| Indian Idol | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Simon Fuller |
| Years | 2004–present |
| Films and television | |
| Television series | |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Languages | |
| 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.
| Language | Show | Season | Year | Host | Judges | Network | Premiere | Finale | Contestants | Winner | Runner up | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hindi | Indian Idol | 1 | 2004–05 | Aman Verma Mini Mathur | Anu Malik | Farah Khan | Sonu Nigam | SET | 30 October 2004 | 5 March 2005 | 12 | Abhijeet Sawant | Amit Sana | |
| 2 | 2005–06 | 21 November 2005 | 22 April 2006 | 12 | Sandeep Acharya | N. C. Karunya | ||||||||
| 3 | 2007 | Hussain Kuwajerwala Mini Mathur | Udit Narayan | Alisha Chinai | Javed Akhtar | 4 May 2007 | 23 September 2007 | 13 | Prashant Tamang | Amit Paul | ||||
| 4 | 2008–09 | Hussain Kuwajerwala Meiyang Chang | Sonali Bendre | Kailash Kher | 19 September 2008 | 1 March 2009 | 12 | Sourabhee Debbarma | Kapil Thapa | |||||
| 5 | 2010 | Hussain Kuwajerwala Abhijeet Sawant | Sunidhi Chauhan | Salim Merchant | 26 April 2010 | 15 August 2010 | 13 | Sreerama Chandra | Bhoomi Trivedi | |||||
| 6 | 2012 | Hussain Kuwajerwala Mini Mathur | Salim Merchant | Asha Bhosle | 1 June 2012 | 1 September 2012 | 16 | Vipul Mehta | Amit Kumar | |||||
| Indian Idol Junior | 7 | 2013 | Karan Wahi Mandira Bedi | Vishal Dadlani | Shreya Ghoshal | Shekhar Ravjiani | 1 June 2013 | 1 September 2013 | 11 | Anjana Padmanabhan | Debanjana Karmakar | |||
| 8 | 2015 | Hussain Kuwajerwala Asha Negi | Salim Merchant | Sonakshi Sinha | 30 May 2015 | 6 September 2015 | 13 | Ananya Nanda | Nahid Afrin | |||||
| Indian Idol | 9 | 2016–17 | Karan Wahi Paritosh Tripathi | Anu Malik | Farah Khan | Sonu Nigam | 18 December 2016 | 2 April 2017 | 14 | L. V. Revanth | Khuda Baksh | |||
| 10 | 2018 | Manish Paul | Vishal Dadlani | Neha Kakkar | Javed Ali | 7 July 2018 | 23 December 2018 | 14 | Salman Ali | Ankush Bhardwaj | ||||
| 11 | 2019 | Aditya Narayan | Himesh Reshammiya | 12 October 2019 | 23 February 2020 | 16 | 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 | 6 April 2025 | 16 | Manasi Ghosh | Subhajit Chakraborty | ||||||
| 2025-2026 | Udit Narayan | Vishal Dadlani | Shreya Ghoshal | Badshah | ||||||||||
| 16 | 2025-26 | 18 October 2025 | TBA | 16 | TBA | TBA | ||||||||
| Marathi | Indian Idol Marathi | 1 | 2021–22 | Swanandi Tikekar 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 | ||||||||
| 4 | 2025 | Sreerama Chandra Sameera Baradwaj | Geetha Madhuri | 29 August 2025 | 1 November 2025 | 12 | Brinda | Pavan Kalyan | ||||||