After a lot of anticipation Salman Khans reality TV show Bigg Boss 19 kicked off on August 24. The show is one of the most loved reality shows in India where contestants from different professional backgrounds participate and remain in the Bigg Boss house for over 100 days. While today everyone knows that Bigg Boss is based on the international reality TV format Big Brother which was started in the late 1990s by Dutch director John de Mol only a few people know that even this American show was inspired by a novel. Bigg Boss is Inspired by... While Bigg Boss is inspired by the international reality TV format Big Brother the real inspiration behind the show came from a novel written by George Orwell. The concept of the show is inspired by George Orwell’s 1949 novel 1984. Both the name “Big Boss” and the idea of monitoring contestants inside the house through cameras are drawn from Orwell’s dystopian classic. What was the theme of the 1984 novel? In Orwells novel Big Brother is seen as the symbol of the regime and is the one who controls its citizens lives. This idea is used by the reality show to produce a program in which the housemates are continuously monitored by cameras and microphones. Big Brother is watching you is its tagline. About Bigg Boss 19 This season of Bigg Boss 19 has some fierce contestants. The grand premiere took place on August 24 with 16 contestants entering the house. These contestants are Awez Darbar Ashnoor Kaur Nagma Mirajkar Neelam Giri Mridul Tiwari Amal Malik Tanya Mittal Natalia Janoszek Gaurav Khanna Baseer Ali Pranit More Abhishek Bajaj Nehal Chudasama Kunickaa Sadanand Farhana Bhatt and Zeeshan Qadri. Story Highlights 1. Bigg Boss 19 started on August 24 2025. 2. Bigg Boss 19 is inspired by international reality TV format Big Brother. 3. Big Brother is based on a novel written by George Orwell.