Bigg Boss Kannada 4
Bigg Boss Kannada 4 (BBK4) is the fourth season of the Kannada reality television series Bigg Boss Kannada. The show's grand opening was on October 9, 2016 and it was aired on Colors Kannada at 6pm. Sudeep, remained as the host as he hosted previous seasons. He had signed a ₹18 crore (US$2.8 million) deal with the channel Colors Kannada to host the next five seasons starting from the previous season. The first promo for the show aired on the channel on September 8, 2016. None of the contestants' details were revealed until the grand opening of the show. The Bigg Boss house built for the previous season in the Innovative Film City at Bidadi, Bengaluru was reconstructed for this season.
The show was aired on Colors Kannada and Colors Kannada HD simultaneously from 9:00 PM to 10:00 PM everyday. This is the first season of Bigg Boss Kannada to be shot and aired in High-Definition. A spin-off show, Bigg Boss Night Shift was produced and aired on Colors Super from 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM everyday. This contained unseen footage from the original airing and was hosted by Rehman Haseeb, alumnus from Season 3 of Bigg Boss Kannada.
The season was extended by two weeks (113 days) instead of the regular 98 days format of the show. The first 98 days of Season 4 was aired on Colors Kannada while the remaining 14 days were aired exclusively on Colors Super channel. The grand finale was aired on 28 and 29 January 2017 on Colors Kannada, Colors Kannada HD and Colors Super simultaneously.
Among the five finalists, Pratham emerged as the winner with highest number public votes, followed by Keerthi Kumar as runner-up, Rekha, Malavika Avinash and Mohan Shankar as third, fourth and fifth respectively.
Pratham is a film director yet to debut in the Kannada film industry through his film 'Devravne Bidu Guru' which is an ongoing project with the Bigg Boss Kannada Season 2 winner Akul Balaji in the lead role. Pratham proclaims himself as 'Olle Huduga' (Good Boy) and 'Badavara Bandhu' (Friend of the Poor) on social media. It is said that he was not picked by the Bigg Boss team, instead he himself made it into their office and asked for a contestant slot on the show. The broadcaster broke the tradition and aired promos unveiling Pratham as the first contestant of Season 4 days before the premiere episode.
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