Overview

• Bigg Boss 19 is confirmed to premiere on August 29 for a five-month run, making it the franchise’s longest season to date.
• The season revives the ‘Rewind’ theme with secret rooms, audience voting and in-house tasks under a celebrity-only lineup.
• Salman Khan will host the opening three months, with Anil Kapoor, Karan Johar or Farah Khan taking over mid-season before Khan returns for the finale.
• Producers have approached actors including Karan Singh Grover, Shraddha Arya and Dheeraj Dhoopar and have confirmed Indian Idol winner Sreeram Chandra as a contestant.
• Habubu, the first interactive Emirati robot-doll, will join Bigg Boss 19 as the franchise’s first non-human housemate.