In the latest episode of Bigg Boss Malayalam, Bigg Boss announced that the housemates will not be given luxury budget this week as they failed in the given task.
Bigg Boss asked who had the highest amount of money. Anoop was declared the winner as he had 66,100 rupees with him.
Bigg Boss also announced that Diya had failed in the secret task, so she could never be the captain of the house.
Bigg Boss ordered both the Mothalalis (owners) of the previous task to suggest one best worker from their group. Sabu suggested Srinish’s name while Ranjini suggested Shwetha’s name. Later, Bigg Boss announced that Srinish, Anoop, and Shwetha were the nominees, who would be competing for the captaincy and announced a task for them.
According to the task, the housemate had a lock which was hooked to their dress and the other end of the three hooks were to be tied to a common knot. Each housemate was asked to keep the knot intact and whoever got untied, would fail in the task. The one, who kept the knot intact till last, would be the captain the next week.
Diya was seen crying. She said that it was hard for her to foil the luxury task.During the captaincy task, all three were seen together all the time. Later it led to fights and arguments. Anoop insisted that he needed to eat Vettila (Betel leaf) and Shwetha said that he hated its smell. Ranjini argued that he can’t spit inside the home and she took Anoop's Kolambi (spitting bowl). There were huge arguments and later Ranjini gave the Kolambi to him based on the majority opinion.
Anoop and Shwetha also ended up in an argument when Shwetha commented that Anoop had a feudal mindset.Sabu said that Ranjini was trying to provoke Anoop. Suresh commented that this captaincy task was the best punishment for his unfair means during the luxury task.In the living area, Shwetha said that she was sweating. She said that she wanted take her clothes off. Anoop made a comment due to which Shwetha gets offended. Anoop said that people had already seen her body in the movies so there was no problem even if she removed the dress.
She told him that this was his mindset. She complained to Suresh about the incident. He shouted at Anoop for the comment he had made.
Suresh said that Shwetha is an actress and the comment was in bad taste. Anoop tried to defend himself saying it was made in jest.Ranjini, Hima and Diya shouted at Anoop for making a derogatory comment on Shwetha. All the other housemates were also furious to hear such a comment from Anoop. Ranjini shouted that it would be very tough to live with a man, who had no respect for women.The argument got quite severe and Anoop reportedly made a derogatory comment about Ranjini. Anoop apologized to Shwetha and untied the knot. He said he was not eligible to continue the task as he made a wrong comment.
Anoop informed Bigg Boss that Shwetha took the funny comment personally and created a mess. Anoop said that he is not a person, who disrespects women.
Srinish and Shwetha continued the captaincy task and were seen together everywhere. Srinsh had to stand outside the toilet when Shwetha went to the toilet. Sreelekshmi and Diya were seen making fun of Sreenish.Sabu made a comment that Sreenish and Shwetha can’t sleep together in the boy's room. Ranjini argued that it was part of the task and they had to. Sabu argued that it was against the law.