Bigg Boss (Hindi TV series) season 6
Bigg Boss 6 was the sixth season of the Indian reality TV show Bigg Boss, which is telecast on the TV channel Colors. Bigg Boss is the Indian edition of Big Brother (TV series). The season started from 7 October 2012. Salman Khan, who was the host of the previous two seasons, returned as the host for the show.[1] The sixth season was launched as a Parivarik season with a Gujarati tagline- Alag che! (English: It's different). The producers claimed that the contestants on Bigg Boss 6 will be presented with a cleaner, more "family like image". The prize money was reduced to ₹5 million (US$59,909.50) with an amount of 500,000s awarded to the "most entertaining" housemate each week from week 6 onwards. The award was discontinued after four weeks for unknown reasons.
The series was won by soap actress Urvashi Dholakia on 12 January 2013. Imam Siddiqui was the first runner up while Sana Khan and Niketan Madhok were second and third runners-up respectively.
The final episode on 12 January had a 4.4 TVR (television rating points), becoming the highest-rated non-fiction show during the week.[2] The finale also fared better than its previous season, which had dropped to 3.6 TVR. In the fourth season, the finale had rated a 6.7 TVR. The show averaged 3.3 TVR in the week ended 12 January compared to 2.8 in the trailing week.[3]
Participants
- Navjot Singh Sidhu - Former Indian cricketer and Indian Member of Parliament from Amritsar (Lok Sabha constituency).[4]
- Sana Khan - Actress, model and dancer.[5] Khan regards the film as her first break.[5]
- Vrajesh Hirjee - Actor.[6]
- Sampat Pal Devi - Founder and leader of a group of women vigilantes in India's northern Uttar Pradesh state's Banda District, called the "gulabi gang" or "pink gang".[7]
- Urvashi Dholakia - Actress.[8]
- Aashka Goradia - Actress.[9]
- Dinesh Lal Yadav
alias "Nirahua" - |Bhojpuri star.[9][10] - Delnaaz Irani - Actress who separated from her marriage to fellow contestant Rajev Paul in 2010.[11]
- Sapna Bhavnani - Celebrity hairstylist.[12]
- Aseem Trivedi - Indian political cartoonist and activist.[13]
- Rajev Paul - Indian television and theatre actor and writer who split from his marriage to fellow contestant Delnaaz Irani in 2010.[11]
- Sayantani Ghosh - Model, television and film actress.[14]
- Niketan Madhok - Model.[15]
- Karishma Kotak - Model[16][17]
- Kashif Qureshi - Non-celebrity martial arts trainer.[9]
- Mink Brar - Model, actress and producer.[18][19]
- Vishal Karwal - Television actor.[20]
- Imam Siddique - Fashion stylist and reality television personality.[21][22]
- Jyoti Amge - The world's smallest living woman according to the Limca Book of Records and Guinness Book of Records.[23][24]
- Santosh Shukla - Actor.[25]
References
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- ^ Lok Sabha
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- ^ "TV star shocks on 'Sach ka Saamna'!". The Times of India. 21 July 2009.
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- ^ "My audience are the reason for my success - Dinesh Lal Yadav". 13 February 2008.
- ^ a b Vickey Lalwani. "Rajev and Delnaaz Paul split". Times of India 10.45 am IST 22 October 2010. TNN. Retrieved 6 November 2012.
- ^ Prabhu, Vidya (28 February 2012). "The Right Cut". The Indian Express. Retrieved 12 November 2012.
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- ^ Desai, Purva (3 November 2012). "Everyone playing safe in Bigg Boss: Mink Brar". Times of India.
- ^ "Mink Fresh!". The Hindu. 24 July 2006.
- ^ Awaasthi, Kavita (10 November 2012). "Vishal Karwal to enter Bigg Boss as wildcard entry". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 11 November 2012.
- ^ Chatterjee, Swasti (28 October 2013). "Last year's Imam Siddique to enter Bigg Boss 7?". Times of India. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
- ^ "Imam returns to TV with Time Out with Imam Siddique". Times of India. 10 July 2013. Retrieved 25 November 2013.
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- ^ Wadhwa, Akash (17 May 2013). "Salman Khan trains Santosh Shukla". Times of India. Retrieved 25 November 2013.