Indian Idol (Hindi TV series)

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Indian Idol
Genre	Reality television
Created by	Simon Fuller
Based on	Pop Idol
Directed by	Vandy Monisha Jaising Vaid Partha Thakur Vishal Mull Niret Alva Nikhil J Alva Nivedith T Alva Bhavna Israni Indrajit Ray Satish Datt Ujjwal Anand
Presented by	Mini Mathur Hussain Kuwajerwala Aman Verma Meiyang Chang Abhijeet Sawant Prajakta Shukre Asha Negi Karan Wahi Paritosh Tripathi Manish Paul Jay Bhanushali Aditya Narayan Bharti Singh Haarsh Limbachiyaa Rithvik Dhanjani
Judges	Shreya Ghoshal Anu Malik Salim Merchant Asha Bhosle Farah Khan Sonu Nigam Alisha Chinai Udit Narayan Javed Akhtar Sonali Bendre Kailash Kher alka Yagnik Shalmali Kholgade Sunidhi Chauhan Shekhar Ravjiani Vishal Dadlani Neha Kakkar Javed Ali Himesh Reshammiya Manoj Muntashir Sonu Kakkar Kumar Sanu Badshah
Theme music composer	Julian Gingell Barry Stone Cathy Dennis Badshah
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	14
No. of episodes	317
Production
Executive producers	Anupama Mandloi (2010–present) Niret Alva (2005–2009) Nikhil J Alva (2005–2009)
Producers	Namit Sharma (2010–present) Ashok (2008–09)
Cinematography	Surindra Rao
Editor	Kumar Priyadarshi (2007, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
Camera setup	Nitesh Choudhary
Production companies	ARSenic's Business Empire (2010–present) Fremantle Media India Miditech Pvt. Ltd. (2005–2009) Optimystix Entertainment (2004–2005)
Original release
Network	Sony Entertainment Television
Release	30 October 2004 (2004-10-30) – present
Related
Indian Idol Marathi Telugu Indian Idol Indian Idol Junior

Indian Idol is an Indian Hindi-language singing reality competition on Sony TV. It is an Indian version of the British show Pop Idol and is part of the Indian Idol series. It has aired on Sony Entertainment Television since 2004.^[1] Originally produced by Miditech Studios and its iconic producer-brothers, Niret Alva, Nikhil J Alva and Nivedith Alva, the series was an instant success. The brothers produced the first 5 seasons of the series and were instrumental in laying the foundation for its future success.^[2]

Indian Idol's production and taping take place in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It broadcasts on Saturdays and Sundays and digitally airs on SonyLIV application.

Cast member	Season
	1 2004	2 2005	3 2007	4 2008	5 2010	6 2012	7 2013	8 2015	9 2016	10 2018	11 2019	12 2020	13 2022	14 2023	15 2024
Anu Malik	●	●	●	●	●	●			●	●	●	●
Sonu Nigam	●	●							●					●
Farah Khan	●	●							●
Alisha Chinai			●
Udit Narayan			●
Javed Akhtar			●	●
Sonali Bendre				●
Kailash Kher				●
Sunidhi Chauhan					●	●
Salim Merchant					●	●
Asha Bhosle						●
Vishal Dadlani							●	●		●	●	●	●	●	●
Shekhar Ravjiani							●
Shreya Ghoshal							●							●	●
Javed Ali										●
Neha Kakkar			●							●	●	●	●
Himesh Reshammiya											●	●	●
Sonu Kakkar												●
Kumar Sanu														●
Kavita Krishnamurti														●
Badshah															●
Neeti Mohan															●
Aman Verma	●	●
Mini Mathur	●	●				●
Hussain Kuwajerwala			●	●	●	●		●						●
Meiyang Chang			●	●
Abhijeet Sawant	●				●
Karan Wahi							●		●
Mandira Bedi							●
Asha Negi								●
Paritosh Tripathi									●
Manish Paul										●
Aditya Narayan											●	●	●	●	●
Bharti Singh												●	●
Haarsh Limbachiyaa												●	●
Jay Bhanushali												●
Rithvik Dhanjani												●
Pawandeep Rajan												●				●
Mohd. Danish												●				●

Season	Episodes	Originally aired		Winner	Runner-up
		First aired	Last aired
1	27	30 October 2004		Abhijeet Sawant	Amit Sana
2	28			Sandeep Acharya	N. C. Karunya
3	[to be determined]			Prashant Tamang	Amit Paul
4	[to be determined]	19 September 2008	1 March 2009	Sourabhee Debbarma	Kapil Thapa
5	42			Sreerama Chandra Mynampati	Bhoomi Trivedi / Rakesh Maini
6	30	1 June 2012	1 September 2012	Vipul Mehta	Amit Kumar / Devender Pal Singh
IIJ 1 (7)	[to be determined]			Anjana Padmanabhan	Debanjana Karmakar
IIJ 2 (8)	[to be determined]	30 May 2015	6 September 2015	Ananya Nanda	Nahid Afrin
9	[to be determined]			L. V. Revanth	Khuda Baksh
10	50			Salman Ali	Ankush Bhardwaj
11	40	12 October 2019		Sunny Hindustani	Rohit Raut
12	75	28 November 2020	15 August 2021	Pawandeep Rajan	Arunita Kanjilal
13	60	10 September 2022	April 2, 2023	Rishi Singh	Deboshmita Roy
14	43	7 October 2023	3 March 2024	Vaibhav Gupta	Subhadeep Das Choudhary
15	TBA	26 October 2024	TBA	TBA	TBA

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• Judges

Anu Malik

Farah Khan

Sonu Nigam

• Host

Aman Verma

Mini Mathur

Top 12 Contestants

Name	Age	Hometown	Result	Place
Abhijeet Sawant	23	Mumbai	Idol	1st
Amit Sana	21	Bhilai	1st Runner-up	2nd
Rahul Vaidya	17	Nagpur	2nd Runner-up	3rd
Prajakta Shukre	16	Jabalpur	3rd Runner-up	4th
Ravinder Ravi	29	Ludhiana	Eliminated	5th
Aditi Paul	25	Chennai	Eliminated	6th
Mukesh Pancholi	26	Faridabad	Eliminated	7th
Harish Moyal	26	Itanagar	Eliminated	8th
Rahul Saxena	22	Ghaziabad	Eliminated	9th
Amit Tandon	25	Kolkata	Eliminated	10th
Vishal Kothari	21	Mumbai	Eliminated	11th
Priyanka Venkateswar	17	Mumbai	Quit	12th

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• Judges

Anu Malik

Farah Khan

Sonu Nigam

• Host

Mini Mathur Aman Verma

Top 12 Contestants

Name	Age	Hometown	Result	Place
Sandeep Acharya	21	Bikaner	Idol	1st
N. C. Karunya	19	Hyderabad	1st Runner-up	2nd
Anuj Sharma	29	Himachal Pradesh	2nd Runner-up	3rd
Ameya Date	26	Mumbai	Eliminated	4th
Antara Mitra	18	West Bengal	Eliminated	5th
Meenal Jain	20	Indore	Eliminated	6th
Ravi K. Tripathi	29	Uttar Pradesh	Eliminated	7th
Panna Gill	24	Punjab	Eliminated	8th
Monali Thakur	20	Kolkata	Eliminated	9th
Neha Kakkar	17	Rishikesh	Eliminated	10th
Yashashree Bhave	24	Satara	Eliminated	11th
Sagar Sawarkar	20	Mumbai	Eliminated	12th

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• Judges

Javed Akhtar

Anu Malik

Alisha Chinai

Udit Narayan

• Host

Hussain Kuwajerwala

Mini Mathur

Top 13 Contestants

Name	Age	Hometown	Result	Place
Prashant Tamang	24	Darjeeling	Idol	1st
Amit Paul	24	Shillong	Runner-up	2nd
Emon Chatterjee	17	Kolkata	Eliminated	3rd
Ankita Mishra	17	Kanpur	Eliminated	4th
Meiyang Chang	24	Dhanbad	Eliminated	5th
Pooja Chatterjee	18	Dhanbad	Eliminated	6th
Deepali Kishore	18	Patna	Eliminated	7th
Abhishek Kumar	20	Mumbai	Eliminated	8th
Parleen Singh Gill	19	Ambala	Eliminated	9th
Charu Semwal	19	Dehradun	Eliminated	10th
Smita Adhikari	24	Kolkata	Eliminated	11th
Jolly Das	25	Kolkata	Eliminated	12th
Richa Aneja	17	Punjab	Eliminated	13th

The fourth season of Indian Idol was aired on Sony TV from 19 September 2008 to 1 March 2009. For the first time in Indian Idol history, there were two women among the top three finalists. Sourabhee Debbarma who hails from Agartala, Tripura won the competition and became the first female contestant to do so. By doing so, she also won a contract of Rs. 1 crore with Sony Entertainment Television and a TATA Winger. She released an album, Meherbaan, as per a contract with Sony. Kapil Thapa was runner-up while Torsha Sarkar finished third.

One of the contestants, Bhavya Pandit, received an offer to sing the song "Aaja Lehraate" for the film What's Your Raashee, alongside singer Gautam Mrinaal.^[3]

• Judges

Javed Akhtar

Anu Malik

Sonali Bendre

Kailash Kher

• Host

Hussain Kuwajerwala

Meiyang Chang

Top 14 Contestants

Name	Hometown	Result	Place
Sourabhee Debbarma	Agartala	Idol	1st[4]
Kapil Thapa	Dehradun	1st Runner-up	2nd
Torsha Sarkar	Bhagalpur	2nd Runner-up	3rd
Rajdeep Chatterjee	Jamshedpur	Eliminated	4th
Remo Ghosh	Dimapur	Eliminated	5th
Bhavya Pandit	Pune	Eliminated	6th
Prasenjit Kosambi	Kolhapur	Eliminated	7th
Bhanu Pratap Singh	Jaipur	Eliminated	8th
Mohit Lawani	Delhi	Eliminated	9th
Kuldeep Singh Chauhan	Banda	Eliminated	10th
Priyanka Negi	Dehradun	Eliminated	11th
Gautam Mrinal	Jamui	Eliminated	12th
Tulika Ganguly	Faridabad	Eliminated	13th
Ananya Mishra	Lucknow	Eliminated	14th

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• Judges

Shreya Ghoshal

Sunidhi Chauhan

Salim Merchant

• Host

Hussain Kuwajerwala

Abhijeet Sawant

Top 13 Contestants

Name	Hometown	Result	Place
Sreerama Chandra	Hyderabad	Idol	1st
Bhoomi Trivedi	Gujarat	Runner-up	2nd
Rakesh Maini	Mumbai	Runner-up
Swaroop Khan	Rajasthan	Eliminated	4th
Shivam Pathak	Gujarat	Eliminated	5th
Tia Kar	Mumbai	Eliminated	6th
Naushad Ali	Rajasthan	Eliminated	7th
Shashi Suman	Patna	Eliminated	8th
Arpita Khan	West Bengal	Eliminated	9th
Yashraj Kapil	Faridabad	Eliminated	10th
Manisha Karmakar	Kolkata	Eliminated	11th
Meghna Kumar	Jhansi	Eliminated	12th
Vishwas Rai	Allahabad	Eliminated	13th

Note: Sreerama, Rakesh, and Bhoomi were the top 3. Sreeram was crowned the winner without announcing the 1st and 2nd runner-ups.

The sixth season aired on Sony TV from 1 June 2012 to 1 September 2012. The winner of the sixth season was Vipul Mehta.^[5][6][7]

• Judges

Anu Malik

Sunidhi Chauhan

Salim Merchant

Asha Bhosle

• Host

Hussain Kuwajerwala

Mini Mathur

On 23 June 2012, the judges selected the top 16 contestants to perform in the Gala Rounds.

Contestants

Name	Hometown	Result	Place
Vipul Mehta	Amritsar	Idol	1st
Amit Kumar	Amritsar	Runner-up	2nd
Devender Pal Singh	Ludhiana	Runner-up
Poorvi Kautish		Eliminated	4th
Sohini Mishra	Cuttack	Eliminated	5th
Amitabh Narayan		Eliminated	6th
Deeksha Toor	Delhi	Eliminated	7th
Deepak Maher		Eliminated	8th
Kaushik Deshpande	Mumbai	Eliminated	9th
Kritika Tanwar		Eliminated	10th
Charith Dixit	Chandigarh	Eliminated	11th
Ravi Kumar Mishra		Eliminated	12th
Ritika Raj	Patna	Eliminated	13th
Saumya Mishra		Eliminated	14th
Simran Kaur	Punjab	Eliminated	15th
Amrita Bharati	Bhubaneswar	Eliminated	16th

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• Judges

Vishal Dadlani

Shreya Ghoshal

Shekhar Ravjiani

• Host

Karan Wahi

Mandira Bedi

Top 11 Contestants

Name	Hometown	Result	Place
Anjana Padmanabhan	Bengaluru	Idol	1st
Debanjana Karmakar	Kolkata	1st Runner-up	2nd
Anmol Jaswal	Jammu and Kashmir	2nd Runner-up	3rd
Nirvesh Dave	Ahmedabad	3rd Runner-up	4th
Sugandha Date	Nagpur	Eliminated	5th
Sonakshi Kar	Kolkata	Eliminated	6th
Priyam Borpatragohain	Assam	Eliminated	7th
Akash Sharma	Haryana	Eliminated	8th
Sankalp Yaduwanshi	Moradabad	Eliminated	9th
Eman Chaudhary	Assam	Eliminated	10th
Aryan Das	Cuttack	Eliminated	11th

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Indian Idol Junior Season 2 started on 30 May 2015 and finished on 6 September 2015.

• Judges

Salim Merchant

Sonakshi Sinha replaced Shalmali Kholgade

Vishal Dadlani

• Host

Hussain Kuwajerwala

Asha Negi

Top 13 Contestants

Name	Hometown	Result	Place
Ananya Nanda	Bhubaneswar	Idol	1st
Nahid Afrin	Assam	1st Runner-up	2nd
Nithyashree Venkataramanan	Chennai	2nd Runner-up	3rd
Vaishnav Girish	Thrissur	Eliminated	4th
Moti Khan	Rajasthan	Eliminated	5th
Niharika Nath	Agartala	Eliminated	6th
Ranita Banerjee	Kolkata	Eliminated	7th
Sreelakshmi Belmannu	Bangalore	Eliminated	8th
Ajay Brijwasi	Mathura	Eliminated	9th
Yumna Ajin	Vengara	Eliminated	10th
Surendra Singh Panwar	Rajasthan	Eliminated	11th
Vidhi Jaswal	Jammu and Kashmir	Eliminated	12th
Shubhankar	Kolkata	Eliminated	13th

• Judges

Anu Malik

Farah Khan

Sonu Nigam

• Host

Karan Wahi

Paritosh Tripathi

Top 14 Contestants

Name	Hometown	Result	Place
L. V. Revanth	Visakhapatnam	Idol	1st[8]
Khuda Baksh	Punjab	1st Runner-up	2nd[9]
PVNS Rohit	Hyderabad	2nd Runner-up	3rd
Maalavika Sunder	Chennai	Eliminated	4th
Mohit Chopra	New Delhi	Eliminated	5th
Tajinder Singh	Faridabad	Eliminated	6th
R P Shravan	Chennai	Eliminated	7th
Manya Narang	New Delhi	Eliminated	8th
Hardeep Singh	Ludhiana	Eliminated	9th
Jeli Kayi	Itanagar	Eliminated	10th[10]
Bharti Gupta	Ghaziabad	Eliminated	11th
Mansi Bhardwaj	Delhi	Eliminated	12th
Stuti Tiwari	Delhi	Eliminated	13th
Saumya Mishra	Renukut	Eliminated	14th

• Judges

Javed Ali replaced Anu Malik^[11]

Neha Kakkar

Vishal Dadlani

• Host

Manish Paul

Top 14 Contestants

Name	Hometown	Result	Place
Salman Ali	Mewat	Idol	1st[12]
Ankush Bhardwaj	Kotgarh	1st Runner-up	2nd
Neelanjana Ray	Alipurduar	2nd Runner-up	3rd
Nitin Kumar	Una	3rd Runner-up	4th
Vibhor Parashar	New Delhi	4th Runner-up	5th
Kunal Pandit	Mumbai	Eliminated	6th
Renu Nagar	Alwar	Eliminated	7th
Soumya Chakraborty	Kolkata	Eliminated	8th
Avanti Patel	Mumbai	Eliminated	9th
Saurabh Valmiki	Lakhimpur Kheri	Eliminated	10th
Biswajit Mohapatra	Odisha	Eliminated	11th
Krishnakali Saha	Tripura	Eliminated	12th
Indira Das	Kolkata	Eliminated	13th
Sonia Gazmer	Kolkata	Eliminated	14th

The 11th season started to air on 12 October 2019 on Sony TV. It was being hosted by singer Aditya Narayan.^[13] Neha Kakkar has returned as one of the judges on popular demand along with Vishal Dadlani and Anu Malik, who came back to the show as a judge after his suspension from the judging panel for Me Too allegations. He was then replaced by Himesh Reshammiya.^[14][15]

• Judges

Himesh Reshammiya replaced Anu Malik^[11]

Neha Kakkar

Vishal Dadlani

• Host

Aditya Narayan

Top 16 contestants

Name	Hometown	Elimination	Place
Sunny Hindustani	Bathinda	Idol	1st[16]
Rohit Shyam Raut	Latur	1st Runner-up	2nd
Ankona Mukherjee	Bankura	2nd Runner-up	3rd
Ridham Kalyan	Amritsar	3rd Runner-up	4th
Adriz Ghosh	Murshidabad	4th Runner-up	5th
Shahzaan Mujeeb	Aligarh	Eliminated	6th
Rishabh Chaturvedi	Amritsar	Eliminated	7th
Stuti Tiwari	New Delhi	Eliminated	8th
Jannabi Das	New Delhi	Eliminated	9th
Azmat Hussain	Jaipur	Eliminated	10th
Chetna Bharadwaj	Ghaziabad	Eliminated	11th
Kaivalya Kejkar	Nagpur	Eliminated	12th
Subhadeep Das Chowdhury	Kolkata	Eliminated	13th
Pallav Singh	Ballia	Eliminated	14th
Nidhi Kumari	Jamshedpur	Eliminated	15th
Chelsi Behura	Orissa	Eliminated	16th

The 12th season started on 28 November 2020 on Sony TV. The grand finale aired from 12 noon to 12 midnight on 15 August 2021.^[17] Pawandeep Rajan was declared the winner of the season and Arunita Kanjilal became the 1st Runner-up.^[18] This was the longest running season of Indian Idol.

• Judges

Anu Malik

Sonu Kakkar

Himesh Reshammiya^[19][20]

• Former judges

Vishal Dadlani

Neha Kakkar

Although Vishal Dadlani, Neha Kakkar and Himesh Reshammiya were the original judges, when the shoot shifted out of Mumbai, then Vishal Dadlani, and Neha Kakkar couldn't join and makers replaced them by Anu Malik and Sonu Kakkar.

• Host

Aditya Narayan

• Former Hosts

Bharti Singh

Haarsh Limbachiyaa

Rithvik Dhanjani

Jay Bhanushali

Aditya Narayan was the original host but Bharti & Harsh, Rithvik and Jay replaced him when he came out to be COVID +ve. Bharti and Harsh replaced him on February 28.

The judges have decided to do a power play for 9 weeks and let the audience decide who they want to see in the Top 8. Elimination will happen after the 9 weeks of power play. This season was extended because the contestants have given so much love and entertainment to the audience in the COVID pandemic. The 9 weeks of power play were completed and Anjali Gaikwad got eliminated.

Top 15 contestants

Name	Hometown	Result	Standing
Pawandeep Rajan	Uttarkhand	Idol	1st
Arunita Kanjilal	Kolkata	1st Runner-up	2nd
Sayli Kamble Patil	Mumbai	2nd Runner-up	3rd
Mohd Danish	Muzaffarnagar	3rd Runner-up	4th
Nihal Tauro	Mangalore	4th Runner-up	5th
Shanmukha Priya	Visakhapatnam	5th Runner-up	6th
Ashish Kulkarni	Pune	Eliminated	7th
Sawai Bhatt	Nagaur	Eliminated	8th
Anjali Gaikwad	Ahmednagar	Eliminated	9th
Nachiket Lele	Kalyan	Eliminated	10th
Sireesha Bhagavatula	Visakhapatnam	Eliminated	11th
Anushka Banerjee	Chandigarh	Eliminated	12th
Vaishnav Girish	Thrissur	Eliminated	13th
Samyak Prasana	Delhi	Eliminated	14th
Sahil Solanki	Hisar	Eliminated	15th

The Ground Auditions started in July 2022. The show started on 10 September 2022.^[21] The finale was held on April 2, 2023, with Rishi Singh being declared as the winner of the season along with Deboshmita Roy as the 1st runner up.^[22]

• Judges

Himesh Reshammiya

Vishal Dadlani

• Host

Aditya Narayan

• Former Judge

Neha Kakkar

• Guest Hosts

Haarsh Limbachiyaa

Bharti Singh

Top 15 Contestants

The judges have decided to do a power play for 4 weeks and let the audience decide who they want to see in the Top 7. Elimination will happen after the 4 weeks of power play. The 4 weeks of power play were completed and Navdeep Wadali got eliminated on February 26, 2023. The last contestant who got eliminated from the show was Senjuti Das on March 25, 2023, leaving the top 6 finalists^[23] to compete for the Indian Idol trophy.

Name	Hometown	Result	Place
Rishi Singh	Ayodhya	Idol	1st
Deboshmita Roy	Kolkata	1st Runner-up	2nd
Chirag Kotwal	Bhaderwah	2nd Runner-up	3rd
Bidipta Chakraborty	Kolkata	3rd Runner-up	4th
Shivam Singh	Vadodara	4th Runner-up	5th
Sonakshi Kar	Kolkata	5th Runner-up	6th
Senjuti Das	Kolkata	Eliminated	7th
Navdeep Wadali	Amritsar	Eliminated	8th
Kavya Limaye	Vadodara	Eliminated	9th[a]
Vineet Singh	Lucknow	Eliminated	10th[b]
Anushka Patra	Kolkata	Eliminated	11th
Rupam Bharnarhia	Amritsar	Eliminated	12th
Sanchari Sengupta	Kolkata	Eliminated	13th
Pritam Roy	Kolkata	Eliminated	14th
Shagun Pathak	Jharkhand	Eliminated	15th

The fourteenth season premiered on 7 October 2023, with the theme Ek Awaz Lakhon Ehsaas (lit. One Voice, Million Emotion). The season was hosted by Hussain Kuwajerwala. Aditya Narayan hosted the show for a week, in the absence of Kuwajerwala. Kumar Sanu, Shreya Ghoshal and Vishal Dadlani were the judges. On 3 March 2024, the season concluded, with Vaibhav Gupta crowned as the winner, with Subhadeep Das Choudhary finishing as the runner-up.

The fifteenth season premiered in October 2024, with the theme Jo Gayega, Wo Nazar Aayega (lit. --). The season was hosted by Aditya Narayan. Badshah, Shreya Ghoshal and Vishal Dadlani are the judges.

Sunidhi Chauhan who judged this show's seasons 5 and 6, in her interview with Vicky Lalwani of The Economic Times YouTube channel revealed that this show's makers asked her and other judges to praise every contestant. According to Lalwani since 2022, judges of Indian Idol do not give critical comments or point out flaws in singing after a contestant performed, and they praise everyone, and the audience also gets confused. In 2021, Amit Kumar also expressed the same thing after he appeared as a guest judge, he said that the makers of Indian Idol specifically told him while filming that you have to praise every contestant and not criticize.^[25][26] In 2018, a participant Nishant Kaushik revealed on Twitter the suffering and ill-treatment of the people who come for the auditions of this show. He expressed his experience with his Indian Idol audition. He elaborated that, he participated in the 2012 Indian Idol audition, people of this show do not give any service to the participants, and contestants kept standing with no access to food, drinking water, or toilet. Former host of Indian idol Mini Mathur in response to this tweet thread wrote these kinds of things happened in Indian reality shows, that is why she quit doing work in them.^[27]

In 2021 many fans alleged the show for showing scripted stories to gain TRP. In the season fans expressed on social media that the love angle of Pawandeep Rajan and Arunita Kanjilal was fake, and makers are deliberately trying to show the love angle.^[28] The show frequently alleged of showing fake emotional, drama and sob stories of the contestants. Amid the 12th season viewers slammed makers for altering the performance of Pawandeep Rajan.^[29]