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Bigg Boss 18 also known as Bigg Boss: Time Ka Tandav was the eighteenth season of the Indian Hindi-language reality show Bigg Boss. It premiered on 6 October 2024 on Colors TV and JioCinema. Salman Khan hosted the show for the fifteenth time. The grand finale of the season took place on 19 January 2025, where Karanveer Mehra emerged as the winner, while Vivian Dsena was declared as the first runner-up.
Production
Promotions
Nia Sharma was announced as the first confirmed contestant during the Khatron Ke Khiladi 14 finale on 29 September 2024. However, she later revealed that she would not be participating in the show.
From 3 October to 5 October, promotional clips featuring Shilpa Shirodkar, Shehzada Dhami, Chahat Pandey, Vivian Dsena, Alice Kaushik, Gunratan Sadavarte and Eisha Singh, were released.
On 6 October 2024, the grand premiere promo showcasing Avinash Mishra was released. Additionally, a promo featuring Hrithik Roshan introducing Arfeen Khan and Sara Arfeen Khan were also released the same day.
Broadcast
Bigg Boss 18 weekdays episodes aired on 10 PM. The weekdays episode also includes Tandav Ka Overtime, which meant that the standard hour-long episode was extended with additional content to cover the house events. The weekend episodes, titled Weekend Ka Vaar aired at 9:30 PM hosted by Salman Khan. As in the previous two seasons, a special segment was also included, titled Haaye Daiya with Ravi Bhaiyya, Garda Udaa Denge hosted by Season 1 finalist Ravi Kishan.
Theme
The theme for this season is "Time Ka Tandav". Bigg Boss will play with time, he will see the contestants past, present and future.
Morning anthem
Like the last two seasons, this season also had a morning anthem titled Bigg Boss, Bigg Boss Happy, Happy Morning Hain instead of the usual wake-up songs. Later on, Wake-up Songs were brought back where the housemates were given a choice of 4 songs and had to choose one of them.
Eye logo
The color scheme of the eye combines blue, gold, and white. The design prominently includes a stylized eye at the center, which has a striking blue color with detailed textures, resembling an iris and pupil. Surrounding the eye is a circular clock motif, with gold outlines and clock markings, suggesting a theme of time or vigilance.
Release
The teaser was released on 16 September 2024 voiced by Salman Khan, announcing the arrival and theme of this season. On 22 September 2024, Colors TV released a new promo featuring Khan, marking his return to the show after absence in the OTT version while announcing the premiere date for the new season.
House
The house of this season had a "timeless cave and fort-like" theme. The house was located in Film City, Mumbai for the sixth time. The house had seven sections: living area, kitchen area, dining and sitting area, bedroom area, garden area, jail and confession room. A large Trojan horse structure is at the house's entrance. BB jail of the house resembled a cave, next to the bedroom. The swimming area has rocky surroundings and the bathroom was designed like a Turkish hammam. As in the two previous seasons, the house's entrance and exit were through a tunnel instead of the main door. The house was under the surveillance of 108 cameras.
Housemates status
Housemates
The list of housemates in the order of entering the house:
Original entrants
Wild card entrants
- Digvijay Singh Rathee â Reality TV alumni and actor. He is known for participating in ' and MTV Splitsvilla X5.
- Kashish Kapoor â Reality TV alumnus. She participated in MTV Splitsvilla X5.
- Aditi Mistry â Fitness model, influencer and actress
- Edin Rose â Actress and model. She is known for her roles Gandii Baat and Ravanasura.
- Yamini Malhotra â Actress and dentist. She made her small-screen debut with Ghum Hai Kisikey Pyaar Meiin.
Twists
Bigg Boss "Top 2" prediction
On the Grand Premiere, Salman Khan revealed the top two finalists of the season to be Vivian Dsena and Alice Kaushik, predicted by Bigg Boss. If they both reached the finale, Bigg Boss would open the voting line only for them.
Jail punishment
Time ka Tandav
During Weekend Ka Vaar, a new activity room was introduced. This room of time will be always in present and helps housemates to take important decision based on what happened in past and what will be happen in future.
Weekly summary
The main events in the Bigg Boss 18 house are summarised in the table below.
Nominations table
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indicates the Time God.
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indicates that housemate was evicted by other housemates' votes.
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Nomination notes
- : On Day 3, Housemates had to voice-out to nominate a housemate. If a housemate who is voiced out by housemates receives three or more nominations, they will be nominated.
- : On Day 10, Gunratan left the house due to prior work commitments.
- : On Day 10, Bigg Boss asked Time God to nominate two housemates, they became shopkeepers for the nomination task. In the task, In each round two housemates who were left out will be nominated, while the remaining housemates will be safe.
- : On Day 11, Bigg Boss gave two choices to housemates for receiving a luxury ration, 1. Send two housemates to jail. 2. Evict one of the housemates who were nominated the previous week. The majority of housemates chose a housemate for eviction and Avinash was evicted. Later, Avinash re-entered on the same day.
- : On Day 17, Bigg Boss gave control of nominations to Shrutika where she will choose who can nominate housemates.
- : On Day 18, Bigg Boss assigned the Expiry Soon tag to Sara after Arfeen, who had gained special powers from being in jail, said in past that she didn't deserve to remain in the house. On Day 19, Tajinder and Muskan were ranked the bottom two based on their contributions to the show, which resulted in them receiving the Expiry Soon tag. Bigg Boss issued a stern warning to all three that their time was running out and that one of them would soon face eviction. Following the eviction, Bigg Boss announced that nominations up for public voting are still valid and one housemate would be evicted facing public vote on this weekend.
- : On Day 24, Housemates had to nominate two other housemates while Bigg Boss cancelled Chum's right due to apologizing to other contestants before nomination.
- : On Day 30, the Time God had the right to nominate eight housemates. Digvijay and Kashish were exempt from nominations. After nominations by Time God a maximum of four nominated housemates can be safe from nominations if four or more than four housemates raise their hands to vote for that housemate's safety.
- : On Day 37, Housemates had to nominate two other housemates while the Time God had the right to cancel the votes cast by any three housemates.
- : On Day 41, the Time God was empowered to save one nominated housemate.
- : On Day 44, Bigg Boss gave control of nominations to the Time God where he will grant nomination rights to housemates ranging from 0 to 5.
- : On Day 48, the Time God was empowered to save Kashish from nomination or not.
- : On Day 51, Bigg Boss nominated three new wild card entrants. For the old housemates, the nomination process was conducted in pairs: one could be saved while the other would be nominated. If both members of a pair could not reach a decision, both would face nominations. Additionally, the Time God had the right to save any pair from being nominated. Later, Bigg Boss announced that there would be a double eviction at weekend: one eviction would be determined by the housemates' votes for the new three wild card entrants, while the second would be decided by the audience votes for the nominated old housemates.
- : On Day 55, housemates selected which of the three new wild card entrants they wanted to save from elimination. The entrant with the fewest votes would be evicted.
- : On Day 58, housemates nominated by at least three housemates were directly nominated. However, the Time God was able to exempt three nominees.
- : On Day 63, housemates had to nominate one nominee whom they want to evict from the house.
- : On Day 65, housemates had to nominate two other housemates while the Time God was empowered to save any housemate from that housemate and any housemate could be saved from a maximum of three housemates.
- : On Day 68, a nominated housemate had the opportunity to save themselves from elimination. To do this, the other safe housemates attempted to reach the Time God while carrying a photo of the housemate they wanted to save. In each round, the safe housemate who reached the Time God last would sacrifice the photo of the nominated housemate they carried, leading to the latter's nomination remaining intact.
- : On Day 72, the housemates were required to nominate two fellow housemates. Meanwhile, the Time God had the authority to cancel the nomination rights of one male housemate and two female housemates.
- : On Day 75, Bigg Boss granted Time God the authority to change nominations. If Time God chose a nominated housemate, that individual would remain nominated. However, if a safe housemate was chosen instead, that safe housemate could swap any nominated housemate with a safe one. At the end of the task, Time God requested additional rations, as rations were linked to the nomination process. In response, Bigg Boss decided to distribute all rations while simultaneously nominating all housemates.
- : On Day 76, Time God ranked housemates from 1 to 13, The six lowest-ranked housemates were eligible for eviction. Every housemate voted for which of the six they wanted to evict.
- : On Day 79, Bigg Boss had the authority to allocate "lives" to each housemate, with a minimum of 1 and a maximum of 5. Housemates could then nominate any two individuals, and those whose lives were exhausted would face direct nomination.
- : On Day 82, Time God got the power to save any nominated housemate.
- : On Day 86, Time God would save any two housemates and after saving them Time God will call other housemates in a order as per her decision where those housemate will save any housemate while replacing them with one who is already in safe zone putting them into nominated.
- : On Day 93, nominations took place in groups. Each group was tasked with counting for exactly 13 minutes. The group that deviated the most from this time would face nomination.
- : On Day 96, Chaahat and Rajat still remained nominated for weekend's eviction process.
- : On Day 100, All housemates were nominated by Bigg Boss as it was Finale Week and all will be nominated till the end of week.
- : On Day 102, All finalists were nominated by Bigg Boss for winning the season.
Guest appearances
Reception
The series grand premiere episode was reviewed by NDTV. During the grand premiere of Bigg Boss 18, as Salman Khan announced Vivian's entry the viewership of JioCinema grew by 0.1 crores within seconds as his name was announced on Sunday evening. The grand finale of Bigg Boss 18 achieved a TRP of 3.1, marking one of the highest ratings for the show in recent years, only surpassed by Bigg Boss 13.
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