Bigg Boss 4 is the 4th season of Indian reality TV show Bigg Boss, which aired on Colors from 3 October 2010. This season was longer than its predecessor, Bigg Boss 3 and lasted for 14 weeks ending on 8 January 2011. Salman Khan joined the show for the first time as host and has subsequently hosted all the following seasons. During the launch on 3 October, fourteen hand-picked housemates entered the house located in Lonavla, a hill station, about 100 kilometres east of Mumbai in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Two additional wild card entries were made during the second and third weeks, taking the number of contestants to sixteen. The housemates, considered strangers to each other, spent 96 days locked up together under the supervision of 32 cameras fitted around the house. Four of the housemates, Ashmit Patel, Dolly Bindra, The Great Khali and Shweta Tiwari, reached the final week, facing public vote. The show ended on 8 January 2011 with the grand finale. Shweta Tiwari emerged as the winner, going away with a prize money of 10 million, while The Great Khali was announced as the runner-up. was appointed as the new host for the series.
Housemates Status
Housemates
Entered
Exited
Result
Shweta Tiwari
Day 1
Day 96
Winner
Dalip
Day 13
Day 96
1st Runner Up
Ashmit
Day 1
Day 96
2nd Runner Up
Dolly
Day 21
Day 45
Dolly
Day 56
Day 96
3rd Runner-up
Samir
Day 1
Day 45
Samir
Day 49
Day 90
Veena
Day 1
Day 83
Seema
Day 1
Day 76
Sara
Day 1
Day 69
Manoj
Day 1
Day 62
Hrishant
Day 1
Day 55
Aanchal
Day 1
Day 41
Rahul
Day 1
Day 34
Begum
Day 1
Day 20
Sakshi
Day 1
Day 13
Abbas
Day 1
Day 6
Devinder
Day 1
Day 2
Ali
Day 30
Day 41
Pamela
Day 50
Day 53
Housemates
Original entrants
Aanchal Kumar – Model. Aanchal won the Gladrags Mega Model Contest in 1999. She has also appeared in Bollywood films like Bluffmaster and Fashion.
Inder Singh ICFAI WALA – Criminal. He has been accused of robbery and was on the most wanted list of the Delhi police. Dibakar Banerjee has made a film on him, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, where Abhay Deol played the protagonist.
Hrishant Goswami – Model. He is the winner of the 2004 Gladrags Manhunt contest.
Manoj Tiwari – Bhojpuri actor and politician. He has appeared in over 50 films in the industry.
Sakshi Pradhan – Reality TV Star. She is the winner of the second season of the reality showMTV Splitsvilla.
Samir Soni – Bollywood actor. He is known for his roles in films like Kabhie Tum Kabhie Hum and Vivah. He also appeared in the popular drama series Jassi Jaissi Koi Nahin.
Sara Khan - TV Actress. Sara is the youngest of all the contestants from this season. She rose the fame of Sadhana from the Star Plus popular show Sapna Babul Ka...Bidaai.
Seema Parihar – Indian politician. She has also acted in Wounded – a film based on her real-life story.
Shweta Tiwari – Indian television star. Shweta is well known for playing the famous role of Prerna in the popular Ekta Kapoor longest running serial Kasautii Zindagii Kay which aired on Star Plus.
Veena Malik – Pakistani actress and model. She has appeared in many films like Tere Pyar Mein, Pind Di Kudi and Kyun Tum Se Itna Pyar Hai in the Pakistani industry.
Sara was fake evicted and sent to the secret room.
Ratings, reception and viewership
According to data available with aMap, a television viewership monitoring agency, the opening episode of Bigg Boss 4 on Colors got a rating of 3.6. Season 3 had average rating of 2.43 while Bigg Boss 1 and Bigg Boss 2 had average ratings of 1.96 and 2.03. While Bigg Boss 1 was anchored by Arshad Warsi, Shilpa Shetty hosted Bigg Boss 2 and Amitabh Bachchan for Bigg Boss 3.
This season was the highest rated season of Bigg Boss due to contestants like Dolly Bindra, Shweta Tiwari, Ashmit Patel, Veena Malik, Sara Khan adding a lot of entertainment and drama to the show. During the Sara-Ali wedding episode, the show received a TRP of 4.4 and when Dolly-Shweta-Sameer fight took place and Pamela Anderson entered the house, the show received a TRP of 4.8.
The Grand Finale episode on 8 January 2011, received a TRP of 6.7, which was the highest among the finale of other Indian reality shows such as Kaun Banega Crorepati, Rahul Dulhaniya Le Jayega, MasterChef and DID –Li'l Masters.
Controversies
During the first week of the show's airing, activists of Shiv Sena, a political party, started protesting against the inclusion of Pakistani housemates in the show. After being evicted from the house, Rahul Bhatt claimed that Bigg Boss is scripted. In November 2010, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry served a notice on Colors, due to complaints of indecent exposure aired on national television, asking the channel to change the timings of the show from 9:00 pm to 11:30 pm. The channel later got a stay order from Bombay High Court allowing them to continue the telecast of the show during prime time.
