Playground | |
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Genre | Reality Gaming |
Presented by | Mahvash (Season 1) Rohit Varghese (Season 1-4) Benafsha Soonawalla (Season 1-2) Jaideep Sood (Season 1-4) Umang Jain (Season 2) Ocean Sharma (Season 2) Tanvi Shah (Season 2) Shreya Kalra (Season 3-4) Yuvraj Dua (Season 3-4) |
Starring | Ajey Nagar (CarryMinati) (Season 1-3) Naman Mathur (MortaL) (Season 1, 3-4) Tanmay Singh (ScoutOP) (Season 1-2) Nischay Malhan (Triggered Insaan) (Season 1-2) Ashish Chanchlani (Season 2) Harsh Beniwal (Season 2) Elvish Yadav (Season 3-4) Ujjwal Chaurasia (Techno Gamerz) (Season 3) Abhishek Malhan (Fukra Insaan) (Season 3) Mithilesh Patankar (Mythpat) (Season 4) Munawar Faruqui (Season 4) Uorfi Javed (Season 4) |
Country of origin | India |
Original language | Hindi |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 146 |
Production | |
Production location | New Delhi |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | 34-65 minutes |
Production company | Rusk Media |
Original release | |
Network | Amazon miniTV MX Player YouTube |
Release | 23 May 2022 – present |
Playground is an Indian Hindi-language reality web series, primarily available on Amazon miniTV. [1] Premiered in May 2022, Playground series blends entertainment, live gaming, and esports.
Rusk Media claimed that the show had garnered 200 million+ views following the first season. [2]
The series follows "players" competing in teams under the mentorship of leading gaming influencers and content creators. It involves a group of contestants who participate in various online games, competing individually and in teams, with eliminations based on performance, challenges and voting.
Series | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||
1 | 28 | 24 May 2022 | 20 June 2022 | |
2 | 28 | 30 January 2023 | 26 February 2023 | |
3 | 45 | 17 March 2024 | 27 April 2024 | |
4 | 45 | 29 August 2024 | 9 November 2024 |
Season 1 | Season 2 | Exhibition Cup | Champions League | Season 3 | Season 4 | ||
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Dare Dragons | Ajey Nagar (CarryMinati) | Ajey Nagar (CarryMinati) | Ajey Nagar (CarryMinati) | Ajey Nagar (CarryMinati) | Ajey Nagar (CarryMinati) | ||
AAA Werewolves | Nischay Malhan (Triggered Insaan) | Nischay Malhan (Triggered Insaan) | Nischay Malhan (Triggered Insaan) | Nischay Malhan (Triggered Insaan) | Abhishek Malhan 1 (Fukra Insaan) | Uorfi Javed 1 | |
OP Unicorns | Tanmay Singh (ScoutOP) | Tanmay Singh (ScoutOP) | Tanmay Singh (ScoutOP) | Tanmay Singh (ScoutOP) | Naman Mathur (MortaL) | Naman Mathur (MortaL) | |
Power Phoenixes | Naman Mathur (MortaL) | Harsh Beniwal | Harsh Beniwal | Harsh Beniwal | Munawar Faruqui | ||
KO Krakens | Ashish Chanchlani | Ashish Chanchlani | Ashish Chanchlani | Elvish Yadav | Elvish Yadav | ||
Raging Centaurs | Naman Mathur (MortaL) | Naman Mathur (MortaL) | Ujjwal Chaurasia (Techno Gamerz) | Mithilesh Patankar (Mythpat) | |||
Playground | |
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Season 4 | |
Presented by | Shreya Kalra Yuvraj Dua Rohit Varghese |
Judges | Elvish Yadav Munawar Faruqui Naman Mathur Mithilesh Patankar Uorfi Javed |
No. of days | 42 |
No. of housemates | 22 |
Winner | Gaurav Singh |
Runner-up | Vanshaj Singh Mehta |
No. of episodes | 45 |
Release | |
Original network | Amazon MX Player |
Original release | 29 August – 9 November 2024 |
Playground Season 4 was the fourth season of the Indian reality web series Playground . [3] It premiered on 29 August 2024 on Amazon MX Player. [4]
The season was won by Gaurav Singh, also known as BT Android from the KO Krakens, with Vanshaj Singh Mehta from the AAA Werewolves finishing as the runner-up, and Armaan Syed from the Power Phoenixes being awarded the season's Most Valuable Player (MVP). [5]
Contestant | Status | Place | |
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Gaurav "BT Android" Singh | Winner | 1st | |
Vanshaj Singh Mehta | Runner-up | 2nd | |
1 | Armaan Syed | Eliminated | 3rd |
MVP | |||
Mohit | Eliminated | 4th | |
Vaibhav Dixit | 5th | ||
Shobhika Bali | Eliminated | 6th | |
2 | Eliminated | ||
3 | Khyati Sharma | Eliminated | 7th |
3 | Diya Bihani | 8th | |
4 | Ginni Pandey | 9th | |
5 | Unnati Patwal | 10th | |
5 | Aryansh Kundra | Eliminated | 11th |
Himanshu Arora | Eliminated | 12th | |
Eliminated | |||
Nitin Gupta | 13th | ||
Farhan Khan | 14th | ||
Pankaj Rawat | 15th | ||
1 | Gauri G Singh | Walked | 16th |
Vaibhav "Charlie" Veer | Eliminated | 17th | |
Pragya "Winter" Verma | 18th | ||
Vipul Singh | Eliminated | 19th | |
Riya Pandey | 20th | ||
Pragya Pandey | 21th | ||
Bharat Madaan | Walked | 22nd | |
The numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 in the chart represent the teams in which the contestants were originally in before the swapping (i.e, 1 - OP Unicorns, 2 AAA Werewolves, 3 - KO Krakens, 4 - Raging Centaurs & 5 - Power Phoenixes).Color Keys
The series was well received, especially by the gaming community in India, for its innovative format that integrates gaming into the reality show genre.[ citation needed ]
Award | Year | Season | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
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Filmfare OTT Awards | 2023 | Season 2 | Best Non – Fiction Original (Series) | Nominated | [6] |
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