Season 1
Fed season 10 ›A commoner-entry pre-show new for season 10, running multiple screening and evaluation rounds. Explicitly modelled on the Telugu Agnipariksha format.
Bigg Boss: The Common Man
Celebrities are cast by the channel. They agree a fee and walk in on premiere night having qualified for nothing. Everyone else has to win their seat on television first, and this is the show where that happens.
A jury decides the seats
What you have to get through
Anyone can applyRegistration is open to the public online, with a video making your case. Applications run to the lakhs.
Phone interviewThe shortlist is cut on video, personality and screen presence, then interviewed by phone.
Group discussionThose left are put in a room together and watched.
Face to faceThe judges and former housemates interview what remains, down to the finalists who go on air.
Trial by televisionThe finalists compete in tasks across the run. Judges score them, the public votes alongside, and the two together decide who gets a seat.
Every season of the route
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Casting is run by the broadcaster, not by Clapnumber. We do not take applications and we cannot pass one on. Dates and counts here follow what the show has published; where nothing has been published we leave it blank.