MasterChef India (Hindi TV series)

This article is about the Hindi series. For versions in other languages, see § Other versions.

MasterChef India
Genre	Reality Cookery
Based on	MasterChef Australia
Judges	Akshay Kumar (season 1) Ajay Chopra (seasons 1–2) Kunal Kapur (seasons 1–3, 5) Vikas Khanna (seasons 2–8) Sanjeev Kapoor (seasons 3–4) Ranveer Brar (season 4, 6-8) Zorawar Kalra (season 5) Vineet Bhatia (season 6) Garima Arora (season 7) Pooja Dhingra (season 8)
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	8
No. of episodes	296
Production
Running time	46–48 minutes
Production company	Endemol Shine India
Release
Original network	Star Plus (seasons 1–6) Sony Entertainment Television (season 7) SonyLIV (season 8)
Original release	16 October 2010 (2010-10-16) – present
Related
Junior Masterchef Swaad Ke Ustaad MasterChef India – Telugu MasterChef India – Tamil

MasterChefIndia ^[1] is an Indian Hindi-language competitive cooking reality television series that premiered on StarPlus on 16 October 2010. ^[2] Based on the Australian series of the same name and produced by Endemol Shine, the series features amateur and home chefs competing to win the title of 'MasterChef'. ^[3] The current line-up of judges consists of Vikas Khanna, Pooja Dhingra, and Ranveer Brar.

Format

MasterChef is based on the Australian series MasterChef . The competition takes place in the MasterChef soundstage located in Mumbai, India which includes a large kitchen area with several cooking stations which is overlooked by a balcony, a well-stocked pantry, a freezer/fridge area and a fine-dining restaurant/seating dining area room used for certain challenges.

While the particular format of the season has slightly varied over the years, the following challenges have all been regularly featured:

• Skills Test: Cooks are challenged to perform a list of common cooking techniques or styles, or to replicate a particular cooking method of a dish (i.e. steaks done to an exact wellness). This type of test is also sometimes used as an Elimination Test.
• Mystery Box: Cooks are all given a box with the same ingredients and must use only those ingredients to create a dish within a fixed amount of time. The judges will select three dishes based on visual appearance and technique alone to taste, and from these three select one winner who usually gains an advantage of some type in the elimination test.
• Elimination Test: After the challenge is explained, judges evaluate all dishes based on taste and visual appeal. The judges nominate the worst dishes for elimination and criticize them before eliminating at least one contestant.
• Team Challenge: The cooks are split into teams by either team captains or the judges. They often occur in a restaurant takeover or pop-up restaurant taking the place of the staff of a particular restaurant. Diners taste both meals and vote for their favorite. The winning team advances, while the losing team will participate in the Pressure Test or face elimination based on the teams' performance.
• Pressure Test: Another form of the Elimination Test, in which losing team members compete against each other to make a standard dish within a very limited amount of time that requires a great degree of cooking finesse. Each dish is judged on taste, visual appeal and technique, and the losing chef is eliminated.

Once the competition is reduced to either the final two or three competitors, the finalists will compete against each other in a three-course cook-off. All courses of the meal are judged and an overall winner is crowned. The winner of seventh season won ₹ 25,00,000, a MasterChef trophy, and the title of MasterChef. Some seasons have also added other prizes such as a cookbook deal.

Judges

Judges	Season 1	Season 2	Season 3	Juniors	Season 4	Season 5	Season 6	Season 7	Season 8
Ajay Chopra	Judge	Judge
Akshay Kumar	Judge
Garima Arora								Judge
Kunal Kapur	Judge	Judge	Judge	Judge		Judge
Pooja Dhingra									Judge
Ranveer Brar					Judge		Judge	Judge	Judge
Sanjeev Kapoor			Judge		Judge
Surjan Singh Jolly				Judge
Vikas Khanna		Judge	Judge	Judge	Judge	Judge	Judge	Judge	Judge
Vineet Bhatia							Judge
Zorawar Kalra						Judge

Season Overview

Season	Primary Network	Online VOD	No. of Episodes	First Aired	Last Aired	Prize Money	Winner	Runner-up
1	StarPlus		21	16 October 2010	25 December 2010	₹25 lakh (US$31,000)	Pankaj Bhadouria	Jayanandan Bhaskar
2			22	22 October 2011	1 January 2012	₹25 lakh (US$31,000)	Shipra Khanna	Salma Shazia Fathima
3			70	11 March 2013	9 June 2013	₹25 lakh (US$31,000)	Ripudaman Handa	Navneet Rastogi
4			67	26 January 2015	12 April 2015	₹25 lakh (US$31,000)	Nikita Gandhi	Neha Deepak Shah
5			26	1 October 2016	25 December 2016	₹25 lakh (US$31,000)	Kirti Bhoutika	Ashima Arora
6		Disney+ Hotstar	25	7 December 2019	1 March 2020	₹25 lakh (US$31,000)	Abinas Nayak	Oindrila Bala
7	Sony Entertainment Television	SonyLIV	65	2 January 2023	31 March 2023	₹25 lakh (US$31,000)	Nayanjyoti Saikia	Shanta Sarmah
8	SonyLIV			16 October 2023

Spin-off	Primary Network	Online VOD	No. of episodes	First Aired	Last Aired	Prize Money	Winner	Runner-up
Juniors	StarPlus	—	22	17 August 2013	2 November 2013	₹25 lakh (US$31,000)	Sarthak Bhardwaj	Sakshi Tripathi
MasterClass	SET	SonyLIV	5	2 April 2023	7 April 2023	—

Season 1 (2010)

MasterChef India 1 aired from 16 October 2010 to 25 December 2010 on StarPlus. ^[4] Hosted by Akshay Kumar, Kunal Kapur and Ajay Chopra, it was won by Pankaj Bhadouria.

Season 2 (2011)

MasterChef India 2 aired from 22 October 2011 to 1 January 2012 on StarPlus. Hosted by Vikas Khanna, Kunal Kapur and Ajay Chopra, it was won by Shipra Khanna. ^[5] Nita Mehta and Bijou Thaangjam also participated in the program. ^{[6] [7]}

Season 3 (2013)

MasterChef India 3 aired from 11 March 2013 to 9 June 2013 on StarPlus. ^[8] While the previous seasons were on weekends, this season aired during weekdays. ^[9] Hosted by Vikas Khanna, Kunal Kapur and Sanjeev Kapoor, it was won by Ripudaman Handa. ^{[8] [10]}

Spin-off: Junior MasterChef India (2013)

Main article: Junior Masterchef Swaad Ke Ustaad

Junior MasterChef India aired from 17 August 2013 to 2 November 2013 on StarPlus. ^[11] Titled Junior Masterchef Swaad Ke Ustaad, it was won by Sarthak Bhardwaj.

Season 4 (2015)

Main article: MasterChef India (Hindi season 4)

MasterChef India 4 aired from 26 January 2015 to 12 April 2015 on StarPlus. For the first time in the history of MasterChef, a pure vegetarian format was introduced. Hosted by Sanjeev Kapoor, Vikas Khanna and Ranveer Brar, Written by Gunjan Joshi, it was won by Nikita Gandhi. ^{[12] [13]}

Season 5 (2016)

Main article: MasterChef India (Hindi season 5)

MasterChef India 5 aired from 1 October 2016 to 25 December 2016 on StarPlus. ^[14] Hosted by Vikas Khanna, Kunal Kapur and Zorawar Kalra. Kirti Bhoutika won the competition, with Ashima Arora finishing in the second place.

Season 6 (2019)

Main article: MasterChef India (Hindi season 6)

MasterChef India 6 aired from 7 December 2019 to 1 March 2020 on StarPlus. Hosted by Vikas Khanna, Ranveer Brar and Vineet Bhatia, Written by Gunjan Joshi. The winner was Abinas Nayak, with Oindrila Bala as the runner-up.

Season 7 (2023)

Main article: MasterChef India (Hindi season 7)

The seventh season of the Hindi version of MasterChef India was announced on 5 August 5, 2022, hosted by the judges Vikas Khanna, Ranveer Brar and Garima Arora. ^[15] It aired from 2 January 2023 to 31 March 2023 on SET and was also streamed on SonyLIV. The winner was Nayanjyoti Saikia, who got prize money of ₹25,00,000 and the first runner-up was Santa Sarmah and second runner-up was Suvarna Bagul. They both got prize money of ₹5,00,000. ^{[16] [17]}

Season 8 (2023)

Main article: MasterChef India (Hindi season 8)

The eighth season of the Hindi version of MasterChef India was announced on July 7, ^[18] 2023, hosted by the judges Pooja Dhingra, Vikas Khanna and Ranveer Brar. ^[19] It premiered on SonyLIV on 16 October 2023. ^[20]

Spin-off: MasterClass (2023)

After the finale of season 7, it was revealed that a spinoff would premier, titled "MasterChef India - MasterClass". The show will feature the same judges and contestants as the 7th season of MasterChef, but instead the judges will cook for the contestants, teaching them skills and recipes. ^[21]

Production

In 2010, Star India licensed the rights for producing MasterChef India in Hindi. ^[22]

From 2023, the show will air on Sony Entertainment Television.

Reception

Season 1 opened with an average ratings of 2.6 TVR. ^[23] The following week, it garnered 2.5 TVR. ^[24] Overall it ranged around over 2 and 3 TVR. ^[25] The finale garnered the highest viewership rating of 4.2 TVR. ^[26]

Season 2 premiered with 2.01 TVR and ended with 2.6 TVR. ^{[27] [28]}

Season 3 opened with 2.2 TVR while the following weeks garnered a decent ratings between 2 and 2.3 TVR the finale became the most watched reality show of the week with 3.7 TVR. ^{[27] [28]}

Season 6 garnered low ratings ranging 0.8 and 1.1 TRP. ^[29]

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External links

• Official website of MasterChef India Season 2 Archived 14 April 2013 at the Wayback Machine
• Official website of MasterChef India Season 3 Archived 3 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine