Cookku with Kirikku

Cookku with Kirikku
Genre	Cookery Comedy
Based on	Cooku with Comali
Directed by	Media Masons
Presented by	Akul Balaji
Judges	Sihi Kahi Chandru Venkatesh Bhat Chef Adarsh.
Theme music composer	Karthik Sharma
Country of origin	India
Original language	Kannada
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	32
Production
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	approx.60-62 minutes
Production company	Media Masons
Original release
Network	Star Suvarna
Release	10 April (2021-04-10) – 15 August 2021 (2021-08-15)

Cookku with Kirikku is a Kannada-language comedy-based cooking competition show aired on Star Suvarna and streams on Disney+ Hotstar where the contestants are paired each week with comedians (Kirikkus) who are amateur cooks. It premiered on 10 April 2021. ^[1] The contestants along with their kirikkus are challenged every week and judged by Sihi Kahi Chandru, Chef Venkatesh Bhat and Chef Adarsh. ^{[2] [3]} The show is a remake of Tamil reality show Cooku with Comali . ^[4]

Production

Game format

Every week, the show starts with celebrity chefs getting paired with their Kirikkus. Then the teams compete in Advantage Task 1 and Task 2. The teams then compete in Main Task and Immunity/Elimination Task. The Advantage task involves a minimal task in which a team does a small task and the winner of the Advantage task is given an advantage during the main task where the team can choose a time frame to work without any obstacles. During the Main task, every team is a given a challenge or an obstacle that will make the cooking harder. The teams are given a specific time limit where they must cook with that time frame. Most of the cooking tasks are to be done by Kirikkus. The cook that gets Immunity is safe from next week's elimination and does not participate in that week. Some weeks are celebration rounds with no elimination. ^[5]

Series overview

Series	Host	Judges	Winner	Runner up	Episodes		Originally released
							First released	Last released	Network
1	Akul Balaji	Sihi Kahi Chandru Chef Venkatesh Bhat Chef Adarash	Chandan Kumar	Ishitha Varsha	32		10 April 2021 (2021-04-10)	15 August 2021 (2021-08-15)	Star Suvarna

Season 1

Contestants

Contestants	Status	Notes
Chandan Kumar	Winner
Ishitha Varsha	1st Runner-Up	Wild Card
Kirik Keerthi	2nd Runner-Up
Kavitha Gowda	Eliminated
Lasya Nagraj	Eliminated
Remo	Eliminated
Vanitha Vasu	Eliminated
Arun Hraiharan	Eliminated	Wild Card
Sunethra Pandit	Eliminated	Wild Card
Apoorva	Walked
Sundar	Walked

Kirikku's

Pratham [6]

Arun Sagar

Chaitra Vasudevan

Karunya Ram

Nayana

Abhighna Bhat

Jagappa

Vishwa

Pairings

Cooks (based on Rank in the Show)	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4	Week 5	Week 6	Week 7	Week 8	Week 9	Week 10	Week 11	Week 12 (Ticket to Finale)	Week 13	Week 14
Chandan Kumar	Abhijana Bhat	Lokesh	Abhijana Bhat	Jagappa	Immunity	Vishwa	Abhijana Bhat	Arun Sagar	Abhijana Bhat	Jagappa	Vishwa	Pratham	Direct Finalist	Vishwa	Abhijna Bhat & Chaitra Vasudevan
Ishitha Varsha				Karunya Ram	Nayana	Arun Sagar	Immunity	Karunya Ram	Immunity	Vishwa	Nayana	Arun Sagar	Vishwa	Jagappa	Nayana & Pratham
Kirik Keerthi	Arun Sagar	Abhijana Bhat	Arun Sagar	Chaitra Vasudevan	Karunya Ram	Nayana	Pratham	Nayana	Jagappa	Arun Sagar	Abhijana Bhat	Nayana	Pratham	Abhijna Bhat	Jagappa & Arun Sagar
Kavitha Gowda	Vishwa	Jagappa	Nayana	Vishwa	Abhijana Bhat	Chaitra Vasudevan	Arun Sagar	Jagappa	Karunya Ram	Karunya Ram	Arun Sagar	Abhijna Bhat	Arun Sagar	Nayana	Vishwa & Lokesh
Lasya Nagraj	Pratham	Arun Sagar	Vishwa	Nayana	Vishwa	Abhijana Bhat	Jagappa	Pratham	Vishwa	Pratham	Pratham	Jagappa	Jagappa	Evicted (Episode 30)
Remo	Karunya Ram	Pratham					Nayana	Abhijana Bhat	Nayana	Abhijana Bhat	Jagappa	Evicted (Episode 24)
Vanitha Vasu	Lokesh	Karunya Ram					Vishwa	Vishwa	Pratham	Evicted (Episode 20)
Arun Hariharan				Pratham	Pratham	Pratham	Lokesh	Evicted (Episode 16)
Sunethra Pandit				Abhijana Bhat	Chaitra Vasudevan	Evicted (Episode 14)
Apoorva	Nayana	Vishwa	Karunya Ram	Arun Sagar	Arun Sagar	Karunya Ram	Walked (Episode 14)
Sundar	Chaitra Vasudevan	Nayana	Bala	Walked (Episode 4)

Weekly activities

Advantage Tasks

Week	Task	Winner
1	Cone Dosa Making	Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat Vanitha Vasu - Lokesh
2	Half Boil Making	Chandan Kumar - Lokesh Vanitha Vasu - Karunya Ram Kirik Keerthi - Abhijhna Bhat
3	Cola Making	Lasya Nagraj - Vishwa
4	Find the Ingredients	Chandan Kumar - Jagappa
5	Samosa Making	Sunethra Pandit - Chaitra Vasudevan
6	Onion Slicing	Apoorva - Karunya Ram
7	Panipuri Eating	Kavitha Gowda - Arun Sagar
8	Taking Coconut Slices	Kavitha Gowda - Jagappa
9	Murukku Making	Kirik Keerthi - Jagappa
10	Making Star Chapatis	Chandan Kumar - Jagappa
11	Moosambi Juice Making	Lasya Nagraj - Pratham
12	Cooking Mini Dosas and Omelettes	Chandan Kumar - Pratham
13	Icing the cake	Ishita Varsha - Vishwa
Finale	Chapathi Making using Iron Box	Kirik Keerthi - Abhijna Bhat Ishita Varsha - Jagappa
	Peeling the Pumpkin using Knife	Ishita Varsha - Jagappa

Main Tasks

Week	Task	Ingredient Selection	High Scored Contestant	Immunity Task Participants	Immunity Task Winner	Elimination Task Participants	Evicted Person
1	Contenstants are Hand-cuffed	Any Ingredient	Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat Vanitha Vasu - Lokesh	Not Conducted	None	Not Conducted	None
2	Contenstants are Blind folded	Banana	Sundar - Nayana	Sundar - Nyana Vanitha Vasu - Karunya Ram Lasya Nagraj - Arun Sagar Kirik Keerthi - Abhijna Bhat	Vanitha Vasu - Karunya Ram	Not Conducted	None
3	Contestants and Kirikkus are provided with high sound Headphones	Ingredient selected by respective Comalis	Keerthi - Arun Sagar	Kirik Keerthi - Arun Sagar Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat Apoorva - Karunya Ram	Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat	Not Conducted	None
4	Contestant and Kirikkus in Back-to-Back postures alternate cooking in 10 minutes	Milk Products	Chandan Kumar - Jagappa	Chandan Kumar - Jagappa Apoorva - Arun Sagar Kavitha Gowda - Vishwa Sunethra Pandit - Abhijna Bhat	Chandan Kumar - Jagappa	Not Conducted	None
5	Contestants should wear boxing gloves and Kirikkus should cook	States Special	Lasya Nagraj - Vishwa	Not Conducted	None	Sunethra Pandit - Chaitra Vasudevan Arun Hariharan - Pratham	Sunethra Pandit
6	Contestants should balance the egg plate and Kirikkus should cook	Colour of Dish and the ball must be same	Arun - Pratham	Keerthi - Nayana Chandan - Vishwa Arun Sagar - Ishitha Varsha Arun - Pratham	Ishitha Varsha - Arun Sagar	Not Conducted	None
7	Contestants are locked and blindfolded, comalis cook the dish	Sea Food	Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat	Not Conducted	None	Vanitha Vasu - Vishwa Remo - Nayana Arun Hariharan - Lokesh	Arun Hariharan
8	Traditional Cooking	Traditional Vegetables	Chandan Kumar - Arun Sagar	Vanitha Vasu - Vishwa Chandan Kumar - Arun Sagar Keerthi - Nayana Ishitha Varsha - Karunya Ram	Ishitha Varsha - Karunya Ram	Not Conducted	None
9	30 Minutes Back-to Back Postures	Ingredients given by Judges	Remo - Nayana	Not Conducted	None	Vanitha Vasu - Pratham Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat Kavitha Gowda - Karunya Ram	Vanitha Vasu
10	Face-off Challenge	Indian, Continental and Chinese Food	Ishitha Varsha - Vishwa	Not Conducted	None	Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat Kirik Keerthi - Arun Sagar	None
11	45 Minutes Alternate Cooking by Cook and Kirikku	4 Main Courses	Kavitha Gowda - Arun Sagar	Not Conducted	None	Remo - Jagappa Kirik Keerthi - Abhijna Bhat	Remo
12	45 Minutes Cooks and Kirikkus should Cylce alternatley and cook	Biriyani and Curd	Lasya Nagraj - Jagappa	(Ticket to Finale) Lasya Nagraj - Jagappa Chandan Kumar - Pratham Kirik Keerthi - Nayana	Chandan Kumar - Pratham	Not Conducted	None
13	Semi-Finals (45 Minutes Cooks and Kirikkus should balance shot glasses on scale)	Wrong Combination Vegetables	Not Applicable	Not Applicable	Ishita Varsha - Vishwa	Ishita Varsha - Vishwa Kirik Keerthi - Pratham Kavitha Gowda - Arun Sagar Lasya Nagraj - Jagappa	Lasya Nagraj
14	Grand Finale (15 Minutes Earphone challenge 15 Minutes Egg Balancing 15 Minutes back to back posture)	4 Dish Platter	Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat - Chaitra Vasudevan	Not Applicable	Not Applicable	Not Applicable	Not Applicable

Guests

Sudeep [7]

Inagratuation Episode

Reception

The series gained popularity among viewers and was appreciated mainly on hotstar app. ^[8]

Adaptations

Language	Title	Original release	Network(s)	Last aired	Notes
Tamil	Cooku with Comali கோமாலியுடன் குக்கு	16 November 2019	Star Vijay	24 July 2022	Original
Kannada	Cookku with Kirikku ಕಿರಿಕ್ಕು ಜೊತೆ ಕುಕ್ಕು	10 April 2021	Star Suvarna	15 August 2021	Remake
Bengali	Gole Male Gol গোলে পুরুষ গোল	25 September 2021	Star Jalsha	14 November 2021
Malayalam	Cook with Comedy കോമഡിക്കൊപ്പം പാചകം ചെയ്യുക	6 May 2023	Asianet	8 July 2023

References

1. "Cookery show Cookku with Kirikku to premiere on April 10 - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
2. "Cookku with Kirikku to air fresh episodes from June 19 - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
3. "Cookku with Kirikku: All you need to know about the fun, Kannada cookery show - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
4. "'Cooku With Comali' now goes to Kannada!". Sify . Archived from the original on 15 March 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
5. Gupta, Kajal (10 April 2021). "Cookku with Kirikku 10th April 2021 Episode Grand Premiere Contestants List And Judges". getindianews.com. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
6. "I play Komali in Cookku With Kirikku, the cookery show, says Pratham - Times of India". The Times of India . Retrieved 29 July 2021.
7. "Kichcha Sudeep to feature in the cookery show Cookku with Kirikku - Times of India". The Times of India . Retrieved 29 July 2021.
8. "Cookku With Kirkku (CWK) 2nd May 2021 Latest Today's Episode: Check Tonight's Fun-Filled Task Updates". socialtelecast.com. 2 May 2021. Retrieved 29 July 2021.

External links

• Cooku With Kirikku on IMDb