Urvashi Dholakia wins Bigg Boss Season 6

Submitted by ITV Production on Jan 14, 2013
indiantelevision.com Team

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?.