MUMBAI: Television actress Urvashi Dholakia has won in the sixth season of celebrity reality show Bigg Boss.

Successfully completing her stay of 98 days inside the Bigg Boss house, Dholakia walked away with the cash prize of Rs 5,000,000 and Bigg Boss Season 6 trophy.

Dholakia is the third female contestant to have won the title after Shweta Tiwari in 2010 and Juhi Parmar in 2011.

Dholakia is a television actress, best known for portraying the role of an antagonist Komolika in Ekta Kapoor?s ?Kasautii Zindagii Kay? on Star Plus, which ran from 2001 to 2008.

Dholakia?s co-contestants Imam Siddique and Sana Khan emerged as the first and second runner up of the show that was presented by Vodafone.

Colors weekend programming head Manisha Sharma said, "With Bigg Boss Season 6, we have changed the game - right from the treatment to the format to introducing never done before elements. This season was created to attract more family audiences that pushed us to constantly innovate, adding a lot of ?parivarik? punch with the mix of celebrities to the variety of tasks. Besides this, Salman?s charm and audience connect has worked in our favour and taken brand Bigg Boss notches up. Looking back, we are happy that we?ve managed to achieve what we set out for."

Endemol India CEO Deepak Dhar said, "This season, we have innovated, taken risks and introduced surprising elements that differentiates this season from its previous editions. Be it the new padosi house, or bringing the family members in the house, that created controversy, panic room, flash mob, LVA tests, Bigg Boss Season 6 has always been one step ahead of the viewers and has lived by the philosophy of expect the unexpected. And as we close this season, we are proud of the content and the high achieved with this show, making it truly an unpredictable and unparalleled format on Indian television."

The Grand Finale night of Bigg Boss 6 witnessed performance by the host of the show Salman Khan, joined by Prabhudeva and Remo D?Souza who came to promote their upcoming film- ABCD (Anybody Can Dance). Emraan Hashmi also joined Khan on television and spoke about his upcoming movie - ?Ek Thi Daayan?.

Additionally, there were performances by the ex-contestants of the show and television actors like Rashmi Desai Sandhu, Rati Pandey and Pooja Gor.

Neha Dhupia and Tushaar Kapoor added to the fun by giving a sneak peek into the hilarious gags that will be seen on their upcoming comedy show - ?Nautanki - The Comedy Theatre?.

MUMBAI: With curtains set to come down on the season 6 of Bigg Boss, Hindi general entertainment channel (GEC) Colors is replacing the big-ticket reality show with two new fiction shows. This includes introducing second season of a fiction, a first for the channel.

In order to bolster its prime-time line-up, Colors will air Sanskaar ? Dharohar Apnon Ki and season 2 of Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha from 14 January.

Sanskaar, which highlights keeping family first, will air from Monday to Friday at 9 pm while Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha will be televised at 9.30 pm.

Colors Weekday Programming Head Prashant Bhatt said this is the first time the season?s format is being introduced and if successful the channel might try hands with other properties.

?For the first time in a week, we have extended our prime-time viewing from five days a week to six days a week. So this is the first new thing that we have done in 2013 and the second new thing we are doing is format,? says Bhatt.

The broadcaster had recently extended its prime-time programming to six days a week by extending its top-rated shows like Sasural Simar Ka, Balika Vadhu and Madhubala to Saturday.

?If people have loved the show from Monday to Friday, the idea is to extend the entertainment by one more day. Then at least they know what to do on a Saturday evening also,? he asserts.

According to Bhatt, Indian soaps have the key ingredients for a successful season?s format as there is loyalty for characters and stickiness. ?So we felt ?why not do seasons here since we have both the things,? he avers.

And the key to building stickiness is to take up story ideas based on real life experiences. ?It basically is to observe things around you, people around you and situations around you and then you put them in your shows because that makes your shows more relatable. The connectivity increases day by day, so that?s how we maintain stickiness,? he explains.

These are baby steps for the four year old channel, admits Bhatt. ?From programming point of view, we are taking baby steps as far as making changes is concerned.?

MUMBAI: Colors is all set to replace its popular reality show Bigg Boss-6 with two fiction shows titled ?Sanskar- Dharohar Apnon Ki? and ?Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha-2?.

The channel will air the finale of the Salman Khan-hosted show on 12 January while the two shows are launching on 14 January.

?Sanskar? and ?Na Bole Tum Na Maine Kuch Kaha-2? will air Monday to Friday at 9 pm and 9.30 pm respectively.

Sanskar will take the viewers on a journey of ?des? India as well as ?pardes?, bringing alive the importance of family while living in a different country. The show will feature Jay Soni as the lead.

Meanwhile, introducing the second season to the unusual love story of Megha and Mohan, Na Bole Tum Na Meine Kuch Kaha - Season 2 will take the story forward albeit with a twist. Viewers will get to see their old characters building relationships with newer characters, while keeping the essence of the show alive, the channel said.

The channel is also launching a comedy reality show ?Nautanki?. However, the time slot for the show has not been finalised yet.

NEW DELHI: The Delhi High Court has directed the central government to take action within a week against television channel Colors for using the national anthem to promote its reality show `Bigg Boss 6` - the Indian version of the British ?Big Brother? - in cinema halls across the country.

A division bench of Chief Justice D. Murugesan and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw gave the directions after hearing a public interest litigation against the channel for running a commercial of the Salman Khan-hosted show wherein an audio demanded that all present in the halls should "stand up for the national anthem" as Big Bigg Boss wanted it.

The judges said: "In the wake of serious allegations levelled by the petitioner that the national anthem is disrespected, we direct the central government to treat this PIL as a representation and the grievances be dealt with in accordance with the law."

The court added that "necessary action would be taken by the Ministry concerned against the respondents within a week".

"The allegations will be looked into and action will be taken", Additional Solicitor General Rajeev Mehra told the Court.

The PIL filed by lawyer Jeetender Gupta alleged that Colors has "disrespected" the national anthem by using it to promote the realty show in various PVR multiplexes in the city as well as in other parts of the country.

"The Colors channel randomly displayed an advertisement inside the movie theatres and the said advertisement was in the form of a visual displaying the logo of its programme `Bigg Boss 6` followed by an audio demanding all present in the hall to stand up for the national anthem.

"`Bigg boss chahte hain ki aap rashtriya gaan ke liye khade hon`, (Bigg boss wants you to stand for the national anthem) and then the Indian National Anthem was played," the petition stated.

It further added: "The respondent (TV channel) is trying to associate itself with the national anthem solely for commercial purpose of promoting its latest TV programme."

The plea said: "The acts of TV channel and PVR amount to possible violations of the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act 1971 and the Emblems and Names (prevention of improper use) Act 1950."

"We have utmost respect for national anthem, and we don?t see any violation when ?Bigg Boss? in his voice asked audience in theatres to stand up for the national anthem" a spokesperson of COLORS said.
Earlier also the reality show had run into controversies with the I&B Ministry asking Colors to telecast ?Bigg Boss Season 5? after 11 pm last year when complaints were received about violent gestures and inappropriate language used by the participants.