Bigg Boss Season 4 - - Shweta Tiwari Emerges Out as First Female Winner to Claim Rs. 10 Million

TV actress Shweta Tiwari has become the first female contestant to win the fourth season of the reality show Bigg Boss.  It's the news that all have been waiting for. After fights and quarrels, and some good and bad moments, controversies and melodrama, Bigg Boss Season 4 comes to a grand end. Shweta Tiwari has won the 4th season of  Bigg Boss – the Indian version of the  reality show Big Brother that originated in in 1999. Shweta beat the (WWE) champion The Great Khali. on Saturday, January 08, 2011 to claim the 10 million rupees prize. She has also become the first female winner of the show.

Bigg Boss 4 started in the first week of October on ’s Colors TV channel and was hosted by Bollywood’s superstar Salman Khan. At its opening, the show had 14 contestants locked in the Bigg Boss House with cameras and microphones recording their lives inside. Each week, one contestant was eliminated till only four were left in the house till the grand finale. Shweta Tiwari was nominated four times for eviction but was safe on account of her popularity and by public vote.

The 30 years old TV actress who also happens to be a skilled dancer is the mother of a daughter from her marriage to actor Raja Chaudhary. She got divorce from Raja over a year ago and participated in the reality show Is Jungle Se Mujhe Bachao (2009), the Indian version of the British reality show I'm a Celebrity Get Me out of Here!. In Bigg Boss 4, she was a hot favorite and one of the top two paid participants in the show. She was shown the target of Dolly Bindra’s abuse a number of times until Dolly’s eviction and subsequent reentry after which the two had a more tolerant and friendly interaction.

 Bigg Boss season 4 remained controversial for a number of reasons. Since the show had two Pakistani Muslim participants, i.e. Ali Saleem and Veena Malik, Indian Hindu nationalist party Shiv Sena pressurized Colors TV to remove the Pakistani artists, owing mainly due to the conventional rivalry between the two countries. Then it was the querulous and abusive entry of well-known Indian actress Dolly Bindra into the house that created a fuss full of abusive language during her brawls with the housemates. And if that was not enough, Veena Malik was shown flirting with Ashmit Patel very openly for several weeks of the Bigg Boss season 4.