Bigg Boss Kannada (season 1)


The season one of the Kannada version of Indian reality television series Bigg Boss was broadcast on ETV Kannada in 2013. The show was hosted by Sudeep. A prize amount of 50,00,000 was announced for the winner. The show lasted for 99 days starting from 24 March 2013 to 30 June 2013. A total of 15 contestants and 2 guests had entered the show. The Bigg Boss house, located in Lonavala, was fixed with 47 cameras to capture the activities in the house.

Among the four finalists, Vijay Raghavendra emerged as the title winner with maximum votes, followed by Arun Sagar as runner-up. Nikita Thukral came third and Narendra Babu was fourth. Gurudas Shenoy was the Editor-in-chief for the house reality of this season.

Housemates status

HousematesAgeEnteredExitedResult
Vijay33Day 1Day 99
Arun47Day 1Day 99
Nikita31Day 1Day 99
2nd Runner-up
NarendraDay 1Day 99
3rd Runner-up
Chandrikarowspan="2" Day 1Day 83rowspan="2"
ChandrikaDay 84Day 90--
Anushree25Day 1Day 76
RishikaDay 42Day 62
RohanDay 38Day 55
Jayalakshmirowspan="2" Day 1Day 6rowspan="2"
JayalakshmiDay 27Day 48--
AparnaDay 1Day 41
Thilak31Day 1Day 41
Vinayak25Day 1Day 34
RishiDay 14Day 27
ShwetaDay 1Day 20
Sanjjanaa23Day 1Day 14

Housemates

Wild Card Entries

Guests

Episodes

The episodes were broadcast by ETV Kannada channel at a time slot of 8 to 9 pm daily. After the Grand Finale, the channel continued to telecast Autograph series in which the contestants shared their experience in the house.
Programmes

Weekly Summary

Reception and viewership

As per Indiantelevision.com's news release, the show achieved the highest TRPs than any other Kannada GEC. The launch episode had a rating of 4.7 TRP and the eviction episodes on Fridays reached 6.3 TRP. The week average was about 4.7 TRP.
The SMS votes by the audience were claimed to be approximately 47,000 per contestant and touched a lakh during the finals.

Awards

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