Indian Idol

Indian singing competition

Indian Idol

Created by| Simon Fuller
Years| 2004–present
Films and television
Television series|

* Indian Idol
* Indian Idol Marathi
* Telugu Indian Idol

Miscellaneous
Languages|

* Hindi
* Marathi
* Telugu

Produced by| Fremantle
ARSenic's Business Empire (2010–present)
Miditech (2005–2009)
Optimystix Entertainment (2004–2005)
Based on| Pop Idol
No.of Versions| 4
No.of Seasons| 18
Original network| Culver Max Entertainment
(Hindi, Marathi)
Aha
(Telugu)

Indian Idol is an Indian music competition television franchise based on the Pop Idol format.[1] Several iterations of the series have been produced by different companies. The first series premiered in 2004. There have been 18 seasons to date.

## Versions

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Currently airing – 0
Recently concluded – 3
Language | Show | Season | Year | Host | Judges | Network | Premiere | Finale | Contestants | Winner | Runner up

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Hindi | Indian Idol | 1 | 2004–05  | Aman Verma

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Mini Mathur | Anu Malik | Farah Khan | Sonu Nigam | SET | 30 October 2004  | 5 March 2005  | 12  | Abhijeet Sawant | Amit Sana
2 | 2005–06  |  |  | 12  | Sandeep Acharya | N. C. Karunya
3 | 2007  | Hussain Kuwajerwala

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Mini Mathur | Udit Narayan | Alisha Chinai | Javed Akhtar |  |  | 13  | Prashant Tamang | Amit Paul
4 | 2008–09  | Hussain Kuwajerwala

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Meiyang Chang | Sonali Bendre | Kailash Kher | 19 September 2008  | 1 March 2009  | 12  | Sourabhee Debbarma | Kapil Thapa
5 | 2010  | Hussain Kuwajerwala

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Abhijeet Sawant | Sunidhi Chauhan | Salim Merchant |  |  | 13  | Sreerama Chandra | Bhoomi Trivedi
6 | 2012  | Hussain Kuwajerwala

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Mini Mathur | Salim Merchant | Asha Bhosle | 1 June 2012  | 1 September 2012  | 16  | Vipul Mehta | Amit Kumar
Indian Idol Junior | 7 | 2013  | Karan Wahi

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Mandira Bedi | Vishal Dadlani | Shreya Ghoshal | Shekhar Ravjiani | 1 June 2013  |  | 11  | Anjana Padmanabhan  | Debanjana Karmakar
8 | 2015  | Hussain Kuwajerwala

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Asha Negi | Salim Merchant | Sonakshi Sinha | 30 May 2015  | 6 September 2015  | 13  | Ananya Nanda | Nahid Afrin
Indian Idol | 9 | 2016–17  | Karan Wahi

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Paritosh Tripathi  | Anu Malik | Farah Khan | Sonu Nigam |  |  | 14  | L. V. Revanth | Khuda Baksh
10 | 2018  | Manish Paul | Vishal Dadlani | Neha Kakkar | Javed Ali |  |  | 14  | Salman Ali | Ankush Bhardwaj
11 | 2019  | Aditya Narayan | Himesh Reshammiya | 12 October 2019  |  | 17  | Sunny Hindustani | Rohit Shyam Raut
12 | 2020–21  | Vishal Dadlani | Neha Kakkar | 28 November 2020  | 15 August 2021  | 15  | Pawandeep Rajan  | Arunita Kanjilal
13 | 2022–23  | 10 September 2022  | 2 April 2023  | 15  | Rishi Singh  | Deboshmita Roy
14 | 2023–24  | Hussain Kuwajerwala | Shreya Ghoshal | Kumar Sanu | 7 October 2023  | 3 March 2024  | 15  | Vaibhav Gupta  | Subhadeep Das Chowdhury
15 | 2024-25  | Aditya Narayan | Badshah | 26 October

2024

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Marathi | Indian Idol Marathi | 1 | 2021–22  | Swanandi Tikekar

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Prajakta Mali | Ajay–Atul | None  | Sony Marathi | 22 November 2021  | 20 April 2022  | 15  | Sagar Mhatre  | Jagdish Chavan
Telugu | Telugu Indian Idol | 1 | 2022  | Sreerama Chandra | Thaman S | Karthik | Nithya Menen | Aha | 25 February 2022  | 17 June 2022  | 12  | BVK Vagdevi  | Srinivas Darimisetty
2 | 2023  | Hemachandra | Geetha Madhuri | 3 March 2023  | 4 June 2023  | 13  | Soujanya Bhagavatula  | Jayaram
3 | 2024  | Sreerama Chandra | 14 June 2024  | 21 September 2024  | Nazeeruddin Shaik  | Aniruddh Suswaram

## References

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1. ^ Beaster-Jones, Jayson; Sarrazin, Natalie (4 October 2016). Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity. Taylor & Francis. pp. 76–90\. ISBN 978-1-317-39970-4.76-90&rft.pub=Taylor+&+Francis&rft.date=2016-10-04&rft.isbn=978-1-317-39970-4&rft.aulast=Beaster-Jones&rft.aufirst=Jayson&rft.au=Sarrazin,+Natalie&rft_id=https://books.google.com/books?id=cjolDwAAQBAJ&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Indian+Idol" class="Z3988">

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* Arab League
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* United States (original)
* Brazil
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Asia-Pacific|

* India
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Europe|

* Germany
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* Asian Idol
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