Bigg Boss (Malayalam season 2)
The second season of the Malayalam-language version of Indian reality television series Bigg Boss premiered on 5 January 2020.[1] It was produced by Endemol Shine India and boardcast on Asianet. Mohanlal returned as the host. The show follows a total of 22 contestants, who are isolated from the outside world for 105 days (or 15 weeks) in a custom built house. The housemates are dictated by an omnipresent entity named Bigg Boss. Each week, one or more of the housemates are evicted by a public vote.
| Bigg Boss | |
|---|---|
| Season 2 | |
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| Presented by | Mohanlal |
| No. of days | 75 |
| No. of housemates | 23 |
| Country of origin | India |
| No. of episodes | 76 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Asianet |
| Original release | 5 January – 20 March 2020 |
| Season chronology | |
The house was situated at EVP Film City in Chennai, where 17 contestants entered on Day 1 and six joined later as wildcard entries. All housemates were public figures, such as film, television, music, radio, stage and internet personalities, and models. The winner of the season will receive a flat worth ₹5 million (₹50 lakh) along with a trophy. The show aired daily at 9:00 pm IST. The second season introduced an aftershow titled BB Cafe. On 20 March 2020, the show was discontinued due to COVID-19.[2]
Housemates
The following are the list of housemates in the Bigg Boss house.[3]
| Housemate | Occupation | Day entered | Day exited | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abhirami Suresh | Singer, Composer | Day 49 | Day 75 | Sent home | |
| Amrutha Suresh | Singer, Composer | Day 49 | Day 75 | Sent home | |
| Alina Padikkal | Actress, Television Presenter | Day 1 | Day 39 | Walked | |
| Day 55 | Day 75 | Sent home | |||
| Alasandra Johnson | Model, Air Hostess | Day 1 | Day 32 | Walked | |
| Day 49 | Day 75 | Sent home | |||
| Arya Satheesh | Actress, Television presenter | Day 1 | Day 75 | Sent home | |
| Daya Ashwathy | Activist | Day 21 | Day 39 | Walked | |
| Day 55 | Day 75 | Sent home | |||
| Fukru (Krishna Jeev) | Internet Celebrity | Day 1 | Day 75 | ||
| Raghu Subhash | Radio Jockey | Day 1 | Day 32 | Walked | |
| Day 49 | Day 75 | Sent home | |||
| Saju Navodaya | Actor, Comedian | Day 1 | Day 75 | Sent home | |
| Sujo Mathew | Model | Day 1 | Day 32 | Walked | |
| Day 49 | Day 75 | Sent home | |||
| Reshma Rajan | Actress, Model | Day 1 | Day 32 | Walked | |
| Day 55 | Day 70 | Evicted | |||
| Rajith Kumar | Public speaker, Educator | Day 1 | Day 69 | Ejected | |
| Veena Nair | Actress, Television Presenter | Day 1 | Day 63 | Evicted | |
| Jazla Madasseri | Activist | Day 21 | Day 56 | Evicted | |
| Sooraj V V | Radio Jockey | Day 28 | Day 56 | Evicted | |
| Manju Pathrose | Actress | Day 1 | Day 48 | Evicted | |
| Pradeep Chandran | Actor | Day 1 | Day 42 | Evicted | |
| Pavan Gino Thomas | Model | Day 28 | Day 32 | Walked | |
| Day 37 | Day 40 | Walked | |||
| Thesni Khan | Actress | Day 1 | Day 70 | Evicted | |
| Pareekutty Perumbavoor | Actor, Singer | Day 1 | Day 21 | Evicted | |
| Suresh Krishnan | Film Director | Day 1 | Day 21 | Evicted | |
| Somadas Haridasan | Singer | Day 1 | Day 15 | Walked | |
| Rajini Chandy | Actress | Day 1 | Day 14 | Evicted | |
- Original entrant
- Re-entrant
- Wildcard entrant
Production
The season two of the Malayalam-language version of Bigg Boss is produced by Endemol Shine India and telecast on Asianet.[4] In September 2019, it was confirmed that Mohanlal will return as the host for the second season as well and Asianet announced that season two would take off soon and asked viewers to suggest contestants to be featured on the show through their social media pages.[5] The season two comes with the tagline: Ini Valiya Kalikalumalla, Kalikal Vere Level (it's no longer just big games, now the games will go on its next level).[6][7] The newly designed eye logo was unveiled in November 2019, first promo for the show was also released on that month.[8][9][10][11][12]
House
The House for the first season of Bigg Boss was built at Goregaon Film City, Mumbai. Since season 13 of Hindi Bigg Boss was ongoing at the location, the location has to be shifted to EVP Film City, Chennai, where the first three seasons of Bigg Boss Tamil was filmed.[13][14] The 6000 square feet House was redesigned in the traditional architectural style of Kerala. Along with all the facilities that was available in the first season, the major new addition was a jail room with attached toilet for incarcerating housemates who violate the rules of the House. The essential facilities retained from the first season was dining area, living area, store room, kitchen, two bedrooms with eight beds, washroom, TV, swimming pool, confession room for interacting with Bigg Boss (voice), and smoke room for smokers.[15]
Broadcast
The second season is telecast on Asianet, initially from Monday to Friday at 9:30 pm IST and at 9:00 pm IST on Saturdays and Sundays.[16] From 9 March 2020 onward, duration was extended and airing time changed to 9:00 pm on weekdays too.[17] Asianet also airs an aftershow BB Cafe hosted by Rajesh Keshav and Gopika. The show is available for streaming on the over-the-top platform Hotstar.[18] It is aired in two parts—Bigg Boss and Bigg Boss Plus. Hotstar may or may not contain few bits aired on television at the original airing time.[19] Additionally, the YouTube channel of Asianet also uploads short "UnCut" clips not broadcast on television and Hotstar. The 30-minute BB Cafe Live regularly reads live comments on YouTube and Facebook about each day's episodes.[20]
Guests
| Week(s) | Day(s) | Guest(s) | Purpose of visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Day 6 | Dharmajan Bolgatty | Invited guest, disguised as new entrant in front of housemates and was evicted on the same day by Bigg Boss for leaking outside information. |
| 2 | Day 74 | Mohanlal | To suspend the show due to COVID-19 outbreak |
Episodes
Nominations table
| Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | Nominations Received |
Eviction(s) Faced | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day 47 | Day 51 | ||||||||||||||
| House Captain |
Rajini | Saju | Pradeep | Fukru | Rajith | Saju | Fukru | Rajith | No Captain |
Show discontinued (Day 75) | |||||
| Captain's Nomination |
No Nominations |
Rajith Sujo |
Alasandra Rajith |
Arya Veena |
Pradeep Reshma |
Jasla Rajith |
Rajith Veena |
Jasla | Fukru Jasla |
Abhirami Amritha Sujo |
Not Eligible |
Not Eligible | |||
| Vote to: | None | Evict | Evict/Save | SENT HOME | |||||||||||
| Abhirami | Not in House | Exempt | Arya Saju |
Themselves (to evict) |
Sent Home (Day 75) | 6 | 3 | ||||||||
| Amritha | Not in House | Exempt | Arya Saju |
Themselves (to evict) |
Sent Home (Day 75) | 6 | 3 | ||||||||
| Alasandra | No Nominations |
Rajini Somadas |
Fukru Rajith |
Pradeep Veena |
Pradeep Reshma |
Health Issue (Day 32) |
Exempt | Abhirami and Amritha Saju |
Herself (to save) |
Sent Home (Day 75) | 12 | 4 | |||
| Alina | No Nominations |
Somadas Thesni |
Thesni Veena |
Thesni Veena |
Daya Veena |
Daya Rajith |
Health Issue (Day 39) |
Exempt | Herself (to save) |
Sent Home (Day 75) | 9 | 3 | |||
| Arya | No Nominations |
Rajith Somadas |
Alina Pareekutty |
Raghu Rajith |
Daya Raghu |
Daya Rajith |
Jasla Rajith |
Jasla | Jasla Rajith |
Abhirami Amritha Sujo |
Herself (to save) |
Sent Home (Day 75) | 11 | 5 | |
| Daya | Not in House | Exempt | Pradeep Saju |
Manju Pradeep |
Health Issue (Day 39) | Exempt | Herself (to evict) |
Sent Home (Day 75) | 17 | 4 | |||||
| Fukru | No Nominations |
Alina Rajini |
Alasandra Alina |
House Captain | Daya Reshma |
Jasla Rajith |
Rajith Veena |
Sooraj | Rajith Veena |
House Captain | Himself (to save) |
Sent Home (Day 75) | 6 | 2 | |
| Raghu | No Nominations |
Alina Somadas |
Pareekutty Rajith |
Pradeep Veena |
Pradeep Veena |
Health Issue (Day 32) |
Exempt | Saju Veena |
Himself (to evict) |
Sent Home (Day 75) | 12 | 3 | |||
| Saju | No Nominations |
House Captain | Pareekutty Thesni |
Alasandra Raghu |
Daya Jasla |
House Captain | Alasandra Raghu |
Himself (to evict) |
Sent Home (Day 75) | 11 | 3 | ||||
| Sujo | No Nominations |
Rajith Somadas |
Pareekutty Rajith |
Pradeep Veena |
Pradeep Reshma |
Health Issue (Day 32) |
Exempt | Saju Veena |
Himself (to save) |
Sent Home (Day 75) | 9 | 3 | |||
| Reshma | No Nominations |
Rajini Somadas |
Rajith Veena |
Thesni Veena |
Daya Fukru |
Health Issue (Day 32) |
Exempt | Herself (to evict) |
Evicted (Day 70) |
8 | 3 | ||||
| Rajith | No Nominations |
Manju Suresh |
Arya Reshma |
Arya Saju |
House Captain | Manju Veena |
Fukru Manju |
Sooraj | Fukru Jasla |
Arya Saju |
House Captain | Ejected (Day 69) |
34 | 6 | |
| Veena | No Nominations |
Rajith Sujo |
Alina Rajith |
Raghu Sujo |
Daya Jasla |
Daya Sooraj |
Arya Rajith |
Jasla | Fukru Rajith |
Alasandra Raghu |
Evicted (Day 63) |
23 | 7 | ||
| Jasla | Not in House | Exempt | Pradeep Veena |
Daya Rajith |
Manju Rajith |
Not Eligible |
Arya Veena |
Evicted (Day 63) |
12 | 3 | |||||
| Sooraj | Not in House | Exempt | Arya Veena |
Jasla Rajith |
Not Eligible |
Rajith Veena |
Evicted (Day 56) |
4 | 2 | ||||||
| Manju | No Nominations |
Alina Rajith |
Rajith Suresh |
Raghu Veena |
Daya Sujo |
Daya Rajith |
Rajith Veena |
Sooraj | Evicted (Day 48) |
5 | 2 | ||||
| Pradeep | No Nominations |
Alasandra Rajith |
House Captain |
Rajith Thesni |
Alasandra Daya |
Daya Rajith |
Evicted (Day 42) |
10 | 3 | ||||||
| Pavan | Not in House | Exempt | Walked (Day 40) |
0 | 0 | ||||||||||
| Thesni | No Nominations |
Rajini Sujo |
Pareekutty Suresh |
Arya Veena |
Evicted (Day 27) |
6 | 2 | ||||||||
| Pareekutty | No Nominations |
Alina Rajini |
Raghu Saju |
Evicted (Day 21) |
5 | 1 | |||||||||
| Suresh | No Nominations |
Reshma Somadas |
Alasandra Reshma |
Evicted (Day 21) |
3 | 1 | |||||||||
| Somadas | No Nominations |
Alasandra Rajini |
Walked (Day 15) |
8 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Rajini | House Captain |
Rajith Somadas |
Evicted (Day 14) |
6 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Notes | 1 | 2 | 3, 4, 5 | 6, 7 | 8, 9 | 10 | Show discontinued |
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| Against Public Vote |
None | Alasandra Alina Rajini Rajith Somadas Sujo |
Alasandra Alina Pareekutty Rajith Reshma Suresh Thesni Veena |
Arya Pradeep Rajith Raghu Thesni Veena |
Daya Jasla Pradeep Reshma Veena |
Arya Daya Manju Pradeep Rajith Sooraj Veena |
Arya Fukru Jasla Manju Rajith Veena |
Arya Fukru Jasla Rajith Sooraj Veena |
Abhirami Amritha Alasandra Saju Sujo Veena |
Abhirami Amritha Daya Raghu Reshma Saju |
Abhirami Amritha Alasandra Alina Arya Daya Raghu Saju Sujo | ||||
| Re-Entered | none | Alasandra
Raghu Sujo |
Alina
Daya Reshma |
none | |||||||||||
| Ejected | none | Rajith | none | ||||||||||||
| Walked | none | Somadas | none | Alasandra Pavan Raghu Reshma Sujo |
Alina Daya |
none | |||||||||
| Evicted | No Eviction | Rajini | Pareekutty | Thesni | No Eviction | Pradeep | Manju | Sooraj | Veena | Reshma | Show discontinued | ||||
| Suresh | Jazla | ||||||||||||||
- indicates the house captain.
- indicates that the Housemate was directly nominated for eviction.
- indicates that the Housemate was immune prior to nominations.
- indicates the contestant has been evicted.
- indicates the contestant walked out to emergency.
Notes
- ^Note 1 : On Day 15, Somadas walked-off the house due to his poor health conditions.[21]
- ^Note 2 : 5 housemates (including a nominated contestant) were hospitalized due to a viral infection, they were given a chance to get cured and move onto next week and so there was no eviction.
- ^Note 3 : Due to illness and being hospitalized, Alassandra, Raghu, Pavan and Sujo were exempted from the nomination procedures.
- ^Note 4 : After getting nominated on week 6, Jasla used her immunity power to save herself from the nomination.
- ^Note 5 : On Day 40, Pavan had very poor health condition and decided to walk-off the house for his further treatment.
- ^Note 6 : On Day 46, The housemates nominated Jasla and Sooraj for having weak characters in the house as part of the daily task. Both of them had 3 votes each and they were told to discuss so that one of them will be directly nominated to the Week 8 evictions. At the end, Sooraj stood himself to get nominated.
- ^Note 7 : On Day 49, Alassandra, Raghu and Sujo re-entered the house along with two new wild card entries.
- ^Note 8 : On Day 55, Alina, Daya and Reshma re-entered the house.
- ^Note 9 : After getting nominated on week 9, Arya and Raghu used her immunity power to save herself from the nomination.
- ^Note 10 : On Day 65, Bigg Boss temporarily ejected Rajith for violating the rules of the house after physically harming a lady contestant during a task. Later on Day 70, Rajith got ejected permanently after being rejected by Reshma to re-enter in the Bigg Boss house.
Voting trend
- Week 2- Rajith, Alina, Alasandra, Sujo, Somadas were in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4rth and 5th places respectively and Rajini was eliminated after being in the 6th place.
- Week 3- Rajith Kumar and Veena Nair were in the top 2 while Alina, Sandra, Theshni, Reshma were in 3rd, 4th,5th and 6th places while Pareekutty and Suresh Were eliminated.
- Week 4- Rajith and Veena Nair were in top 2 while Raghu acquired 3rd place, Arya and Praddeep were 4th and 5th, while Thesni Khan was eliminated after ending up in the 6th place.
- Week 5 - Daya Aswathy became the first contestant in Bigg boss Malayalam to gain more than 60% of the vote while Pradeep, Veena, Jazla and Reshma get 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th respectively. Though, all contestants were saved from eviction
- Week 6 - Rajith, Daya and Arya were top 3 with 42%, 20% and 17% respectively. Veena and Sooraj were in 4rth and 5th places while Manju was in the 6th place with 6% and Pradeep with a share of 5.2% got eliminated.
- Week 7- Manju got eliminated with 3% of the total vote while Rajith and Veena were in 1st and 2nd position with 42% and 17% while Fukru got 3rd with 15% and Arya secured the 4th place with 11% and Jasla in 5th with 6%
- Week 8- Both Jazla and Sooraj face a double elimination after ending up in the 6th and 5th positions respectively while Rajith tops the voting followed by Arya, Fukru and Veena.
- Week 9- Veena face elimination with 16% while sisters Abhirami and Amrutha secures the 1st position followed by Sujo, Sandra, Shaji in 2nd,3rd and 4th places respectively.
- Week 10- Reshma got evicted after getting only a share of 3% votes while sisters Abhirami and Amrutha tops again followed by Daya, Shaji and Raghu in the 2nd, 3rd and 4rth places.
Cancellation
On 17 March 2020, Endemol Shine India announced that they are voluntarily suspending all their administrative and production departments until further notice due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, for minimizing the spread and to comply with the safety and precautionary measures suggested by the government. It is also in the wake of decision by Federation of Western India Cine Employees (FWICE) and Indian Film & Television Directors' Association (IFTDA) to hold shootings of film, TV shows and web series from 19 March to 31 March 2020.[22][23] As of 2020, this was the fourth season overall in the Big Brother franchise to have a season discontinued without a winner, following Arab world's Big Brother: The Boss, Serbia's second season of Veliki Brat, and Canada's eighth Big Brother; while the latter also ceasing production for the same reason due to the pandemic, the first two were not caused by the pandemic (Arab world was due to a religious controversy, and Serbia was due to the deaths of the HouseGuests).
Ratings and viewership
Official ratings are taken from BARC India.
| Grand Premiere | Grand Finale | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Viewers (in millions) | TVR Rating | Viewers (in millions) | TRP Rating |
| 20.7[24] | 11.03 | Discontinued | Discontinued |
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