Indian Idol (Hindi TV series)

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Indian Idol
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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
Judges
Theme music composerJulian Gingell
Barry Stone
Cathy Dennis
Badshah
Country of originIndia
Original languageHindi
No. of seasons14
No. of episodes317
Production
Executive producersAnupama Mandloi (2010–present)
Niret Alva (2005–2009)
Nikhil J Alva (2005–2009)
ProducersNamit Sharma (2010–present)
Ashok (2008–09)
CinematographySurindra Rao
EditorKumar Priyadarshi (2007, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
Camera setupNitesh Choudhary
Production companiesARSenic's Business Empire (2010–present)
Fremantle Media India
Miditech Pvt. Ltd. (2005–2009)
Optimystix Entertainment (2004–2005)
Original release
Network Sony Entertainment Television
Release30 October 2004 (2004-10-30) 
present
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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]

Contents

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

  Host
  Guest Host
  Judge
  Guest Judge
  Contestant
Cast memberSeason
1
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

SeasonEpisodesOriginally airedWinnerRunner-up
First airedLast aired
12730 October 2004 Abhijeet Sawant Amit Sana
228 Sandeep Acharya N. C. Karunya
3[ to be determined ] Prashant Tamang Amit Paul
4[ to be determined ]19 September 20081 March 2009 Sourabhee Debbarma Kapil Thapa
542 Sreerama Chandra Mynampati Bhoomi Trivedi / Rakesh Maini
6301 June 20121 September 2012 Vipul Mehta Amit Kumar / Devender Pal Singh
IIJ 1 (7)[ to be determined ]Anjana PadmanabhanDebanjana Karmakar
IIJ 2 (8)[ to be determined ]30 May 20156 September 2015 Ananya Nanda Nahid Afrin
9[ to be determined ] L. V. Revanth Khuda Baksh
1050 Salman Ali Ankush Bhardwaj
114012 October 2019 Sunny Hindustani Rohit Raut
127528 November 202015 August 2021 Pawandeep Rajan Arunita Kanjilal
136010 September 2022April 2, 2023Rishi SinghDeboshmita Roy
14 437 October 20233 March 2024Vaibhav GuptaSubhadeep Das Choudhary
15 TBA26 October 2024TBATBATBA

Season synopses

Season 1

Anu Malik

Farah Khan

Sonu Nigam

Aman Verma

Mini Mathur

Top 12 Contestants

NameAgeHometownResultPlace
Abhijeet Sawant 23 Mumbai Idol1st
Amit Sana 21 Bhilai 1st Runner-up2nd
Rahul Vaidya 17 Nagpur 2nd Runner-up3rd
Prajakta Shukre 16 Jabalpur 3rd Runner-up4th
Ravinder Ravi29 Ludhiana Eliminated5th
Aditi Paul 25 Chennai Eliminated6th
Mukesh Pancholi26 Faridabad Eliminated7th
Harish Moyal26 Itanagar Eliminated8th
Rahul Saxena22 Ghaziabad Eliminated9th
Amit Tandon 25 Kolkata Eliminated10th
Vishal Kothari21 Mumbai Eliminated11th
Priyanka Venkateswar17 Mumbai Quit12th

Season 2

Anu Malik

Farah Khan

Sonu Nigam

Mini Mathur Aman Verma

Top 12 Contestants

NameAgeHometownResultPlace
Sandeep Acharya 21 Bikaner Idol1st
N. C. Karunya 19 Hyderabad 1st Runner-up2nd
Anuj Sharma 29 Himachal Pradesh 2nd Runner-up3rd
Ameya Date26 Mumbai Eliminated4th
Antara Mitra 18 West Bengal Eliminated5th
Meenal Jain 20 Indore Eliminated6th
Ravi K. Tripathi 29 Uttar Pradesh Eliminated7th
Panna Gill24 Punjab Eliminated8th
Monali Thakur 20 Kolkata Eliminated9th
Neha Kakkar 17 Rishikesh Eliminated10th
Yashashree Bhave 24 Satara Eliminated11th
Sagar Sawarkar20 Mumbai Eliminated12th

Season 3

Javed Akhtar

Anu Malik

Alisha Chinai

Udit Narayan

Hussain Kuwajerwala

Mini Mathur

Top 13 Contestants

NameAgeHometownResultPlace
Prashant Tamang 24 Darjeeling Idol1st
Amit Paul 24 Shillong Runner-up2nd
Emon Chatterjee17 Kolkata Eliminated3rd
Ankita Mishra17 Kanpur Eliminated4th
Meiyang Chang 24 Dhanbad Eliminated5th
Pooja Chatterjee18 Dhanbad Eliminated6th
Deepali Kishore 18 Patna Eliminated7th
Abhishek Kumar20 Mumbai Eliminated8th
Parleen Singh Gill19 Ambala Eliminated9th
Charu Semwal19 Dehradun Eliminated10th
Smita Adhikari24 Kolkata Eliminated11th
Jolly Das25 Kolkata Eliminated12th
Richa Aneja17 Punjab Eliminated13th

Season 4

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]

Javed Akhtar

Anu Malik

Sonali Bendre

Kailash Kher

Hussain Kuwajerwala

Meiyang Chang

Top 14 Contestants

NameHometownResultPlace
Sourabhee Debbarma Agartala Idol1st [4]
Kapil Thapa Dehradun 1st Runner-up2nd
Torsha Sarkar Bhagalpur 2nd Runner-up3rd
Rajdeep Chatterjee Jamshedpur Eliminated4th
Remo Ghosh Dimapur Eliminated5th
Bhavya Pandit Pune Eliminated6th
Prasenjit Kosambi Kolhapur Eliminated7th
Bhanu Pratap Singh Jaipur Eliminated8th
Mohit Lawani Delhi Eliminated9th
Kuldeep Singh Chauhan Banda Eliminated10th
Priyanka Negi Dehradun Eliminated11th
Gautam Mrinal Jamui Eliminated12th
Tulika Ganguly Faridabad Eliminated13th
Ananya Mishra Lucknow Eliminated14th

Season 5

Shreya Ghoshal

Sunidhi Chauhan

Salim Merchant

Hussain Kuwajerwala

Abhijeet Sawant

Top 13 Contestants

NameHometownResultPlace
Sreerama Chandra Hyderabad Idol1st
Bhoomi Trivedi Gujarat Runner-up2nd
Rakesh Maini Mumbai Runner-up
Swaroop Khan Rajasthan Eliminated4th
Shivam Pathak Gujarat Eliminated5th
Tia Kar Mumbai Eliminated6th
Naushad Ali Rajasthan Eliminated7th
Shashi Suman Patna Eliminated8th
Arpita Khan West Bengal Eliminated9th
Yashraj Kapil Faridabad Eliminated10th
Manisha Karmakar Kolkata Eliminated11th
Meghna Kumar Jhansi Eliminated12th
Vishwas Rai Allahabad Eliminated13th

Note: Sreerama, Rakesh, and Bhoomi were the top 3. Sreeram was crowned the winner without announcing the 1st and 2nd runner-ups.

Season 6

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]

Anu Malik

Sunidhi Chauhan

Salim Merchant

Asha Bhosle

Hussain Kuwajerwala

Mini Mathur

On 23 June 2012, the judges selected the top 16 contestants to perform in the Gala Rounds.

Contestants

NameHometownResultPlace
Vipul Mehta Amritsar Idol1st
Amit Kumar Amritsar Runner-up2nd
Devender Pal Singh Ludhiana Runner-up
Poorvi KautishEliminated4th
Sohini Mishra Cuttack Eliminated5th
Amitabh NarayanEliminated6th
Deeksha Toor Delhi Eliminated7th
Deepak MaherEliminated8th
Kaushik Deshpande Mumbai Eliminated9th
Kritika TanwarEliminated10th
Charith Dixit Chandigarh Eliminated11th
Ravi Kumar MishraEliminated12th
Ritika RajPatnaEliminated13th
Saumya MishraEliminated14th
Simran Kaur Punjab Eliminated15th
Amrita Bharati Bhubaneswar Eliminated16th

Indian Idol Junior Season 1

Vishal Dadlani

Shreya Ghoshal

Shekhar Ravjiani

Karan Wahi

Mandira Bedi

Top 11 Contestants

NameHometownResultPlace
Anjana Padmanabhan Bengaluru Idol1st
Debanjana Karmakar Kolkata 1st Runner-up2nd
Anmol Jaswal Jammu and Kashmir 2nd Runner-up3rd
Nirvesh Dave Ahmedabad 3rd Runner-up4th
Sugandha Date Nagpur Eliminated5th
Sonakshi Kar Kolkata Eliminated6th
Priyam Borpatragohain Assam Eliminated7th
Akash Sharma Haryana Eliminated8th
Sankalp Yaduwanshi Moradabad Eliminated9th
Eman Chaudhary Assam Eliminated10th
Aryan Das Cuttack Eliminated11th

Indian Idol Junior Season 2

Indian Idol Junior Season 2 started on 30 May 2015 and finished on 6 September 2015.

Salim Merchant

Sonakshi Sinha replaced Shalmali Kholgade

Vishal Dadlani

Hussain Kuwajerwala

Asha Negi

Top 13 Contestants

NameHometownResultPlace
Ananya Nanda Bhubaneswar Idol1st
Nahid Afrin Assam 1st Runner-up2nd
Nithyashree Venkataramanan Chennai 2nd Runner-up3rd
Vaishnav Girish Thrissur Eliminated4th
Moti Khan Rajasthan Eliminated5th
Niharika Nath Agartala Eliminated6th
Ranita Banerjee Kolkata Eliminated7th
Sreelakshmi Belmannu Bangalore Eliminated8th
Ajay Brijwasi Mathura Eliminated9th
Yumna Ajin Vengara Eliminated10th
Surendra Singh Panwar Rajasthan Eliminated11th
Vidhi Jaswal Jammu and Kashmir Eliminated12th
Shubhankar Kolkata Eliminated13th

Season 9

Anu Malik

Farah Khan

Sonu Nigam

Karan Wahi

Paritosh Tripathi

Top 14 Contestants

NameHometownResultPlace
L. V. Revanth Visakhapatnam Idol1st [8]
Khuda Baksh Punjab 1st Runner-up2nd [9]
PVNS Rohit Hyderabad 2nd Runner-up3rd
Maalavika Sunder Chennai Eliminated4th
Mohit Chopra New Delhi Eliminated5th
Tajinder Singh Faridabad Eliminated6th
R P Shravan Chennai Eliminated7th
Manya Narang New Delhi Eliminated8th
Hardeep Singh Ludhiana Eliminated9th
Jeli Kayi Itanagar Eliminated10th [10]
Bharti Gupta Ghaziabad Eliminated11th
Mansi Bhardwaj Delhi Eliminated12th
Stuti Tiwari Delhi Eliminated13th
Saumya Mishra Renukut Eliminated14th

Season 10

Javed Ali replaced Anu Malik [11]

Neha Kakkar

Vishal Dadlani

Manish Paul

Top 14 Contestants

NameHometownResultPlace
Salman Ali Mewat Idol1st [12]
Ankush Bhardwaj Kotgarh 1st Runner-up2nd
Neelanjana Ray Alipurduar 2nd Runner-up3rd
Nitin Kumar Una 3rd Runner-up4th
Vibhor Parashar New Delhi 4th Runner-up5th
Kunal Pandit Mumbai Eliminated6th
Renu Nagar Alwar Eliminated7th
Soumya Chakraborty Kolkata Eliminated8th
Avanti Patel Mumbai Eliminated9th
Saurabh Valmiki Lakhimpur Kheri Eliminated10th
Biswajit Mohapatra Odisha Eliminated11th
Krishnakali Saha Tripura Eliminated12th
Indira Das Kolkata Eliminated13th
Sonia Gazmer Kolkata Eliminated14th

Season 11

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]

Himesh Reshammiya replaced Anu Malik [11]

Neha Kakkar

Vishal Dadlani

Aditya Narayan

Top 16 contestants

NameHometownEliminationPlace
Sunny Hindustani Bathinda Idol1st [16]
Rohit Shyam Raut Latur 1st Runner-up2nd
Ankona Mukherjee Bankura 2nd Runner-up3rd
Ridham Kalyan Amritsar 3rd Runner-up4th
Adriz Ghosh Murshidabad 4th Runner-up5th
Shahzaan Mujeeb Aligarh Eliminated6th
Rishabh Chaturvedi Amritsar Eliminated7th
Stuti Tiwari New Delhi Eliminated8th
Jannabi Das New Delhi Eliminated9th
Azmat Hussain Jaipur Eliminated10th
Chetna Bharadwaj Ghaziabad Eliminated11th
Kaivalya Kejkar Nagpur Eliminated12th
Subhadeep Das Chowdhury Kolkata Eliminated13th
Pallav Singh Ballia Eliminated14th
Nidhi Kumari Jamshedpur Eliminated15th
Chelsi Behura Orissa Eliminated16th

Season 12

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.

Anu Malik

Sonu Kakkar

Himesh Reshammiya [19] [20]

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.

Aditya Narayan

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

NameHometownResultStanding
Pawandeep Rajan Uttarkhand Idol1st
Arunita Kanjilal Kolkata 1st Runner-up2nd
Sayli Kamble Patil Mumbai 2nd Runner-up3rd
Mohd Danish Muzaffarnagar 3rd Runner-up4th
Nihal Tauro Mangalore 4th Runner-up5th
Shanmukha Priya Visakhapatnam 5th Runner-up6th
Ashish Kulkarni Pune Eliminated7th
Sawai Bhatt Nagaur Eliminated8th
Anjali Gaikwad Ahmednagar Eliminated9th
Nachiket Lele Kalyan Eliminated10th
Sireesha Bhagavatula Visakhapatnam Eliminated11th
Anushka Banerjee Chandigarh Eliminated12th
Vaishnav Girish Thrissur Eliminated13th
Samyak Prasana Delhi Eliminated14th
Sahil Solanki Hisar Eliminated15th

Season 13

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]

Himesh Reshammiya

Vishal Dadlani

Aditya Narayan

Neha Kakkar

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.

NameHometownResultPlace
Rishi Singh Ayodhya Idol1st
Deboshmita Roy Kolkata 1st Runner-up2nd
Chirag Kotwal Bhaderwah 2nd Runner-up3rd
Bidipta Chakraborty Kolkata 3rd Runner-up4th
Shivam Singh Vadodara 4th Runner-up5th
Sonakshi Kar Kolkata 5th Runner-up6th
Senjuti Das Kolkata Eliminated7th
Navdeep Wadali Amritsar Eliminated8th
Kavya Limaye Vadodara Eliminated9th [a]
Vineet Singh Lucknow Eliminated10th [b]
Anushka Patra Kolkata Eliminated11th
Rupam Bharnarhia Amritsar Eliminated12th
Sanchari Sengupta Kolkata Eliminated13th
Pritam Roy Kolkata Eliminated14th
Shagun Pathak Jharkhand Eliminated15th

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

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

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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