SEASON 5

Tasks

• Oru Kathai Sollatuma: Housemates of the Bigg Boss House shared their past life, their sorrows, strengths, and how they achieved their dreams, with the other housemates. The other housemates have to paste a heart, like, or a dislike sticker if the housemate's story was relatable, inspirational, or non-inspirational.

Events

• Days: Day 1–7
• Twist: None
• Twist: Nominations
• Twist: Captaincy Task
• Punishments: None
• Punishments: House Captain
• Abhinay, Abishek, Akshara, Ciby, Chinnaponnu, Imman, Iykki, Isaivani, Mathumitha, Nadia, Namitha, Niroop, Pavni, Priyanka, Raju, Suruthi, Thamarai, and Varun entered the House on Day 1.

Tasks

• All the contestants will have a balloon in their backs, whenever the alarm bell goes of they need to get the balloon popper and pop one of the other housemate's balloons in order for them to be out, the final person with the balloon wins captaincy.
• Thamarai Selvi
• The other housemates
• Oru Kathai Sollatuma: (continuation) The remaining 10 housemates who are yet to convey their stories to the other housemates are given the chance to share their life stories with the other housemates from Day 8 to Day 12. '
• All the contestants are dressed up as certain characters and need to put on a drama play to celebrate the festival Vijayadashami.

Events

• Days: Day 8–14
• Twist: During the Week 2 nomination process, any housemate who received at least one vote from inmates was nominated for the Week 2 eviction process.
• Punishments: None
• Safe contestants: Isaivani, Priyanka, Raju, Akshara, Imman, Ciby, Iykki, Niroop, Abhinay, Suruthi, Varun, Mathumitha, Chinnaponnu, and Abishek were saved from Week 2 Elimination Process on Day 13 & 14.
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Tasks

• Enna Feeling'u: The four best performers of the week Ciby, Isaivani, Raju, Imman, and Pavni were told to stand on a platform and try to avoid reacting to the co-contestants putting on skits and jokes in front of them. The housemate who stood the longest without showing or changing his/her reaction wins the task. As Ciby stood the longest, he won the Captaincy Task and became the House Captain of Week 3.
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• Imman, Pavni, Raju and Isaivani
• Pancha Thandhiram: There are 5 medals in the outdoors, the person who takes the medal in a secretive way will be saved from the elimination list. Isavani steals the Fire coin, Niroop steals the Land coin, Pavni steals the Sky coin, Thamarai steals the Air coin and Varun steals the Water coin.

Events

• Days: Day 15–21
• Twist: Isaivani, Niroop, Pavni, Thamarai, and Varun manage to steal a medal and were awarded major powers in the game.
• Punishments: Niroop, Priyanka, and Suruthi was in jail by Ciby the house captain for this week.
• Safe contestants: Priyanka, Pavni, Akshara, Isaivani, Abhinay, Thamarai, Iykki, and Chinnaponnu were saved from Week 3 Elimination Process on Day 20 & 21.
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Tasks

• All housemates sit at the dining table and need to point at a housemate but say another housemate's name. The last housemate remaining wins captaincy.
• Graamam vs Nagaram (Village vs City): The contestants have been split into two teams representing village and city, where Akshara and Niroop are the team captains, respectively. As Isaivani is the holder of the Fire Coin she is the adjudicator for the task.

Events

• Days: Day 22–28
• Twist: The fire medal was the powerful medal of Week 4, and the owner of the medal Isaivani had full control of the kitchen and dining area.
• Winner: Mathumitha
• Defeat: The other housemates
• Punishments: After being chosen as the worst performer and Abhinay, Mathumitha, Pavni, and Varun must sit outside and keep the fire on until morning without sleeping.
• Safe contestants: Priyanka, Pavni, Akshara, Imman, Isaivani, Suruthi, Abhinay, and Varun were saved from Week 4 Elimination Process on Day 27 & 28.
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Tasks

• Best performer from previous week luxury budget task, Ciby, and Raju play cup mukkiyam bigile task. The task is to play soccer using a gym ball and score more goals. Ciby won the task with 3-0 goals. Varun used a coin for himself to change the captain.
• Cinema Cinema: Each housemate was given different characters from famous iconic Kollywood movies and was asked to stage perform those characters and also live like that.

Events

• Days: Day 29–35
• Twist: Air medal was permanently destroyed The earth medal was the powerful medal of Week 5, and the owner of the medal Niroop had full control over the bedroom area.
• Winner: Ciby. Varun swapped the captaincy using WATER power medal
• Defeat: Raju
• Punishments: None
• Safe contestants: Akshara, Ciby, Pavni, Iykki, Niroop, Abhinay, Isaivani, and Mathumitha were saved from Week 5 Elimination Process on Day 34 & 35.
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Tasks

• Neeum bommai Naanum bommai theriyum unmai: All the housemates were asked to run to a tent by picking a doll which had names of housemates. The last to go into will not be exempted but the name of the housemate in the doll will be exempted from captaincy.
• Captaincy Task Results
• Winner: Abhinay Isaivani swapped the captaincy using FIRE power medal
• Defeat: Akshara, Mathumitha, Niroop Pavni, Priyanka and Varun
• Neeyum Bommai Naanum Bommai Theriyum Unmai: For the task, there was a circus tent built in the garden area. Dolls will send to them through the storeroom. They wanna get ready soon and place the dolls nearby the Bathroom Area. 12 takes buzzer will ring inside the hose. Whenever buzzer rings they wanna take someone's doll and enter into the tent. They are not allowed to take their own doll. Whom entering last in the tent holding Doll's owner will be out of the task. Like this, they wanna repeat this who stay longer will be the winner. They wanna nominate two-person who didn't perform well and w

Events

• Days: Day 36–42
• Twist: The sky medal was the powerful medal of Week 6, and the owner of the medal Pavni had full control over the living room area.
• Punishments: Housemates selected two persons whom they thought to be not real. Raju, and Imman were punished.
• Safe contestants: Raju, Akshara, Imman, Pavni, Ciby, and Abhinay were saved from Week 6 Elimination Process on Day 41 & 42.
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Tasks

• All the housemates had to self–vote for their preferred captain within the four nominees (Ciby, Iykki, Niroop, and Priyanka). Gaining the most votes, Priyanka was elected the Captain of Week 7.
• Captaincy Task Results
• Winner: Priyanka
• Defeat: Ciby, Iykki, and Niroop
• Ulladhai Ullapadi Kaatum Kannadi: Housemates had to pair in two's and mirror each other's actions throughout the week. Later on, the housemates came together on the platform and conveyed their opinion on their partners on the stage. They further earned badges if they performed the task well. Pairs: Akshara and Ciby, Abhinav and Niroop, Imman and Isaivani, Pavni and Raju, Priyanka and Thamarai, Iyikki and Varun.

Events

• Days: Day 43–49
• Twist: The water medal was the powerful medal of Week 7, and the owner of the medal Varun had full control over the bathroom and garden room area
• Punishments: None
• Safe contestants: Akshara, Ciby, Imman, Pavni, Iykki, Niroop, and Abhinay were saved from Week 7 Elimination Process on Day 48 & 49.
• Abishek Raaja re–entered the House as a wildcard contestant on Day 47.

Tasks

• The 6 housemates selected to compete for the captaincy (Abhinay, Akshara Imman, Varun, Raju, and Thamarai) had to stuff as much cotton into the boxes they were provided with. They had to weigh their boxes on the weighing scale and the housemate with the heaviest box would be selected as the Captain. With the heaviest box, Abhinay was elected the Captain of Week 8.
• Captaincy Task Results
• Winner: Abhinay
• Defeat: Abhinay, Akshara, Imman, Raju, Thamarai and Varun
• Kanaa Kaanum Kaalangal: The Bigg Boss house was recreated as a school and the housemates assumed the role of characters working in a typical school. Headmaster: Ciby Tamil Lecturer: Raju Personal Development Teacher: Abishek Physical Education Teacher: Amir Leader of Physical Education Class: Akshara Students: Abhinay, Akshara, Imman, Iykki, Niroop, Pavni, Priyanka, Thamarai, and Varun The other housemates assumed the role of classmates in the house. They had to obey the rules of the teachers and if they failed to do so, they will be punished by the headmaster.

Events

• Days: Day 50–56
• Twist: None
• Punishments: Amir and Niroop were sent to jail
• Safe contestants: Priyanka, Imman, Pavni, Thamarai, and Niroop were saved from Week 8 Elimination Process on Day 55 & 56.
• Amir, and Sanjeev Venkat entered the House as wildcard contestants respectively on Day 51 and 53.

Tasks

• The three contestants selected for Captaincy Task (Imman, Abishek, Ciby) had to build a tower with the help of cubes given by Bigg boss and protect it from the other housemates attack Imman won that task but Niroop exchanged the captaincy for him with the power of the coin
• Captaincy Task Results
• Winner: Imman Niroop swapped the captaincy using EARTH power medal
• Defeat: Abishek, Ciby, Imman
• Bigg Boss Breaking News Task Everyone ads complaining 24 hours show but only telecasting for 1 hour. It's an opportunity to explain to the audience what actually happened in these 50 days and explain their side to them. Task name Bigg Boss Breaking News. Housemates wanna divide into two teams. Both teams wanna telecast different news. The team names are the Blue and Red TV teams. Both teams have two reporters and two News Readers. When they are collecting the news they wanna make sure it's against the opposite team. They can bring the person for an interview in their channel. The reporter will

Events

• Days: Day 57–63
• Twist: None
• Punishments: Niroop, and Pavni were sent to jail.
• Safe contestants: Raju, Priyanka, Pavni, Ciby, Thamarai, Imman, Akshara, and Varun were saved from Week 9 Elimination Process on Day 62 & 63.
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Tasks

• All the contestants all selected to the captaincy task suthi suthi vanthinga had to run in a circle with music when the music stops they will sit in a chair at last who had the chair they will be the captain of the week Amir won the task but Pavni exchanged the captaincy with the help of the power of medal so Pavni is the captain of week 10
• Captaincy Task Results
• Winner: Amir Pavni swapped the captaincy using SKY power medal
• Defeat: The other housemates
• Bigg Boss Maanadu Housemates divide into Three political parties. They can complain inside the house and say to people what will they do for their house after that, they win the election. Team A: Abhinay, Amir, Pavni, and Priyanka Team B: Ciby, Niroop, Raju, and Thamarai Team C: Akshara, Imman Sanjeev, and Varun

Events

• Days: Day 64–70
• Twist: Niroop was given then chance to swap his nomination and replace his nomination with another housemate who isn't nominated, Niroop choose Sanjeev and they both were given a tie-breaker task and the one who loses the task will be nominated for eviction.
• Punishments: None
• Safe contestants: Ciby, Akshara, Thamarai, Abhinay, Amir, and Niroop were saved from Week 10 Elimination Process on Day 69 & 70.
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Tasks

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• 1st Immunity Task: Housemates have to arrange themselves in order from #1 to #12, Ciby stood in the #1 position and was exempted from the Week 10 nomination process. This week's task is to save the nominated contestant from nomination. 2nd Immunity Task: Housemates have to survive in a bus kept in a garden area overcoming all the hurdles. Housemates have to get down Voluteerly Or vote out when Bus horn is blown at each time. Later Niroop was stayed long on the bus and was exempted from the Week 10 nomination process. 3rd Immunity Task: Housemates have to stand in an ice cube tub and has to pee

Events

• Days: Day 71–77
• Twist: All the housemates were automatically nominated in Week 10 for immunity-based challenges that were conducted as part of the Week 10 Luxury Budget Task.
• Punishments: None
• Punishments: House Captain
• Safe contestants: Raju, Priyanka, Pavni, Akshara, and Varun were saved from Week 11 Elimination Process on Day 76 & 77.
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Tasks

• Vitratheenga eppothume: All Housemates had to hold a long rope given by biggboss and has to hold without leaving the rope. Housemates leaving the rope will be disqualified from the captaincy task of this week.Later Thamarai won the task by holding the rope for 16 hours and becoming a captain of this week
• Captaincy Task Results
• Winner: Thamarai Selvi
• Defeat: The other housemates
• Oru Kathai Sollatuma: Wildcards of the Bigg Boss House shared their past life, their sorrows, strengths, and how they achieved their dreams, with the other housemates. The other housemates have to paste a heart, like, or a dislike sticker if the housemate's story was relatable, inspirational, or non-inspirational. Freeze or Release Task: Bigg boss will take full control over the task. He will instruct the housemates by using words like freeze, release, rewind, fast forward, sleep mode, and loop.

Events

• Days: Day 78–84
• Twist: None
• Punishments: None
• Safe contestants: Priyanka, Pavni, Ciby, and Niroop were saved from Elimination Process on Day 83 & 84.
• Akshara Reddy: Mother and Brother, Ciby Bhuvana Chandran: Father and Wife, Niroop Nandakumar: Father and Friend Raju Jeyamohan Mother and Wife, Pavni Reddy: Mother, Sister and Niece, Varun Kamal: Mother and Brother, Priyanka Deshpande: Mother and Brother, Thamarai Selvi: Son and Husband, Sanjeev Venkat: Wife, Son and Daughter, Amir: Family.

Tasks

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• Ticket to Finale tasks Contestants should compete in various challenges to earn the most points. The contestant who has the most points at the end of the week will automatically be saved until the Finale Week escaping public vote. Ticket to finale Task 1: They wanna give one black rose to a person who doesn't deserve to go to finals. Later Housemates decides to give the black rose to Niroop, and he is out of Ticket to Finale. Ticket to finale Task 2: They will give 10 eggs and a nest to the contestants equally. They wanna protect their egg as well as they wanna break others' eggs. Whom has les
• Ticket To Finale Winner: Amir

Events

• Days: Day 85–91
• Twist: Ticket to Finale announcement made. Just one housemate can make it to the Finale Week without facing a public vote for 2 weeks
• Punishments: None
• Punishments: House Captain
• Safe contestants: Raju, Priyanka, Pavni, Niroop, Thamarai, and Ciby were saved from Week 13 Elimination Process on Day 90 & 91.
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Tasks

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• Bigg Boss reintroduces the Sacrifice-Dare task which originally started in Bigg Boss Season 1 and 2. Housemates will be given a dare and or a sacrifice which they must complete which will ensure their entrance to their Finale Week. 1st Sacrifice: Onions, salt, and sugar for the whole week. This may help them gain a special offer and luxury budget. 2nd Sacrifice: Housemates should give their favorite two sets of dresses to Orphanage. 1st Dare: All nominated housemates have to take a bath with water that was mixed with cow dung.

Events

• Days: Days 92–98
• Twist: A housemate has the chance to take the money amount which starts off at 3 lakhs and increases to 12 lakhs.
• Punishments: None
• Safe contestants: Niroop was saved from the Week 14 Elimination Process on Day 97 after winning the Ticket To Finale.
• Safe contestants: Raju, Priyanka and Pavni were saved from the Week 14 Elimination Process on Days 97 & 98 and became the finalists of Bigg Boss 5 Tamil.
• Safe contestants: Ticket To Finale Winners: Niroop, Raju, Priyanka, Pavni
• Sarathkumar Ramanathan entered the House to challenge the contestants with a box of cash prize on Day 93.

Tasks

Events

• Days: Days 98–105
• Happenings: Pongal Celebration on Day 103: Housemates celebrated the Pongal with wishing the audience by themselves. Bigg boss had arranged a task where housemates joined and played them with winning Pongal gifs.
• Happenings: Bigg Boss asked Housemates to share their journey, as all housemates came in front and talked about it on Day 103.
• Happenings: All housemates gave 10 poses to the photo at garden area and then they enjoyed with dancing for songs which was played at the moment. Except Finalists, remained housemates who came as guests, left bb house after collecting gifts on Day 103.
• Happenings: At garden area, each finalist was shown their bb journey by a video separately only towards them on Day 104.
• Finalists: During the final week the public vote for who they want to win Bigg Boss. The finalists for the title were as following: Amir Niroop Nandhakumar Pavni Reddy Priyanka Deshpande Raju Jeyamohan
• Finalists: Grand Finale Day 105
• 4th Runner Up: Niroop Nandhakumar
• 3rd Runner Up: Amir
• 2nd Runner Up: Pavni Reddy
• 1st Runner Up: Priyanka Deshpande
• Winner: Raju Jeyamohan
• Nadia Chang, Suruthi Periyasamy, Ciby Bhuvana Chandran and Abhinay Vaddi entered the House as guests on Day 101.
• Thamarai Selvi, Varun Kamal and Akshara Reddy entered the House as guests on Day 102