Bigg Boss 11, also known as Bigg Boss 11: Padosi Bajayenge Barah, is the 11th season of Indian reality TV series Bigg Boss, which aired on Colors TV. Salman Khan returned to host the show for the 8th time. It premiered on 1 October 2017. The grand finale of the show, took place on 14 January 2018 when Shilpa Shinde emerged as the winner and Hina Khan as the runner-up.The season achieved strong ratings and was considered a success at that point in the show's run.
This was the second season of Bigg Boss to appear on Voot. Like the previous season, viewers are offered extension properties such as Unseen Undekha, Cutless and a new weekend special, Bigg Buzz. For the first time, the voting could only be done via Voot.
Housemates status
Sr Housemate Status 1 Shilpa Day 1 Day 105 2 Hina Day 1 Day 105 3 Vikas Day 1 Day 105 4 Puneesh Day 1 Day 105 5 Aakash Day 1 Day 102 6 Luv Day 1 Day 98 7 Priyank Day 1 Day 6 Day 26 Day 91 8 Arshi Day 1 Day 83 9 Hiten Day 1 Day 77 10 Bandgi Day 1 Day 63 11 Sapna Day 1 Day 56 12 Benafsha Day 1 Day 49 13 Mehjabi Day 1 Day 42 14 Sabyasachi Day 1 Day 42 15 Pooja Day 21 Day 35 16 Jyoti Day 1 Day 28 17 Lucinda Day 1 Day 15 18 Shivani Day 1 Day 14 19 Zubair Day 1 Day 7
Production Eye Logo The eye had two colours this time - white and yellow. The lens was separately situated at the center of the eye. The eye was sliced into two parts diagonally having cracks in both sides.
House The house had a "padosi" theme which referred to neighbour in English. New sections called Aakhara (activity area) and Kalkothri (jail) were introduced for the first time.
Housemates The participants in the order of appearance and entered in house are:
Original entrants Hiten Tejwani – Television and film actor. Hiten is remembered for his roles in Kutumb,Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, Kasautii Zindagii Kay and Gangaa. Luv Tyagi – Model and civil engineer. Mehjabi Siddiqui – Housewife. Lucinda Nicholas – Australian model, actress and yoga instructor. She made her debut in the Bollywood film Boss featured Akshay Kumar and Yo Yo Honey Singh in the popular song "Party All Night". In 2016, she played a cameo role in Ekta Kapoor's show Pardes Mein Hai Mera Dil. Sabyasachi Satpathy – TV host, dancer, designer. Sapna Choudhary – A famous Haryanvi dancer. Sshivani Durga – Self-styled God woman. Priyank Sharma – Dancer, model and reality TV star. Priyank is known for participating in MTV Roadies and MTV Splitsvilla. Benafsha Soonawalla – MTV VJ, model. Benafsha participated in MTV Roadies. Akash Dadlani – Rapper. Jyoti Kumari – Student. Bandgi Kalra – Model and software engineer. Arshi Khan – Model, actress and dancer. Hina Khan – Television actress. Hina is known for her role as Akshara Singhania in Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai. She is the first runner-up in Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi (2017). Puneesh Sharma – Reality TV star. He is the winner of the reality show Sarkaar Ki Duniya. Vikas Gupta – Producer. Vikas is known as the head of channels MTV India and &TV. He was also the head creative producer of the show Kis Desh Mein Hai Meraa Dil. Shilpa Shinde – Television actress. Shilpa is known for her role as Angoori Bhabhi in Bhabiji Ghar Par Hain! Zubair Khan – Director.
Wild card entrants Dhinchak Pooja – Singer.
Twists The theme of the season was called the 'Padosi theme' where four housemates will be seen in another house and give tough tasks. On the premiere night, Lucinda Nicholas, Mehjabi Siddiqui, Sabyasachi Satpathy and Luv Tyagi were introduced as the four neighbours. They had to re-enact as real neighbors upon entering the main house to gain powers.
Housemates allotment Housemate Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Days 1–14 Day 14 Day 15 Day 16 , Akash Main HousePadosi theme ended Main House Arshi Main House Main House Bandgi Main House Main House Benafsha Main House Main House Hina Main House Main House Hiten Main House Main House Luv Padosi Main House Mehjabi Padosi Main House Puneesh Main House Main House Sabyasachi Padosi Main House Sapna Main House Main House Shilpa Main House Main House Vikas Main House Main House Lucinda Padosi Main House Shivani Main House Zubair Main House Priyank Main House
: Lucinda, Mehjabi, Sabyasachi and Luv had powers to nominate and save a housemate. : All four of the Padosi's entered the main house. : Housemates had to evict one Padosi and therefore Lucinda was evicted.
Sultani Akhada The season introduced a new segment called "Sultani Akhada" on the premiere night. In this segment, two housemates compete against each other in tasks during the "Weekend Ka Vaar" with Salman Khan. The competition consists of two rounds. The first round is a debate between the two housemates, and the second round is a light wrestling match. The housemate who scores the most points through both rounds is declared the winner. The final Sultani Akhada of the season took place in Week 14 on Day 98. Weeks 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Day 7 Day 14 Day 20 Day 27 Day 35 Day 42 Day 49 Day 55 Day 63 Day 70 Day 77 Day 83 Day 91 Day 98 Participants for Sultani Akhada ArshiSapna ArshiShilpa ArshiHina PoojaSapna AkashPriyank VikasPriyank ShilpaHina AkashPuneesh LuvPuneesh ArshiShilpa Arshi/VikasHina/Priyank LuvPriyank Hina/Vikas/AkashShilpa/Puneesh/Luv AkashPuneesh Winner Sapna ArshiNoWinner Sapna Priyank Vikas Shilpa Puneesh Luv Arshi Arshi/Vikas Priyank Team Hina Puneesh
Guest appearances Week Day Guest(s) Purpose of visit Ref(s) 1 Grand Premiere Varun Dhawan, Jacqueline Fernandez & Taapsee Pannu To promote their film Judwaa 2 Gauri Pradhan To support husband Hiten Tejwani Ekta Kapoor To support friend Vikas Gupta Anita Hassanandani Salma Agha Karan Patel Karan Kundrra Day 5 Sweta Singh As panellists on Friday Ka Faisla Pritam Singh Malishka Mendonsa Day 7 Rohit Shetty To promote their film Golmaal Again Ajay Devgan Parineeti Chopra Tabu Hashmi Tusshar Kapoor Shreyas Talpade Kunal Khemu 2 Day 12 Manu Punjabi & Sargun Mehta As panellists on Friday Ka Faisla Day 14 Ravi Dubey & Rithvik Dhanjani Special appearances 3Day 21 Arjun Bijlani Special appearances Jasmin Bhasin Rashami Desai Rubina Dilaik Avika Gor & Meghna Malik To promote their show Laado 2 – Veerpur Ki Mardani Aditya Narayan & Asha Negi To promote their show Entertainment Ki Raat 4 Day 27 Gauahar Khan For special immunity task Rohit Shetty, Ajay Devgan, Parineeti Chopra & Tabu Hashmi To celebrate the success of their film Golmaal Again Day 28 Gaurav Gera Special appearance Manu Punjabi & Lopamudra Raut Special appearances as panellists Balraj Syal, Dipika Kakar & Divyansh Dwivedi To promote their show Entertainment Ki Raat 5 Day 35 Tanishaa Mukerji, Karanvir Bohra & Sweta Singh To give immunity task 6 Day 41 Kapil Sharma To promote his film Firangi Day 42 Vidya Balan To promote her film Tumhari Sulu 7 Day 48 Arbaaz Khan & Sunny Leone To promote their film Tera Intezaar Day 49 Deepika Padukone To promote her film Padmaavat 8 Day 56 Remo D'Souza, Jacqueline Fernandez, Daisy Shah, Bobby Deol, Saqib Saleem & Ramesh S. Taurani To promote their film Race 3 9 Days 62–63 Katrina Kaif To promote her film Tiger Zinda Hai 10 Days 67–68 Shriniwas Sharma To support his son Puneesh Sharma Mohammad Arman Khan To support his daughter Arshi Khan Geeta Shinde To support her daughter Shilpa Shinde Divya Agarwal To confront and breakup with boyfriend Priyank Sharma Sharda Gupta To support her son Vikas Gupta Sunita Dadlani To support her son Akash Dadlani Rocky Jaiswal To support his girlfriend Hina Khan Gauri Pradhan To support her husband Hiten Tejwani Day 69 Karan Patel, Karishma Tanna & Rohan Mehra Special appearances Day 70 Pulkit Samrat, Richa Chadda, Manjot Singh & Varun Sharma To promote their film Fukrey Returns 11 Day 77 Mouni Roy Special appearances 12 Day 84 Mika Singh 13 Day 86 Sunita Dadlani (Akash's mother) Entered Padosi house for a task Sharda Gupta (Vikas's mother) Vandana Sharma (Priyank's mother) Ashutosh Shinde (Shilpa's brother) Rocky Jaiswal (Hina's boyfriend) Bandgi Kalra (Puneesh's girlfriend) Day 91 Balraj Syal Special appearance 14 Day 97 Rani Mukerji To promote her film Hichki Day 98 Manoj Bajpayee, Sidharth Malhotra & Rakul Preet Singh To promote their film Aiyaary 15 Day 100 Arshi Khan To give task to housemates Day 105 Akshay Kumar To promote his film Padman Dheeraj Sarna & Krystle D'Souza To promote their show Belan Wali Bahu
Weekly summary Week 1EntrancesAkash, Arshi, Bandgi, Benafsha, Hina, Hiten, Jyoti, Priyank, Puneesh, Shilpa, Sapna, Sshivani, Vikas and Zubair entered the Bigg Boss house on Day 1.Lucinda, Luv, Mehjabi and Sabyasachi entered the Bigg Boss Padosi house on Day 1.NominationsBigg Boss announced the first nomination of the season (Open Nominations), where every housemate has to take two names who they want to nominate. Bigg Boss also says whom they want to nominate, they have to put stamp on their faces and nominate them. Hina, Jyoti, Shilpa and Zubair were nominated in that process. Later Bigg Boss announced that Neighbor got the special power where they can save one nominated contestant and nominate two other contestants. Then the Neighbor saved Hina and nominated Arshi and Bandgi. As a result, Arshi, Bandgi, Jyoti, Shilpa and Zubair were nominated for the following week.Tasks BB Farm The housemates were given a set of tasks, which they had to complete on/before the time given by Padosis.Result Winner - Lucinda, Mehjabi, Luv and SabyasachiRewardPadosis got the Luxury Budget, all for themselves.Punishments Jail Housemate had to mutually decide any three housemates who will have to stay a night in the Jail. Housemates choose Shilpa, Arshi and Akash. But Padosis had the power to replace one housemate, they chose to save Arshi and replace her with Zubair.Other TasksPadosis were given a Secret Task to make up a fake story about them relating to a man called M.P.Siddiqui, who died.Exit Priyank Sharma was ejected from the house on Day 6 due to engaging in a fight with Akash and physically pushing him, violating the rules of the house.Zubair Khan was evicted from the house by the public vote on Day 7.Week 2EntrancesPadosis were moved from the Padosis House to the Main House, now will continue as housemates.Nominations In this Nominations, housemates had to save one housemate (Open Nominations). Housemates got a chance to campaign for votes. Every time Bigg Boss announces the housemate's name, they will have to campaign and when the buzzer sounds, housemates cast their vote to save. Hina, Sapna, Sshivani and Vikas were nominated in that process. Later Padosis got a special power to directly nominate one housemate.