Bigg Boss (Malayalam TV series) season 1

Bigg Boss Malayalam 1 is the first season of Malayalam language version of the reality TV show Bigg Boss broadcast in India. The show premiered on June 24, 2018 on Asianet. Veteran actor Mohanlal is the host of the show. For the first season, a splendid home had set up in Lonavala. The winner will be awarded a prize money of ₹1 crore (US$120,000).

The show is being aired every Monday to Friday at 9:30 PM (IST) and 9:00 PM (IST) on weekends on Asianet channel and is also available on VOD and OTT platform Hotstar. Some new elements called 'Unseen', 'Spicy specials' and 'Bigg Boss Plus' was introduced by way of unseen and extra footage's uploaded on Hotstar. This footages showed parts of the day that weren't included in the episode, from 'wake-up call' to 'lights out'.

Housemates

Following are the housemates entered the Bigg Boss house..

Housemates	Occupation	Status
Original Entrance
Aditi Rai	Actor
Anoop Chandran	Film, TV actor
Archana Suseelan	TV actor
Aristo Suresh	Actor, Singer
Basheer Bashi	Entrepreneur, Actor
Pearle Maaney	Television anchor, Film actor, VJ
Ranjini Haridas	Television personality
Sabumon Abdusamad	Actor, Host
Srinish Aravind	TV actor
Diya Sana	Activist	Evicted on Day 42
Shweta Menon	Flim actor	Evicted on Day 35
Deepan Murali	TV actor	Evicted on Day 28
Sreelakshmi Sreekumar	Television anchor, Film actress	Evicted on Day 27
Hima Shankar	Film, Theater artist	Evicted on Day 21
David John	Model, TV actor	Evicted on Day 7
Manoj K Verma	Businessman	Walked on Day 4
Wildcard Entrance
Anjali Ameer	Model, Film Actress	Entered on Day 35 Walked on Day 45
Shiyas Kareem	Model, Pageant Winner, actor	Entered on Day 15

Guests

Week(s)	Day(s)	Guest(s)	Purpose of Visit
7	Day 48	Kamal Haasan, Pooja Kumar, Mahesh Narayan,Anant Mahadevan and Mohamaad Ghibran	To promote their film Vishwaroopam II.

Weekly summary

The main events in the house are summarized 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. Evictions, tasks, and other notable events for a particular week are noted in order of sequence.

Week 1	Entrances	Aditi, Anoop, Archana, Aristo Suresh, Basheer, David, Deepan, Diya, Hima, Manoj, Pearle, Ranjini, Sabumon, Shweta, Sreelakshmi and Srinish entered the Bigg Boss house on Day 0.
	Daily Tasks	Manakkannu On Day 1, Each housemate were asked to give their first impression on their co-contestants about the one who doesn't deserve to be an alone participant of the show. Aditi was the one with most votes. Aadya Pranayam On Day 2, Each housemate were asked to talk about their first love. Ente Jeevitham On Day 3, The housemates were asked to talk about a situation whether it's good or bad which made a huge impact/difference in their life. Musical Chair On Day 5, The housemates were given a musical chair task. A song is played and a balloon is passed to every contestant and when the song stops, whoever holding the balloon will need to take a note (a sub-task wrote) and make any other housemates to do it. The one who remains until the end will win the task. Hima won the task.
	Captaincy Task	On Day 1, The housemates were asked to elect the first house captain by voting a contestant based on their personal opinions. As Aditi was voted the highest on the previous task (Manakkannu), she cannot be a part of this task and hence can't be the house captain for the first week.
	Result	Won - Shwetha
	Nomination	Bigg Boss announced the rules and each housemate were called in the confession room for the nomination. Each housemate had to nominate 2 people. Aditi, David, Diya, Hima and Srinish were nominated for the elimination. As the house caption, Shweta was given a special power to nominate a housemate except those who nominated by the normal nomination procedure. She chose Suresh to be nominated.
	Luxury Budget Task	On Day 2, The contestants were given their first Luxury budget task in which the housemates were required to dance on a moving flapped wheel by the time when the given song is played for each contestant. Twenty-Twenty On day 3, The housemates were divided into two groups namely, Mammootty and Mohanlal. They needed to wear the costume of the respected actors according to the group in which they are in till the task ends. The group members need to dance together when their respective songs are played. The housemates won the task and were credited the Luxury budget.
	Exits	Walked On Day 4, Manoj left the Bigg Boss house due to his poor health conditions. Evicted On Day 7, David became the first housemate to evict from the house after facing the public vote.
Week 2	Captaincy Task	On Day 5, Swetha was asked to choose two deserving candidates among the non-nominated housemates to be the part of next (Week 2) captaincy task. She chose Archana and Ranjini. Dwandha Yudham Both the candidates will need to put on a tag (ranking 1-13) to the housemates based on the popularity they think they have. Each candidate needs to be aware of the ranking made by the opposing candidate. After the final buzzer, the candidates are called in the confession room one by one and is required to tell the ranking made by the opposite candidate without any fault in order to become the house captain.
	Result	Won - Ranjini
	Nomination	The house captain was asked to nominate 7 out of all the contestants to be in the nomination list in which the co-housemates could select two for this weeks nomination. Captain chose Anoop, Hima, Deepan, Diya, Pearle, Srinish, Suresh. Anoop, Deepan, Hima, Pearle and Suresh were nominated for elimination.
	Luxury Budget Task	On Day 9, The housemates were required to make chains/bangles. Sabumon and Ranjini were essayed to be the owners and has money of total 1 lakh each which is needed to distribute to the other housemates on their demand to work with them. In the end, the one who has more money will be the winner and will be a candidate for the next (week 3) captaincy task. On Day 9, Bigg Boss ordered for 75 chains. The housemates failed to reach the target. On Day 10, the second day of the task, an order of 85 chains was given and the housemates again failed to reach the target number again. The housemates failed the task. Anoop had more money and hence became a candidate for the house captain. On Day 11, The owners (Ranjini and Sabu) were asked to choose one candidate from each of their team to stand as candidates for house captain. They chose Srinish and Shweta Secret Task On Day 10, a secret task was given to Diya. She was required to make the housemates fail to complete the second order unless she will be directly nominated for the eviction. If successful, she will be a candidate for the house captain for the third week. Diya failed the secret task. Luxury Goal On Day 11, a final chance to gain the luxury budget was given. Only those housemates who won the daily task (Rasakkoottu) could take part in this task. Different footballs will be set up with a luxury food name on it. The contestants need to shoot a perfect goal with eyes closed in order to obtain that particular luxury food. The housemates obtained three luxury food.
	Task	Mookhabhinayam The housemates were asked to show off their acting skills through mime and were divided to two groups. Ranjini and Shweta were assigned as judges. Team A: Anoop, Archana, Basheer, Deepan, Sreelakhsmi, Srinish Team B: Aditi, Diya, Hima, Pearle, Sabumon, Suresh
	Result	Won - Team B
	Daily Task	Rasakkoottu On Day 11, The housemates divided into two groups and were asked to make a dessert with the items given within 15 minutes. The house captain will declare the winning team based on the taste of the foods made. Team Shweta: Aditi, Anoop, Sabumon, Deepan, Sreelakhsmi, Suresh Team Archana: Basheer, Diya, Hima, Pearle, Ranjini
	Result	Won - Team Archana
	Secret Task	A secret task to fool Diya was given to Sabumon. With the help of other housemates, he became successful in the task.
Week 3	Captaincy Task	The candidates (Anoop, Shweta and Srinish) will be connected in a rope with three hooks attached to each candidate. The one who stays with the rope without detaching the hook will be the house captain. Anoop unhooked himself and walked off from the task.
	Result	Won - Srinish
	Nomination	Each housemate had to nominate 2 person. Anoop, Hima, Ranjini, and Sabumon were nominated. Later, the house captain saved Ranjini and replaced Sreelakshmi to be ominated with his special power.
	Entrances	On Day 15, Shiyas Kareem entered the house as a wild card contestant.
	Daily Tasks	Sanga Nritham On Day 15, All the housemates were asked to dance on Bigg Boss's theme song. Nyaaya Vidhi On Day 18, Housemates were given a card in which they were required to mention a complaint about a particular co-housemate. A court was made from where the housemates can speak their opinions. Anoop was assigned as the judge of the court. Punishments are given if one found to be wrong proving him/herself.
	Weekly Task	On Day 16, Ranjini was assigned as a serial killer whom needed to kill particular housemates secretively by the way and time Bigg Boss orders through a secret mobile phone. Shiyas was told to help Ranjini secretively in her missions. On Day 17, second day of the task, Sabu and Shweta were assigned the duty of police whom are needed to investigate the murders happening around the house. Later, Shweta was killed. Sabu identified that the murders were done by Shiyas and Ranjini by his tricky questions. He was given promotion by Bigg Boss as CID Sabu. Later, the housemates won the luxury budget task.
	Exit	On Day 21, Hima evicted from the show after facing the public vote.
Week 4	Captaincy Task	Housemates chose Basheer, Ranjini and Sabumon for captaincy. Each candidates has to sit inside a small box in which only their head can be seen out with knees bend. The one who stands appropriated for the longest time will be the House captain.
	Result	Won - Ranjini
	Nomination	Housemates mutually decided Aditi, Deepan, Pearle, Sreelakshmi, Shiyas and Srinish to be in the nomination list. Later, each housemates chose two among these six housemates to be nominated. Finally, Aditi, Deepan, Sreelakshmi and Srinish got nominated for eviction.
	Luxury Budget Task	On Day 23, Housemates were required to bypass 7 tasks to win the luxury budget. The 7 tasks were, Chithram Vichithram (failed), Minnunnathellaam Ponnalla (won), Haylessah (failed), Bharghavi Nilayam (failed), Task 4 (won). On Day 24, second day of the task, two task were given, KKPP (won), Teeta Rappayi (won). On Day 25, third day of the task, the seventh and the final task to achieve luxury budget was given, Aadambhara Yathra (won). Housemates credited the luxury of 1625 rupees.
	Daily Task	Sundari Neeyum Sundaran Njanum On Day 24, Housemates had to perform a comedy skit with a 'Pennu Kaanal' theme. Each housemates were given certain characters to play off their roles.
	Other Task	Vijaarana On Day 25, A court was made and Sabumon was assigned as its judge. Housemates had to mention their complaints. Mounam Udaaryam On Day 26, A bowl with several food names written in paper slots was given to the housemates. They divided into two groups and required to read the slot and make it known to other housemates with actions or symbols only. If become successful, that particular food will be given to the housemates.
	Exit	On Day 27, Sreelakshmi evicted from the show after facing the public vote. On Day 28, Deepan evicted from the show after facing the public vote. This was the first time that two housemates were evicted from the show on the same week.
Week 5
	Captaincy Task	On Day 26, Housemates chose Aditi, Archana and Pearle for captaincy. Candidates were required to fill their baskets with red-star punched balls within a minute among thousand balls. The one who fills the most number of balls will be the winner. At first, Aditi took 6, Archana and Pearle took 7 balls each. Hence, a second round conducted among Archana and Pearle from which Archana took 8 and Pearle took 9 balls.
	Result	Won - Pearle
	Luxury Budget Task	Amma Malayalam On Day 30, A school was made to teach the housemates the importance of Malayalam language. Anoop, Diya and Suresh were assigned as Malayalam teacher, Head of the Department and Music teacher respectively and else all housemates students. On Day 31, second day of the task, Housemates were asked to choose the best performer of the luxury budget task. They chose Anoop and became a candidate for captaincy.
	Nomination	Housemates were assembled in the activity area. They individually asked to paint the face and shared opinion about their nominations. Ranjini and Shweta were nominated for eviction with seven and ten votes respectively.
	Other Task	Thattukada Housemates had to cover a cookery show. Ranjini is the host of the show. Sabumon, Suresh and Basheer were assigned as the cook, the owner and the helper respectively and else all the viewers.
	Exit	On Day 35, Shweta evicted from the show after facing the public vote.
Week 6
	Captaincy Task	On Day 32, Anoop and Sabumon were asked to choose two among all the housemates to be with them for the captaincy task. They chose Diya and Suresh. Only one among these two will be eligible for the captaincy task. Panja Gusthi Diya and Suresh had to win an arm wrestling competition in order to be a candidate for captaincy. They were allowed to choose two among all the housemates to compete on behalf of them. Diya chose Shiyas and Suresh chose Srinish. Shiyas won the competition and hence Diya became the third candidate for the captaincy task. Bicycle Race On Day 33, The three candidate that been elected had an activity to participate. The activity was to ride a bicycle, the winner will be the one who manages to ride for a longer duration. And for a twist, each bicycle had a picture of the candidates in front of them covered. Diya won the activity but the picture in front of the bicycle was of Sabumon, hence Sabumon won the competition. Pakal vs Iruttu On Day 34, housemates voted against each contestant as who feel Raavu and Pakal, according to the vote Suresh selected as Pakal and Diya selected as Raavu. Suresh and Diya selected as captain of Pakal and Raavu accordingly and ask them to prepare their team to play the game Piramid
	Result	Won - Sabumon
	Entrances	On Day 35, Anjali Ameer entered the house as a wild card contestant.
	Nomination	Housemates divided into two groups and each had to nominate two among the opposite group. Archana, Diya and Pearle were nominated with normal voting procedures. As a house captain, Sabumon was given special power to nominate two other housemates. He chose Basheer and Srinish and were nominated for eviction.
	Luxury Budget Task	Shaktiman On Day 37, Housemates had to wear a bag with some weights (dumbbells with 10 kg, total 86 kg) and had to stand wearing it till the last buzzer. Each weights contains several points for luxury. If one continues to stay with put-ons's for two buzzer simultaneously, he/she will be able to be a candidate for captaincy and will be credited a bonus of 200 points. Basheer continued for first the two rounds and became a candidate for captaincy. Later, Archana and Srinish completed third and fourth rounds.
	Other Tasks	Bigg Boss Awards On Day 37, All the housemates were asked to dress up for the award niht and Pearle was chosen as the host of the show. Sabumon won most number of awards. Adimakkannu On Day 40, The nominees for eviction this week (Srinish, Pearle, Basheer, Archana and Diya) were asked to pick a slave each and were given full powers to make their slaves do anything for them.
	Daily Task	Bogg Boss Brother's Kadha Prasangam On Day 38, Anoop and Suresh were ordered to plan a lyrical narration of a particular incident in the house.
	Promotional Task	Fogg Sugandhangal On Day 38, The game was to identify the name of the deodorant by its fragrance. Housemates were divided into two groups and one from each group could smell the deodorant and narrate its fragrance through a poetic explanation. Team Pearle: Aditi, Anjali, Diya, Ranjini, Suresh Team Sabumon: Anoop, Archana, Basheer, Shiyas, Srinish
	Result	Won - Team Pearle
	Exit	On Day 42, Diya Sana evicted from the house after facing the public vote.
Week 7
	Captaincy Task	Bigg Boss Karannavar On Day 40, The housemates were ordered to vote for the one whom they think is deserving enough to be the 'Karanavar'. Everyone delivered good speeches and Archana was voted as as the new 'Karanavar' of the house.
	Nomination	Bigg Boss announced the nomination process and invited two people to the confession room and. The housemates had to mutually decide the one between them to be nominated for eviction. Anoop, Pearle, Sabumon and Suresh were nominated for eviction. Since Aditi and Anjali could not end up in a decision, Archana as a house captain was given a special power to nominate one among them. She chose Aditi to be nominated.
	Luxury Budget Task	Chakravyuham On Day 44, In the puzzle round, housemates were asked to find the hidden luxury point in the paint buckets placed in the game zone. Each player had to keep in mind the direction to the treasure given by Bigg Boss and play accordingly. Basheer was chosen as the secret messenger by Bigg Boss and he was given the task to spoil the housemates’ luxury task. Anjali Ameer was taken to the hospital after becoming ill.
	Daily Task	Kadhayile Thaaram On Day 44, Each housemate was asked to tell a story with the given plot. Everyone displayed their creativity and Ranjini was chosen as the winner of the task. Ennile Njan On Day 46, the housemates were asked to chose a color with a hidden topic and talk on it.
	Exit	Walked On Day 45, Anjali Ameer left the show due to her poor health conditions.
Week 8
	Captaincy Task	On Day 46, Bigg Boss announced to select the captain nominees for the week eight and housemates selected Anoop, Shiyas, and Aditi for the captaincy task. On Day 47, The candidates were asked to take part in this task. The primary task is to eat 12 pieces of Puttu (A Kerala dish made up of rice flour) and 12 bananas in a fixed time.
	Result	Won - Shiyas

Nominations

	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
House Captain	Shweta	Ranjini	Srinish	Ranjini	Pearle	Sabumon	Archana	Shiyas
Captain's Nomination	Suresh	None	Ranjini (to save) Sreelakshmi (to evict)	Aditi Srinish	Ranjini Shweta	Basheer Srinish	Aditi
Vote to:	Evict
Aditi	Diya David	Deepan Pearle	Anoop Pearle	Pearle Srinish	Sabumon Shweta	Archana Diya	None
Anoop	Aditi Srinish	Deepan Hima	Hima Ranjini	Sreelakshmi Srinish	Ranjini Shweta	Archana Diya	Himself
Archana	Aditi David	Anoop Pearle	Aditi Sreelakshmi	Shiyas Sreelakshmi	Shiyas Shweta	Anoop Shiyas	House Captain
Basheer	Aditi Srinish	Deepan Diya	Ranjini Shweta	Aditi Sreelakshmi	Ranjini Shweta	Archana Diya	Sabumon
Pearle	Hima Manoj	Srinish Suresh	Deepan Hima	Aditi Deepan	House Captain	Archana Ranjini	Herself
Ranjini	David Srinish	House Captain	Anoop Sabumon	House Captain	Basheer Suresh	Basheer Pearle	Anoop
Sabumon	Archana Basheer	Hima Pearle	Hima Ranjini	Deepan Srinish	Ranjini Shweta	House Captain	Himself
Shiyas	Not in House		Exempt	Deepan Pearle	Ranjini Shweta	Archana Diya	Pearle	House Captain
Srinish	Aditi Anoop	Pearle Suresh	House Captain	Aditi Sreelakshmi	Ranjini Sweetha	Archana Diya	Suresh
Suresh	Aditi Hima	Deepan Hima	Basheer Ranjini	Deepan Sreelakshmi	Ranjini Shweta	Archana Diya	Himself
Anjali	Not in House					Pearle Suresh	None	Walked (Day 45)
Diya	Aditi David	Pearle Suresh	Ranjini Sreelakshmi	Aditi Shiyas	Ranjini Shweta	Basheer Pearle	Evicted (Day 42)
Shweta	House Captain	Hima Suresh	Anoop Basheer	Deepan Srinish	Anoop Suresh	Evicted (Day 35)
Deepan	Aditi Basheer	Anoop Suresh	Ranjini Shweta	Pearle Shiyas	Evicted (Day 28)
Sreelakshmi	David Diya	Anoop Hima	Archana Sabumon	Deepan Srinish	Evicted (Day 27)
Hima	Aditi Srinish	Anoop Pearle	Ranjini Sabumon	Evicted (Day 21)
David	Aditi Archana	Evicted (Day 7)
Manoj	Diya Hima	Walked (Day 4)
Notes	1	2, 3	4	5, 6	7	8, 9	10, 11, 12
Nominated	Aditi David Diya Hima Srinish Suresh	Anoop Deepan Hima Pearle Suresh	Anoop Hima Sabumon Sreelakshmi	Aditi Deepan Sreelakshmi Srinish	Ranjini Shweta	Archana Basheer Diya Pearle Srinish	Aditi Anoop Pearle Sabumon Suresh
Walked	Manoj	none					Anjali	none
Evicted	David	No Eviction	Hima	Sreelakshmi	Shweta	Diya
				Deepan

Notes

  indicates the House Captain.

  indicates the housemate was directly nominated for eviction prior to the regular nominations process.

  indicates the housemate was granted immunity from nominations.

• ^Note 1 : Manoj left the show due to his poor health conditions.
• ^Note 2 : The house captain was asked to nominate 7 out of all the contestants to be in the nomination list in which the co-housemates could select two for this weeks nomination. Captain chose Anoop, Hima, Deepan, Diya, Pearle, Srinish, Suresh.
• ^Note 3 : Pearle and Suresh were safe and Anoop was about to evict but Shweta's decision to forgive him for confronting her in the captaincy task made him safe from eviction. Hence, No housemate evicted on Week 2.
• ^Note 4 : As a new housemate, Shiyas was exempted from the eviction and nomination procedures.
• ^Note 5 : Housemates mutually decided Aditi, Deepan, Pearle, Sreelakshmi, Shiyas and Srinish to be in the nomination list. Later, each housemate chose two among these to be nominated. Finally, Aditi, Deepan, Sreelakshmi and Srinish got nominated for eviction.
• ^Note 6 : After Sreelakshmi's eviction on day 27, Deepan was evicted on day 28. For the first time, two housemates were evicted from the house in the same week.
• ^Note 7 : Housemates were assembled in the activity area. They individually asked to paint the face and shared the opinion about their nominations. Ranjini and Shweta were nominated for eviction with seven and ten votes respectively and on day 35, Shweta evicted from the show after facing the public votes.
• ^Note 8 : As a new housemate, Anjali was exempted from being nominated but she was allowed to nominate two housemates.
• ^Note 9 : Archana saved herself from eviction by winning the captaincy task.
• ^Note 10 : Aditi and Anjali could not end up in a decision about their nomination. Both the housemates were not ready to be nominated for eviction.
• ^Note 11 : Bigg Boss ordered Archana to chose one between Anjali and Aditi for the eviction. Archana chose Aditi saying that Anjali has recently come to the house.
• ^Note 12 : On Day 44, Anjali was taken to the hospital after becoming ill and on Day 45, she left the show due to her poor health conditions.

Ratings and Viewership

Official ratings are taken from BARC India.

Grand Premiere		Grand Finale
Viewers (in millions)	TVR Rating	Viewers (in millions)	TRP Rating
20.5	10.33	TBA	TBA

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