Bigg Boss Season 11 Starting Date, Registration & Audition Venue Details 2017

Introduction to Bigg Boss:

Bigg Boss, is an Indian Television reality show, aired in Colors TV channel. Initially, it was aired in the Sony TV, in 2006 and 2007. However, from the year 2008, the show is aired in Colors TV. It is one of the most popular shows, which is following the Dutch Big Brother format, developed by Endemol, Netherlands.

Show Format:

The contestants of the show are made to live in a house built especially for this show, which is isolated from the rest of world, without any electronic devices or phone connections. The contestants are also known by the name ‘Housemates’ and the contestants nominate their co-contestants for eviction. The housemate, who receives most nomination, would face public voting. As a result, one of the evicted contestants will be leaving the show. In the final week, three housemates remain and with the public vote, the winner is finalized.

In India, the housemates are usually celebrities, where one of the contestant is selected through the auditions and usually a non-celebrity. They are overseen by another person, whose identity is not revealed, popularly known as ‘Bigg Boss’, who is only vocally present in the house.

The House and Rule of the Show:

New houses are built for every season and the house is well-furnished and decorated, with all kinds of modern amenities. However, there are just one or two bedrooms, with four toilet bathrooms. Including this, there is also a gym, pool, activity area, garden and a confession room. Despite being a modern house, this house doesn’t have a telephone or internet connection or paper, pen and clock.

Rules:

  • The contestants are allowed to communicate to each other only in ‘Hindi’.
  • No tampering with any of the electronic devices in the house.
  • Not allowed to leave the house, until permitted to.
  • Not allowed to discuss nominations with one another.
  • No sleeping in daytime.

Bigg Boss – Season 1: Host, Contestants and Winner

Season 1, of the famous reality show, was aired in the year 2006, in Sony TV. It was aired from November 3, 2006 to January 26, 2007.

Host: Arshad Warsi

Location of the House: Tourist Place of Lonavla, Pune

Contestants or Housemates:

S.No Name Category
1 Rahul Roy Film Star
2 Carol Gracias Seasoned Model
3 Ravi Kishan Film Star
4 Rakhi Sawant Item Girl
5 Amit Sadh Soap Actor
6 Roopali Ganguly Soap Actor
7 Baba Sehgal Singer
8 Ragini Shetty Non-celebrity
9 Deepak Tijori Film Star
10 Anupama Verma Seasoned Model
11 Aryan Vaid Pageant Winner
12 Kashmira Shah Film Star
13 Deepak Parashar Film Star
14 Bobby Darling LGBT

 

Winner of the Bigg Boss 1: Rahul Roy

Prize Money: INR 1 Crore

Bigg Boss – Season 2: Host, Contestants and Winner

Season 2, of the famous reality show, was aired in the year 2008, in Colors TV. It was aired from August 17, 2008 to November 22, 2008.

Host: Shilpa Shetty

Location of the House: Tourist Place of Lonavla, Pune

Contestants or Housemates:

S.No Name Category
1 Alina Wadiwala Indian Model
2 Ashutosh Kaushik MTV Roadies 5 winner
3 Debojit Saha Singer
4 Diana Hayden Miss World, 1997
5 Jade Goody British Television Celebrity
6 Ketaki Dave TV actress
7 Monica Bedi Starlet
8 Payal Rohatgi Actress
9 Rahul Mahajan Former Pilot
10 Raja Choudhary Bhojpuri Actor
11 Rakhi Vijan TV actress
12 Sambhavana Sheth Item Girl
13 Sanjay Nirupam Politician
14 Zulfi Syed Actor, Model

 

Winner of the Bigg Boss 2: Ashutosh Kaushik

Prize Money: INR 1 Crore

 

Bigg Boss – Season 3: Host, Contestants and Winner

Season 3, of the famous reality show, was aired in the year 2009, in Colors TV. It was aired from October 4, 2009 to December 26, 2009.

Host: Amitabh Bachchan

Location of the House: Tourist Place of Lonavla, Pune

Contestants or Housemates:

S.No Name Category
1 Ismail Darbar Singer, Music Director
2 Sherlyn Chopra Model, Actress
3 Kamal Rashid Khan Director
4 Poonam Dhillon TV and Film actress
5 Bakhtiyaar Irani Television Actor
6 Tanaaz Irani Actress, Model
7 Vindu Dara Singh Actor
8 Aditi Gowitrikar Actress
9 Jaya Sawant Non-celebrity
10 Shamita Shetty Film Actress
11 Claudia Ciesla Bollywood Actress
12 Rohit Verma Fashion Designer
13 Raju Srivastav Comedian
14 Vinod Kambli

(Wild Card entrant)

Cricketer
15 Pravesh Rana

(Wild Card entrant)

Model

 

Winner of the Bigg Boss 3: Vindu Dara Singh

Prize Money: INR 1 Crore

Bigg Boss – Season 4: Host, Contestants and Winner

Season 4, of the famous reality show, was aired in the year 2010, in Colors TV. It was aired from October 3, 2010 to January 8, 2011

Host: Salman Khan

Location of the House: Tourist Place of Lonavla, Pune

Contestants or Housemates:

S.No Name Category
1 Seema Parihar Politically acclaimed
2 Sakshi Pradhan Reality TV actor
3 Begum LGBT
4 Devendar Most wanted list in Delhi Police
5 Abbas Kazmi Ajmal Kasab’s Lawyer
6 Veena Malik Item Girl, Pakistani actress
7 Hrishant Goswami Model
8 Manoj Tiwari Bhojpuri Actor
9 Rahul Bhatt Actor
10 Samir Soni Bollywood actor
11 Sara Khan TV actress
12 Shweta Tiwari TV actress
13 Veena Malik Pakistani Actress
14 Aanchal Kumar Model
15 The Great Khali

(Wild card entry)

Professional Wrestler
16 Dolly Bindra

(Wild Card Entry)

Film actress

 

Winner of the Bigg Boss 4: Shweta Tiwari

Prize Money: INR 1 Crore

 

Bigg Boss – Season 5: Host, Contestants and Winner

Season 5, of the famous reality show, was aired in the year 2011, in Colors TV. It was aired from October 2, 2011 to January 7, 2012.

Host: Sanjay Dutt, Salman Khan

Location of the House: ND Studios, Karjat

Contestants or Housemates:

S.No Name Category
1 Shakti Kapoor Film Actor
2 Pooja Bedi TV personality
3 Shonali Nagrani Actress, Model
4 Nihita Biswas Non-celebrity
5 Shraddha Sharma TV actress
6 Mandeep Bevli News Anchor
7 Raageshwari Singer
8 Vida Samadzai Former Miss Afganistan
9 Mahek Chahal Film actress
10 Sonika Kaliraman Wrestler
11 Pooja Misrra Reality TV participant
12 Gulabo Sapera Dancer
13 Laxmi Narayan Tripathi LGBT
14 Juhi Parmar TV actress
15 Amar Upadhyay

(Wild card entry)

TV actor
16 Siddharth Bhardwaj

(Wild card entry)

Reality TV participant
17 Akashdeep Saigal

(Wild card entry)

TV actor
18 Sunny Leone

(Wild card entry)

Film Actress

 

Winner of the Bigg Boss 5: Juhi Parmer

Prize Money: INR 1 Crore

Bigg Boss – Season 6: Host, Contestants and Winner

Season 6, of the famous reality show, was aired in the year 2012, in Colors TV. It was aired from October 7, 2012 to January 12, 2013.

Host: Salman Khan

Location of the House: Tourist Place of Lonavla, Pune

Contestants or Housemates:

S.No Name Category
1 Navjot Singh Sidhu Indian cricketer, Politician
2 Sana Khan Film actress
3 Vrajesh Hirjee Actor
4 Sampat Pal Devi Leader of women vigilantes
5 Urvashi Dholakia Film Actress
6 Aashka Goradia Film Actress
7 Dinesh Lal Yadav Bhojpuri Actor
8 Delnaaz Irani Actress
9 Sapna Bhavnani Celebrity Hair Stylist
10 Aseem Trivedi Political Cartoonist
11 Rajev paul TV actor
12 Sayantani Ghosh Model, TV, Film actress
13 Niketan Madhok Model
14 Karishma Kotak Model
15 Kashif Qureshi Non-celebrity
16 Mink Brar Model, actress, Producer
17 Vishal Karwal TV actor
18 Imam Siddique Fashion Stylist, TV personality
19 Santosh Shukla Actor

 

Winner of the Bigg Boss 6: Urvashi Dholakia

Prize Money: INR 50 Lakh

Bigg Boss – Season 7: Host, Contestants and Winner

Season 7, of the famous reality show, was aired in the year 2013, in Colors TV. It was aired from September 15, 2013 to December 28, 2013.

Host: Salman Khan

Location of the House: Tourist Place of Lonavla, Pune

Contestants or Housemates:

 

S.No Name Category
1 Tanisha Mukherjee Film actress
2 VJ Andy TV personality
3 Ratan Rajput TV actress
4 Gauhar Khan Actress, Reality TV star, Model
5 Shilpa Sakhlani Non-celebrity
6 Apoorva Agnihotri TV personality
7 Kamya Panjabi TV actress
8 Hazel Keech Actress, Model
9 Kushal Tandon TV actor, Model
10 Rajat Rawail Producer, Anchor
11 Sangram Singh Wrestler, TV personality
12 Elli Avram Foreign actress
13 Armaan Kohli Actor
14 Pratyusha Banerjee Actress
15 Anita Advani Actress
16 Asif Azim

(Wild Card entry)

Model
17 Vivek Mishra

(Wild Card entry)

Model, Naked Yoda trainer
18 Ajaz Khan

(Wild Card entry)

Actor
19 Candy Brar

(Wild Card entry)

Former Model
20 Sofia Hayat

(Wild Card entry)

British actress, Singer

 

Winner of the Bigg Boss 7: Gauhar Khan

Prize Money: INR 50 Lakh

 

Bigg Boss – Season 8: Host, Contestants and Winner

Season 8, of the famous reality show, was aired in the year 2013, in Colors TV. It was aired from September 21, 2014 to January 3, 2015. There were 5 finalist in this season and this show was merged with Bigg Boss Halla Bol Season, a spin-off season, which started soon after Bigg Boss Season 8.

Host: Salman Khan

Location of the House: Tourist Place of Lonavla, Pune

Contestants or Housemates:

S.No Name Category
1 Sonali Raut Model, Film Actress
2 Karishma Tanna Model, Actress
3 Upen Patel Model, Film Actor
4 Soni Singh TV actress
5 Arya Babbar Film Actor
6 Diandra Soares Model, Anchor, Fashion Designer
7 Sushant Divgikar Model, TV anchor, pageant contestant
8 Gautam Gulati TV, Film Actor
9 Sukriti Kandpal Model, TV actress
10 Praneet Bhat TV actor
11 Natasha Stankovic Model, Film Actress
12 Minissha Lamba Film Actress
13 Deepshikha TV, Film Actress
14 Puneet Issar Film actor, Director
15 Pritam Singh RJ TV Host
16 Ali Quli Mirza

(Wild Card Entry)

Singer
17 Renee Dhyani

(Wild Card Entry)

Reality show participant
18 Dimpy Ganguly

(Wild Card Entry)

Reality show participant
19 Nigaar Khan

(Wild Card Entry)

TV actress

 

Finalists of the Bigg Boss 8:           

  • Karishma Tanna
  • Gautam Gulati
  • Pritam Singh
  • Ali Quli Mirza
  • Dimpy Ganguly

Bigg Boss Halla Bol: Host, Contestants and Winner

This show is a merger of the Bigg Boss Season 8, where 5 finalist from last season competes with the challengers of this season. The challengers are also not new to this show, they are the participants from previous seasons. Two challengers were chosen from Season 2 and 1 from Season 5, 6 and 7. This spin-off season was aired from January 4, 2015 to January 31, 2015.

Host: Farah Khan

Location of the House: Tourist Place of Lonavla, Pune

Contestants or Housemates:

S.No Name Category
Champions from Bigg Boss Season 8
1 Karishma Tanna Actress
2 Gautam Gulati TV actor
3 Pritam Singh Radio Jockey
4 Ali Quli Mirza Singer
5 Dimpy Ganguly Reality show participant
Challengers from Previous Seasons
6 Ajaz Khan Actor
7 Mahek Chahal Actress, Model
8 Rahul Mahajan Actor
9 Sambhavna Seth Item Girl
10 Sana Khan Film actress

 

Winner of the Bigg Boss Halla Bol: Gautam Gulati

Prize Money: INR 50 Lakh

Bigg Boss – Season 9: Host, Contestants and Winner

Season 9, also known as ‘Bigg Boss: Double Trouble’ of the famous reality show, was aired in the year 2015, in Colors TV. It was aired from October 11, 2015 to January 23, 2016.

Host: Salman Khan

Location of the House: Tourist Place of Lonavla, Pune

Contestants or Housemates:

S.No Name Category
1 Digangana Suryavanshi TV actress
2 Prince Narula Reality Star
3 Roopal Tyagi TV actress
4 Kishwar Merchant TV actress
5 Suyyash Rai TV actor, Singer
6 Aman Verma TV actor
7 Rimi Sen Film Actress
8 Yuvika Chaudhary Actress
9 Vikas Bhalla Actor, Singer
10 Mandana Karimi Foreign Film Actress, Model
11 Rochella Rao Model
12 Ankit Gera TV actor
13 Keith Sequeira Actor, Model
14 Arvind Vegda Singer
15 Rishabh Sinha

(Wild Card Entry)

TV actor
16 Puneet Vashist

(Wild Card Entry)

Actor
17 Kawaljeet Singh

(Wild Card Entry)

Fashion Designer
18 Priya Malik

(Wild Card Entry)

Teacher, Reality show participant
19 Nora Fatehi

(Wild Card Entry)

Model, Actress
20 Gizele Thakral

(Wild Card Entry)

Model, Actress

 

Winner of the Bigg Boss 9: Prince Narula

Prize Money: INR 50 Lakh

 

Bigg Boss – Season 10: Host, Contestants and Winner

Season 10, of the famous reality show, was aired in the year 2016, in Colors TV. It was aired from October 16, 2016 to January 28, 2017.

Host: Salman Khan

Location of the House: Tourist Place of Lonavla, Pune

Contestants or Housemates:

S.No Name Category
1 Swami Om Politician
2 Lopamudra Raut Model
3 Manveer Gurjar Non-celebrity
4 Nitibha Kaul Non-celebrity
5 Rohan Mehra TV actor, Model
6 Gurbani Judge Model, TV host, VJ
7 Lokesh Kumari Sharma Non-celebrity
8 Karan Mehra TV actor
9 Akanksha Sharma Non-celebrity
10 Manu Punjabi Reality show participant
11 Gaurav Chopra TV actor
12 Priyanka Jagga Non-celebrity
13 Rahul Dev Film actor, Model
14 Navin Prakash Public Speaker
15 Monalisa Film actress
16 Jason Shah

(Wild Card entry)

Actor, Model
17 Elena Kazan

(Wild Card entry)

Actress
18 Sahil Anand

(Wild Card entry)

Film, TV actor

 

Winner of the Bigg Boss 10: Manveer Gurjar

Prize Money: INR 50 Lakh

 

Bigg Boss – Season 11: Host, Registration, Possible contestant list and Airing Date.

Season 11, of the famous reality show, is set to air in the year 2017. This show has successfully completed 10 years and launching in the 11th year. The show will be aired in Colors TV channel and CEO of the channel has hinted that, there will be chance for commoners in this season.

Host: Salman Khan

Online Registration: The last date to apply, in order to participate in this reality competition is May 31, 2017.

Rules for Registration:

  • Contestant should be above age 18.
  • Contestant should be fluent in Hindi..
  • Only one video can be shared
  • The run time of the video should be only 3 minutes
  • The maximum size of the video should not be more than 50 MB
  • There is no registration fees.

Commoners Audition Date:

The audition date are yet to be announced. Once the registration process is completed, the entries will be sent for screening test. After watching the videos of all the registered people, the team will finalize the shortlisted candidates and they will be receiving the details of the auditions like Venue, Timings etc. The details will be sent via e-mail or registered mobile number.

Season 11 – Starting Date: October 15, 2017

Timings of the Show:

  • Saturday and Sunday: 9 pm to 10 pm
  • Monday to Friday: 10.30 pm to 11.30 pm

Live Updates:

There is an app for the ‘Android users’ named as ‘Bigg Boss app’, once downloaded, the person can view the updates news about the show, on the go.

Expected Celebrity Contestant List:

Even though, there is an ongoing registration process for the commoners and many people are waiting for auditions, there is a tentative celebrity contestant list shared by the team. Please note that, the list is only tentative and it is subjected to change.

  • Raghu Ram
  • Mona Singh
  • Hard Kaur
  • Radhe maa
  • Rahul Raj Singh
  • Arjun Bijlai
  • Mouni Roy
  • Baba Ram Rahim Singh Ishaan
  • Gaurav Now Gauri
  • Ginny Kapoor
  • Gurmeher Kaur
  • Iron Sharmila
  • Poonam Pandey
  • Sunil Grover
  • Vishakha Singh
  • Zaira Wasim
  • Bhuvan Bam
  • Daulatram

Bigg Boss Season 11, is one of the most anticipated reality shows and people all over India are eagerly waiting for the upcoming season, launching this year.

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