Bigg Boss 9 Telugu
Bigg Boss Telugu Season 9: winner, top 5, contestants and every elimination
Kalyan Padala won Bigg Boss Telugu 9, the first winner out of the Agnipariksha pre-show, outlasting 21 contestants over 105 days on Star Maa and JioHotstar with Nagarjuna Akkineni hosting. Fifteen were evicted on the public vote and two walked out before the 21 December 2025 finale. Bigg Boss 10 Telugu voting has the current poll and results.
- 22
- contestants
- 105
- days
- 7
- wild cards
- 5
- finalists
Bigg Boss Telugu 9 winner
Winner
Kalyan Padala
- Known for
- Commoner, came through the Agnipariksha pre-show
- Entered
- Launch night to the finale, all 105 days
- Prize
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- ₹35 lakh reported, plus a ₹5 lakh sponsor bonus
- Maruti Suzuki Victoris
Demon Pavan took ₹15 lakh from the ₹50 lakh pool at the finale.
Bigg Boss Telugu 9 host
Nagarjuna Akkineni
Host of Bigg Boss Telugu 9
- Tenure
- Bigg Boss Telugu 9 was his seventh season in a row
- Finale
- Handed the trophy to Kalyan Padala on 21 December 2025
Bigg Boss Telugu 9 logo
Season 9 ran under the concept name Ranarangam, the battlefield theme behind its two-house format.
Bigg Boss Telugu 9 finalists: the top 5
Five housemates were still inside on finale night, 21 December 2025. Demon Pavan left first of them, because he accepted a cash briefcase rather than being voted out — the show labelled him second runner-up, which puts him third; outlets that rank by exit sequence put him fifth.
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Kalyan Padala
Winner
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Thanuja Puttaswamy
1st runner-up
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Demon Pavan
2nd runner-up, took the ₹15 lakh briefcase
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Emmanuel
3rd runner-up
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Sanjjanaa Galrani
4th runner-up
Bigg Boss Telugu 9 elimination list, by day
Each bar is one housemate's run, from the day they walked in to the day they walked out, on the season's own 105-day clock. Counted in days inside the house, not broadcast dates or week numbers. A mark across a bar is someone who left and came back. Sreeja Dammu's second exit ends in a fade because no source we trust pins it to a day.
- Shrasti Verma Evicted Day 7
- Maryada Manish Evicted Day 14
- Priya Shetty Evicted Day 21
- Harita Harish Evicted in week four Day 28
- Flora Saini Evicted Day 35
- Aysha Zeenath Walked out Day 47
- Ramya Moksha Evicted Day 49
- Sreeja Dammu Evicted a second time, after losing the face-off to Bharani Shankar —
- Madhuri Duvvada Evicted Day 56
- Ramu Rathod Walked out Day 62
- Sreenivasa Sayee Evicted Day 63
- Nikhil Nair Evicted Day 69
- Gaurav Gupta Evicted Day 70
- Divya Nikitha Evicted Day 84
- Rithu Chowdary Evicted Day 91
- Suman Setty Evicted, first of the week-14 double eviction Day 97
- Bharani Shankar Evicted a second time, completing the double eviction Day 98
- Sanjjanaa Galrani 4th runner-up Day 105
- Emmanuel 3rd runner-up Day 105
- Demon Pavan 2nd runner-up Day 105
- Thanuja Puttaswamy 1st runner-up Day 105
- Kalyan Padala Winner Day 105
Bigg Boss Telugu 9 contestants: all 22
Finishing order, furthest first; only the top seven have confirmed places. Each housemate's full season story is on the Bigg Boss Telugu 9 contestants page.
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Kalyan Padala
Commoner, came through the Agnipariksha pre-show
Reached the finale, day 105
Winner @kalyanpadala881 -
Thanuja Puttaswamy
Serial actress, Mounaragam and Muddha Mandaram
Reached the finale, day 105
1st runner-up @thanuja_puttaswamy_ -
Demon Pavan
Fitness content creator, commoner
Reached the finale, day 105
2nd runner-up @demon_pavan -
Emmanuel
Comedian and actor, Jabardasth
Reached the finale, day 105
3rd runner-up @jabardasth_emmanuel -
Sanjjanaa Galrani
Actress in Telugu and Kannada films, Bujjigadu
Reached the finale, day 105
4th runner-up Wikipedia @sanjjanaagalrani -
Bharani Shankar
Television and film actor, Karthika Deepam
Left on day 98
6th place @actor_bharanii -
Suman Setty
Comedian, Jayam and 7/G Brundavan Colony
Left on day 97
7th place Wikipedia @actorsumanshetty -
Rithu Chowdary
Actress, Prema Entha Madhuram
Left on day 91
Evicted @rithu_chowdhary -
Divya Nikitha
Content creator, known online as VegFriedMomo
Left on day 84
Wild card, day 18
Evicted @vegfrieddmomo -
Gaurav Gupta
Model turned actor, Malli and Geetha LLB
Left on day 70
Wild card, Firestorm
Evicted @gauravg_official -
Nikhil Nair
Television actor, Intinti Gruhalakshmi
Left on day 69
Wild card, Firestorm
Evicted @nikhilnair_official -
Sreenivasa Sayee
Actor, Golconda High School
Left on day 63
Wild card, Firestorm
Evicted -
Ramu Rathod
Folk singer
Left on day 62
Walked out @ramurathodofficial_ -
Madhuri Duvvada
Classical dancer, entrepreneur and influencer
Left on day 56
Wild card, Firestorm
Evicted @madhuri_srinivasduvvada -
Sreeja Dammu
Dance and lifestyle creator, commoner
Left after day 49
Evicted @srija_sweetiee -
Ramya Moksha
Entrepreneur behind Alekhya Chitti Pickles
Left on day 49
Wild card, Firestorm
Evicted @ramya_moksha -
Aysha Zeenath
Television actress, widely known by her serial role Durga
Left on day 47
Wild card, Firestorm
Walked out Wikipedia @aysha7__official -
Flora Saini
Actress in South Indian and Hindi films
Left on day 35
Evicted Wikipedia @florasaini -
Harita Harish
YouTube comedy creator, entered as the Mask Man
Left on day 28
Evicted -
Priya Shetty
Doctor, commoner
Left on day 21
Evicted @priyaa_epooru -
Maryada Manish
Entrepreneur and startup co-founder, commoner
Left on day 14
Evicted @maryada.manish -
Shrasti Verma
Choreographer and actress, worked on Pushpa: The Rule
Left on day 7
Evicted @vermashrasti
How Bigg Boss Telugu 9 voting, nominations and evictions worked
The same weekly cycle ran for 105 days: housemates nominate, a captaincy task picks the House Captain, who takes immunity, the public votes on the nominees, and Nagarjuna names the evicted housemate at the weekend.
Nominations
Housemates nominated each other for eviction at the start of the week, and Bigg Boss varied the format almost every week rather than running one fixed process. Some weeks the whole house was nominated at once; in week five everyone but Captain Ramu Rathod went up, and the nominees played for immunity, which Emmanuel won. In week eight, evicted housemates came back into the house to do the nominating. Two housemates also held named powers over the process — Aysha Zeenath had the Power of Nominations and Emmanuel the Power Astra, and both handed out nomination cards to housemates of their choosing. Across the season the house named 167 times in 15 nomination weeks, and every one of them, with the names behind it, is in the Bigg Boss Telugu nominations archive.
House Captain and immunity
A captaincy task each week decided the House Captain, who was normally safe from that week's eviction and got a say in it — some weeks a direct nomination, other weeks the power to save one nominee. Sanjjanaa Galrani was the first captain; Demon Pavan lost the role over an umpire's call and won it back in a rematch; Emmanuel gave his captaincy up so Sanjjanaa could return. Week seven had two captains at once, Suman Setty and Gaurav Gupta. By the final week Bharani Shankar was the only housemate who had never been captain, so Bigg Boss handed him the role — without the usual immunity.
The public vote
Nominees went to a public vote, which ran through the JioHotstar app, with missed-call numbers reported as a second route during finale week. The housemate with the fewest votes left at the weekend episode. Sanjjanaa Galrani faced that vote more weeks than anyone else and still reached the final five. The how to vote guide covers the method step by step, and official voting versus a fan poll explains why an unofficial poll's numbers are not the count that decides an eviction.
Evictions, walkouts and re-entries
Not every exit came from the vote. Two weeks ended in a double eviction — Nikhil Nair with Gaurav Gupta, then Suman Setty with Bharani Shankar a week before the finale — and one week's eviction was cancelled outright. Aysha Zeenath and Ramu Rathod walked out rather than being voted out, Sanjjanaa Galrani was sent to the secret room instead of home, and Sreeja Dammu was put out on the wild cards' decision rather than the public vote. At the finale, Demon Pavan took a cash briefcase and left the race himself.
Bigg Boss Telugu 9 at a glance
- Winner
- Kalyan Padala
- Runner-up
- Thanuja Puttaswamy
- Host
- Nagarjuna Akkineni (seventh season in a row)
- Concept
- Ranarangam — two houses, celebrities and commoners
- Premiere
- 7 September 2025
- Grand finale
- 21 December 2025
- Length
- 105 days
- Total entrants
- 22
- Launch night
- 15 (9 celebrities, 6 commoners)
- Wild cards
- 7 (Divya Nikitha, then the six-strong Firestorm batch)
- Left and came back
- 3 (Sanjjanaa Galrani, Bharani Shankar, Sreeja Dammu)
- Channel
- Star Maa
- Streaming
- JioHotstar
- Winner's prize
- ₹35 lakh reported, plus a ₹5 lakh sponsor bonus and a Maruti Suzuki Victoris
Entry order: launch night and wild cards
- Launch night, 7 September 2025
- 15 housemates. 9 celebrities: Thanuja Puttaswamy, Flora Saini, Sanjjanaa Galrani, Emmanuel, Shrasti Verma, Bharani Shankar, Rithu Chowdary, Ramu Rathod, Suman Setty. Six commoners picked through the Agnipariksha pre-show, three on the public vote and three on the jury’s call: Kalyan Padala, Demon Pavan, Harita Harish, Sreeja Dammu, Priya Shetty, Maryada Manish.
- Day 18
- Divya Nikitha, the first wild card, another Agnipariksha face.
- 12 October 2025
- The Firestorm batch of six: Ramya Moksha, Sreenivasa Sayee, Madhuri Duvvada, Nikhil Nair, Aysha Zeenath, Gaurav Gupta. None of the seven wild cards reached the final five.
What defined Bigg Boss Telugu 9
Ranarangam: the double house of commoners and celebrities
The six commoners started as owners in the main house, and the nine celebrities as tenants next door with fewer comforts. The usual hierarchy was upside down from day one, so the early weeks played out as commoners against celebrities. A commoner won, and two of the five finalists came out of the commoner house.
The finale briefcase that cut the Bigg Boss Telugu 9 prize money
Ravi Teja offered the finalists an escalating amount to quit the race: ₹7.5 lakh, then ₹10 lakh, then ₹15 lakh. Demon Pavan took the ₹15 lakh, and it came out of the prize pool, so the winner’s cash dropped from a ₹50 lakh pool to a reported ₹35 lakh plus a ₹5 lakh sponsor bonus and a Maruti Suzuki Victoris. The winners list shows the same deduction in the other seasons where a finalist took a suitcase.
Re-entries, the secret room and the wild-card decision
Three contestants came back after leaving. Sanjjanaa Galrani was voted out early, went to the secret room instead of home, then returned and finished fifth. Bharani Shankar was evicted around the six-week mark and re-entered, only to go out again in the week-14 double eviction, a day after Suman Setty. Sreeja Dammu’s first exit came on the wild cards’ decision rather than the public vote, which drew anger online; when she and Bharani re-entered to compete for one permanent place, Bharani won it and she left again.
Were Bigg Boss Telugu 9 vote counts published?
No. The show named each evicted contestant without publishing vote totals for Season 9. Any page showing week-by-week vote numbers or percentages for that season is giving you a fan poll or an estimate, not the count that decided the evictions. The house voice went uncredited all season too, and who it belongs to is still disputed. Evicted housemates gave their exit interviews to Sivaji, and where to watch Bigg Boss Buzz has the streaming routes.
Bigg Boss Telugu 9 voting and the Season 10 vote
Season 9's vote ran through the JioHotstar app, with missed-call numbers reported as a second route during finale week, and how to vote in Bigg Boss Telugu sets out both routes. Season 10 is confirmed for Sunday 6 September 2026 (announced by Star Maa), and the latest Bigg Boss Telugu voting results are on our homepage. Our Bigg Boss Telugu promo archive keeps the Season 9 milestone spots from launch night to finale day, and which BB season has the highest TRP in Telugu compares this season's ratings with the earlier ones.