Bigg Boss 6 is the current sixth season of the Indian reality TV show Bigg Boss, which airs on Colors from 7 October 2012 with Salman Khan returning as the host for the show.
The House is in Pune's hill town Lonavala. The Bigg Boss house had statues of the 'three wise monkeys' by the poolside, apart from a panic room this year. The house, designed by renowned national award winning art director Sabu Cyril followed a completely different theme from its previous season, following a subtle family oriented theme, and was announced to be the largest Big Brother House ever being built on a space of over 15000 sq feet.
Bigg Boss-6 Participants
Name: Aashaka Goradia
Age : 26
Marital Status : Single
Nationality : Indian
Occupation : Indian television actress
How we know her : Born and brought up in Ahemdabad, Aashka made her
acting debut with Balaji Telefilms. She dolled up Ekta Kapoor’s show
Kkusum as a protagonist on Sony TV followed by Akela and Virrudh on Sony
TV, Kahin To Hoga on Star Plus, Sindoor Tere Naam Ka and Saath Phere on
Zee Tv, and Mere Apne on 9x made her popular amongst the television
audience.
Aashka has done some popular reality shows like Comedy Ka Maha Muqabla
and Fear Factor – Khatron Ke Khiladi. She was also one of the
contestants in the Mr. and Ms. Television, a talent hunt show on Sony
Entertainment Television.
Aashka has now added one more feather to her illustrious career by
opening a beverage outlet in Oshiwara named Isayice along with actor
Rohit Bakshi and Sister Jaanki Ravatia.
A television actor by profession, Aashka became a household name after her role as Kumud in a daily show, Kussum on Sony TV.
Name : Aseem Trivedi
Age : 25
Marital Status : Single
Nationality : Indian
Occupation : Indian political cartoonist
How we know him : Aseem Trivedi shot into national prominence when
charged with sedition and arrested by Mumbai police in 2012.
Aseem Trivedi is originally from
Unnao district in Uttar Pradesh, where his parents still live. He showed
ability in drawing and art since childhood. By the time he was 20, he
had worked with several Kanpur-based newspapers as a cartoonist. He
moved to Delhi in 2010, when he was just 22 and continued to work as a
freelance cartoonist. He became closely involved with the Anna Hazare
led campaign against corruption and displayed several of his cartoons
during protests.
Aseem was arrested in Mumbai for making eight seditious cartoons. A
group of people including some well-known media persons criticized
government's decision of arresting him and protested all over the
country.
Aseem was supposed to fly to Syria to collect an award for his cartoons
but he could not go because of his arrest. The award, given by the
Cartoonists Rights Network International, is for Courage in Editorial
Cartooning.
Name : Delnaaz Irani
Marital Status : Divorced
Marital Status : Divorced
Nationality : Indian
Occupation : Theatre and Indian television & films actor
How we know her : Dalnaz Irani is a popular Indian television and
film actor, famous for potraying the chaarcter of Sweetoo, from the
movie Kal Ho Na Ho
Delnaaz Irani is an Indian actress
of Irani origin. She has acted in both Bollywood movies and Hindi
television serials and has over twenty-five plays to her credit.
She has worked with some of the biggest names in Bollywood including
Shahrukh Khan, Shahid Kapoor, Juhi Chawla, Salman Khan,Saif Ali Khan,
Akshay Kumar, Preity Zinta, and Kareena Kapoor. She was the host of Nach
Baliye, a reality dance show with her ex-husband Rajeev.
Delnaaz was married for 14 years with Rajeev Paul before they split in
2010.
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Name : Dinesh Lal Yadav (Nirahua)
Nationality : Indian
Occupation : Dinesh Lal Yadav alias Nirahua is a Bhojpuri (Indian folk language) singer and film actor.
How we know him : Bhojpuri film superstar Dinesh Lal Yadav a.k.a
Nirahua, grabbed the limelight after delivering hit movies like 'Til Gum
gauwa.'
Nirahua is a popular face of music
in Indian states like U.P, MP, Bihar & Jharkhand. He has to his
credit quite a number of big block-buster Bhojpuri movies and is the
first choice of south Indian producers who are investing in Bhojpuri
Industry. Dinesh also has to his credit some record breaking music
albums and is Known as the jubilee star of Bhojpuri movies.
Name : Karishma Kotak
Age : 30
Marital Status : Single
Nationality : Britisher
Occupation : Model
How we know her : Karishma is a popular Kingfisher Calender Girl- turned Model
After taking a degree in Bachelor's
of Arts in advertising and marketing, Karishma moved to India in
October 2005 where, within two months, she got herself onto the
prestigious Kingfisher Swimsuit calendar. In 2006, Karishma took part in
the "Lakme Fashion Week". She has also done music videos for artists
such as Jay Sean, Sonu Nigam and Apache Indian. She has now become the
brand ambassador for Dove (shampoo) in India. She remains best known for
her work as the Kingfisher Girl. She has also appeared in a number of
other commercials.
Name : KAshif Qureshi
Age : 30
Marital Status : Single
Nationality : Indian
Occupation : Martial Artist
How we know him : Kashif is the non-celebrity contestant in Bigg Boss.
Kashif hails from the city of Hydrabad, Andhra Pradesh. He got selected to be the 'Common Man' (non-celebrity).
Name : Navjot Singh Sidhu
Age : 48
Marital Status : Married
Nationality : Indian
Occupation : Former Cricketer, TV commentator.
How we know him : Former Indian cricketer, Navjot Singh Sidhu took
up television commentary, and politics after taking retirement from the
game.
Navjot Singh Sidhu had a volatile
career as a cricketer from 1983 to 1999. He announced his retirement
from cricket in December 1999. He played over 50 Test matches and over
100 ODIs scoring over 7,000 international runs. He has 27 centuries to
his credit in an 18-year career. Sidhu restarted his career as a
commentator for Nimbus sport when India toured Sri Lanka in 2001. He
however later became a commentator with ESPN Star Sports. As a
commentator, Sidhu was noted for his one-liners, which came to be known
as "Sidhuisms" and regularly appears as a "cricket analyst" on various
Indian news channels. He also figured as a judge on the television
programme - "The Great Indian Laughter Challenge," "Funjabi Chak De."
Sidhu entered politics & won on a Bharatiya Janata Party ticket from
the Amritsar seat in the Indian general elections, 2004. After
resigning due to a court case against him, he stood again after the
ruling was stayed. He won a by-election with a good majority.
Name : Niketan Madhok
Age : 29
Marital Status : Single
Nationality : Indian
Occupation : Model
How we know him : Niketan Madhok is a Model who has walked on ramp
for famous Indian and International labels. He came into limelight after
Lakme India Fashion Week 2002.
About Niketan Madhok: Niketan
started his career as a model in 1994 with shows in Mumbai and
Bangalore. A year later he hit the Delhi ramp circuit.Niketan has worked
with a lot of big names in the fashion industry like Rohit Bal, Rajiv
Bajaj, Rohit Gandhi, J J Vallaya, Suneet Varma, Muzaffar Ali, Ashish
Soni among others. He has walked the ramp at the Lakme India Fashion
Week for a host of fashion designers including Rohit Bal, Aki Narula,
Rocky S, and Ritu Kumar.
Name : Rajeev Paul
Marital Status : Divorced
Nationality : Indian
Occupation : Indian television and theatre actor and writer
How we know him : Rajeev Paul is an Indian television actor best
known for his negative role in Balaji’s daily soap Kahani Ghar Ghar Kii.
He also participated in Nach Baliye,a dance reality show with his then
wife Delnaaz Irani.
Rajeev Paul was born and brought up
in Ajmer and hails from an army family. He went to an acting school
before starting his career as an actor with Mahesh Bhatt’s television
soap Swabhimaan. He has also worked with directors like Deepti Naval and
Late Bharat Rangachari. Playing negative roles on the small screen has
been his forte and his biggest turning point came when Ekta Kapoor
offered him a role in the serial Kahaani Ghar Ghar Kii. He was also one
of the popular contestants in a dance reality show Nach Baliye.
Rajeev was married for 14 years to a famous Indian television actress
Delnaaz Irani before they split in 2010.
Rajeev is also a poet and has been working on his book for long time. He
recently launched his first book titled “Mumbai,Mohabbat aur Tanhai” in
Pune.
Name : Sampat Pal Devi
Age : 52
Marital Status : Married
Nationality : Indian
Occupation : Sampat Pal Devi is the founder and leader of a group of
women vigilantes in northern India's Uttar Pradesh state's Banda
District, called the "Gulabi Gang"
How we know her : Sampat Pal Devi is a former government health
worker who came into news after the launch of the book “Sampat Pal – A
warrior in pink saree” in 2008.
Sampat Pal Devi, a mother of five
and a former government health worker found the Gulabi Gang in 2006 as a
response to the widespread domestic abuse and other violence against
women. It’s not a “gang” in the usual sense of the term. It’s a gang for
justice. The group, numbering several hundred women and a few men, use
vigilante-style tactics to achieve greater social justice for the poor
with its main focus on poor women. Their goal is to strike fear in the
hearts of wrongdoers and earn the respect of officials who have the
power to initiate positive change. They brandish sticks and axes when
the need presents itself.
Her work has been noticed, appreciated and publicize by several film and
documentary makers including-
A documentary called "Gulabi Gang", directed by Nishtha Jain, premiered
at the Norwegian Short Film Festival in 2012.
A movie called "Pink Saris" has been made about them, directed by Kim
Longinotto.
Anubhav Sinha is in a process of making another movie on this gang
titled” Gulab Gang”
In 2008, Oh! Editions published her autobiography “Sampat Pal – A
warrior in pink sare”
Name : Sana Khan
Age : 25
Marital Status : Single
Nationality : Indian
Occupation : Actress, Model & Item girl
How we know her : Sana Khan is an Indian film actress and model.
Best known for her appearance in the Amul Macho ad ‘yeh to Bada toing
hai’
Sana Khan is a popular Tollywood
actress who was born and brought up in Mumbai. She worked as model in
Mumbai, appearing in more than 30 ad films alongside the likes of
Shahrukh Khan and Akshay Kumar. She later on, appeared in item numbers
in films such as Bombay to Goa and Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal, before she was
signed in 2008 do to the lead female role in the Tamil film Silambattam
opposite Silambarasan, who approached and offered her the role. Playing
a talkative, tomboyish brahmin village girl in the film, she won rave
reviews for her performance as Jaanu and the ITFA Best New Actress Award
in Singapore.
Subsequently, she has been signed to do two more Tamil films, Thambikku
Indha Ooru with Bharath, Aayiram Vilakku with Shanthnoo Bhagyarajand
"Payanam" with Prakash Raj, Nagarjuna, Rishi and others.
Name : Sapna Bhavani
Age : 41
Marital Status : Married
Nationality : Indian
Occupation : Celebrity Hair Stylist and owner of Mad-o-Wat Salon
How we know her : Sapna is a celebrity hair stylist. Her celebrity
clientele includes the likes of Dhoni, Virat Kohli, Siddharth Malaya and
John Abraham
A self-styled hippie hairdresser
owns a strand salon Mad-O-Wot at Carter Road in Mumbai. When she's not
experimenting with daring hairstyles on celebrity tresses at either of
her two kitschy salons, she’s playing producer, director, writer,
photographer, DJ or an actress.
She's managed to backpack around Mexico, road trip around the United
States, motorbike up to Ladakh, snag a double major in management, get
married and divorced twice, run her own business, rack up a glitzy
client list, publish a book called "Style-o-wot," produce and star in a
music video with a Mumbai indie band and become a keystone in the Mumbai
urban scene.
Sapna’s salon is a second home to bollywood celebrities like Sameera and
Sushma Reddy, Dino Morea, Koena Mitra, John Abraham and Bipasha Basu.
Sapna has acted in movies like Pyar Ke Side Effects and Ugli Aur Pagli.
Sayantani Ghosh
Name : Sayantani Ghosh
Age : 28
Marital Status : Single
Nationality : Indian
Occupation : Model-turned-Indian television & film actress
How we know her : Played the leading role in Aroona Irani’s Naagin in 2007.
Sayantani Ghosh is often described
as the Bipasha Basu of television. Born and brought up in Kolkata,
Sayantani won the Miss Calcutta contest and that brought her under the
spot light. Later on, she ventured into Bengali films. Sayantani
happened to act with Bengali film superstar Prasenjit. She made her
acting debut on television with Kumkum in 2002. After Kumkum, Sayantani
was picked to play the lead in Sahara One’s Ghar Ek Sapna. Later, she
bagged another leading role in Aroona Irani’s Naagin in 2007.
Sayantani showed us her funnier side in Comedy Circus 2 where she was
paired with comedian Kuldeep Dubey. She showed her tremendous dancing
skills in Zee TV’s reality show Ek Se Badhkar Ek. She was also briefly
seen making an appearance in Ronit Roy’s much acclaimed show Adaalat,
Sabki Laadli Bebo on Star Plus and Crime Patrol on Sony TV.
She will yet again play the role of a naagin in Mrs. Kaushik Ki Paanch
Bahuyein.
Name : Urvashi Dholakia
Age : 33
Marital Status : Divorced
Nationality : Indian
Occupation : Actor, Stand-up comedian
How we know her : Urvashi is half-Punjabi, half-Gujarati by birth.
She was married at age 16, had twin sons at age 17, and was divorced
one-and-a-half years later; her sons study in a boarding school. Urvashi
first acted in TV commercial of Lux soap with actress Revathi at age
six. She made her television acting debut, Though she really started
acting after her first major appearance, as actor Vishal Singh's teenage
love interest in comedy-TV series, Dekh Bhai Dekh (1993) at age 14, and
she has been acting ever since. She had already acted in Zamana Badal
Gaya, Mehndi Tere Naam Ki and serials like Ghar Ek Mandir and Kabhi
Sautan Kabhi Saheli, when she was offered the role of Komolika, part of
the principal cast of Kasautii Zindagii Kay in 2001, the role made her
one of most famous vamps on Indian television, in a series which ran
till 2008. The role got attention not just for her acting as a crafty
daughter-in-law, which soon "became an unofficial yardstick to rate bad
women on TV", but also for the garish make-up, saris and characteristic
bindi stylings of her character
Urvashi is best known for playing
the villainous character, Komolika, in the Star Plus daily soap opera,
Kasautii Zindagii Kay, which ran from 2001 to 2008
Name : Vrajesh Hirjee
Age : 35
Marital Status : Single
Nationality : Indian
Occupation : Theatre and televison actor
How we know him : A famous film, television & theater actor who
is known for his comic roles in the movies like Golmal triology and
Rehna Hai Tere Dil Mein
Vrajesh has acted in over 40
Gujarati plays and has done a number of successful movies like Rehna Hai
Tere Dil Mein, Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai, Mujhe Kucch Kehna Hai, Golmaal
Returns and Tum Bin. He also hosted the show THE MAN'S world SHOW. He is
an AIESEC Alumnus (Association Internationale des Étudiants en Sciences
Économiques et Commerciales). Recently, he appeared in the water game
show Zor Ka Jhatka: Total Wipeout as a contestant. He is currently seen
in SAB TV sitcom Bhai Bhaiya Aur Brother.
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