins with nominations, followed by the luxury budget task, punishment than a task for immunity or anything else and then the eviction of a housemate during the Sunday or Saturday episode called as "Weekend Ka Vaar". Evictions, tasks, and other notable events for a particular week are noted in order of sequence. Finally, The nominated contestants were Shamita, Karan, Vishal, Ieshaan, Simba, Umar and Miesha • On Day 20, Bigg Boss ordered all the Jungle Housemates to return the path pieces. • On Day 21, Vishwasuntree announced that The jungle will be closed and gave 2 options to all the Jungle Housemates i.e., Miesha, Ieshaan, Jay, Pratik, Akasa and Simba • Option 1:If they use the rest of the 25 lakh rupees and enter the main house. • Option 2:If they do not use the rest of the 25 lakh rupees, they will have to leave the house. All of them chose the 1st option and the prize money became zero and all Jungle Housemates became Main House Members and The Jungle House was officially closed. • '''Captaincy's Race''': This task will be between 3 contenders that is Jay, Pratik and Nishant but the jungle inmates will play an important role. The contenders will have to make a buggy carriage. They have to convince the jungle inmates to make a carriage for them and keep it running on the treadmill. At the end of the task, whoever has run the treadmill the most will win the task. Tejasswi will be the referee of the task and decisions will be final. The jungle inmates will use 7 parts to make a carriage, once Tejasswi approves it then the inmates will start running on the treadmill. Nishant, Pratik and Jay can't take part in the task. They have to convince the jungle inmates to work for them. Shamita, Akasa and Vishal won't help any contender in the task. The jungle inmates have a chance to choose their support. • Ticket To Mukhya Ghar:- This task will be between all jungle housemates, They are divided into 6 pairs, Ieshaan & Miesha, Karan & Tejasswi, Jay & Pratik, Shamita & Vishal, Simba & Akasa and Afsana & Umar. Captain Nishant will be the task supervisor. In the task, Bigg Boss will announce the cost of the access card at the beginning of each round. At the sound of the alarm, Bigg Boss will send materials to make BB points. All pairs will run to get the material so they can make their points. The material will be sent through a tunnel. Nishant will decide which pair will get what time to make their points. Nishant will approve their points. All pairs have to protect their BB points. After the round ends, Nishant will accept or reject the BB points. After every round, Nishant will announce the winning pair who will be able to earn the access card, enter the house and then they won't play the next round. • As a result of violating the rules, All the main house members including the Captain were downgraded to Jungle Housemates and The Main House was sealed. • As Ieshaan, Akasa, Umar and Miesha couldn't decide on sending a contestant to the Room of Illusion, Bigg Boss nominated them for that week • As a result of winning the Ticket To Mukhya Ghar; Karan, Tejasswi, Shamita, Vishal, Umar and Afsana entered the Main House by spending 25 lakhs rupees. All the 6 main house members had to mutually decide whether Nishant should come inside the Main House or not. All members allowed him and Nishant also became the Main House Member. • On Day 20, Jungle House Kitchen's gas supply was closed and was replaced by an Induction top • On Day 18, Bigg Boss asked all the 15 housemates to evict 2 housemates mutually in which their contribution to the show was zero. As a result, Donal Bisht and Vidhi Pandya were evicted. • On Day 22, No eviction took place On Day 24, Rajiv Adatia entered the house as the 1st Wild Card Contestant. • On Day 23, Bigg Boss asked the contestants to choose two candidates who they want to put in nominations. As a result, Vishal, Akasa and Simba were nominated • Torture Task:Team A will have Tejasswi, Pratik, Nishant, Miesha, Rajiv and Simba. Team B will have Vishal, Jay, Afsana, Akasa, Umar and Ishaan. Team B will stand in the big alphabets in the garden area and team A will try to make them come out of the alphabets. They will send 2 players at a time. Team A will try to make them lose their positions. Team B will take their places in the alphabet and if they leave the alphabet then you are out of the task. It's on them till when they want to stay in the alphabet. Karan and Urfi will be referees of the task but they can't make their own rules. • On Day 35, Neha Bhasin and Raqesh Bapat entered as Wild Cards • On Day 31, Some celebrities came to save 4 contestants: • Rashami Desai saved Vishal • Gautam Gulati saved Tejasswi • Devoleena Bhattacharjee saved Jay • Kamya Punjabi saved Karan • On Day 32, Karan, Tejasswi, Jay and Vishal were asked to nominate one contestant. They nominated Miesha • The remaining inmates will play a task. Simba will choose one safe inmate to play for his as he has a finger injury. Miesha is nominated so she won't be part of it. In the task, there is a coconut tree, when the buzzer plays then the inmates have to collect coconuts in their baskets, the coconuts will be thrown from the tree by the safe inmates. They have to protect their baskets. When the round ends, then the referee will announce who has the most number of coconuts. The winner of that round will nominate someone else. Simba chooses Vishal as his proxy In the end, Miesha, Simba, Umar, Nishant and Ieshaan were nominated • House Matters:There will be a family. The family's head is Jay and his wife is Afsana. Jay-Afsana is an irritating uncle-aunt of the house, their kids are Rajiv and Miesha. Miesha is married and Vishal is her husband who lives with Miesha's parents. Rajiv's friend is Ishaan who lives with him. Jay's brother's sons are Nishant and Karan. They are Jay's nephews. Nishant's wife will be Tejasswi and Pratik will be their adopted child. Karan's wife is Shamita and their kids are Simba-Umar. Nishant and Karan's family don't like each other. In the task, each person knows a secret about another person. When the buzzer plays, a person will go to the recording room and tell the secret of another member which they want to eliminate from the task. The 2 members who are left in the end and their secrets are safe will win the task. At the end of each round, the secrets will be exposed and the gift hampers will be given to them. • Captaincy Task:. There are Diwali gifts from their families but they have to play a task to get them. This will be a captaincy task between Umar and Miesha. There is a happiness station in the garden which has all the gifts. Bigg Boss will announce the name and then that person can take the gift using fuel. Miesha and Umar will be gas stations so the inmate will have to convince them to give them fuel so they can sit in the car and reach their gifts. It depends on Miesha and Umar to give them fuel or not. Whoever has more fuel, in the end, will become the captain. • On Day 37, Miesha Iyer and Ieshaan Sehgaal were evicted by Public Vote • Ticket to VIP Zone: Umar and 3 other inmates will become VIP members. Simba is punished so he won't be part of the task. All inmates will be tied to Umar, till they are tied to him, they can become VIPs. When the gong plays, Umar will let go of 2 inmates and eliminate them from the task. The inmates can eliminate themselves also. 3 Inmates tied to Umar till the end will become VIPs. Umar will be tied to the inmates using ropes and carabiners • BB Mine: They can win the VIP zone membership through this task. In the task, the weather of the house will change 6 times. All inmates except VIPs will be miners in the task. In the gold mine, the inmates will try to collect gold as much as they can. VIPs will be shopkeepers who will sell clothes against the gold. When the weather changes, the miners will buy clothes and enter the campsite. The one entering the campsite last will lose that round. Simba won't play for himself as he is punished but he will play on Shamita's behalf as she is injured. The miners will purchase the clothes as per the weather requirement. • Luxury Budget Task:Non VIP Inmates can earn ration. In the task, they will hunt eggs in the garden. There are 6 eggs hidden in the garden, they have to find them in 2 minutes. 3 inmates will win the task and get luxury items. VIP members won't be part of the task. Karan will be the referee of the task. • Simba was not allowed to take part in the VIP Zone Race for the week as a result of pushing Umar. • Bigg Boss took away the ration due to violation of rules. • Since Umar was the Captain, He was upgraded to VIP Zone • On Day 40, Raqesh Bapat left the house due to poor health conditions. Later On Day 43, Salman announced that Raqesh will not be coming back to the show • On Day 40, Afsana Khan was ejected due to harming herself with a knife. • On Day 50, Salman announced that out of the present 11, Only 5 will go-ahead • Scary Monster: One VIP member can earn power. The task is a ‘scary monster’, all VIPs will play against each other in the task .that there are 5 boxes allotted to each VIP. They have to fill their boxes with items. There is a monster who will sit on the chair. Pratik, Neha, Simba and Jay will be the monster of this task. They will select two VIPs with the lowest weights and then the monster will eliminate one of them after giving a reason. Rajiv won't part of the task. there will be 4 rounds, after every round, the one with the least items in their box will be out of the tasks. The housemates will check their boxes and announce the winner. The VIP who remains in the task till the end will win it. • Nishant had got a special power that he could upgrade 2 Common Members to VIPs and downgrade 2 VIPs to Common Members, He upgraded Simba and Pratik and downgraded Tejasswi and Karan. • On Day 44, Shamita Shetty left the house due to health issues • On Day 50, There was no eviction • On Day 50, Shamita Shetty re-entered the House • On Day 56, Rashami Desai, Rakhi Sawant, Shamita Shetty and Ritesh Kumar entered the House as Wild Cards and became VIP Members • On Day 51, Bigg Boss announced That VIP Zone will be closed and All became Common Members. • On Day 55, Voot Select Viewers had to save one of their bottom 5 during the Live Task • On Press Conference, The Media chose Jay, Simba, Rajiv, Neha, Vishal and Umar as Bottom 6 • On Day 53, Vishal Koitan was evicted • • Simba Nagpal was evicted by Top 5 Housemates • On Day 55, Jay Bhanushali, Neha Bhasin and were evicted by Public Vote • On Day 58, Abhijit Bichukale entered the House as a Wild Card and 5th VIP Member • Karan, Nishant, Pratik, Tejasswi, Shamita, Umar and Rajiv were nominated. • The VIPs will have the entire prize money i.e.; 50 Lakhs and Non VIPs will have to win tasks to get their prize money and store it in the BB Vault • BB Games: There are 2 teams, VIPs vs. housemates will play the task. Devoleena will be the captain of her team and Shamita will be the captain of her team. They will be referees and won't take part in the tasks. They will get games from time to time. The winners will earn money in each game, at the end of the task, the winning amount will be transferred to the housemates’ briefcase. The housemates will try to win as many games as they can while VIPs will try to make them lose. The games will start with the announcement. When the buzzer plays, a new game will start. At the end of each game, the captains will announce the winners. They will write their winning amount on the board also. • Game 1: The winning amount is 5 lacs. One member from each team will be in the swimming pool. There are coins in the swimming pool, they have to collect them and give them to their team member. The other team member will put their coins in the boxes that are beside the pool, they can't remove the boxes from there. They have to protect their boxes. Shamita and Devoleena will follow these rules only. Bigg Boss asks them to announce who will take part in this game. Devoleena announces that Rashami will go in the pool and Ritesh will be by the pool. Shamita announces that Tejasswi will go in the pool and Umar will be by the pool from their side. • Game 2: The winning prize is 10 lacs. There will be two inmates from each other, one will be a horse and the other will sit on his back and play polo. Karan-Tejasswi, Rakhi-Ritesh will play the game. They have to play with a ball and make sure to have more goals. Shamita and Devoleena are referees. Rakhi and Tejasswi will try to the goal while sitting on their partner's backs. • Immunity Task: Non-VIP members have a chance to get saved from the nominations. The spider is the VIPs’ friend and each leg of it has a winning prize in it. The non-VIP members have to use clay to make their knives and then break the spider's leg. There will be 3 rounds, in each round, VIPs will give clay to non-VIP members. Then non-VIP members will make their knives and protect them also. The one who makes the full knife will earn immunity and then cut a spider's leg and earn the prize money. But that non-VIP member will have to do 2 sacrifices from the VIPs before cutting the leg. If he or she can't fulfil the sacrifices then they will earn immunity but not the prize amount • BB Vault was closed due to Non VIPs breaking the rules • Simba and Nishant won the task and earned 3 Lakhs • No Eviction • On Day 78, Rajiv Adatia was evicted by public votes. • No Eviction • No Eviction • On Day 99, Umar Riaz was ejected from the house due to physical violence with Pratik Sehajpal • On Day 108, Rajiv Adatia entered the house as a guest. • On Day 114, Abhijit Bichukale and Devoleena were evicted by Public Vote. == Nomination table ==