Overview

• Bigg Boss 19 is scheduled to premiere exclusively on JioCinema around August 29 or 30, followed by a delayed Colors TV telecast, and will run for five months until January 2026.
• The producers confirmed that artificial intelligence will drive the season’s central mechanics, influencing challenges, eliminations and daily operations.
• Salman Khan will host the opening three months and return for the finale, with interim presenters such as Anil Kapoor, Karan Johar or Farah Khan likely to step in midseason.
• For the first time, housemates will control core decisions like evictions, ration distribution and task selection under a “Bigg Boss janna chahte hai” model.
• Producers have approached TV and film celebrities including Rati Pandey and Shraddha Arya, while Meera Deosthale has confirmed she will not participate and AI figures such as Emirati robot Habubu have been floated as potential contestants.