Season Two (2008)
The second season of Bigg Boss premiered on 17 August 2008, on new broadcaster Colors. The finale is currently scheduled to be on 22 November 2008.
The show will run for three months. Bigg Boss 2 returned with Shilpa Shetty as the new host, who previously won the fifth series of Celebrity Big Brother in the United Kingdom.[1]
The new season featuring 14 contestants competing for a cash prize of Rs 7,500,000. As part of the format, 14 contestants are living in the Bigg Boss house built in Lonavala, located 96 km away from Mumbai. The new house is much more stylish and modernized this time. It has a very contemporary gym for the contestants whose movements will be tracked over 84 days, 24x7 by 32 cameras. The show is aired on [2] at 10 PM [I.S.T.] daily.
After the first day at the House, the housemates had nominated Raja Choudhary and Sanjay Nirupam for eviction. On the second day, Jade Goody was informed of her cervical cancer, and she left the show immediately [3] Sanjay Nirupam was the first contestant to be eliminated from this season followed by Rakhi Vijan. Monica Bedi was evicted on September 5, 2008. Ketki Dave was evicted on September 12, 2008. Alina Wadiwala was evicted on September 19, 2008.
Bigg Boss 2 : Monica is out from the Bigg Boss
Second inning of Monica Bedi comes to an end with today’s eviction from the house of Bigg Boss season 2.
She was beaten by Zulfi through popular vote. This was the final eviction of this season of Bigg Boss
Who will win Bigg Boss 2 ?
The second season of Bigg Boss is rapidly coming to an end. Like the first season, this time around too, there have been a number of controversies and name-calling. Every eviction is much awaited as sooner or later the evicted contestants are bound to expose the dirty secrets of the inmates.
Now, it has come down to five inmates -- Rahul Mahajan [Images], Monica Bedi [Images], Raja Chaudhury, Ashutosh Kaushik and Zulfi Syed [Images] -- who are vying for the prize.
After Diana Hayden's eviction this week, who do you think will be next? Who will go the distance? Who will win Bigg Boss 2?
Bigg Boss 2 : The Indian version of Big Brother
The second season of reality show Bigg Boss is all set to hit television screens on Aug 17 and will be hosted by Bollywood actor Shilpa Shetty.
It would be the first reality show to be telecast on all seven days of the week.
Shilpa, who won Big Brother last year, was almost a natural choice to host the second season of the Indian version.
Colors, The Hindi general entertainment channel from Viacom18 has decided to run the one-hour reality show seven days a week at the highly-watched 10 pm band. There will also be a 30-minute live and unedited version of the show everyday at 12.30 am.
Bigg Boss 2 will kick off on 17 August, replacing the channel’s driver show Fear Factor Khatron Ke Khiladi that is scheduled to conclude on 14 August. The show will run for three months. Both the shows are produced by Endemol India.
In the new show, 14 contestants will compete for a cash prize of Rs 750,000. Shilpa Shetty, winner of last season’s Big Brother UK, will host the show.
As part of the format, the 14 contestants will live in the Bigg Boss house built in Lonavala near Mumbai. Around 32 cameras will capture each and every move of the contestants. The house will not have any kind of entertainment or sources of communication with the outside world. There will not be any television, radio, music player, books, internet and phones.
Fridays would be the day of eviction. Saturdays would offer the spin off episode while Sundays would spice up the show with unseen footages ‘Andekha Masala.
Diana Hayden, former Miss India and Miss World joined the show as a wildcard entrant on 15th September 2008. After a fake eviction of Raja on 26th (Rahul & Raja had got nominated), Raja returned to the house after 3 days in a secret room. He watched all the contestants from the secret room and is taking full advantage of it. Sambhawana Seth is the next inmate to get evicted on 3rd Oct. Debo, Ashu & Sambhawana were nominated. Next eviction is on 10th and nominations are Payal, Rahul and Raja. Monica got wild card and entered Big Boss house again. This year the prize money is 75 Lakhs. Rahul Roy, actor and star of Aashiqui has won the 50 Lakhs Prize on season 1
From the Three nomations , Payal was evicted on 10th Oct 2008.Actually it was predicted by most of the viewers since Rahul is the Strongest contestant and Raja got the best publicity and fan following after the Bold Love and Hot Scenes with Sambhawana and then again when he entered the secret room he got the best fan following.
on 17 th october Aihsan Qureshi ,who was nominated for tha very first time, got evicted. On 24th october Debojit got evicted. Debojit got evicted after that ,and on 8th November Diana Hayden got evicted , when Ashu and Diana were nominated .
On 10th Nov in the next nomination Zulfi(with 4 votes, nominated by Raja,Monica,Rahul,Ashu) and Monica(with 3 votes, nominated by Raja,Zulfi,Ashu )are in the dumping zone. The two guest Sambhana and Payal who have entered a week ago could not participate in the nomination process and also both of them were asked to pack up with in ten minutes to leave the Bigboss house. Let us see who gets nominated next and what happens else in the house of Bigboss.
