Bigg Boss (Malayalam season 2)

The second season of the Malayalam-language version of Indian reality television series Bigg Boss premiered on 5 January 2020.[1] 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 (or 15 weeks) 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.

Bigg Boss
Season 2
Season 2 title card
Presented by	Mohanlal
No. of days	74
No. of housemates	23
Country of origin	India
No. of episodes	76
Release
Original network	Asianet
Original release	5 January (2020-01-05) – 20 March 2020 (2020-03-20)
Season chronology

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 (₹50 lakh) 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 (FWICE) and Indian Film & Television Directors' Association (IFTDA) to hold shootings of film, TV shows and web series from 19 March to 31 March 2020.[2][3]

Housemates

The following are the list of housemates in the Bigg Boss house.[4]

Housemate		Occupation	Day entered	Day exited	Status
	Abhirami Suresh	Singer, Composer	Day 49	Day 75	Sent home
	Amrutha Suresh
	Alina Padikkal [5]	Actress, television presenter	Day 1	Day 39	Walked
			Day 55	Day 75	Sent home
	Alasandra Johnson [6]	Model, Air Hostess	Day 1	Day 32	Walked
			Day 49	Day 75	Sent home
	Arya [7]	Actress, television presenter	Day 1	Day 75
	Daya Ashwathy [8]	Internet celebrity	Day 21	Day 39	Walked
			Day 55	Day 75	Sent home
	Fukru (Krishnajeev)[9]	Internet celebrity	Day 1	Day 75
	Raghu Subhash [10]	Radio Jockey	Day 1	Day 32	Walked
			Day 49	Day 75	Sent home
	Saju Navodaya	Actor, comedian	Day 1	Day 75
	Sujo Mathew	Model	Day 1	Day 32	Walked
			Day 49	Day 75	Sent home
	Reshma Rajan	Model	Day 1	Day 32	Walked
			Day 55	Day 70	Evicted
	Rajith Kumar	Public speaker, educator	Day 1	Day 69	Ejected
	Veena Nair	Actress, television presenter	Day 1	Day 63	Evicted
	Jazla Madasseri	Activist	Day 21	Day 56	Evicted
	Sooraj	Radio Jockey	Day 28	Day 56	Evicted
	Manju Pathrose	Actress;[tv presenter]	Day 1	Day 48	Evicted
	Pradeep Chandran	Actor	Day 1	Day 42	Evicted
	Pavan Gino Thomas	Model	Day 28	Day 32	Walked
			Day 37	Day 40	Walked
	Thesni Khan	Actress, comedian	Day 1	Day 27	Evicted
	Pareekutty Perumbavoor	Actor, singer	Day 1	Day 21	Evicted
	Suresh Krishnan	Film director	Day 1	Day 21	Evicted
	Somadas	Singer	Day 1	Day 15	Walked
	Rajini Chandy	Actress	Day 1	Day 14	Evicted

     Original entrant

     Re-entrant

     Wildcard entrant

Production

The season two of the Malayalam-language version of Bigg Boss is produced by Endemol Shine India and telecast on Asianet.[11] 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.[12] The season two comes with the tagline: Ini Valiya Kalikalumalla, Kalikal Vere Level (it's no longer just big games, now the games will go on its next level).[13][14] The newly designed eye logo was unveiled in November 2019, first promo for the show was also released on that month.[15][16][17][18][19]

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.[20][21] 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 rules of 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 (voice), and smoke room for smokers.[22]

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.[23] From 9 March 2020 onward, duration was extended and airing time changed to 9:00 pm on weekdays too.[24] 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.[25] 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.[26] 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.[27]

Guests

Week(s)	Day(s)	Guest(s)	Purpose of visit
1	Day 6	Dharmajan Bolgatty	Invited guest, disguised as new entrant in front of housemates and was evicted on the same day by Bigg Boss for leaking outside information.
2	Day 74	Mohanlal	To suspend the show due to COVID-19 outbreak

Episodes

Main article: List of Bigg Boss (Malayalam TV series) episodes

Nominations table

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8		Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12	Nominations Received	Eviction(s) Faced
								Day 47	Day 51
House Captain	Rajini	Saju	Pradeep	Fukru	Rajith	Saju				Fukru	Rajith	Fukru	Show discontinued (Day 74)
Captain's Nomination	No Nominations	Rajith Sujo	Alasandra Rajith	Arya Veena	Pradeep Reshma	Jasla Rajith	Rajith Veena	Jasla	Fukru Jasla	Abhirami & Amritha Sujo	Not Eligible	Abhirami & Amritha Raghu
Vote to:	None	Evict									Evict/Save	Evict
Abhirami & Amritha	Not in House								Exempt	Arya Saju	Themselves (to evict)	Alina Daya		6	3
Alasandra	No Nominations	Rajini Somadas	Fukru Rajith	Pradeep Veena	Pradeep Reshma	Health Issue (Day 32)			Exempt	Abhirami & Amritha Saju	Herself (to save)	Arya Saju		12	4
Alina	No Nominations	Somadas Thesni	Thesni Veena	Thesni Veena	Daya Veena	Daya Rajith	Health Issue (Day 39)			Exempt	Herself (to save)	Abhirami & Amritha Sujo		9	3
Arya	No Nominations	Rajith Somadas	Alina Pareekutty	Raghu Rajith	Daya Raghu	Daya Rajith	Jasla Rajith	Jasla	Jasla Rajith	Abhirami & Amritha Sujo	Herself (to save)	Alasandra Raghu		11	5
Daya	Not in House			Exempt	Pradeep Saju	Manju Pradeep	Health Issue (Day 39)			Exempt	Herself (to evict)	Alasandra Raghu		17	4
Fukru	No Nominations	Alina Rajini	Alasandra Alina	House Captain	Daya Reshma	Jasla Rajith	Rajith Veena	Sooraj	Rajith Veena	House Captain	Himself (to save)	House Captain		6	2
Raghu	No Nominations	Alina Somadas	Pareekutty Rajith	Pradeep Veena	Pradeep Veena	Health Issue (Day 32)			Exempt	Saju Veena	Himself (to evict)	Arya Daya		12	3
Saju	No Nominations	House Captain	Pareekutty Thesni	Alasandra Raghu	Daya Jasla	House Captain				Alasandra Raghu	Himself (to evict)	Alasandra Sujo		11	3
Sujo	No Nominations	Rajith Somadas	Pareekutty Rajith	Pradeep Veena	Pradeep Reshma	Health Issue (Day 32)			Exempt	Saju Veena	Himself (to save)	Alina Saju		9	3
Reshma	No Nominations	Rajini Somadas	Rajith Veena	Thesni Veena	Daya Fukru	Health Issue (Day 32)				Exempt	Herself (to evict)	Evicted (Day 70)		8	3
Rajith	No Nominations	Manju Suresh	Arya Reshma	Arya Saju	House Captain	Manju Veena	Fukru Manju	Sooraj	Fukru Jasla	Arya Saju	House Captain	Ejected (Day 69)		34	6
Veena	No Nominations	Rajith Sujo	Alina Rajith	Raghu Sujo	Daya Jasla	Daya Sooraj	Arya Rajith	Jasla	Fukru Rajith	Alasandra Raghu	Evicted (Day 63)			23	7
Jasla	Not in House			Exempt	Pradeep Veena	Daya Rajith	Manju Rajith	Not Eligible	Arya Veena	Evicted (Day 63)				12	3
Sooraj	Not in House				Exempt	Arya Veena	Jasla Rajith	Not Eligible	Rajith Veena	Evicted (Day 56)				4	2
Manju	No Nominations	Alina Rajith	Rajith Suresh	Raghu Veena	Daya Sujo	Daya Rajith	Rajith Veena	Sooraj	Evicted (Day 48)					5	2
Pradeep	No Nominations	Alasandra Rajith	House Captain	Rajith Thesni	Alasandra Daya	Daya Rajith	Evicted (Day 42)							10	3
Pavan	Not in House				Exempt		Walked (Day 40)							0	0
Thesni	No Nominations	Rajini Sujo	Pareekutty Suresh	Arya Veena	Evicted (Day 27)									6	2
Pareekutty	No Nominations	Alina Rajini	Raghu Saju	Evicted (Day 21)										5	1
Suresh	No Nominations	Reshma Somadas	Alasandra Reshma	Evicted (Day 21)										3	1
Somadas	No Nominations	Alasandra Rajini	Walked (Day 15)											8	1
Rajini	House Captain	Rajith Somadas	Evicted (Day 14)											6	1
Notes		1			2	3, 4, 5		6, 7		8, 9	10		Show discontinued
Against Public Vote	None	Alasandra Alina Rajini Rajith Somadas Sujo	Alasandra Alina Pareekutty Rajith Reshma Suresh Thesni Veena	Arya Pradeep Rajith Raghu Thesni Veena	Daya Jasla Pradeep Reshma Veena	Arya Daya Jasla Manju Pradeep Rajith Sooraj Veena	Arya Fukru Jasla Manju Rajith Veena	Arya Fukru Jasla Rajith Sooraj Veena		Abhirami & Amritha Alasandra Arya Raghu Saju Sujo Veena	Abhirami & Amritha Daya Raghu Reshma Saju	Abhirami & Amritha Alasandra Alina Arya Daya Raghu Saju Sujo
Re-Entered	none							Alasandra Raghu Sujo		Alina Daya Reshma	none
Ejected	none										Rajith	none
Walked	none		Somadas	none		Alasandra Pavan Raghu Reshma Sujo	Alina Daya	none
Evicted	No Eviction	Rajini	Pareekutty	Thesni	No Eviction	Pradeep	Manju	Sooraj		Veena	Reshma	Show discontinued
			Suresh					Jazla

     indicates the house captain.

     indicates that the Housemate was directly nominated for eviction.

     indicates that the Housemate was immune prior to nominations.

     indicates the contestant has been evicted.

     indicates the contestant walked out to emergency.

Notes

• ^Note 1 : On Day 15, Somadas walked-off the house due to his poor health conditions.[28]
• ^Note 2 : 5 housemates (including a nominated contestant) were hospitalized due to a viral infection, they were given a chance to get cured and move onto next week and so there was no eviction.
• ^Note 3 : Due to illness and being hospitalized, Alassandra, Raghu, Pavan and Sujo were exempted from the nomination procedures.
• ^Note 4 : After getting nominated on week 6, Jasla used her immunity power to save herself from the nomination.
• ^Note 5 : On Day 40, Pavan had very poor health condition and decided to walk-off the house for his further treatment.
• ^Note 6 : On Day 46, The housemates nominated Jasla and Sooraj for having weak characters in the house as part of the daily task. Both of them had 3 votes each and they were told to discuss so that one of them will be directly nominated to the Week 8 evictions. At the end, Sooraj stood himself to get nominated.
• ^Note 7 : On Day 49, Alassandra, Raghu and Sujo re-entered the house along with two new wild card entries.
• ^Note 8 : On Day 55, Alina, Daya and Reshma re-entered the house.
• ^Note 9 : After getting nominated on week 9, Arya and Raghu used her immunity power to save herself from the nomination.
• ^Note 10 : On Day 65, Bigg Boss temporarily ejected Rajith for violating the rules of the house after physically harming a lady contestant during a task. Later on Day 70, Rajith got ejected permanently after being rejected by Reshma to re-enter in the Bigg Boss house.

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

Ratings and viewership

Official ratings are taken from BARC India.

Grand Premiere		Grand Finale
Viewers (in millions)	TVR Rating	Viewers (in millions)	TRP Rating
20.7[29]	11.03	TBA	TBA

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External links

• Bigg Boss on Hotstar
• Official website