Bigg Boss 20 Glossary: Nomination, Immunity and Wild Cards

Nomination and eviction

Nomination means inclusion in a stated elimination process. Eviction means an announced departure under the show’s process. Being nominated and being evicted are separate events.

Example: a person can appear on a nomination list and remain in the house after the result. A fan poll placing that person last does not itself change either status.

Captain, contender and immunity

Captain is the announced house role. Contender means someone is still competing for it. Immunity means the protection explicitly awarded for a stated round or situation.

The captaincy guide explains why a contender cannot be described as captain before the final decision. Immunity also needs a scope: exemption from one task does not prove permanent protection.

Task, ration and special power

A task is an activity with announced objectives and conditions. A ration task concerns supplies available to the house. A special power is a defined choice or advantage granted by the show.

The title of a task does not explain every consequence. When a task links supplies to another decision, read both effects. A supply reward and nomination protection can be distinct outcomes of the same choice.

Weekend Ka Vaar and confession room

Weekend Ka Vaar refers to host-led discussions about events in the house and other segments in that episode. The confession room is a setting for conversations or instructions involving Bigg Boss and participants.

An instruction given in a separate room can explain a choice that other housemates do not yet understand. The audience may have more information than the people involved in the task.

Wild card and finale

A wild card is a participant introduced after the initial lineup under the show’s announced format. A finale is the concluding stage in which the season’s final outcome is announced.

An online rumor about an entrant does not confirm a wild card. A projected finale date does not establish the broadcast schedule. Both need an announcement from the show or its official platform.

Fan poll, trend and prediction

A fan poll records participating users’ opinions. A trend describes movement within a stated dataset. A prediction is a forecast rather than an outcome.

If a poll omits its method or observation time, its percentage has limited context. The fan-poll guide explains why an open ranking cannot be called an official voting result.

Lives, lifelines and the danger zone

Lives. Season 20 adds a lives layer to the format: housemates hold lives, and tasks can take them away. In the Week 3 ration-ranking task, Isha Rikhi and Rhiti Tiwari each lost a life; in the Week 2 2X Room sequence, Kanika Mann took a life from Rohed Khan. The season record uses “lifeline” for the same protection — Mary Kom’s eviction followed her losing both her lifelines.

Last life and mid-week exit. Losing the last life can end a journey outside the usual eviction announcement. Rhiti Tiwari’s final life was taken by the captaincy contenders in Week 4 and she left mid-week. Aman Gandhi shows the softer version: in Week 5 he reportedly received the fewest votes but, with no eviction that week, lost a lifeline instead.

Danger zone and bottom three. The danger zone is the low end of the announced voting record for a round; the bottom three are its last three names. Uditi Singh is the season’s repeat danger-zone survivor — fewest votes in Week 1, bottom three in Week 6 — which shows the zone is a position in a round, not an exit: she remained in the house after both.

Removed, Fans Ka Faisla and other season terms

Removed. A removal is the show ending a journey outside the eviction process. Wild card Nakul Dhull was removed in Week 6 after a reported physical altercation with Gullu, and VisitBest’s season record labels him “Removed”, never “Evicted” — the two words describe different mechanisms and are not interchangeable in a recap.

Fans Ka Faisla. An entry route, not a vote during the season: Love Gill entered through Fans Ka Faisla, arriving, in the season record’s words, with a public mandate rather than only a casting decision. It explains her place in the lineup; it gives no advantage in any later round.

Guest host. A host who leads a single weekend’s episodes without taking over the season. Rohit Shetty guest-hosted the Episode 50 Weekend Ka Vaar and announced Mary Kom’s eviction there; Salman Khan remains the host of Season 20. Safe, for a round. In the season record, “safe in Week 8” means only that a housemate is not on that week’s nomination list — Arishfa Khan and Uditi Singh are both recorded that way. Like immunity, safety here has a scope of one round.

Sources and image context

• JioHotstar: Bigg Boss show page

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