The second season of the Malayalam-language version of Indian reality television seriesBigg Boss premiered on 5 January 2020. 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 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. The house is situated at EVP Film City in Chennai, where 17 contestants entered on Day 1 and six joined later as wildcard entries. All housemates are 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 along with a trophy. The show aired daily at 9.00 PM IST. The second season introduced an aftershow titled BB Cafe. 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 and Indian Film & Television Directors' Association to hold shootings of film, TV shows and web series from 19 March to 31 March 2020.
Housemates
The following are the list of housemates in the Bigg Boss house.
Production
The season two of the Malayalam-language version of Bigg Boss is produced by Endemol Shine India and telecast on Asianet. 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. The season two comes with the tagline: Ini Valiya Kalikalumalla, Kalikal Vere Level. The newly designed eye logo was unveiled in November 2019, first promo for the show was also released on that month.
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. 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 rulesof 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, and smoke room for smokers.
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. From 9 March 2020 onward, duration was extended and airing time changed to 9.00 PM on weekdays too. 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. 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. 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.
Guests
Episodes
Nominations table
Voting trend
Week 2- Rajith, Alina, Alasandra, Sujo, Somadas were in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4rth & 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 & 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 & Reshma get 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th respectively. Though, all contestants were saved from eviction
Week 6 - Rajith, Daya & Arya were top 3 with 42%, 20% and 17% respectively. Veena and Sooraj were in 4rth & 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% & 17% while Fukru got 3rd with 15% & Arya secured the 4th place with 11% & 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 & Amrutha secures the 1st position followed by Sujo, Sandra, Shaji in 2nd,3rd & 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 & Raghu in the 2nd, 3rd and 4rth places
