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Top Cooku Dupe Cooku | |
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Season 1 | |
Starring | see below |
Hosted by | VJ Rakesh |
Judges | |
No. of contestants | 11 |
Winner | TBD |
Runner-up | TBD |
No. of episodes | 13 |
Release | |
Original network | Sun TV Sun NXT |
Original release | 19 May 2024 – present |
Top Cooku Dupe Cooku is the first season of the Tamil reality comedy cooking TV show Top Cooku Dupe Cooku . The series premiered on 19 May 2024 on Sun TV and digitally on Sun NXT. [1] This season is judged and produced by Chef Venkatesh Bhat, along with Judge Chef Rammohan supported by Binny Krishnakumar and hosted by Rakesh. [2] [3]
The show is produced by Media Masons and broadcast by Sun TV Network. A pre-recorded episode airs every Sunday at 12:30 UTC+5:30 and is re-telecasted on the following Saturday at 09:30 UTC+5:30 both on Sun TV and Shakthi TV. It is available for free streaming in the OTT platform Sun NXT. [4]
The contestants are referred to as "Top Cooku" and would be paired up with a "Dupe Cooku" each week. Some episodes would feature one or more guest judges. [5]
In the beginning of each episode, the Top Cooku's will be given three boxes. One box will have a card saying elimination episode while the other two boxes will have a card saying no elimination episode. The contestants must come up with an agreement to select any of the box. If a no elimination card was selected for two consecutive weeks, the third week would be a compulsory elimination round. [5] [6]
In this round, the Top Cooku's will be given a simple task to complete within 120 seconds. Winner of the Rapid fire can choose their desired Dupe Cooku while others will be paired through a random selection chamber. [5]
After pairing up, they will be given a challenge to complete within 20 minutes. Winner of the golden table challenge will be offered with advancements for rest of the episode. [5]
The cooks will be given a dish to cook within the limited time period, along with intermediate challenge tasks as well. At the end, the judges rate each of the dishes, and the cooks are then ranked according to the results. The cook at the last place in a elimination round would be eliminated. [5]
In the mid-season one or more Top Cooku's dubbed as "Wild Cards" will join the contestants. [7]
Alphabetical order of initial cooks name followed by later joined cooks [lower-alpha 1] : [8] [9]
No. | Name | Entry episode | Episode exited | Rapid fire rounds won | Golden table challenges won | Top cook of the week | Nominations for elimination | Status |
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01 | Aishwarya | Episode 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | ||
02 | Chaitra | Episode 1 | 2 | 4 | 2 | - | ||
03 | S Dheena | Episode 1 | - | - | 1 | - | ||
04 | Narendra (NP) | Episode 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
05 | FEFSI Vijayan | Episode 1 | - | 1 | 3 | - | ||
06 | Sujatha | Episode 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | ||
07 | Subash | Episode 12 | - | - | - | - | ||
08 | Maneesha | Episode 12 | - | - | - | - | ||
09 | Singampuli | Episode 1 | Episode 10 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 | Eliminated [18] |
10 | Shali | Episode 1 | Episode 8 | 1 | — | 1 | 2 | Eliminated [19] |
11 | Sonia | Episode 1 | Episode 5 | — | 1 | Eliminated [20] |
Chef | Top Cooku's | Ref. | ||
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Chef Cheruba | Shali | Sujatha | Vijayan | [21] |
Chef Sai | Aishwarya | Chaitra | Singampuli | |
Chef Saravanan | S Dheena | Narendra | Sonia | |
Chef Yuvasri | Maneesha | Subash | — |
Name | Entry episode | Episode exited | Status | Ref. |
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Deepa Shankar | Episode 1 | [22] | ||
Adhirchi Arun | Episode 1 | |||
Bharat K Rajesh | Episode 1 | |||
Dheena | Episode 1 | |||
Monisha Blessy | Episode 1 | |||
GP Muthu | Episode 1 | |||
Vijay | Episode 1 | |||
Mukund | Episode 1 | |||
Soundarya | Episode 1 | |||
Kathir | Episode 1 |
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Original air date | |
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1 | 1 | "Episode 1: The Grand Launch" | 19 May 2024 | |
The show was launched with the introduction of Host, Judges, Mentors, Top Cooku's, Dupe Cooku's and the show's format. As the first week it didn't contain any guest judge, elimination box and golden table. Aishwarya & Shali won the Rapid fire and chose Bharath & GP Muthu as their desired Dupe cooku's respectively. Aishwarya paired with Bharath finished as the Top cook of the week. [23] | ||||
2 | 2 | "Episode 2" | 26 May 2024 | |
Actor Vadivelu joined as the guest judge. [24] No elimination box this week either. Chaitra & Singampuli won the Rapid fire and chose Soundarya & Dheena as their desired Dupe Cooku's respectively. Vijayan won the golden table challenge along with an extra Dupe Cooku. Vijayan paired with GP Muthu & Vijay finished as the Top cook of the week. | ||||
3 | 3 | "Episode 3" | 2 June 2024 | |
Actor Vadivelu stayed as the guest judge for the first half and Chef Rammohan took over for the rest of the episode. [25] Top Cookus' elimination box choice was no elimination. S Dheena was hospitalized during the Rapid fire but returned for the Main challenge. Singampuli won the Rapid fire for the second consecutive week and chose GP Muthu as his desired Dupe Cooku. Singampuli also won the golden table challenge. Sujatha paired with Mukund finished as the Top cook of the week. [26] | ||||
4 | 4 | "Episode 4" | 9 June 2024 | |
Chef Rammohan became a permanent judge. Top Cookus' elimination box choice was no elimination. Narendra won the Rapid fire and chose Arun as his desired Dupe Cooku while Sujatha won the golden table challenge. Shali paired with Monisha finished as the Top cook of the week. | ||||
5 | 5 | "Episode 5: Elimination 1" | 16 June 2024 | |
Given last 2 weeks didn't have an elimination, this week was a compulsory elimination round. Narendra won the Rapid fire for the second consecutive week and chose Arun as his desired Dupe Cooku while Aishwarya won the golden table challenge. Narendra paired with Arun finished as the Top cook of the week. Shali paired with Mukund and Sonia paired with Kathir finished at the bottom places. As a result Shali and Sonia were nominated for elimination and Sonia was eliminated from the competition. [20] [27] | ||||
6 | 6 | "Episode 6" | 23 June 2024 | |
Top Cookus' elimination box choice was no elimination. Chaitra won the Rapid fire for the second time and chose Arun as her desired Dupe Cooku while Aishwarya won the golden table challenge for the second consecutive week. Vijayan paired with Kathir finished as the Top cook of the week. | ||||
7 | 7 | "Episode 7" | 30 June 2024 | |
Top Cookus' elimination box choice was no elimination. Narendra and Sujatha won the Rapid fire and chose Monisha and GP Muthu as their desired Dupe Cooku's respectively while Sujatha won the golden table challenge for the second time. Sai Dheena paired with Arun finished as the Top cook of the week. | ||||
8 | 8 | "Episode 8: Elimination 2" | 7 July 2024 | |
Given last 2 weeks didn't have an elimination, this week was a compulsory elimination round. Narendra won the golden table challenge. Aishwarya paired with Monisha finished as the Top cook of the week for the second time. Shali paired with Dheena and Sujatha paired with Kathir finished at the bottom places. As a result Shali and Sujatha were nominated for elimination and Shali was eliminated from the competition. [19] [28] [29] | ||||
9 | 9 | "Episode 9: Celebration week [30] " | 14 July 2024 | |
Seven actors from Sun TV serials – Alagappan, Nikitha Rajesh, Maneesha Mahesh, Gabriella Charlton, Ashwanth Karthi, Sruthi Raj, Alya Manasa were paired with each Top Cooku–Dupe Cooku pair for the episode. [lower-alpha 2] As it's a celebration week it did not contain elimination. Chaitra won the golden table challenge for the second time. Sujatha paired with Deepa &Alya and Vijayan paired with Kathir & Nikitha finished as the Top cooks of the week for the second and third times respectively. [31] | ||||
10 | 10 | "Episode 10: Elimination 3" | 21 July 2024 | |
Top Cookus' elimination box choice was elimination. Sujatha won the golden table challenge for the third time. Sujatha paired with Bharath finished as the Top cook of the week for the third time. Singhampuli paired with Kathir and Narendra paired with GP Muthu finished at the bottom places. As a result Singhampuli and Narendra were nominated for elimination and Singhampuli was eliminated from the competition. [18] [32] | ||||
11 | 11 | "Episode 11: Raayan Special [33] " | 28 July 2024 | |
Kalidas Jayaram and Dushara Vijayan joined as the guests for this episode to promote their movie Raayan. [lower-alpha 3] Top Cookus' elimination box choice was no elimination. Chaitra won the Golden table challenge. Chaitra paired with GP Muthu finished as the Top Cook of the week. [34] [35] [36] | ||||
12 | 12 | "Episode 12: Wildcard week" | 4 August 2024 | |
Subash Selvam and Maneesha Mahesh joined the competition as wildcard entries. [lower-alpha 1] As it's a celebration week it did not contain elimination. Chaitra won the Golden table challenge. Chaitra paired with Kathir finished as the Top Cook of the week. | ||||
13 | 13 | "Episode 13" | 11 August 2024 | |
Top Cookus' elimination box choice was no elimination. Chaitra won the Golden table challenge. Sujatha paired with GP Muthu finished as the Top Cook of the week. | ||||
14 | 14 | "Episode 14" | TBA | |
15 | 15 | "Episode 15" | TBA | |
16 | 16 | "Episode 16" | TBA | |
17 | 17 | "Episode 17" | TBA | |
18 | 18 | "Episode 18" | TBA | |
19 | 19 | "Episode 19" | TBA | |
20 | 20 | "Episode 20: The Grand Finale" | TBA |
Episodes | Guests | Ref. |
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1 | — | |
2 & 3 | Vadivelu | [24] |
3 | Chef Rammohan | [25] |
4–8 | — | |
9 | Alagappan, Nikitha Rajesh, Maneesha Mahesh, Gabriella Charlton, Ashwanth Karthi, Sruthi Raj, Alya Manasa | [lower-alpha 2] |
10 | — | |
11 | Kalidas Jayaram, Dushara Vijayan | [lower-alpha 3] |
12 | — | |
Episode | Elimination box | Result | |
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Yes | No | ||
1 | — | ||
2 | — | ||
3 | No elimination | ||
4 | No elimination | ||
5 | — | Elimination round | |
6 | No elimination | ||
7 | No elimination | ||
8 | — | Elimination round | |
9 | — | ||
10 | Elimination round |
Episode | Elimination box | Result | |
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Yes | No | ||
11 | No elimination | ||
12 | — | ||
13 | |||
14 | |||
15 | |||
16 | |||
17 | |||
18 | |||
19 | |||
20 |
Cooks | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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FEFSI Vijayan | Deepa | GP Muthu & Vijay →† | Dheena | Soundarya | Monisha | Kathir † | Bharath | GP Muthu | Kathir & Nikitha † | Arun |
Sai Dheena | Monisha | Bharath | Deepa | GP Muthu | GP Muthu | Dheena | Arun † | Bharath | Monisha & Gabriella | Monisha |
Sujatha Sivakumar | Kathir | Arun | Mukund † | Dheena → | Deepa | Monisha | GP Muthu #→ | Kathir ↑ | Deepa & Alya † | Bharath →† |
Aishwarya Dutta | Bharath #† | Monisha | Kathir | Vijay | Vijay → | GP Muthu → | Kathir | Monisha † | Dheena & Alagappan | Deepa |
Narendra Prasath (NP) | Soundarya | Kathir | Vijay | Arun | Arun #† | Bharath | Monisha # | Arun → | Arun & Maneesha | GP Muthu ↑ |
Chaitra Reddy | Vijay | Soundarya # | Soundarya | Deepa | Dheena | Arun # | Deepa | Mukund | Soundarya & Ashwanth → | Viji |
Singham Puli | Dheena | Dheena # | GP Muthu #→ | Kathir | Soundarya | Deepa | Mukund | Deepa | Bharath & Sruthi | Kathir ↑ |
Shali Nivekas | GP Muthu # | Deepa | Arun | Monisha † | Mukund ↑ | Soundarya | Dheena | Dheena ↑ | Eliminated (Episode 8) | |
Sonia Agarwal | Arun | Mukund | Monisha | Mukund | Kathir ↑ | Eliminated (Episode 5) |
Cooks | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
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FEFSI Vijayan | Monisha | Arun | Mukund | |||||||
Sai Dheena | Dheena | Deepa | Kathir | |||||||
Sujatha Sivakumar | Deepa | Monisha | GP Muthu † | |||||||
Aishwarya Dutta | Kathir | Bharath | ||||||||
Narendra Prasath (NP) | Arun | Mukund | Soundarya | |||||||
Chaitra Reddy | GP Muthu →† | Kathir →† | Dheena → | |||||||
Subash Selvam | — | Vijay | Arun | |||||||
Maneesha Mahesh | — | GP Muthu | Deepa | |||||||
Singham Puli | Eliminated (Episode 10) | |||||||||
Shali Nivekas | Eliminated (Episode 8) | |||||||||
Sonia Agarwal | Eliminated (Episode 5) |
Episodes | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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Guests | — | Vadivelu | Vadivelu & Chef Rammohan | — | Alagappan, Nikitha Rajesh, Maneesha Mahesh, Gabriella Charlton, Ashwin Karthik, Sruthi Raj, Alya Manasa [lower-alpha 2] | — | ||||
Rapid fire winner | Aishwarya & Shali | Chaitra & Singampuli | Singampuli | Narendra | Chaitra | Narendra & Sujatha | — | |||
Golden table challenge winner | — | Vijayan | Singampuli | Sujatha | Aishwarya | Sujatha | Narendra | Chaitra | Sujatha | |
Top cook | Aishwarya | Vijayan | Sujatha | Shali | Narendra | Vijayan | S Dheena | Aishwarya | Sujatha & Vijayan | Sujatha |
Aishwarya | Rapid fire winner | — | Golden table challenge winner | — | Top cook | — | ||||
Top cook | ||||||||||
Chaitra | — | Rapid fire winner | — | Rapid fire winner | — | Golden table challenge winner | — | |||
S Dheena | — | Hospitalized | — | Top cook | — | |||||
Re-entered in Main challenge | ||||||||||
Narendra | — | Rapid fire winner | — | Rapid fire winner | Golden table challenge winner | — | Nominated for elimination | |||
— | Top cook | |||||||||
Sujatha | — | Top cook | Golden table challenge winner | — | Rapid fire winner | Nominated for elimination | Top cook | |||
Golden table challenge winner | — | Golden table challenge winner | ||||||||
Vijayan | — | Golden table challenge winner | — | Top cook | — | Top cook | — | |||
Top cook | ||||||||||
Singampuli | — | Rapid fire winner | — | Nominated for elimination | ||||||
— | Golden table challenge winner | |||||||||
Shali | Rapid fire winner | — | Top cook | Nominated for elimination | — | Nominated for elimination | Eliminated (Episode 8) | |||
Sonia | — | Nominated for elimination | Eliminated (Episode 5) | |||||||
Left show due to injury | — | S Dheena | — | |||||||
Re-Entered | — | S Dheena | — | |||||||
Nominated for elimination | — | Shali Sonia | — | Shali Sujatha | — | Singampuli Narendra | ||||
Eliminated | — | Sonia | — | Shali | — | Singampuli |
Episodes | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | ||||
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Guests | Kalidas Jayaram, Dushara Vijayan | — | ||||||||||||
Rapid fire winner | — | |||||||||||||
Golden table challenge winner | Chaitra | |||||||||||||
Top cook | Chaitra | Sujatha | ||||||||||||
Aishwarya | — | |||||||||||||
Chaitra | Golden table challenge winner | |||||||||||||
Top cook | — | |||||||||||||
S Dheena | — | |||||||||||||
Maneesha | — | |||||||||||||
Narendra | — | |||||||||||||
Subash | — | |||||||||||||
Sujatha | — | Top Cook | ||||||||||||
Vijayan | — | |||||||||||||
Singampuli | Eliminated (Episode 10) | |||||||||||||
Shali | Eliminated (Episode 8) | |||||||||||||
Sonia | Eliminated (Episode 5) | |||||||||||||
Left show due to injury | — | |||||||||||||
Re-Entered | — | |||||||||||||
Nominated for elimination | — | |||||||||||||
Eliminated | — |
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