Indian Idol (Hindi TV series)

Indian singing reality show

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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.

## Judges and hosts

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Host

Guest Host

Judge

Guest Judge

Contestant

Cast member  | Season

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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  |  | ●  |  | ●

## Series overview

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Season  | Episodes  | Originally aired  | Winner  | Runner-up

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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

## Season synopses

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### Season 1

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* Judges

Anu Malik

Farah Khan

Sonu Nigam

* Host

Aman Verma

Mini Mathur

Top 12 Contestants

Name  | Age  | Hometown  | Result  | Place

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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

### Season 2

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* Judges

Anu Malik

Farah Khan

Sonu Nigam

* Host

Mini Mathur Aman Verma

Top 12 Contestants

Name  | Age  | Hometown  | Result  | Place

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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

### Season 3

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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

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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

### Season 4

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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

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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

### Season 5

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* Judges

Shreya Ghoshal

Sunidhi Chauhan

Salim Merchant

* Host

Hussain Kuwajerwala

Abhijeet Sawant

Top 13 Contestants

Name  | Hometown  | Result  | Place

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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.

### Season 6

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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

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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

### Indian Idol Junior Season 1

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* Judges

Vishal Dadlani

Shreya Ghoshal

Shekhar Ravjiani

* Host

Karan Wahi

Mandira Bedi

Top 11 Contestants

Name  | Hometown  | Result  | Place

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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

### Indian Idol Junior Season 2

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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

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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

### Season 9

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* Judges

Anu Malik

Farah Khan

Sonu Nigam

* Host

Karan Wahi

Paritosh Tripathi

Top 14 Contestants

Name  | Hometown  | Result  | Place

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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

### Season 10

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* Judges

Javed Ali replaced Anu Malik[11]

Neha Kakkar

Vishal Dadlani

* Host

Manish Paul

Top 14 Contestants

Name  | Hometown  | Result  | Place

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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

### Season 11

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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

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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

### Season 12

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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

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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

### Season 13

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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

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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

### Season 14

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Main article: Indian Idol (Hindi TV series) season 14

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.

### Season 15

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Main article: Indian Idol (Hindi TV series) season 15

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.

## Criticism

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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]

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Seasons|

* 1
* 2
* 3
* 4
* 5
* 6
* 7
* 8
* 9
* 10
* 11
* 12

Winners|

* Abhijeet Sawant
* Sandeep Acharya
* Prashant Tamang
* Sourabhee Debbarma
* Sreerama Chandra
* Vipul Mehta
* L. V. Revanth
* Salman Ali
* Sunny Hindustani

1st runners-up|

* Amit Sana
* N. C. Karunya
* Amit Paul
* Kapil Thapa
* Bhoomi Trivedi & Rakesh Maini
* Amit Kumar & Devender Pal Singh
* Khuda Baksh
* Rohit Raut

Judges|

* Anu Malik (Season 1–6; 9-12)[c]
* Farah Khan (Season 1, 2, 9)
* Sonu Nigam (Season 1, 2, 9)
* Javed Akhtar (Season 3, 4)
* Alisha Chinai (Season 3)
* Udit Narayan (Season 3)
* Sonali Bendre (Season 4)
* Kailash Kher (Season 4)
* Sunidhi Chauhan (Season 5, 6)
* Salim Merchant (Season 5, 6)
* Asha Bhonsle (Season 6)
* Javed Ali (Season 10)
* Neha Kakkar (Season 10–12)[d]
* Vishal Dadlani (Season 10–12)[e]
* Himesh Reshammiya (Season 11–12)
* Sonu Kakkar (Season 12)

Related articles|

* Indian Idol Junior
* Idols series
* Asian Idol

1. ^ Vineet Singh and Kavya Limaye were eliminated in a double elimination.[24]
2. ^ Vineet Singh and Kavya Limaye were eliminated in a double elimination.[24]
3. ^ Malik was replaced by Javed Ali in Season 10 and by Himesh Reshammiya in Season 11
4. ^ Neha was replaced by Sonu Kakkar in Season 12
5. ^ Dadlani was replaced by Anu Malik in Season 12

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Main franchise|

| Africa|

* East Africa
* Nigeria
* West Africa
* South Africa

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Americas|

* Brazil
* Canada
* Colombia
* Latin America
* Puerto Rico
* United States

Asia-Pacific|

* Australia
* Bangladesh
* Cambodia
* China
* India
* Hindi
* Telugu
* Marathi
* Indonesia
* Kurdistan
* Malaysia
* Maldives
* Myanmar
* Nepal
* New Zealand
* Pakistan
* Philippines
* ABC
* GMA
* ABS-CBN
* Singapore
* Vietnam

Europe|

* United Kingdom (original)
* Armenia
* Belgium
* Bulgaria
* Croatia
* Nova TV
* RTL (2009)
* RTL (2023)
* Czech Republic and Slovakia
* Czech Republic
* Slovakia
* Denmark
* Estonia
* Finland
* France
* Georgia
* Germany
* Greece and Cyprus
* MEGA
* Alpha TV
* Iceland
* Kazakhstan
* Macedonia
* Netherlands
* Norway
* Poland
* Portugal
* Romania
* Russia
* Serbia and Montenegro
* Sweden
* Turkey

Middle East|

* Arab League
* Future TV
* MBC 1
* Iraq
* Saudi Arabia

Junior franchise|

| Americas|

* United States (original)
* Brazil
* Puerto Rico

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Asia-Pacific|

* India
* Indonesia
* Vietnam

Europe|

* Germany
* Norway
* Portugal
* Spain

Specials|

* Asian Idol
* World Idol

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Current broadcasts on Sony Entertainment Television

Drama|

* Dabangii – Mulgii Aayi Re Aayi
* Crime Patrol 48 Hours
* Kavya – Ek Jazbaa, Ek Junoon
* Mehndi Wala Ghar
* Kuch Reet Jagat Ki Aisi Hai

Reality/non-scripted series|

* India's Best Dancer (Season 3)
* India's Got Talent
* Kaun Banega Crorepati

List of former shows

## References

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2. ^ "Not content yet". India Today. 27 November 2008. Retrieved 17 April 2023.
3. ^ Ghosh, Avijit (26 September 2009). "What's Your Raashee". The Economic Times.
4. ^ "Indian Idol Season 4 (Contestants Name + Winner + Judges)". 30 December 2017. Archived from the original on 7 October 2018. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
5. ^ PTI (2 September 2012). "Vipul Mehta wins Indian Idol 6". The Times of India. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
6. ^ "Vipul Mehta wins 'Indian Idol 6'". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 28 October 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
7. ^ "Punjabi boy Vipul Mehta wins Indian Idol 6". September 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
8. ^ "LV Revanth is the winner of Indian Idol 9. See poll". The Indian Express. 1 April 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
9. ^ "Indian Idol Season 9: Finalist Khuda Baksh's journey on the show – Times of". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
10. ^ "Indian Idol Season 9: Jeli Kayi Tamin Wiki Biography – RDS Kendra". RDS Kendra Technology. Retrieved 27 February 2024.
11. ^ a b Trivedi, Tanvi. "Anu Malik confirms stepping down as 'Indian Idol' judge – Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
12. ^ "Indian Idol 10 winner Salman Ali says he will fix his house's broken roof with Rs 25 lakh prize money". Hindustan Times. 24 December 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
13. ^ "Singer Aditya Narayan to host 'Indian Idol 11'". The New Indian Express. 17 August 2019. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
14. ^ "Indian Idol: On popular demand, singer Neha Kakkar returns as a judge – Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
15. ^ "Indian Idol Season 11: This season competition is very tough judges had a lot of difficulty in choosing the contestant this season. The winner of this season was Sunny. – Turbo Tv". Turbo Tv. Retrieved 12 October 2019.[permanent dead link‍]
16. ^ "Sunny Hindustani is the winner of Indian Idol 11". Mumbai Live. 23 February 2020. Retrieved 23 February 2020.
17. ^ "Indian Idol 12: 12-hour long grand finale on August 15". The Times of India. 11 August 2021. Retrieved 12 August 2021.
18. ^ "Indian Idol 12: Here's what Arunita Kanjilal told Pawandeep Rajan after he won". Hindustan Times. 16 August 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2021.
19. ^ Indian Idol 12: Neha Kakkar Finally Shoots For The Show in Daman Amid COVID Scare, Read on
20. ^ Himesh Reshammiya and Neha Kakkar resume shoot of Indian Idol 12, shoot two episodes in Daman
21. ^ "The Kapil Sharma Show's return to Indian Idol 13's premiere: What to watch on TV this weekend". 9 September 2022.
22. ^ "Indian Idol 13 Promo: Rishi Singh, Chirag Kotwal and more to compete in grand finale episode on THIS date". 29 March 2023.
23. ^ Himanshu (25 March 2023). "Indian Idol 13: Fan Favorite Senjuti Das gets Eliminated – Meet the Top 6 Finalist". ReadersFusion. Retrieved 29 March 2023.
24. ^ a b "Indian Idol Double Elimination Today (8 Jan 2023): Vineet and Kavya Eliminated from Season 13 – Meet the Top 8 Contestants". 8 January 2023.
25. ^ "A..." Hindustan Times. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
26. ^ "Sunidhi Chauhan on Indian Idol 12..." YouTube. Retrieved 14 February 2023.
27. ^ "Former Indian Idol participant reveals the ugly side of the singing reality show". 25 August 2018.
28. ^ "Indian Idol 12: From Sawai Bhatt's poverty story to Pawandeep Rajan, Arunita Kanjilal's fake love angle; here are the instances when the makers played with everyone's emotions". 19 March 2021.
29. ^ "Indian Idol 12 Mercilessly Trolled Again – Sob Stories to Neha Kakkar, Himesh Reshammiya Being Termed Overdramatic, See Tweets". 15 June 2021.

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