Lock Upp Season 2 Episode 32: The August 2 episode of Lock Upp 2 delivered one of the season’s most unexpected turns yet, arriving just days before the finale and after the shocking eviction of Akanksha Choudhary in the last episode. Within a single episode, the show moved from deciding its first confirmed finalist to a surprise elimination that fans are still reacting to online, under the hashtag #WinItShivangi.
Lock Upp: Sach Ya Sazaa, hosted by Farah Khan and Riteish Deshmukh, has been streaming on Netflix since its June 27 premiere, with contestants competing inside a jail-themed set in their redemption journey with tasks, votes, and ultimately a shot at the season’s trophy. Nearly six weeks in, the show is now down to its final lineup of contestants, which is what made the August 2 episode’s events land as hard as they did.
Here’s exactly what happened on the show, and why that hashtag took off the way it did.
Lock Upp Season 2 Episode 32: Shivangi Joshi steps back for Harshad Chopda, only for Shreya Kalra to eliminate her later
The Fight for the First Spot in the Finale
The episode opened with a supper setup, with delicacies on the table and jailer Deshmukh at the head, contestants on both sides seated, but the first twist came when the task was revealed. The task was built to decide the season’s first finalist, and it came down to a direct face-off between Harshad Chopda and Shivangi Joshi, the two contestants left standing once the rest of the house had been narrowed out of contention.
As the task played out, Harshad brought up an earlier moment in the season by pointing out that he had lost the task against Shivangi intentionally and later was evicted on the judgement day. He had denied this in the same episode when Shivangi had asked him about the same.
Rather than continue pushing for the win against Harshad, Shivangi chose to step back from the task and left the room. That decision handed Harshad the win, making him the first confirmed finalist of Lock Upp 2’s second season, ahead of every other contestant still competing for a place in the finale.
It also came at a direct cost to her. By stepping back, Shivangi moved herself into the “at risk” category of contestants; the group still facing the possibility of elimination heading into finale week, with no guarantee of safety for having reached that stage of the season.
Shreya Kalra’s elimination call
Later in the same episode, jailor Riteish Deshmukh introduced another twist. He handed contestant Shreya Kalra the power to eliminate one name from the group of at-risk contestants, with no further conditions attached. She had won the advantage and left the race to be the first finalist. Most expectations in the house were pointed towards Yogesh Rawat as the likely target, given the existing dynamics between contestants. Shreya went a different way and named Shivangi Joshi instead.
Explaining her reasoning on camera, Shreya said she wasn’t someone who eliminates people lightly, and acknowledged that everyone left in the game wants to win. But in her assessment, Shivangi had repeatedly had opportunities across the season to take a stand and speak up for what was right, and hadn’t done so. On that basis, she said, she didn’t believe Shivangi deserved a spot in the finale thus calling for Shivangi Joshi’s elimination.
It was a pointed, specific justification, not framed purely as a strategic move to remove a threat, but as her judgment on how Shivangi had played the game overall. The episode ended on that elimination, with no reversal, response from Harshad, or reaction from the rest of the house shown before the credits rolled.
Fans get #WinItShivangi trend
The moment driving the online reaction isn’t the elimination itself; it’s what Shivangi said just before it, during the finalist task she stepped back from. Explaining her decision to let Harshad win the first spot, she said she came here on her own and if she deserves to be in the finale she would be and that she never wanted a victory that came at the cost of being called a loser. She framed the choice as one of dignity and self-respect, not gameplay or strategy.
That statement is what fans picked up first, turning it into the hashtag #WinItShivangi; thus, #WinItShivangi is trending. When Shreya’s elimination call followed later in the same episode, the tag kept trending rather than fading out entirely; for a section of the audience watching, the two moments read as connected: the same person who gave up a spot on principle was then removed from the game entirely.
For those using the hashtag, it isn’t really a dispute with how the game played out or a demand for a different result. It’s closer to holding onto that one moment; the stepping back, the stated reasoning behind it as the actual win, separate from whatever the show’s format ultimately decides. The tag continued to circulate on X (formerly Twitter) well after the episode’s runtime ended post-airing.
Where things stand now
As of the last episode, Shivangi Joshi has been eliminated by Shreya Kalra’s call, and Harshad Chopda remains the season’s first confirmed finalist, the spot Shivangi stepped back from earlier in the same episode. That spot has not been given up, altered, or revisited on screen since, and no further eliminations or reinstatements were shown before the episode closed.
With finale week now approaching, Lock Upp 2 heads into its final lap with one confirmed finalist locked in, one elimination power already used, and a fanbase still rallying around a moment that happened before either of those things did. The season has consistently built its drama around exactly this kind of overlap; personal choices colliding with the game’s format, and the August 2 episode is one of the clearest examples of it yet. What comes next plays out in the episodes still to air. The finale is scheduled to air on August 5 at 8 PM on Netflix.
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