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. 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.The season is considered as the most controversial among all and was having the highest Trp’s during its airing.

The house was situated at EVP Film City in Chennai, where 17 contestants entered on Day 1 and six joined later as wildcard entries. All housemates were 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 20 March 2020, the show was discontinued due to COVID-19.

Housemates status

Housemates

The participants in the order of appearance and entrance in the house are:

Original entrants

• Alina Padikkal, TV Host
• Rajini Chandy, Film Actress
• Raghu Subhash, Radio Jockey
• Arya Satheesh, TV Host
• Saju Navodaya, Film Actor
• Veena Nair, Film & TV Actress, Television Show presenter, model.
• Manju Pathrose, TV Actress
• Pareekutty Perumbavoor, Singer
• Thesni Khan, Film Actress
• Rajith Kumar, Social Activist
• Pradeep Chandran, TV Actor
• Fukru (Krishna Jeev), Internet Celebrity, Tik Tok Star(4.5M+ Followers)
• Reshma Rajan, Model
• Somadas Haridasan, Singer
• Alasandra Johnson, Model
• Sujo Mathew, Model
• Suresh Krishnan, Director

Wildcard entrants

• Daya Ashwathy, Social Activist
• Jazla Madasseri, Social Activist
• Sooraj V V, Radio Jockey
• Pavan Gino Thomas, Model
• Abhirami Suresh, Singer
• Amrutha Suresh, Singer

Production

The season two of the Malayalam-language version of Bigg Boss is produced by Endemol Shine India and telecast on Asianet. In September 2019, it was confirmed that Mohanlalwill 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. 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). The newly designed eye logo was unveiled in November 2019, first promo for the show was also released on that month.

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. 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.

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. From 9 March 2020 onward, duration was extended and airing time changed to 9:00 pm on weekdays too. 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. 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. 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.

Guests

Episodes

Nominations table

  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.
• ^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.

Cancellation

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. As of 2020, this was the fourth season overall in the Big Brother franchise to have a season discontinued without a winner, following Arab world’s Big Brother: The Boss, Serbia’s second season of Veliki Brat, and Canada’s eighth Big Brother; while the latter also ceasing production for the same reason due to the pandemic, the first two were not caused by the pandemic (Arab world was due to a religious controversy, and Serbia was due to the deaths of the HouseGuests).

Ratings and viewership

Official ratings are taken from BARC India.