Indian Idol (Hindi TV series) season 15

Indian Idol
Season 15
Promotional poster featuring the judges, Badshah, Ghoshal and Dadlani.
Hosted by	Aditya Narayan Pawandeep Rajan (guest) Mohd. Danish (guest)
Judges	Badshah Shreya Ghoshal Vishal Dadlani Neeti Mohan (guest)
No. of contestants	16
No. of episodes	8
Release
Original network	Sony Entertainment Television
Original release	October 26, 2024 (2024-10-26) – present
Season chronology
← Previous Season 14

The fifteenth season of Indian Idol is set to premiere in late 2024, on the Sony Entertainment Television. After being replaced for an year, Aditya Narayan returned as host;^[1] Shreya Ghoshal, Vishal Dadlani returned as judges with Badshah replacing Kumar Sanu.^[2][3]

Remote auditions took place from 18 August to 31 August, 2023, as well as a number of open-call auditions, and from these, the producers selected the contestants who were then invited to audition in front of the judges.^[4]

Filming does not take place until the judges' audition round. The year, the auditions were filmed at the Mukesh Mills warehouse.

To mark 20 years of Indian Idol, the platinum mic^[5] was introduced that guarantees the contestant a position in Top 15. Each judge could give only 1 platinum mic. Golden tickets were continued, and were given 31 in total, but the golden mic was discontinued. The platinum mics were given to Srijan Porail, Mayuri Saha and Sneha Shankar by Dadlani, Ghoshal and Badshah respectively.

Also, during the judges' audition, the traditional "sticker" of contestant's serial number was replaced with a new "identity card" as shown in the promo.^[6]This season the judges were also given headphones to hear the raw voice of singers, without any instruments and processing.^{[citation needed]}

The Theatre round featured the top 31 golden ticket holder contestants performing for the judges. This round was filmed on X, at the Lata Mangeshkar Auditorium, and aired on 9 and 10 November 2024. The judges then narrowed the number of contestants down to 15, including the platinum mic holders.^[7]

This year the contestants performed in batches, as picked by the judges according to genre. The batch maybe of two, three or even one and their fate depends on the judges' verdict.

Neeti Mohan served as the guest judge and mentor in absence of Badshah, and Pawandeep Rajan and Mohd. Danish served as guest hosts in absence of Aditya Narayan.^[8][9]

The following is a list of the contestants and the song they performed. Contestants are listed in the order they performed.

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The contestant who made past the theater round or got the platinum mic in the auditions, are listed below as follows:

Contestant	Age	From	Status
Srijan Porail	21	Howrah, West Bengal	Participating
Mayuri Saha	27	Kolkata, West Bengal	Participating
Sneha Shankar	18	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Participating
Shubhajit Chakraborty	21	Kharagpur, West Bengal	Participating
Chaitanya Devadhe	18	Pune, Maharashtra	Participating
Ranjini Sen Gupta	24	Kolkata, West Bangal	Participating
Jyotiprakash Ojha	24	Cuttack, Odisha	Participating
Vastav Kumar	20	Gurdaspur, Punjab	Participating
Ipsit Pati	22	Bhubaneswar, Odisha	Participating
Ritika Raj	26	Patna, Bihar	Participating
Priyangshu Dutta	21	Kolkata, West Bengal	Participating
Biswarup Banerjee	29	Kolkata, West Bengal	Participating
Myscmme Bosu	22	Guwahati, Assam	Participating
Manasi Ghosh	24	Kolkata, West Bengal	Participating
Anirudh Suswaram	29	Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh	Participating
Ragini Shinde	15	Aurangabad, Maharashtra	Participating

After the theater round, every week all the contestants performing in the gala and are eliminated on a weekly basis.

The gala rounds were filmed at the Filmistan Studio.

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Special guests: Usha Mangeshkar, Sanjeev Kapoor, Manoj Tiwari, Asees Kaur, Goldie Sohel, Bhagyashree, Arjun Kanungo, Divyansh Kacholia, Sanjay B Jumani, Kunal Ganjawala

Ragini Shinde, who was eliminated in the theatre round, when Badhshah was absent, joined as wild card contestant in Gala 1, on request of Badshah, to make it Top 16.

There was no public voting this week and the performance did not count in the competition. Contestants are listed in the order they performed.

This week was divided into two themes, dedicated to directors Subhash Ghai and Mahesh Bhatt. The above said were the special guests and guest mentor for respective nights. The contestants performed on the songs which were in the films directed by them, in the two nights respectively, and this week was the first public voting week of the season.

Shreya Ghoshal was absent this week, due to her live show tour.

This week was the first judges' score week and the first elimination took place on basis of last week's votes and this week's scores.

The special guests for first night were Fardeen Khan and Zeenat Aman celebrating Feroz Khan, and Nana Patekar for the second night. All the contestants performed on the songs of Feroz Khan and/or Nana Patekar. And Vishal Dadlani was absent for this week.

Contestants are listed in the order they performed.

Like last season, this season too, bi-weekly eliminations were held. One week public votes, next week, judges' scores. The bottom contestants are decided according to the judges' scores from that week, and the person with lowest votes from last week is eliminated.

The season's premiere episode was reviewed by Pinkvilla,^[10] and Gujarat Samachar.^[11]

The project head for the season was Chitra Langeh, and Akash Tiwari once again joining as the head of production. Pratyush Prakash was once again the writer of the series. Music guidance and music band were headed by Anand Sharma and Randeep Bhaskar. Aradhana Bhola, the managing director of FremantleIndia was once again the executive producer of the series. The season was directed by Saahil Chhabria.

• Indian Idol on SonyLIV.