The grand finale aired on 5 and 6 April 2025, with Manasi Ghosh declared as the winner, Subhajit Chakraborty became the runner-up and Sneha Shankar being at the third place.[4] The cheques of ₹25,00,000 and ₹5,00,000 to the winner and both runners-up respectively. Along with that, the winner received Suzuki Dzire from Maruti Suzuki and the coveted trophy.[5]
The fourth places finishers, Priyangshu Dutta and Chaitanya Devadhe Mauli also received a cheque of ₹3,00,000 each.[6]
Auditions
Remote auditions took place from 18 August to 31 August 2024, as well as a number of open-call auditions, and from these, the producers selected the contestants who were then invited to audition in front of the judges.[7]
Filming does not take place until the judges' audition round. The year, the auditions were filmed at the Mukesh Mills warehouse.
To mark 20 years of Indian Idol, the platinum mic[8] was introduced that guarantees the contestant a position in Top 15. Each judge could give only 1 platinum mic. Golden tickets were continued, and were given 31 in total, but the golden mic was discontinued. The platinum mics were given to Srijan Porail, Mayuri Saha and Sneha Shankar by Dadlani, Ghoshal and Badshah respectively.
Also, during the judges' audition, the traditional "sticker" of contestant's serial number was replaced with a new "identity card" as shown in the promo.[9] This season the judges were also given headphones to hear the raw voice of singers, without any instruments and processing.[citation needed]
Theatre round
The Theatre round featured the top 31 golden ticket holder contestants performing for the judges. This round was filmed on X, at the Lata Mangeshkar Auditorium, and aired on 9 and 10 November 2024. The judges then narrowed the number of contestants down to 15, including the platinum mic holders.[10]
This year the contestants performed in batches, as picked by the judges according to genre. The batch maybe of two, three or even one and their fate depends on the judges' verdict.
Neeti Mohan served as the guest judge and mentor in absence of Badshah, and Pawandeep Rajan and Mohd. Danish served as guest hosts in absence of Aditya Narayan.[11][12]
The following is a list of the contestants and the song they performed. Contestants are listed in the order they performed.
Ragini Shinde, who was eliminated in the theatre round, when Badhshah was absent, joined as wild card contestant in Gala 1, on request of Badshah, to make it Top 16.
There was no public voting this week and the performance did not count in the competition. Contestants are listed in the order they performed.
This week was divided into two themes, dedicated to directors Subhash Ghai and Mahesh Bhatt. The above said were the special guests and guest mentor for respective nights. The contestants performed on the songs which were in the films directed by them, in the two nights respectively, and this week was the first public voting week of the season.
Shreya Ghoshal was absent this week, due to her live show tour.
Top 16 (23–24 November)
Contestant
Performed on
Song
Manasi Ghosh
Night 1 – An Evening With Subhash Ghai
"Yeh Dil Deewana"
Jyotiprakash Ojha
"One Two Ka Four"
Myscmme Bosu
"Kahin Aag Lage" & "Taal Se Taal"
Ragini Shinde
"Koi Rok Sake To Rok Le"
Ranjini Sen Gupta
"Kitni Baatein"
Ritika Raj
"Lambi Judai"
Vastav Kumar
"Wo Kisna Hai"
Ipsit Pati
"Ek Haseena Thi"
Subhajit Chakraborty
Night 2 – A Night of Nostalgia with Mahesh Bhatt
"Saanson Ki Jarurat Hai Jaise" & "Je Jon Premer Vab Jane Na"
Priyangshu Dutta
"Khamoshiyan"
Biswarup Banerjee
"Bepanah" & "Chale Aaye"
Chaitanya Devadhe
"Mann Ki Lagan"
Mayuri Saha
"Gali Mein Aaj Chaand Nikala" & "Ghunghat Ki Aad Se Dilbar Ka"
Srijan Porail
"Dil Ibaadat"
Sneha Shankar
"Tum Itna Jo Muskura Rahe Ho"
Anirudh Suswaram
"Tum Mile" & "Roop Suhana Lagta Hai"
Gala 3: Top 16 – Two Themes Special
This week was the first judges' score week and the first elimination took place on basis of last week's votes and this week's scores.
The special guests for first night were Fardeen Khan, his sister Laila Khan Furniturewala and Zeenat Aman celebrating Feroz Khan, and Nana Patekar for the second night. All the contestants performed on the songs of Feroz Khan on the first night. And Vishal Dadlani was absent for this week.
To celebrate a year of the movie Animal, its director Sandeep Reddy Vanga joined as a special guest on the first night. And the second night was dedicated to celebrate Vishal Mishra's birthday. He himself joined the night and served as guest mentor. Also, for Vastav's performance, Bhupinder Babbal joined the sets. This week was the second public voting week of the season.
Contestants are listed in the order they performed. Sneha was performer of the week.
Top 15 (7-8 December)
Contestant
Performed on
Song
Ritika Raj Singh
Night 1 – Celebrating 1 Year Of Animal
"Tujhe Kitna Chahne Lage"
Ragini Shinde
"Aaja Aai Bahar"
Myscmme Bosu
"Satranga"
Subhajit Chakraborty
"O Mere Dil Ke Chain"
Anirudh Suswaram
"Hua Main"
Vastav Kumar
"Arjan Vailly"
Biswarup Banerjee
"Deewana Tera"
Mayuri Saha
"Hawa Hawaii"
Chaitanya Devadhe
Night 2- Happy Birthday Vishal
"Aj mera Jee Karda"
Manasi Ghosh
"Tu pehla pehla pyaar hai mera"
Ranjini Sen Gupta
"Jhoomroo"
Jyotiprakash Ojha
"Mitwaa"
Priyangshu Dutta
"Kaise Hua"
Srijan Porail
"Pehle Bhi Main"
Sneha Shankar
"Chal Tere Ishq Mein"
Gala 5: Top 15 – Celebrating 100 Years of Raj Kapoor
Both nights of this week were dedicated to celebrate Raj Kapoor's 100th birth anniversary. Karisma Kapoor, Padmini Kolhapure and Anees Bazmee joined as special guests for the week.
Contestants are listed in the order in which they performed.
Top 15 (14-15 December)
Contestant
Performed on
Song
Result (Gala 4+5)
Manasi Ghosh
Night 1
"Mud Mud Ke Na Dekh"
Safe
Ranjini Sen Gupta
"Kisi Ki Muskurahaton Pe"
Safe
Myscmme Bosu
"Ek Radha Ek Meera"
Safe
Biswarup Banerjee
"Dost Dost Na Raha Pyaar Pyaar Na Raha"
Safe
Subhajit Chakraborty
"Jane Kaha Gaye woh Din"
Safe
Chaitanya Devadhe
"Mera Joota Hai Japani"
Safe
Mayuri Saha
"Sun Saiba Sun"
Safe
Vastav Kumar
"Ek Din bik jaayega"
Eliminated
Ritika Raj Singh
Night 2
Yeh Galliyan Yeh Chaubara
Bottom three
Ragini Shinde
"Panchhi Banoon Udti Phiroon"
Safe
Priyangshu Dutta
"Hum Shaayar To Nahin"
Safe
Sneha Shankar
Chittiye Ni
Safe
Srijan Porail
"Ae Bhai Zara Dekh Ke Chalo"
Safe
Anirudh Suswaram
"Chalat Musafir"
Safe
Jyotiprakash Ojha
"Dum Dum Diga Diga"
Bottom three
Non-competition performance (14-15 December)
Performers
Song
Myscmme and Shubhajit
"Ye Raat Bheegi Bheegi"
Mayuri and Priyangshu
"Pyaar Hua Hai Ikraar Hua Hai"
Gala 6: Top 14 – Christmas Concert
Both nights of the week they celebrated Christmas. Paradox, Rishabh Rikhiram Sharma, Papon, Priyank Sharma, Nikhita Gandhi, Meiyang Chang were the guests. For the promotion of CID Season 2 Shivaji Satam, Aditya Shrivastava and Dayanand Shetty came to support Ragini Shinde Indian Idol Contestant and came for the promotion of the same.
Manasi sings "Akh Ladh Jave" with Badshah and Paradox.
Gala 7: Top 14 – 90s Celebration
This was the elimination week, where judges had to give scores to the duet performing collectively. The lowest scoring duet will be in the bottom and one of them will be elimination on the basis of last week public votes.
In this week Indian Idol celebrated the greatest love songs with singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya and his wife Sumati Bhattacharya, music composer Lalit Pandit of the duo Jatin-Lalit, singer Sadhana Sargam and actress Preeti Jhangiani.
Gala 9: Top 13- Two Themes Special
This was the fourth elimination week of the season. For night 1, the crew and cast of upcoming film Azaad, namely, Rasha Thadani, Amaan Devgan, Abhishek Kapoor and Amit Trivedi joined for the promotions.[13] And in night 2, the cast of upcoming film Emergency, Kangana Ranaut and Anupam Kher joined for the promotion.[14]
Contestant
Performed on
Song
Result (Gala 8+9)
Srijan Porail
Night 1 – 2025 Ka Superhit Start
"Rock On" & "London Thumakda"
Eliminated
Myscmme Bosu
"Hungama Ho Gaya"
Safe
Chaitanya Devadhe
"Namo Namo"
Safe
Ranjini Sen Gupta
"Jo Tum Na Ho" & "Sinbad the Sailor"
Safe
Priyangshu Dutta
"Ye Fitoor Mera"
Safe
Ritika Raj Singh
"Pareshaan"
Bottom three
Biswarup Banerjee
Night 2 – Sensational 70s
"Jaane Jaan Dhoondhta phir raha"
Safe
Anirudh Suswaram
"Gulabi Aankhen" & "Badan Pe Sitare"
Safe
Manasi Ghosh
"Yeh Mera Dil Yaar Ka Deewana"
Safe
Ragini Shinde
"Ja Re Ja O Harjai"
Safe
Subhajit Chakraborty
"Khaike Paan Banaras Wala"
Bottom three
Sneha Shankar
"Ankhiyon Ko Rehne De"
Safe
Mayuri Saha
"Naam Gum Jayega"
Safe
Non-competition performance (11-12 January)
Performers
Song
Vishal Dadlani
"Bang Bang"
Shreya Ghoshal
"Chaka Chak"
Badshah
"Let's Nacho"
Badshah
"Ladki Ladki Shehar Ki Ladki"
Ritika Raj Singh
"Jhalla Wallah"
Srijan and Manasi
"Gulaabo"
Biswarup & Shreya
"Soniyo"
Gala 10: Top 12 – Bhai Behan Special
In this Episode Aparajita Singh (Badshah's Sister) will join the sets for Bhai-Behen Special.
Gala 11: Top 12 – Two Themes Special
In this Episode Vikas Khanna and Ranveer Brar joined the sets with Rajiv Adatia, Archana Gautam, Tejasswi Prakash, Faisal Shaikh, Gaurav Khanna and Abhijeet Sawant contestants of Celebrity Masterchef India
In next Episode Akshay Kumar and Veer Pahariya joined the sets for the promotion of their film Sky Force.
Gala 12: Top 11 – Celebrating Evergreen Songs
In Part 1 contestants sang evergreen songs and Junaid Khan and Khushi Kapoor joined the sets for the promotion of their movie Loveyapa
In Part 2 Megastar Jeetendra joined the sets to celebrate evergreen songs.
Gala 13: Top 11 – Rajshri Ka Utsav
In this Episode Sooraj Barjatya joined the sets with Rithik Ghanshani and Ayesha Kaduskar for the promotion of their new movie on OTT platform Bada Naam Karenge along with Karishma Kapoor and Mohnish Bahl to celebrate 25 years of Hum Saath Saath Hain.
In the 2nd Part Bada Naam Karenge director Palash Vaswani and music Composer Anurag Saikia also joined the sets. The participants sang song of various movies produced by Rajshri Production.
Gala 14: Top 11 – Neelam-Govinda Special
In this episode Neelam Kothari and Govinda Ahuja joined the sets and the participants sang songs from the films where both the actor and actress had acted.
Gala 15: Top 11 – Celebrating Udit Narayan and Kavita Krishnamurti
Gala 16: Top 10 – Two Themes Special
Gala 17: Top 10 - Holi with Hema Malini
The first double elimination of the season happened this week. Hema Malini joined as the guest for both nights. In the second night, the lead crew of The Waking of a Nation joined for its promotion. This week also marked the return of Vishal Dadlani, who was absent for a few weeks due to his motor accident.
Guest dance performance- Raagini Makkhar & Naadyog Academy
Guest song performance-Taaruk Raina on "Chala Chali Ka Khela"
This episode was dedicated to the judge Shreya Ghoshal to celebrate her birthday. Her father and mother joined to celebrate along. Voting for all the contestants were opened that night.
Sunny Deol joined as the special for the night to promote his film Jaat. This episode was shot the same as Shreya's birthday episode but was telecasted in two different parts and themes where all contestants performed on each night. Voting lines for all the contestants were again open that night.
This was the judges scoring night with the season's second double elimination on the basis of public votes of both nights from the last week and the judges scores of this night. All the contestants performed the songs from the movies of Karan Johar.
Aditya Narayan, Shreya Ghoshal & the Top 5 finalists
"Pyaar Ke Pal"
Elimination chart
Like last season, this season too, bi-weekly eliminations were held. One week public votes, next week, judges' scores. The bottom contestants are decided according to the judges' scores from that week, and the person with lowest votes from last week is eliminated.
The project head for the season was Chitra Langeh, and Akash Tiwari once again joining as the head of production. Pratyush Prakash was once again the writer of the series. Music guidance and music band were headed by Anand Sharma and Randeep Bhaskar. Aradhana Bhola, the managing director of FremantleIndia was once again the executive producer of the series. The season was directed by Saahil Chhabria.[citation needed]
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