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Bigg Boss Kannada 1 (BBK1), ಬಿಗ್ ಬಾಸ್ ಕನ್ನಡ - ೧ was the first season of the Kannada reality television series Bigg Boss Kannada. It was broadcast by the channel ETV Kannada in 2013. The show was hosted by Sudeep.
A prize amount of ₹50,00,000 was announced for the winner. The show lasted for 99 days starting from 24 March 2013 (Grand Premiere) to 30 June 2013 (Grand Finale). A total of 15 contestants and 2 guests had entered the show. The Bigg Boss house, located in Lonavala, was fixed with 47 cameras to capture the activities in the house.
Among the four finalists, Vijay Raghavendra [1] emerged as the title winner with maximum votes, followed by Arun Sagar as runner-up. Nikita Thukral came third and Narendra Babu was fourth. Gurudas Shenoy was the Editor-in-chief for the house reality of this season.
Housemates
| Housemates | Claim To Fame | |
|---|---|---|
|  Narendra Babu Sharma  TV Anchor   | 
He is popularly known to the public as "Brahmanda Guruji" from a series of TV shows like Zee Kannada’s Bruhat Brahmanda, Suvarna TV’s Bhavya Brahmanda, and Suvarna News Channel’s Brahmanda. He has worked as a junior artist in many South Indian movies. | |
|  Aparna  TV Anchor  | 
She has a good command over the Kannada language. Starting from the Doordarshan, she has anchored numerous TV programs/announcements in various channels for decades. Apart from TV, she is a popular event presenter in Karnataka.[2] | |
|  Anushree  TV Anchor  | 
She is a VJ from Mangalore and has anchored programs like Namasthe Kasturi, Reel Suddi 365, Comedy Khiladigalu.[3] | |
|  Rishi Kumar  Swami  | 
A swami from Kalika Mata (Bengaluru). Media caught him in several controversies.[4] Earlier, he used to be a dancer and a junior artist. | |
|  Jayalakshmi  Nurse  | 
She worked as a nurse and now is a nursing college secretary. She is known to public from a controversy.[5] | |
|  Chandrika  Actress  | 
She is an actress of the 90s. Some of her movies are Golmaal Radhakrishna, Neenu Nakkare Haalu Sakkare, Hosa Raga, Nagashakthi.[6] | |
|  Vinayak Joshi  RJ   | 
RJ of City Maatu and Aithalakadi Morning on Radio City 91.1 FM. He is also an actor, producer, director, and a theater artist. | |
|  Thilak Shekar  Actor  | 
He is a model-turned-actor since 2006. Some of his movies are Ganda Hendathi, Accident, Huchchi. | |
|  Shweta Pandit  Actress  | 
She is an actress know for the movies Paramathma, Case No 18/9, Theatre Lo (Telugu).[7] | |
|  Sanjjanaa  Actress  | 
She is a model and an actress. She has acted in several South Indian movies. | |
|  Arun Sagar  Art Director  | 
He is a reputed art director. He is multi talented and has acted in movies, TV shows, and theater.[8] | |
|  Vijay Raghavendra  Actor  | 
He is a well known actor in Sandalwood. | |
|  Nikita Thukral  Actress  | 
She is a popular female lead in South Indian movies. | |
Wild Card Entries
| Wild Card Entry | Claim To Fame | |
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|  Rohan Gowda  Reality Show Alumni  | 
He is the winner of Suvarna TV’s reality show[9] Pyate Mandi Kadige Bandru. He is also a model and a bodybuilder. | |
|  Rishika Singh  Actress  | 
She is an actress known for the movies[10] Kanteerava, Kalla Malla Sulla, and Benki Birugali. | |
Guests
| Guests | Claim To Fame | |
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|  Yogesh  Actor  | 
He is popularly known for the character Loose Maada [11] from the movie Duniya. He had a lead role in movies Nanda Loves Nanditha, Hudugaru, Dool, Yogi. | |
|  Rajesh  Reality Show Alumni  | 
He was from a tribal village and a winner of the Suvarna TV's Halli Haida, Pyateg Banda reality show. He had acted in the movie Jungle Jackie. He died in November 2013.[12] | |
Episodes
The episodes were broadcast by ETV Kannada channel at a time slot of 8 to 9 pm daily. After the Grand Finale, the channel continued to telecast Autograph series in which the contestants shared their experience in the house.
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | |
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| Event | Nominations | Weekly Task  Highlights  | 
Eviction | Promotion & Interview | Unseen Episode | ||
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Voting history
| Week 1 | Week 2 | Week 3 | Week 4 | Week 5 | Week 6 | Week 7 | Week 8 | Week 9 | Week 10 | Week 11 | Week 12 | Week 13 | Week 14 | ||
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| Vijay | Narendra Jayalakshmi  | 
Narendra Sanjjana  | 
Vinayak Shweta  | 
Rishi Nikita  | 
Chandrika Vinayak  | 
Aparna Narendra  | 
Jayalakshmi Narendra  | 
Narendra Anushree  | 
Rishika Narendra  | 
Chandrika Narendra  | 
Chandrika Arun  | 
Narendra Nikita  | 
Chandrika Narendra  | 
Winner (Day 99)  | |
| Arun | Sanjjana Chandrika  | 
Narendra Sanjjana  | 
Vinayak Chandrika  | 
Nikita Rishi  | 
Vinayak Aparna  | 
Aparna Jayalakshmi  | 
Jayalakshmi Nikita  | 
Narendra Rohan  | 
Nikita Narendra  | 
Narendra Nikita  | 
Nikita Anushree  | 
Nikita Narendra  | 
Nikita Narendra  | 
Runner-Up (Day 99)  | |
| Nikita | Aparna Shweta  | 
Chandrika Aparna  | 
Chandrika Vinayak  | 
Arun Vinayak  | 
Chandrika Vijay  | 
Jayalakshmi Thilak  | 
Jayalakshmi Arun  | 
Arun Anushree  | 
Narendra Chandrika  | 
Arun Vijay  | 
Arun Chandrika  | 
Narendra Chandrika  | 
Chandrika Vijay  | 
Third place (Day 99)  | |
| Narendra | Jayalakshmi Anushree  | 
Arun Shweta  | 
Chandrika Shweta  | 
Vinayak Nikita  | 
Chandrika Arun  | 
Jayalakshmi Arun  | 
Jayalakshmi Vijay  | 
Anushree Rohan  | 
Nikita Anushree  | 
Nikita Vijay  | 
Nikita Vijay  | 
Vijay Nikita  | 
Vijay Nikita  | 
Fourth place (Day 99)  | |
| Chandrika | Narendra Nikita  | 
Sanjjana Nikita  | 
Nikita Narendra  | 
Nikita Anushree  | 
Narendra Vinayak  | 
Aparna Nikita  | 
Nikita Anushree  | 
Anushree Nikita  | 
Rishika Nikita  | 
Vijay Anushree  | 
Nikita Vijay  | 
Nikita Vijay  | 
Nikita Vijay  | 
Re-Evicted (Day 90)  | |
| Anushree | Narendra Thilak  | 
Narendra Vinayak  | 
Chandrika Shweta  | 
Rishi Vinayak  | 
Narendra Vinayak  | 
Jayalakshmi Thilak  | 
Chandrika | Rishika Narendra  | 
Narendra Rishika  | 
Chandrika Narendra  | 
Arun Nikita  | 
Evicted (Day 76)  | |||
| Rishika | Not in House  | 
Exempt | Narendra Anushree  | 
Chandrika Narendra  | 
Evicted (Day 62)  | ||||||||||
| Rohan | Not in House  | 
Exempt | Anushree Narendra  | 
Evicted (Day 55)  | |||||||||||
| Jayalakshmi | Narendra Thilak  | 
Evicted (Day 6)  | 
Narendra Anushree  | 
Nikita Aparna  | 
Narendra Nikita  | 
Rohan Anushree  | 
Re-Evicted (Day 48)  | ||||||||
| Thilak | Narendra Jayalakshmi  | 
Sanjjana Arun  | 
Vinayak Arun  | 
Rishi Nikita  | 
Vinayak Nikita  | 
Banned | Evicted (Day 41)  | ||||||||
| Aparna | Nikita Chandrika  | 
Nikita Sanjjana  | 
Anushree Nikita  | 
Rishi Vinayak  | 
Chandrika Vinayak  | 
Jayalakshmi Chandrika  | 
Evicted (Day 41)  | ||||||||
| Vinayak | Jayalakshmi Arun  | 
Arun Anushree  | 
Chandrika Shweta  | 
Rishi Anushree  | 
Nikita Aparna  | 
Evicted (Day 34)  | |||||||||
| Rishi | Not in House  | 
Exempt | Vinayak Nikita  | 
Evicted (Day 27)  | |||||||||||
| Shweta | Narendra Aparna  | 
Sanjjana Nikita  | 
Nikita Narendra  | 
Evicted (Day 20)  | |||||||||||
| Sanjjanaa | Thilak Shweta  | 
Thilak Chandrika  | 
Evicted (Day 13)  | ||||||||||||
| Notes | (none) | 1 | 2,3 | 4 | 5,6,7 | 8,9,10 | 11 | (none) | 12 | 13 | 14, 15, 16 | 16 | 17 | ||
|  Up For  Eviction  | 
Narendra Jayalakshmi  | 
Sanjjanaa Arun Nikita Narendra  | 
Chandrika Vinayak Shweta  | 
Rishi Nikita Vinayak  | 
Vinayak Chandrika  | 
Anushree Aparna Arun Chandrika Jayalakshmi Narendra Nikita Thilak Vijay  | 
Chandrika Jayalakshmi Nikita  | 
Narendra Anushree Rohan  | 
Narendra Rishika Nikita  | 
Narendra Nikita Chandrika  | 
Nikita Arun Vijay Anushree  | 
Vijay Chandrika Arun  | 
Vijay Nikita Chandrika Narendra  | 
Arun Narendra Nikita Vijay  | |
| Evicted | Jayalakshmi | Sanjjanaa | Shweta | Rishi | Vinayak | Thilak | Jayalakshmi | Rohan | Rishika | No Eviction  | 
Anushree | 
Chandrika | Chandrika | Narendra | Nikita | 
| Aparna | Arun | Vijay | |||||||||||||
Notes
- ^Note 1 : Rishikumara, being a new entry, was safe from the nomination process.
 - ^Note 2 : Shweta [special rights granted by Bigg Boss during eviction] choose Chandrika to be safe from the nomination process.
 - ^Note 3 : Jayalakshmi re-entered the house after the weekly nomination process.
 - ^Note 4 : Jayalakshmi, being a new entry, was safe from nomination process but was granted the right to vote.
 - ^Note 5 : Rishika entered the house after the weekly nomination process.
 - ^Note 6 : Rohan entered the house after the weekly nomination process.
 - ^Note 7 : Bigg Boss informed Thilak that all the housemates were nominated for eviction irrespective of nomination process. Thilak was not asked to vote.
 - ^Note 8 : Anushree [special rights granted by Bigg Boss] directly nominated Chandrika for eviction.
 - ^Note 9 : Rishika, being a new entry, was safe from the nomination process.
 - ^Note 10 : Rohan, being a new entry, was safe from the nomination process.
 - ^Note 11 : Jayalakshmi [special rights granted by Bigg Boss during eviction] choose Rohan & Anushree to be directly nominated for eviction.
 - ^Note 12 : In a twist, eviction was cancelled but nomination was conducted.
 - ^Note 13 : Narendra Sharma [special rights granted by Bigg Boss during nomination] choose Chandrika to be safe from the eviction.
 - ^Note 14 : In a twist, nominated candidates (Nikita, Narendra) were declared as safe, and the rest had to face eviction.
 - ^Note 15 : Chandrika was evicted after facing public vote, but re-entered the house after a day.
 - ^Note 16 : Chandrika [special rights granted by Bigg Boss during eviction] choose Arun Sagar to be safe from the nomination process. Thus, Arun became the first finalist.
 - ^Note 17 : Among the four finalist, Vijay Raghavendra, was declared as the winner after facing the public vote.
 
Nomination count
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Nominations received | Evictions faced  | |
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| Vijay | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 12 | 4 | 
| Arun | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 
| Nikita | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 38 | 7 | 
| Narendra | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 6 | 
| Chandrika | 2 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 24 | 6 | |
| Anushree | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 3 | |||
| Rishika | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Rohan | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Jayalakshmi | 4 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Thilak | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | ||||||||
| Aparna | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 1 | ||||||||
| Vinayak | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 3 | |||||||||
| Rishi | 0 | 6 | 6 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Shweta | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Sanjjanaa | 1 | 6 | 7 | 1 | ||||||||||||
- Week 6: All housemates were nominated for eviction by Bigg Boss [irrespective of nominations] as a punishment for breaking the house rules.
 - Week 10: Nominations were conducted, but eviction was cancelled.
 - Week 12: Nominations were conducted, but later, it was informed that the nomination votes were to save the housemates rather than to evict.
 
- Indicates that housemate faced eviction.
 - Indicates that housemate was immune.
 
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Reception and viewership
As per Indiantelevision.com's news release,[13] the show achieved the highest TRPs than any other Kannada GEC.[14] The launch episode had a rating of 4.7 TRP and the eviction episodes on Fridays reached 6.3 TRP. The week average [15] was about 4.7 TRP.
The SMS votes by audience was claimed to be approximately 47,000 [16] per contestant and touched a lakh during the finals.
Awards
GCC Puraskar Media :-
- Best Reality Show - ETV Kannada [17]
 
References
- ↑ THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS new article: An unexpected win
 - ↑ DECCAN HERALD - Aparna Interview
 - ↑ KARNATAKA SPIDER - Anushree Biography
 - ↑ YOU TUBE: TV9 Exclusive - Rishi Kumara - Kaaviyolagobba Kalla
 - ↑ TIMES OF INDIA - Nurse Jayalakshmi
 - ↑ ONEINDIA - Chandriaka Biography
 - ↑ DAIJI WORLD: Mangalore Sandalwood Beauty Shweta Pandit
 - ↑ ONEINDIA: Arun Sagar Biography
 - ↑ TIMES OF INDIA: Rohan Gowda entry in Bigg Boss
 - ↑ ONEINDIA: Rishika Singh Filmography
 - ↑ ONEINDIA: Yogesh Biography
 - ↑ ONEINDIA news article: Rajesh death
 - ↑ INDIANTELEVISION.COM: Bigg Boss a BIGG hit with the Audience
 - ↑ IMDb: Bigg Boss Kannada TRPs
 - ↑ INDIATVNEWS.COM: Bigg Boss Kannada TRPs soaring
 - ↑ INDIATVNEWS.COM: Bigg Boss Kannada SMS Voting
 - ↑ "GCC Puraskar Media" (PDF). gardencitycollege.edu. 26 May 2014.
 
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