Bigg Boss (Hindi TV series) season 4

Bigg Boss 4 in 2010 is the fourth season of the Indian reality TV show Bigg Boss, which started airing on Colors from October 3, 2010. This will be longer than its predecessor, Bigg Boss 3 and will last for 14 weeks (96 days). The show is being hosted by Salman Khan. During the launch on October 3, fourteen handpicked housemates entered the house located in Lonavla, a hill station, about 100 kilometers east of Mumbai in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The housemates, considered strangers for each other, will spend 96 days (14 weeks) locked out together under the supervision of 32 cameras fitted around the house.

Housemates

Aanchal Kumar

Aanchal Kumar (age 31) hails from Chandigarh. Aanchal is an Indian model and has done cameo roles in Bluffmaster! and Fashion.

Abbas Kazmi

Abbas Kazmi by profession is a criminal lawyer famous for being the lawyer of Mohammed Ajmal Amir Kasab, the accused in 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks.

Ashmit Patel

Ashmit Patel (age 32) is an actor who works in Hindi films. His sister is Ameesha Patel, also a film actor. His popular films include Murder and Silsilay. He was evicted from the house on Day 62.

Begum (Ali Saleem)

Ali Saleem (age 31) is a Pakistani television host, actor, scriptwriter and impressionist. He cross-dresses as a woman wearing a sari and asks influential guests provocative questions in his show Late Night with Begum Nawazish Ali.

Devender (Bunty)

Devender (Bunty) has been accused of robbery and was on the most wanted list of Delhi police. Dibakar Banerjee has made a film on him, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, where Abhay Deol played the protagonist.

Dolly Bindra

Dolly Bindra is a television actress. She featured in the serial Mere Apne on 9x channel and Hum Sab Saath Hain on Sony. She has also done few supporting roles in films like Maine Pyaar Kyun Kiya?. She entered the Bigg Boss house on Day 21 as the second wild card entry.

Hrishant Goswami

Hrishant Goswami (age 25) is a model and winner of the 2004 Gladrags Manhunt contest.

Khali

Khali (age 38) is an Indian professional wrestler and a former power-lifter who won Mr. India title in 1995 and 1996. Khali is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment. He also served as a police officer in the state of Punjab. He entered the Bigg Boss house on Day 13 as the first wild card entry.

Manoj Tiwari

Manoj Tiwari (age 45) is a film actor, singer and director who acts in Bhojpuri films. He has been credited with reviving the Bhojpuri film industry. He has appeared in over 30 Bhojpuri language films.

Rahul Bhatt

Rahul Bhatt (age 28) is an Indian fitness trainer and a film actor. The son of famous film director Mahesh Bhatt, Rahul gained unwitting notoriety in 2009, following revelations that David Headley, one of those held responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, had befriended him.

Sakshi Pradhan

Sakshi Pradhan is the winner of the reality show Splitsvilla.

Samir Soni

Samir Soni (age 42) is a television and film actor. Prior to his film career, Samir was an investment banker. He started his career as a model and made his acting debut in Doordarshan's A Mouthful Of Sky (1996). He made his film debut opposite actress Mamta Kulkarni in China Gate (1998). In television, he has worked in the television series Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin and Saaksshi.

Sara Khan

Sara Khan (age 21) is a model and actress. She won the Miss Madhya Pradesh title in 2007, the Best New Talent award given by IndianTelevision.com in 2008, and the STAR Parivaar Award for the "Best Patni" (Best Wife) category in 2009. She rose to fame for her character, Sadhna, in Sapna Babul Ka...Bidaai.

Seema Parihar

Seema Parihar (age 41) is a former woman bandit and a member of Indian political party, Samajwadi Party. She has also acted in Wounded – a film based on her real-life story.

Shweta Tiwari

Shweta Tiwari (age 30) is a television and film actress with her claim to fame is of the role of Prerna in Balaji Telefilms's television serial Kasautii Zindagii Kay that used to be aired on STAR Plus. Her ex-husband Raja Chaudhary had earlier participated in Bigg Boss (Season 2). She was also seen in another reality show Is Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao.

Veena Malik

Veena Malik (age 32) is a Pakistani actress, model and comedian. Although she has acted in films, her fame derives from her television appearances. She established herself as one of the leading women in the Pakistani TV industry with her ability to mimic others and improvise.

Features of Bigg Boss 4

Wild Card Entry

• On 14 October, it was announced that the WWE wrestler, The Great Khali is going to replace Devender (Bunty), who was ejected from the house on day 2 for bad behavior and breaching of house rules.
• On 25 October, Dolly Bindra entered the Bigg Boss house.
• On 27 November, Dolly made a return to the Bigg Boss house as a wild card entry, after beating Rahul Bhatt in an online poll.

Captain of the House

Every week, one person would be announced by the Bigg Boss as the Captain of the House. He will receive all the facilities, such as living in the Elite Bedroom, Exemption from nominations for that week, Right to nominate one person in the house who will be directly nominated for that week regardless of the other members nominations. Other members will have to wash his/her clothes, vessels, cook food for him, etc. He/She will be the king of the house for that week. This is similar to the Head of Household position in other Big Brother series around the world.

Delights Bedroom

This is the new feature added to Bigg Boss 4. Delights Bedroom is a big room inside the common bedroom. Where all the members will live in the common room, only The captain of the House will have access to this room and will get a key for this room to keep his/her stuff and lock it. This is similar to the Head of Household room in other Big Brother's around the world.

Guests

Throughout the series various guests may appear from time to time for a visit.

• Ali Merchant remained in the house as a guest from day 30 to day 41.
• On 6 November 2010, the team of Golmaal 3 including its director Rohit Shetty and cast members, Ajay Devgn, Kareena Kapoor, Tusshar Kapoor, Shreyas Talpade and Kunal Khemu appeared on the show for the promotion of their film.
• On 16 November, Pamela Anderson entered the Bigg Boss house.
• On 19 November 2010, the team of Break Ke Baad; Imran Khan and Kunal Kohli came on the show to promote their film.
• On 27 November 2010, the team of Dabangg, Arbaaz Khan and Sonakshi Sinha appeared on the show.

Weekly Summary

Week 1	Tasks	Samay Dhere Dhere Chal: Each Bigg Boss contestant has to take care of the hour glass and ensure that sand constantly flows.
	Nominations	Seema (Nominated by majority of the housemates) Abbas Sara Hrishant Bunty (Nominated by Bigg Boss for consistently breaking the rules of the house and was eventually evicted from the show on Day 2)
	Exits	Bunty was Ejected on Day 2, due to his violent and bad behavior, abusing and cursing Bigg Boss, breaking rules of the house and trying to cover the cameras by socks. On day 6, Abbas Kazmi was evicted from the Bigg Boss house by nominations. He voted Seema and Veena for nominations for the following week
Week 2	Tasks	Wear a white gown and hat for all contestants and chant, on a particular music. Once the music is over, then you need to say one good and bad point about the inmate on your right.
	Nominations	Sakshi (Captain's choice) Seema Samir
	Exits	On day 13, Sakshi was evicted from the Bigg Boss house by nominations. Sakshi chose Begum Ali for next week's nomination
Week 3	Tasks	Dhan Dhana Dhan!: All housemates have to print notes. Each note is worth 1000 points. Housemates have to accumulate a total of 50,00,000 points in notes. Hrishant and Shweta have been given task to rob 15,00,000 points. The task Dhan Dhana Dhan has been unsuccessful, but secret agents Hrishant and Shweta have been successful. Except Rahul and Khali, all housemates have to eat from same plate and bowl for whole week. Housemates can only eat after Rahul and Khali. Dixcy Scot task is a wrestling match between the male inmates. The captain Manoj becomes the finalist. Great Khali is the referee and consultant. Female participants are the cheerleaders, except for Shweta, who plays anchor/host with Begum Ali.
	Nominations	Shweta (Captain's choice) Veena Begum
	Exits	On day 20, Begum was evicted from the Bigg Boss house. Begum chose Khali for next week's nomination
Week 4	Tasks	Sameer was given a diary to maintain daily logs for the captain's negative and positive aspects. Dolly and Manoj Tiwari were chosen as judge by the Bigg Boss for rhyming play. Shweta and Sameer were team A, Seema and Hrishant were team B and Veena and Ashmit were team C. Team B won Vodafone's delight and 100 points each.
	Nominations	Sara (Captain's choice) Sameer Khali
	Exits	On day 27, Bigg Boss stages a fake eviction from the house and sends Sara to a secret room. Sara chose Dolly and Sameer for next week's nomination.
Week 5	Tasks	Aa Pappiyaan Jhappiyan Pa Le: The house is transformed into a puppy care centre. Bigg Boss asks six contestants to become puppies while five contestants are asked to work as their caretakers.
	Nominations	Manoj Hrishant Aanchal Veena Rahul Seema Shweta
	Exits	On day 34, Rahul was evicted from the house. Rahul chose Veena and Sara for next week's nominations.
Week 6	Tasks
	Nominations	Aanchal (Captain's choice) Dolly Ashmit
	Exits	On day 41, Aanchal was evicted from the house. Aanchal choose Veena and Sara for next week's nominations.
Week 7	Tasks
	Nominations	Dolly (Captain's choice) Sara Khali
	Exits	On day 45, Samir and Dolly were ejected from the house due to violation of house rules. On day 47, Pamela left the house.
Week 8	Tasks	Gaon Gaon Shahar Shahar: Samir, Shweta, Ashmit, Veena will have to live like villagers, while rest have to live like city people.
	Nominations	Ashmit (Captain's choice) Hrishant Samir Shweta Veena
	Exits	On day 55, Hrishant was evicted from the house. Hrishant choose Shweta and Samir for next week's nominations.
Week 9	Tasks	Paathshala: Housemates are given school uniform and have to appear like school kids. Seema is made the principal while Manoj and Ashmit are made the Hindi and English teachers respectively.
	Nominations	Ashmit Manoj
	Exits

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	Final Week 14
House Captain		Begum	Rahul	Manoj	Ashmit	Hrishant	Shweta	Seema	Khali	Dolly
Captain's Nomination		Sakshi	Shweta	Sara	No Nominations	Aanchal	Dolly	Ashmit	Veena	Veena
Evictee's Nomination		Seema Veena	Begum	Khali	Dolly Samir	Veena Sara	Veena Sara	Eviction Cancelled	Shweta Samir
Ashmit	Sakshi Seema	Samir Shweta	Veena	Samir Seema	No Nominations	Dolly Manoj	Khali Manoj	Shweta Manoj	Shweta Manoj	Evicted (Day 62)
Dolly	Not in house			Aanchal, Veena	No Nominations	Veena Ashmit	Hrishant Sara	Ejected (Day 45)	Veena to save
Khali	Not in house		Exempt	Samir Sara	No Nominations	Veena Samir	Sara Hrishant	Ashmit Hrishant	Veena
Manoj	Seema Abbas	Shweta Seema	Sara	Sara	No Nominations	Khali Ashmit	Sara Ashmit	Ashmit Hrishant	Ashmit Sara
Sara	Hrishant Aanchal	Rahul Seema	Veena	Samir Seema	Dolly Samir	Veena Manoj	Khali Seema	Khali Veena	Manoj Ashmit
Seema	Begum Sara	Aanchal Manoj	Hrishant	Samir Sara	No Nominations	Dolly Ashmit	Ashmit Hrishant	Ashmit	Ashmit Manoj
Shweta	Seema Abbas	Rahul Manoj	Aanchal	Sara Ashmit	No Nominations	Dolly Ashmit	Dolly	Ashmit Veena	Ashmit Sara
Veena	Seema Sara	Samir Rahul	Sara	Rahul Seema	No Nominations	Shweta Samir	Khali Seema	Samir Shweta	Manoj Seema
Samir	Hrishant Rahul	Hrishant Ashmit	Veena	Ashmit Sara	No Nominations	Dolly Ashmit	Sara Veena	Ashmit Veena	Walked Day 60
Hrishant	Seema Abbas	Seema Samir	Veena	Samir Sara	No Nominations	Aanchal	Samir Khali	Shweta Samir	Shweta Samir	Evicted (Day 55)
Aanchal	Sakshi Sara	Samir Seema	Shweta	Sara Samir	No Nominations	Dolly Shweta	Veena Sara	Evicted (Day 41)
Rahul	Veena Shweta	Veena Sara	Shweta	Veena Sara	No Nominations	Veena Sara	Evicted (Day 34)
Begum	Seema Manoj	Sakshi	Samir	Khali	Evicted (Day 20)
Sakshi	Seema Hrishant	Hrishant Aanchal	Begum	Evicted (Day 13)
Abbas	Seema Begum	Seema Veena	Evicted (Day 6)
Devender (Bunty)	Ejected (Day 2)
Nominated	Abbas Hrishant Sara Seema	Sakshi Samir Seema	Begum Shweta Veena	Khali Samir Sara	Aanchal Hrishant Manoj Rahul Seema Shweta Veena	Dolly Ashmit Aanchal	Dolly Sara Khali	Ashmit Hrishant Shweta Veena Samir	Ashmit Manoj Veena
Walked	none										Samir
Ejected	Devender (Bunty)	none					Dolly Samir (withdrawn later)	none
Evicted	Abbas	Sakshi	Begum	Sara (fake eviction)	Rahul	Aanchal	Eviction Cancelled	Hrishant

Highlights of the week

Week 1 (3^rd October to 9^th October)

• Day 1: Bigg Boss asked all the contestants to vote. While all of them thought it is for the eviction, Bunty received the highest votes and on the contrary, Bigg Boss made Bunty the "Captain" of the house.
• Day 2: Bunty was ejected, due to his bad behaviour, abusing and cursing Bigg Boss, breaking all the rules of the house and trying to cover the cameras by socks.
• Day 3: Bigg Boss gives a mini task for a chat show with Begum and the 4 nominated housemates. Transformation from Ali to Begum is no small occasion and all the women inmates got together to help her.
• Day 4: Argument over breakfast between Veena Malik and Hrishant leads to a heating debate where most of the other inmates got involved in consoling the inmates.
• Day 5: While the housemates are having paranthas for breakfast, Manoj Tiwari who is a vegetarian doesn’t appreciate sharing the same plate.
• Day 6: Shweta Tiwari gets a cake to celebrate her daughter's birthday. Abbas Kazmi was evicted from the show.
• Day 7: Begum was made the captain of the house.

Week 2 (10^th October to 16^th October)

• Day 8: Sakshi was nominated via captain's vote. The housemates nominated Seema and Samir through open nominations.
• Day 12: Rahul was elected the captain of the house.
• Day 13: Sakshi was evicted from the Bigg Boss House. After exiting, Sakshi nominated Begum. WWE wrestler The Great Kahli appeared on the show.

Week 3 (17th October to 23rd October)

• Day 17: Manoj was elected captain of the house. Rahul was ordered to wash clothes of the inmates, after he failed to enforce Bigg Boss rules in his captaincy.
• Day 20: Begum was evicted from the house. Before exiting, Begum nominated Khali.

Week 4 (24th October to 31st October)

• Day 21: Dolly Bindra entered the house as a wild card entry.
• Day 22: Housemates decide to boycott Dolly due to her behavior and verbal fight with Shweta.
• Day 24: Ashmit was elected the captain of the house.
• Day 25: Dolly manipulates Ashmit and Hrishant to believe that she is innocent and pins the night’s chaos on Sara. Consequently, after being manipulated, Ashmit and Hrishant plan to nominate Sara and Shweta.
• Day 26: Bigg Boss stages a fake eviction process and sends Sara to a secret room. Before exiting, Sara nominates Dolly and Samir.
• Day 27: Salman Khan enters the house and spends a day with the inmates.

Week 5 (1st November to 7th November)

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Salman Khan(left) with Ashmit Patel(right) during the Diwali special episode.

• Day 28: Most of the inmates had been breaking rule of talking about nominations. Bigg Boss cancelled the nomination procedure and nominated those contestants who have been breaking this rule. Late at night, Sara re-entered the house.
• Day 30: Ali Merchant enters the house as a guest.
• Day 31: Bigg Boss announces that Ali and Sara will marry on November 10 inside the House. Dolly has an argument with Ashmit regarding task. Hrishant becomes the new house captain beating Samir 6-5 in vote count.
• Day 33: Rahul is evicted from the house.

Week 6 (8th November to 14th November)

• Day 35: Ashmit and Dolly have a verbal fight in the kitchen. Housemates nominate Dolly, Ashmit and Aanchal for next week's nominations.
• Day 38: Sara Khan and Ali Merchant wed inside the house.
• Day 39: Aanchal was evicted from the house. Shweta becomes the house captain beating Veena 7-5 in vote count. Ali Merchant was also asked to leave the house.

Week 7 (15th November to 21st November)

• Day 42: Dolly was nominated via captain's vote. The housemates nominate Sara and Khali through nominations. Dolly and Seema had a fight in the Kitchen; Seema subsequently decides to quit the kitchen team.
• Day 44: Dolly has a verbal fight with Shweta and Samir. Pamela Anderson enters the house as a guest. Bigg Boss decides to cancel the nominations.
• Day 45: Samir and Dolly were evicted from the house following a huge fight in which they broke most of the rules.
• Day 47: Pamela left the house. Salman Khan invited Dolly and Sameer. Dolly apologised to Sameer and admitted her mistakes. Salman asked Sameer if he wants to re-enter the house. Sameer agreed, however the decision was left to Bigg Boss.

Week 8 (22nd November to 29th November)

• Day 49: Samir returns back to the house. Seema was elected the new captain beating Khali in the vote count. Ashmit was nominated via captain's vote, while the housemates nominated Shweta, Hrishant, Samir and Veena.
• Day 50: Bigg Boss has given a task to the leftover contestants of the house that they have to portray the characters of hardcore villagers and modern city people. Bigg Boss has divided them into two teams. The village team comprised of Shweta, Samir, Veena and is headed by Ashmit. Whereas the modern city people team is headed by Seema and comprises of Sara, Hrishant, Manoj and Khali. The city people have to stay inside the house and dress in a modern way and eat only continental food. Whereas the villagers have to stay in the garden area, dress in the village garb and eat food made on stoves. Both the teams have to remain in their respective areas, which is defined by the ‘Lakshman Rekha’.
• Day 51: Bigg Boss asks the city people to make a huge stack of dominoes on the wooden floor. On the other hand, the villagers are asked to make cow dung cakes. Later Bigg Boss also interchanges the teams of Khali and Shweta.
• Day 52: Seema was asked to submit two names for next week's captains. Seema submitted Manoj and Khali's name.
• Day 53: Khali won a majority of votes, hence becoming the new captain of the house.
• Day 55: Hrishant was evicted from the house. Before exiting he nominated Shweta and Samir.

Week 9 (30th November to 6th December)

• Day 56: Dolly enters as a wild-card entry in Bigg Boss, packed in a locked wooden box placed in the garden, where the villagers are sleeping. Samir is called to the confession room and given the key to the box. When Samir open the box, Dolly pops out of the box.
• Day 57: Bigg Boss gave a task known as Paathshaala, where Seema, Manoj and Ashmit act as teachers while rest of the housemates are students.
• Day 58: Bigg Boss hosts an award-giving ceremony in the house, conducted by Dolly Bindra.
• Day 60: Dolly becomes new captain beating Veena 6-1.
• Day 61: Veena kills Sara for abusing her

Ratings, reception and viewership

According to data available with aMap, a television viewership monitoring agency, the opening episode of Bigg Boss 4 on Colors got a rating of 3.6. Season 3 had average rating of 2.43 while Bigg Boss 1 and Bigg Boss 2 had average ratings of 1.96 and 2.03. While Bigg Boss 1 was anchored by Arshad Warsi, Shilpa Shetty hosted Bigg Boss 2 and Amitabh Bachchan for Bigg Boss 3.

This changed when the Sara-Ali wedding episode received a TRP of 4.4 and when Dolly-Shweta-Sameer fight took place and Pamela Anderson entered the house, the show received a TRP of 4.8, its highest TRP to date this season.

Controversies

During the first week of the show's airing, activists of Shiv Sena, a political party, started protesting against the inclusion of Pakistani housemates in the show.

One of the contestants, Sakshi Pradhan felt that she may be pregnant and spoke about her concern to fellow housemates Shweta Tiwari, Veena Malik and Sara Khan. However the video of the conversation was not aired. After receiving permission from Bigg Boss, Sakshi was allowed to leave the house for a short time to see a doctor.

After being evicted from the house, Rahul Bhatt claimed that Bigg Boss is scripted.

In November 2010, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry served a stay order to Bigg Boss, due to complaints of indecent exposure aired on national television. The current time of 9 PM will be shifted to 11pm after 22 November 2010.

External links

• Bigg Boss Season 4 Official Website