Bigg Boss 18 grand premiere October 6 2024 highlights: Salman Khan declares Vivian Dsena among top 2 finalists already, Hrithik Roshan sends a message

Bigg Boss 18 grand premiere took off with some fun, some cute and some important moments. The show, hosted by Salman Khan, is back and it is off to a promising start, given how there are top two finalists already! So, get ready for some drama, and find out what happened on premiere day...

Bigg Boss 18 theme - past, present and future

Bigg Boss 18 commences with Salman Khan announcing the potential winner of the season. Right after, the past of the show, with Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar, and Arshad Warsi, also explored. With that, the theme of the show - past, present, and future - is explored, and the house gets introduced before the contestants enter.

Salman talks about his own life as he almost refuses to complete 15 years with the show. The actor meets his past and future self via AI.

Bigg Boss 18 contestants introduced

Aniruddhacharya is the guest on the show who co-introduces a few contestants with Salman.

The first contestant is here! It is Chaahat Pandey. Shehzada Dhami is the second contestant. Avinash Mishra is introduced with him. Avinash and Chaahat are all part of the same show, Nath Zewar Ya Zanjeer.

Shilpa Shirodkar, who almost started her career at the same time as Salman Khan, is the fourth contestant on Bigg Boss 18.

BJP speaker Tajinder Singh Bagga is the fifth contestant on the show. Tamilian comedian Shrutika Arjun is introduced with him as contestant number 6. Nyrraa Banerjee is the seventh contestant. Arunachal Pradesh's beauty paegent winner and Badhai Do and Gangubai Kathiawadi actress Chum Darang is contestant number 8.

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Khatron Ke Khiladi 14 winner Karan Veer Mehra is contestant number 9. His love story is played on repeat through his performances at Bigg Boss 18 grand premiere. Rajat Dalal joins him as contestant number 10.

Muskan Bamne is contestant number 11. The first and only couple Arfeen Khan and his wife Sara Arfeen Khan are contestants number 12 and 13.

Eisha Singh is contestant number 14. Gunratan Sadavarte, who is contestant number 15, comes on the stage with her. Hema Sharma aka Viral Bhabhi, who was in Salman Khan's Dabangg 3, is contestant number 16.

At last, actor Vivian Dsena is contestant number 17. Alice Kaushik is contestant number 18, and the two are already declared the top 2 finalists of the show! The donkey named Gadhraj also enters the house as contestant number 19.

Salman Khan on his wedding

When Aniruddhacharya spoke about Salman's wedding, the actor asked why should he get married when his life is great without it too.

When introducing Bagga, Aniruddhacharya brought the wedding topic again, and promised to find Salman a bride who never leaves him. "Humein bhagodi chahiye!," Salman jokes after hearing so.

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Hrithik Roshan's message

Hrithik Roshan, Bhumi Pednekar, Soni Razdan. Hrithik states about how Arfeen cuts out the drama and thus, he would watch Bigg Boss 18 just for Arfeen. It is to be noted that the actor previously stated that it would be his first time watching Bigg Boss ever, and it begins with this season thanks to Arfeen.