Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao () premiered on 13 July 2009 on Sony TV. It was the first and only Indian series based on British reality game show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. The winner of the show was Mona Wasu, who earned prize money of one crore rupees.

Concept The show is licensed from ITV's format, I'm a Celebrity...Get Me out of Here!. The basic concept is the same, where a group of celebrities have to survive in a jungle camp without any amenities, and must compete with each other to stay on in the show.

Every contestant gets a handful of rice and some soybean or lentils for food every three days, which is clearly not enough for survival. Therefore, they must participate in various physically challenging contests and win "food credits" for themselves and their team members. Each day, the team must nominate one participant to play in the day's contest and be the bread-winner for that day.

At the end of every week, the contestant with the fewest public votes and the contestant with the most elimination nominations from the participants face off in an elimination task called the "Maha Jungle Challenge". The winner of this challenge gets to stay back while the loser is eliminated from the game.

The audience can vote for their favorite participants via phone calls or SMS.

Series overview Season Host(s) Launch date Finale date Days Celebrities Winner 1 Mini Mathur and Yudhishthir Urs 13 July 2009 4 September 2009 54 15 Mona Wasu

Season 1

Ten Indian celebrities were chosen to participate in the only season. They were flown to Taman Negara in the rain-forests of Malaysia, where they had to stay in the jungle in an outdoor camp with little or no luxury amenities. Every contestant was allowed to carry any two luxury items of their choice, which they had to specify before the contest began. The ten celebrities were often divided into different sub-groups and made to compete among themselves every week.

Celebrities Some more celebrities were introduced in later episodes as the original celebrities started getting eliminated.

The 10 original contestants were: Mona Wasu (winner) – Indian television actress. Chetan Hansraj (1st runner up) – Indian television actor. Anaida (2nd runner up) – 90's Pop icon Akashdeep Saigal – Indian Television actor. Aman Verma – Indian film and television actor Marc Robinson – Fashion director and grooming expert Shweta Tiwari (Quit) – Television actress and reality TV star Ishq Bector – Singer Palak Johal – Roadies fame Fiza Mohammad – Former wife of politician Chander Mohan.

The 5 wildcards were: Negar Khan – Model Jay Bhanushali – Indian television and film actor Mika Singh – Popular singer Chitrashi Rawat – Indian actress Kashmera Shah – Film actress

Elimination table Each week the audience votes to save their favourite celebrity to stay in the jungle. The celebrities with the lowest votes face each other off in the "Maha Jungle Challenge" after which the loser is evicted from the jungle.

Contestants No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 No. 4 No. 5 No. 6 No. 7 No. 8 No. 9 No. 10 Mona colspan="7" Bottom two Immune Chetan colspan="3" Bottom two colspan="6" Anaida Bottom two colspan="4" Bottom two colspan="2" Bottom two Evicted(Day 54) Akashdeep colspan="8" Bottom two Evicted(Day 52) JayNot in the Jungle(Entered, Day 22) Bottom two colspan="2" Evicted(Day 50) Aman colspan="2" Bottom two colspan="4" Bottom two Evicted(Day 47) Kashmera Not in the Jungle(Entered, Day 37) colspan="2" Quit(Day 46) Marc colspan="6" Bottom two Evicted(Day 44) Chitrashi Not in the Jungle(Entered, Day 22) colspan="2" Bottom two Evicted(Day 40) Mika Not in the Jungle(Entered, Day 22) Bottom two Evicted(Day 33) Negar Not in the Jungle(Entered, Day 13) Bottom two Evicted(Day 26) Palak colspan="2" Bottom two Evicted(Day 19) Shweta colspan="2" Quit(Day 13) Fiza Bottom two Evicted(Day 12) IshQ Bottom two Evicted(Day 5) Winning Team/ContestantBlue TeamYellow TeamBlue Team Yellow TeamMarcAkashhJayJayAnaidaMona Mona Survivor Anaida Anaida Aman Chetan Jay Jay Anaida Mona Akashh Anaida Quit NoneShwetaNoneKashmera NoneFace-off Challengers Chetan Evicted IshQ Fiza Palak Negar Mika Chitrashi Mark Aman JayAkashdeep Anaida

References

External links Official Sony TV website for Iss Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao