Karishma Sama

Timeline

1. August 2026Chosen for Bigg Boss The Common Man, the Star Vijay pre-show that auditioned commoners for a place in Bigg Boss Tamil 10, which ran from 16 August to 6 September 2026.^[1]^[6]
2. 6 September 2026Appears in the third launch night vote group with Muniyammal, Jason, Manivannan and Shama. Jason, Shama and Muniyammal are selected and she goes out on Day 0.^[1]^[3]
3. Day 28Enters the main house as a wildcard with TTF Vasan and Akshitha Ashok under the Th3 Turning Point twist.^[1]^[2]
4. Day 28In her first task she tells Jason Kaushi he is an empty bin who targets a different woman every week, while Dhanya and Shama clap.^[2]^[3]
5. Week 6Nominated for the first time, by Akshitha Ashok and Chandini Tamilarasan, and survives.^[5]
6. Week 8Nominated again with Mukesh MK and Muthazhagi, and this time does not survive the weekend.^[2]^[5]
7. 1 November 2026Evicted on Day 56 after TTF Vasan uses his Eviction Free Pass to save Mukesh, leaving her and Muthazhagi to the audience vote.^[2]

Who Karishma Sama is

Karishma Sama is a content creator and entrepreneur from Chennai who became a Bigg Boss Tamil 10 housemate in October 2026, five weeks after the season had started. She is not an actor and was not introduced with a serial or a film. Her route into the house was Bigg Boss The Common Man, the pre-show in which Vijay TV auditioned fifty applicants and selected twenty two, of whom five eventually reached the main season.^[1][6]

That makes her one of the season's genuinely new faces. Bigg Boss Tamil 10 was built on a mix of television actors, models and social media personalities, and its commoner experiment was the part of the format that had no track record to lean on. Karishma was in the first batch of that experiment, and she ended up in the odd position of being rejected by the audience, picked up again by the show, and then rejected a second time.^[1][2][4]

Her public profile now rests almost entirely on twenty nine days of house footage. She entered as a stranger to most of the audience, made one line about a male housemate that travelled further than anything else she said, and left as the fifteenth placed contestant of twenty four.^[2][5]

Bigg Boss The Common Man and the lost premiere vote

Bigg Boss The Common Man was a separate show, hosted by the former contestants Maya S. Krishnan and Kani Thiru with Oviya, Aari Arujunan and Raju Jeyamohan as judges. It took people with no entertainment career and put them through the same kind of tasks as the main show, with the winners earning a place in Bigg Boss Tamil 10. It ran for three weeks before the main season opened.^[6]

Karishma was one of the twenty two finalists. In the series overview she is listed among the five who entered the main season, three directly and two as wildcards, alongside Jason Kaushi, Muniyammal Banumathi, Shama M and Manivannan Uppiliappan. Of that group, she and Manivannan were the two who did not go in on day one.^[6]

On premiere night she was placed in the third voting group with Muniyammal, Jason, Manivannan and Shama. The audience chose three of the five and she was one of the two left out, along with Manivannan, who returned four days later as a wildcard and was evicted on Day 14. The Times of India describes her as having reached the final round of the audience vote and missed out on a place in the main house.^[1][2][6]

Losing that vote did not end her season. It changed the order of it. Instead of starting with the group on 6 September, she entered on Day 28 into a house where alliances had formed, evictions had happened and the audience had opinions about everyone already inside.^[2][3]

Wildcard entry on Day 28

Karishma entered with TTF Vasan and Akshitha Ashok under the twist the show called Th3 Turning Point, arriving after a run of evictions had thinned the original group. All three came in with the same first assignment: rank the sitting housemates and say what they thought of them.^[2][3]

Her contribution to that task is the line she is now known for. Addressing Jason Kaushi directly, she said, quote, Jason, you are an empty bin. Every week, you target a different girl and play. Dhanya Pallath and Shama M were shown clapping as she said it. The Times of India recorded the remark as one of her first notable moments in the house.^[2][3]

The line did two things. It established her as somebody willing to name a pattern rather than trade insults, and it put her in direct conflict with one of the season's more prominent male contestants in her first week. From that point her run was framed by arguments about groupism and about how the men in the house treated the women, which is the theme she returned to more than any other.^[2]

The wildcard trio were treated as a single unit by the show. They entered together, took part in the same first task, and were nominated in overlapping weeks. Two of the three, Karishma and Akshitha, were gone by Day 63 and Vasan was still in the house at the time of writing.^[1][2][5]

The sketch that predicted the nomination list

One of the stranger moments of her run involved a drawing. As part of an activity, Karishma made a sketch featuring several housemates, and every contestant she included in it ended up on the nomination list that week. Coverage of the season treated it as one of the talking points of her time in the house, a strategic move dressed up as a task.^[2]

It is the kind of detail that reality television produces by accident and then promotes. Whether the sketch caused the nominations or merely coincided with them is not something any source establishes, and the housemates nominate for their own reasons. What the episode does show is that she was thinking about the game in terms of numbers rather than only in terms of arguments.^[2]

She was also nominated in the open rounds for her own choices. In one open nomination she named Mukesh MK, which put her on the other side of a housemate she would later share a danger zone with. The Big Brother Wiki record lists nominations by her in week six for Mukesh and Akshitha, and nominations against her from twelve different housemates that same week.^[2][5]

Fourteen nominations received across two nomination weeks is a high number for somebody who spent less than a month in the house. It reflects how the wildcards were treated: as an intrusion that had to be removed before the original group could get back to its own competition.^[5]

The jail task and the worst performer vote

During the Quick Gun Cowboys versus Mining Mafia week, the losing team was asked to name the housemates they considered the worst performers, and the two with the most votes were sent to jail. The Times of India's account of her journey says Dhanya Pallath and Karishma received the most votes and were jailed.^[2]

A separate Times of India report on the same task named TTF Vasan and Dhanya as the two sent to jail. The two accounts cannot both be right, and the difference matters only in a small way: either she was jailed by her own team's vote or she was not, and the rest of her run does not depend on it. Both reports agree that the task produced a punishment vote that turned teammates against each other.^[2]

What is consistent is the pattern of her last fortnight. She was in the danger zone, she was on the wrong side of a group decision, and she was talking about it openly rather than absorbing it. Coverage describes her questioning groupism among the contestants and raising concerns about women being targeted, which is the same argument she had opened with on Day 28.^[2]

The task weeks also produced the season's most physical sequences, including the kitchen argument between Akshitha and Vasan. Karishma was not involved in that one, but she was in the same block of episodes, and the three wildcards were by then the main source of friction in the house.^[1][2][7]

Eviction on Day 56

Karishma's last weekend put her in the danger zone with Mukesh MK and Muthazhagi. When the host asked the house who they expected to be eliminated, several contestants named Karishma and Muthazhagi. TTF Vasan and Jason Kaushi then came forward with their Eviction Free Passes, and Vasan used his to save Mukesh, leaving the two women to the audience.^[2]

She was evicted on Day 56, which the Times of India dates to 1 November 2026. The season table records the same day and places her fifteenth. Her run lasted twenty nine days, the shortest of the three Day 28 wildcards.^[1][2][5]

The mechanism is worth spelling out because it is often misreported as a straightforward vote. The Eviction Free Pass allowed one nominated housemate to be lifted out of the danger zone by another contestant. When Vasan used his on Mukesh, the field shrank to Karishma and Muthazhagi, and the audience chose between them.^[2]

By the show's own count she had been nominated twice and received fourteen nominations from fellow housemates. She did not win a captaincy, did not win a cash task, and did not reach the finale. Her season is a short one, and its interest lies almost entirely in the two things she said on arrival and the way the house reacted to them.^[5]

The commoner question

Bigg Boss Tamil 10 was marketed around the idea of bringing the common man into a house that had always been stocked with celebrities. The season's first promo, in June 2026, was built on Vijay Sethupathi opening the doors to people without a screen career, and the pre-show was the mechanism for finding them.^[1][6]

The results were mixed. Of the five who came through The Common Man, three entered on day one, two entered as wildcards, and by Day 63 only Jason Kaushi remained. Karishma's arc is a fair summary of the experiment: selected from fifty applicants, given a place in the launch lineup, dropped by the audience, recalled by the show, and out within a month of arriving.^[1][2][6]

That double rejection is the part of her story that has no equivalent among the celebrity contestants. A television actor who loses a vote on premiere night still has a career and a filmography to return to. A content creator who loses twice has the footage and whatever audience the footage brought, which for her is the twenty nine days and the empty bin line.^[2][5]

She has not spoken publicly about the experience in any interview checked for this entry, and no post eviction statement from her was published in the reporting reviewed here.^[2][5]

What the house made of her

The house's reaction to her was split along lines that had already formed before she arrived. The women she challenged Jason alongside, Dhanya and Shama, were shown supporting her in the task. The nominations against her came from twelve housemates in a single week, which is close to the whole house.^[2][5]

Her criticisms were specific rather than general. She named Jason's pattern of targeting a different woman each week, she questioned group behaviour among the contestants, and she raised the treatment of women as a recurring complaint. Coverage of her season records those as her main themes and does not record a single large fight with another woman.^[2]

The counter view, which no source states directly but which the nomination numbers imply, is that a wildcard who arrives in week five and immediately begins grading the people who have been there since day one is an easy person to nominate. Akshitha did the same thing and was nominated four weeks running.^[2][5]

She left before the season's final month, so the house never had to adjust to her absence in the way it did for longer serving contestants. Her eviction was one of three that weekend, and the season moved on to its Deepavali episodes with the wildcard experiment effectively over.^[1][2]

What has not been confirmed

Her age and date of birth are not published in any source checked. The Big Brother Wiki entry leaves the birthdate field empty, and no interview or profile supplies one. Any figure in circulation should be treated as a guess.^[5]

Her occupation is given as influencer and entrepreneur by the wiki and as a content creator here because that is the closest description supported by the season's coverage. No company, brand or business that she owns or runs is named in any source, so the entrepreneur part of the description is not documented beyond the wiki.^[5]

The jail sequence in the Quick Gun Cowboys versus Mining Mafia week is reported two ways. One Times of India account says Dhanya and Karishma were jailed by the losing team's vote, another report on the same task names Vasan and Dhanya. This entry records the conflict rather than choosing.^[2]

The exact date of her eviction is given as 1 November 2026 by the Times of India, while counting from the 6 September premiere makes Day 56 fall on 31 October. The day number is consistent across the season table and the reporting, so the day count is the safer figure.^[1][2]

Finally, no source explains why she was not selected in the premiere vote beyond the fact that the audience chose three of the five in her group. The show did not publish vote shares, and she has not described the night in her own words.^[2][6]