Bigg Boss (Tamil TV series) season 3

Bigg Boss 3 was the third season of the Tamil-Indian reality TV game show Bigg Boss, which premiered on Star Vijay on 23 June 2019 - 6 October 2019. Frooti was the sponsor for the third season. Kamal Haasan returned as host for the third time.^[1] The show was aired on Star Vijay. Hotstar also provided content aired on television.

Bigg Boss
Season 3
Bigg Boss Tamil 3 logo
Presented by	Kamal Haasan
No. of days	105
No. of housemates	17
Winner	Mugen Rao
Runner-up	Sandy
No. of episodes	106
Release
Original network	Star Vijay
Original release	23 June (2019-06-23) – 6 October 2019 (2019-10-06)
Season chronology

The house, located at EVP World in Chembarambakkam, Chennai, was completely renovated with a Chettinad-based theme for this season. It is the only season in Bigg Boss history where an international contestant has won the show.^[2] Mugen Rao, a musical artist from Malaysia won the title and Sandy emerged as the first runner-up.^[3]

Abhirami Venkatachalam and Vanitha Vijayakumar returned as contestants in Bigg Boss Ultimate (season 1).

Housemate status

Following were the housemates who took part in Bigg Boss Tamil Season 3:^[4][5][6]

SR	Housemate	Day entered	Day exited	Status
1	Mugen Rao	Day 1	Day 105	Winner
2	Sandy	Day 1	Day 105	1st runner-up
3	Losliya	Day 1	Day 105	2nd runner-up
4	Sherin	Day 1	Day 105	3rd runner-up
5	Tharshan	Day 1	Day 98
6	Kavin	Day 1	Day 95	Walked
8	Vanitha	Day 1	Day 21	Evicted
		Day 52	Day 84	Evicted
9	Cheran	Day 80	Day 91	Evicted
10	Cheran	Day 1	Day 77	Secret Room
11	Kasthuri	Day	Day 63	Walked
13	Abhirami	Day 1	Day 56	Evicted
12	Madhumita	Day 1	Day 55	Ejected
14	Shakshi	Day 1	Day 49	Evicted
15	Saravanan	Day 1	Day 47	Ejected
14	Reshma	Day 1	Day 42	Evicted
15	Meera	Day 3	Day 35	Evicted
15	Mohan	Day 1	Day 28	Evicted
17	Fathima	Day 1	Day 14	Evicted

Housemates

Original Contestants

1. Fathima Babu – Film actor and newsreader
2. Mohan Vaidya – Musician
3. Losliya Mariyanesan – Sri Lankan Tamil newsreader and film actor
4. Sakshi Agarwal – Film actress
5. Abhirami Venkatachalam – Actor and model
6. Jangiri Madhumitha – Comedienne
7. Saravanan – Film actor
8. Sherin Shringar – Film actress
9. Cheran – Film director
10. Kavin – Serial and film actor
11. Vanitha Vijayakumar – Film actress
12. Tharshan Thiyagaraja – Sri Lankan Tamil model and actor
13. Mugen Rao – Musician, Singer and actor
14. Sandy – Choreographer
15. Reshma Pasupuleti – Serial and film actor

Wildcard Contestants

1. Meera Mithun – Model
2. Kasthuri Shankar – Film actress

Re-entry Contestants

1. Vanitha Vijayakumar – Actress

Guests appearance

Week	Day	Guest(s)	Purpose of Visit
1	0	Ganja Karuppu (Season 1 contestant)	To escort housemate Saravanan to the Bigg Boss house.[7]
Harish Kalyan (Season 1 contestant)	To escort housemate Tharshan to the house.
10	64 to 69	Traditional and cultural dancers and stage actors	As a part of luxury budget task.
11	72 to 76	Abhirami Venkatachalam, Sakshi Agarwal and Mohan Vaidya	The trio of previously evicted Bigg Boss Tamil 3 contestants entered the house as guests for weekly activities such as award distribution and left the house on Day 76.
12	79 to 81	All the family members and friends of housemates	As a part of luxury budget task.
14	93	Yashika Anand and Mahat Raghavendra	Contestants of the second season of Bigg Boss, they entered the house to spend some time with the housemates and to promote their film, Ivan Oru Utthaman.
	94	Riythvika and Janani Iyer	The winner and third runner–up of the second season of Bigg Boss, they entered the house to spend some time with the housemates and to promote their films, Irandaam Ulagaporin Kadaisi Kundu and Yezham.
95	Aishwarya Dutta	The runner–up of the second season of Bigg Boss, they entered the house to spend some time with the housemates.
15	99	Fathima Babu, Reshma Pasupuleti, Meera Mitun and Mohan Vaidya	The group of previously evicted Bigg Boss Tamil 3 contestants entered the house as guests for the last week activities.
	100	Priyanka and Soundarya Bala Nandakumar from Super Singer[8]	To entertain the contestants with songs.
	101	Sakshi Agarwal, Abhirami Venkatachalam, Vanitha Vijayakumar, Cheran and Kasthuri Shankar	The group of previously evicted Bigg Boss Tamil 3 contestants entered the house as guests for the last week activities.
	102	Ma Ka Pa Anand, Rio Raj, Priyanka Deshpande, Rakshan, Thaadi Balaji	To promote the show The Wall.
	103	All evicted/walked contestants except Saravanan and Madhumitha	The group of previously evicted Bigg Boss Tamil 3 contestants entered the house as guests for the last week activities.
	105	Kamal Haasan	To encourage the finalists on account of the Grand Finale.
	105	Riythvika	To introduce the Bigg Boss trophy to the Housemates and to escort Sherin (Third Runner up).
		Shruti Haasan	To escort Losliya (Second Runner up).

Nominations table

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12	Week 13	Week 14	Week 15 (Grand finale week)
House Captain	Vanitha	Mohan	Abhirami	Sakshi	Reshma	Tharshan	Mugen	Sandy	Madhumitha	Cheran	Vanitha	Losliya	No Captain	Mugen	No Captain
									Sherin
Captain's Nominations	No Nominations	Cheran Fathima	Meera Madhumitha	Abhirami Madhumitha	Kavin Cheran	Madhumitha Reshma	Tharshan Saravanan	Abhirami Madhumitha	Mugen Kasthuri	Kavin Mugen	Kavin Losliya	Vanitha Sherin	No Nominations	No Nominations	No Nominations
Vote for:	None	Evict								None	Evict				Finale Nominations / Win
Mugen	No Nominations	Cheran Meera	Vanitha Meera	Meera Saravanan	Madhumitha Saravanan	Reshma Madhumitha	House Captain	Cheran Tharshan	Cheran Kasthuri	Kavin Losliya	Cheran Losliya	Vanitha Tharshan	Cheran Losliya	House Captain & Finalist (Ticket To Finale Winner)	Nominated	Winner (Day 105)
Sandy		Madhumitha Cheran	Vanitha Meera	Meera Cheran	Abhirami Sakshi	Madhumitha Abhirami	Sakshi Abhirami	House Captain	Cheran Kasthuri	Sherin Vanitha	Kavin Losliya	Vanitha Sherin	Cheran Losliya	Nominated		1st Runner Up (Day 105)
Losliya		Meera Saravanan	Mohan Vanitha	Meera Mohan	Sakshi Meera	Madhumitha Sakshi	Sakshi Saravanan	Mugen Sherin	Kasthuri Cheran	Vanitha Sherin	Mugen Sherin	House Captain	Mugen Sherin	Nominated		2nd Runner Up (Day 105)
Sherin		Meera Madhumitha	Madhumitha Meera	Meera Saravanan	Meera Saravanan	Kavin Losliya	Kavin Losliya	Mugen Kavin	House Captain	Mugen Kavin	Kavin Losliya	Vanitha Sandy	Kavin Losliya	Nominated		3rd Runner Up (Day 105)
Tharshan		Meera Sakshi	Vanitha Meera	Meera Saravanan	Saravanan Kavin	House Captain	Abhirami Saravanan	Abhirami Mugen	Kasthuri Cheran	Vanitha Kavin	Kavin Losliya	Vanitha Sandy	Cheran Losliya	Nominated	Evicted (Day 98)
Kavin		Meera Madhumitha	Vanitha Meera	Meera Cheran	Sakshi Abhirami	Reshma Madhumitha	Sakshi Abhirami	Abhirami Madhumitha	Cheran Kasthuri	Vanitha Sherin	Cheran Sherin	Vanitha Sherin	Cheran Sherin	Accepted	Evicted with ₹5L (Day 94)
Cheran		Losliya Tharshan	Vanitha Meera	Meera Saravanan	Kavin Sakshi	Kavin Reshma	Abhirami Sakshi	Vanitha Mugen	Sandy Tharshan	House Captain	Kavin Mugen	In Secret Room	Losliya Kavin	Evicted (Day 91)
Vanitha	House Captain	Meera Cheran	Saravanan Madhumitha	Evicted (Day 21)				Entered (Day 50)	Sandy Tharshan	Mugen Kavin	House Captain	Tharshan Sherin	Evicted (Day 84)
Kasthuri	Not In House						Entered (Day 42)	Kavin Losliya	Kavin Sandy	Evicted (Day 63)
Abhirami	No Nominations	Meera Madhumitha	House Captain	Meera Saravanan	Kavin Meera	Kavin Madhumitha	Sandy Saravanan	Kavin Madhumitha	Evicted (Day 56)
Madhumitha		Kavin Fathima	Sakshi Sherin	Meera Reshma	Kavin Sakshi	Kavin Sakshi	Abhirami Sakshi	Kavin Losilya	Walked (Day 54)
Sakshi		Meera Madhumitha	Saravanan Madhumitha	House Captain	Meera Saravanan	Saravanan Kavin	Losliya Abhirami	Evicted (Day 49)
Saravanan		Cheran Fathima	Mohan Vanitha	Mohan Abhirami	Abhirami Cheran	Sakshi Abhirami	Losliya Abhirami	Ejected (Day 44)
Reshma		Fathima Madhumitha	Saravanan Madhumitha	Meera Saravanan	House Captain	Cheran Kavin	Evicted (Day 42)
Meera		Abhirami Sakshi	Madhumitha Losliya	Cheran Tharshan	Sakshi Abhirami	Evicted (Day 35)
Mohan		House Captain	Saravanan Madhumitha	Meera Saravanan	Evicted (Day 28)
Fathima		Kavin Saravanan	Evicted (Day 14)
Notes	1	2	none				3, 4	5, 6	none	7	8	9	none	10	none
Against public vote	None	Cheran Fathima Kavin Madhumitha Meera Sakshi Saravanan	Madhumitha Meera Mohan Saravanan Vanitha	Abhirami Cheran Meera Mohan Saravanan	Abhirami Cheran Kavin Meera Sakshi Saravanan	Abhirami Kavin Madhumitha Reshma Sakshi	Abhirami Losliya Sakshi Saravanan	Abhirami Kavin Losliya Madhumitha Mugen	Cheran Kasthuri Sandy Tharshan	Kavin Mugen Sherin Vanitha	Cheran Kavin Losliya Mugen Sherin	Kavin Vanitha Sherin Sandy Tharshan	Cheran Kavin Losliya Sherin	Kavin Losliya Sandy Sherin Tharshan	Losliya Mugen Sandy Sherin
Re-entered	none							Vanitha	none
Walked	None ....,...............
Ejected	none						Saravanan	Madhumitha	none
Evicted	No Eviction	Fathima	Vanitha	Mohan	Meera	Reshma	Sakshi	Abhirami	Kasthuri	No Eviction	Cheran	Vanitha	Cheran	Kavin Tharshan	Sherin	Losliya
															Sandy	Mugen

Notes

  indicates that the Housemate was directly nominated for eviction.

  indicates the House Captain.

  indicates the former House Captain. (former meaning that the House Captain would have been stripped of the captaincy, or else evicted/ejected/walked out after being nominated as the Captain)

  indicates that the housemate was saved from nominations (Immune), or entered the Bigg Boss House after the weekly nomination (Exempt).

  indicates that an evicted contestant was sent to Secret room and re-entered the Bigg Boss House after few days.

  indicates that contestant was walked out of BiggBoss house on his own.

  indicates that the housemate has re entered.

  indicates the contestant has been ejected.

  indicates the winner.

  indicates the first runner up.

  indicates the second runner up.

  indicates the third runner up.

  indicates the contestant has been evicted.

  indicates the contestant is nominated.

BOLD, If a housemates name is in bold during "against public vote" it means that they are a finalist.

References

1. "Kamal Haasan all set for Bigg Boss Tamil 3". The Times of India. 8 May 2019. Retrieved 9 May 2019.
2. "The spectacular wall paintings - Bigg Boss Tamil 3: Chettinadu architecture to no-partition bedrooms, take a look at the luxurious BB house". The Times of India. 23 June 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
3. "Mugen Rao wins Bigg Boss Tamil season 3". The Hindu. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 7 October 2020.
4. "Bigg Boss Tamil 3 launch Live Updates: 15 celebrities enter reality show". The Indian Express. 24 June 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
5. "Bigg Boss Tamil 3: A Tamil 'Diaspora' Season". The Quint. 23 June 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
6. "Bigg Boss Tamil 3 episode 2, June 25, 2019, written update: Abhirami confesses her feelings to Kavin; Meera Mitun enters the house as a wild card". The Times of India. 26 June 2019. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
7. "Bigg Boss Tamil 3 Launch Highlights: The third season of the reality show starts on a high note". The Times of India. 24 June 2019. Retrieved 20 July 2023.
8. "Bigg Boss Tamil 3 preview, October 1: Mugen Rao to jam with Super Singer Junior fame Priyanka and Soundharya Bala Nandakumar". The Times of India. October 2019.

External links

• Bigg Boss at IMDb
• Bigg Boss Tamil 3 at Hotstar