Indian Idol
Indian Idol is the Indian Hindi-language version of the Pop Idol format that has aired on Sony Entertainment Television since 2004.[1] The show has spawned spin-off like Indian Idol Junior, which replaced the show for the seventh and eight seasons. On 15 August 2021, Pawandeep Rajan won the Indian Idol season 12.[2]
| Indian Idol | |
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| Genre | Reality television |
| Created by | Simon Fuller |
| Directed by |
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| Presented by | |
| Judges | |
| Theme music composer | Julian Gingell Barry Stone Cathy Dennis |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 12 |
| No. of episodes | 317 |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Anupama Mandloi (2010–present) Niret Alva (2005–09) Nikhil J Alva (2005–09) |
| Producers | Namit Sharma (2010–present) Ashok (2008–09) |
| Cinematography | Surindra Rao |
| Camera setup | Nitesh Choudhary |
| Running time | 1-12 hours |
| Production companies | ARSenic's Business Empire (2010–present) Fremantle Media India Miditech Pvt. Ltd. (2005–09) |
| Distributor | FremantleMedia Enterprises |
| Release | |
| Original network | SET |
| Picture format | 576i HDTV 1080i |
| Audio format | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Original release | 30 October 2004 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
Summary
| Season | Year | Channel | Host | Contestants | Winner | Runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2004–05 | Sony TV | Aman Verma Mini Mathur |
12 | Abhijeet Sawant | Amit Sana |
| 2 | 2005–06 | 12 | Sandeep Acharya | N. C. Karunya | ||
| 3 | 2007 | Hussain Kuwajerwala Mini Mathur |
13 | Prashant Tamang | Amit Paul | |
| 4 | 2008–09 | Hussain Kuwajerwala Meiyang Chang |
12 | Sourabhee Debbarma | Kapil Thapa | |
| 5 | 2010 | Hussain Kuwajerwala Abhijeet Sawant |
13 | Sreerama Chandra Mynampati | Bhoomi Trivedi and Rakesh Maini | |
| 6 | 2012 | Hussain Kuwajerwala Mini Mathur |
16 | Vipul Mehta | Amit Kumar and Devandra Pal Singh | |
| IIJ S1 | 2013 | Karan Wahi Mandira Bedi |
11 | Anjana Padmanabhan | Debanjana Karmakar | |
| IIJ S2 | 2015 | Hussain Kuwajerwala Asha Negi |
13 | Ananya Nanda | Nahid Afrin | |
| 9 | 2016–17 | Karan Wahi Paritosh Tripathi |
14 | L. V. Revanth[3] | Khuda Baksh and Rohit Paritala | |
| 10 | 2018 | Manish Paul | 14 | Salman Ali[4] | Ankush Bhardwaj | |
| 11 | 2019 | Aditya Narayan | 17 | Sunny Hindustani[5] | Rohit Shyam Raut | |
| 12 | 2020-2021 | Aditya Narayan | 15 | Pawandeep Rajan | Arunita Kanjilal |
Season 1
- Judges
- Host
Top 12 Contestants
| Name | Hometown | Result | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abhijeet Sawant | Mumbai | Winner | 1st |
| Amit Sana | Bhilai | 1st Runner-up | 2nd |
| Rahul Vaidya | Nagpur | 2nd Runner-up | 3rd |
| Prajakta Shukre | Jabalpur | 3rd Runner-up | 4th |
| Ravinder Ravi | Ludhiana | Eliminated | 5th |
| Aditi Paul | Chennai | Eliminated | 6th |
| Mukesh Pancholi | Faridabad | Eliminated | 7th |
| Harish Moyal | Itanagar | Eliminated | 8th |
| Rahul Saxena | Ghaziabad | Eliminated | 9th |
| Amit Tandon | Kolkata | Eliminated | 10th |
| Vishal Kothari | Mumbai | Eliminated | 11th |
| Priyanka Venkateswar | Mumbai | Withdrew | 12th |
Season 2
- Judges
- Host
Top 12 Contestants
| Name | Hometown | Result | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandeep Acharya | Rajasthan | Winner | 1st |
| N. C. Karunya | Hyderabad | 1st Runner-up | 2nd |
| Anuj Sharma | Himachal Pradesh | 2nd Runner-up | 3rd |
| Ameya Date | Mumbai | Eliminated | 4th |
| Antara Mitra | West Bengal | Eliminated | 5th |
| Meenal Jain | Indore | Eliminated | 6th |
| Ravi K. Tripathi | Uttar Pradesh | Eliminated | 7th |
| Panna Gill | Punjab | Eliminated | 8th |
| Monali Thakur | Kolkata | Eliminated | 9th |
| Neha Kakkar | Rishikesh | Eliminated | 10th |
| Yashashree Bhave | Satara | Eliminated | 11th |
| Sagar Sawarkar | Mumbai | Eliminated | 12th |
Season 3
- Judges
Javed Akhtar
Anu Malik
Alisha Chinai
Udit Narayan
- Host
Hussain Kuwajerwala
Mini Mathur
Top 13 Contestants
| Name | Hometown | Result | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prashant Tamang | Darjeeling | Winner | 1st |
| Amit Paul | Shillong | 1st Runner-up | 2nd |
| Emon Chatterjee | Kolkata | 2nd Runner-up | 3rd |
| Ankita Mishra | Kanpur | 3rd Runner-up | 4th |
| Meiyang Chang | Dhanbad | 4th Runner-up | 5th |
| Pooja Chatterjee | Dhanbad | Eliminated | 6th |
| Deepali Kishore | Patna | Eliminated | 7th |
| Abhishek Kumar | Mumbai | Eliminated | 8th |
| Parleen Singh Gill | Ambala | Eliminated | 9th |
| Charu Semwal | Dehradun | Eliminated | 10th |
| Smita Adhikari | Kolkata | Eliminated | 11th |
| Jolly Das | Kolkata | Eliminated | 12th |
| Richa Aneja | Punjab | Eliminated | 13th |
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.[6]
- Judges
Javed Akhtar
Anu Malik
Sonali Bendre
Kailash Kher
- Host
Hussain Kuwajerwala
Meiyang Chang
Top 14 Contestants
| Name | Hometown | Result | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sourabhee Debbarma | Agartala | Winner | 1st[7] |
| Kapil Thapa | Dehradun | 1st Runner-up | 2nd |
| Torsha Sarkar | Bhagalpur | 2nd Runner-up | 3rd |
| Rajdeep Chatterjee | Jamshedpur | Eliminated | 4th |
| Remo Ghosh | Dimapur | Eliminated | 5th |
| Bhavya Pandit | Pune | Eliminated | 6th |
| Prasenjit Kosambi | Kolhapur | Eliminated | 7th |
| Bhanu Pratap Singh | Jaipur | Eliminated | 8th |
| Mohit Lawani | Delhi | Eliminated | 9th |
| Kuldeep Singh Chauhan | Banda | Eliminated | 10th |
| Priyanka Negi | Dehradun | Eliminated | 11th |
| Shini Kalvint | Gwalior | Eliminated | 12th |
| Tulika Ganguly | Faridabad | Eliminated | 13th |
| Ananya Mishra | Lucknow | Eliminated | 14th |
Season 5
- Judges
Anu Malik
Sunidhi Chauhan
Salim Merchant
- Host
Hussain Kuwajerwala
Abhijeet Sawant
Top 13 Contestants
| Name | Hometown | Result | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sreerama Chandra | Hyderabad | Winner | 1st |
| Bhoomi Trivedi | Gujarat | 1st Runner-up | 2nd |
| Rakesh Maini | Mumbai | 2nd Runner-up | 3rd |
| Swaroop Khan | Rajasthan | Eliminated | 4th |
| Shivam Pathak | Gujarat | Eliminated | 5th |
| Tia Kar | Mumbai | Eliminated | 6th |
| Naushad Ali | Rajasthan | Eliminated | 7th |
| Shashi Suman | Patna | Eliminated | 8th |
| Arpita Khan | West Bengal | Eliminated | 9th |
| Yashraj Kapil | Faridabad | Eliminated | 10th |
| Manisha Karmakar | Kolkata | Eliminated | 11th |
| Meghna Kumar | Jhansi | Eliminated | 12th |
| Vishwas Rai | Allahabad | Eliminated | 13th |
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.[8][9][10]
- Judges
Anu Malik
Sunidhi Chauhan
Salim Merchant
Asha Bhosle
- Host
Hussain Kuwajerwala
Mini Mathur
On 23 June 2012, the judges selected the top 16 contestants to perform in the Gala Rounds.
Contestants
| Name | Hometown | Result | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vipul Mehta | Amritsar | Winner | 1st |
| Amit Kumar | N/A | 1st Runner-up | 2nd |
| Devender Pal Singh | Ludhiana | 2nd Runner-up | 3rd |
| Amitabh Narayan | Eliminated | 4th | |
| Amrita Panda | Eliminated | 5th | |
| Charit Dixit | Eliminated | 6th | |
| Deeksha Toor | Delhi | Eliminated | 7th |
| Deepak Maher | Eliminated | 8th | |
| Kaushik Deshpande | Mumbai | Eliminated | 9th |
| Kritika Tanwar | Eliminated | 10th | |
| Poorvi Koutish | Chandigarh | Eliminated | 11th |
| Ravi Kumar Mishra | Eliminated | 12th | |
| Ritika Raj | Eliminated | 13th | |
| Saumya Mishra | Eliminated | 14th | |
| Simran Kaur | Punjab | Eliminated | 15th |
| Sohini Mishra | Cuttack | Eliminated | 16th |
Indian Idol Junior Season 1
- Judges
Vishal Dadlani
Shreya Ghoshal
Shekhar Ravjiani
- Host
Top 11 Contestants
| Name | Hometown | Result | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anjana Padmanabhan | Bengaluru | Winner | 1st |
| Debanjana Karmakar | Kolkata | 1st Runner-up | 2nd |
| Anmol Jaswal | Jammu and Kashmir | 2nd Runner-up | 3rd |
| Nirvesh Dave | Ahmedabad | 3rd Runner-up | 4th |
| Akash Sharma | Harayana | Eliminated | 5th |
| Aryan Das | Cuttack | Eliminated | 6th |
| Sonakshi Kar | Kolkata | Eliminated | 7th |
| Priyam Borpatragohain | Assam | Eliminated | 8th |
| Eman Chaudhary | Assam | Eliminated | 9th |
| Sugandha Date | Nagpur | Eliminated | 10th |
| Sankalp Yaduwanshi | Moradabad | Eliminated | 11th |
Indian Idol Junior Season 2
Indian Idol Junior Season 2 started on30 May 2015 and finished on 6 September 2015.
- Judges
Salim Merchant
Sonakshi Sinha replaced Shalmali Kholgade
Vishal Dadlani
- Host
Top 13 Contestants
| Name | Hometown | Result | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ananya Nanda | Bhubaneswar | Winner | 1st |
| Nahid Afrin | Assam | 1st Runner-up | 2nd |
| Nithyashree Venkataramanan | Chennai | 2nd Runner-up | 3rd |
| Niharika Nath | Agartala | Eliminated | 4th |
| Vaishnav Girish | Thrissur | Eliminated | 5th |
| Moti Khan | Rajasthan | Eliminated | 6th |
| Ranita Banerjee | Kolkata | Eliminated | 7th |
| Sreelakshmi Belmannu | Bangalore | Eliminated | 8th |
| Ajay Brijwasi | Mathura | Eliminated | 9th |
| Yumna Ajin | Vengara | Eliminated | 10th |
| Surendra Singh Panwar | Rajasthan | Eliminated | 11th |
| Vidhi Jaswal | Jammu and Kashmir | Eliminated | 12th |
| Shubhankar | Kolkata | Eliminated | 13th |
Season 9
- Judges
- Host
Karan Wahi
Paritosh Tripathi
Top 14 Contestants
| Name | Hometown | Result | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| L. V. Revanth | Visakhapatnam | Winner | 1st[11] |
| Khuda Baksh | Punjab | 1st Runner-up | 2nd[12] |
| PVNS Rohit | Hyderabad | 2nd Runner-up | 3rd |
| Maalavika Sunder | Chennai | Eliminated | 4th |
| Mohit Chopra | New Delhi | Eliminated | 5th |
| Tajinder Singh | Faridabad | Eliminated | 6th |
| R P Shravan | Chennai | Eliminated | 7th |
| Manya Narang | New Delhi | Eliminated | 8th |
| Hardeep Singh | Ludhiana | Eliminated | 9th |
| Jeli Kayi | Itanagar | Eliminated | 10th |
| Bharti Gupta | Ghaziabad | Eliminated | 11th |
| Mansi Bhardwaj | Kolkata | Eliminated | 12th |
| Stuti Tiwari | Delhi | Eliminated | 13th |
| Saumya Mishra | Renukut | Eliminated | 14th |
| Rahul Deb | Kolkata | Eliminated | 15th |
Season 10
- Judges
Javed Ali replaced Anu Malik[13]
Neha Kakkar
Vishal Dadlani
- Host
Top 14 Contestants
| Name | Hometown | Result | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salman Ali | Mewat | Winner | 1st[14] |
| Ankush Bhardwaj | Kotgarh | 1st Runner-up | 2nd |
| Neelanjana Ray | Kolkata | 2nd Runner-up | 3rd |
| Nitin Kumar | Una | 3rd Runner-up | 4th |
| Vibhor Parashar | New Delhi | 4th Runner-up | 5th |
| Kunal Pandit | Mumbai | Eliminated | 6th |
| Renu Nagar | Alwar | Eliminated | 7th |
| Soumya Chakraborty | Kolkata | Eliminated | 8th |
| Avanti Patel | Mumbai | Eliminated | 9th |
| Saurabh Valmiki | Lakhimpur | Eliminated | 10th |
| Biswajit Mohapatra | Odisha | Eliminated | 11th |
| Krishnakali Saha | Tripura | Eliminated | 12th |
| Indira Das | Kolkata | Eliminated | 13th |
| Sonia Gazmer | Kolkata | Eliminated | 14th |
Season 11
The 11th season started to air on 12 October 2019 on Sony TV. It was being hosted by singer Aditya Narayan.[15] 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 been replaced by Himesh Reshammiya.[16][17]
- Judges
Himesh Reshammiya replaced Anu Malik[18]
Neha Kakkar
Vishal Dadlani
- Host
Aditya Narayan
Top 15 contestants + 2 wild card entries are:-
| Name | Hometown | Elimination | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunny Hindustani | Bathinda | Winner | 1st[19] |
| Rohit Shyam Raut | Latur | 1st Runner-up | 2nd |
| Ankona Mukherjee | Bankura | 2nd Runner-up | 3rd |
| Ridham Kalyan | Amritsar | 3rd Runner-up | 4th |
| Adriz Ghosh | Murshidabad | 4th Runner-up | 5th |
| Shahzaan Mujeeb | Aligarh | Eliminated | 6th |
| Rishabh Chaturvedi | Amritsar | Eliminated | 7th |
| Stuti Tiwari | New Delhi | Eliminated | 8th |
| Jannabi Das | New Delhi | Eliminated | 9th |
| Azmat Hussain | Jaipur | Eliminated | 10th |
| Chetna Bharadwaj | Ghaziabad | Eliminated | 11th |
| Kaivalya Kejkar | Nagpur | Eliminated | 12th |
| Shubhadeep Das | Kolkata | Eliminated | 13th |
| Nidhi Kumari | Jamshedpur | Eliminated | 14th |
| Chelsi Behura | Orissa | Eliminated | 15th |
| Pallav Singh | Ballia | Eliminated | 16th |
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.[20] Pawandeep Rajan was declared the winner of the season and Arunita Kanjilal became the 1st Runner-up.[21]
- Judges
Anu Malik
Sonu Kakkar
Himesh Reshammiya[22][23]
- Former judges
Although Dadlani, Neha Kakkar and Himesh Reshammiya were the original judges, when the shoot shifted out of Mumbai, then Dadlani, and Neha couldn't join and makers replaced them by Anu Malik and Sonu Kakkar.
- Host
- Former Hosts
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.
Top 15 contestants
| Name | Hometown | Result | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pawandeep Rajan | Champawat | Winner | 1st |
| Arunita Kanjilal | Kolkata | 1st Runner-up | 2nd |
| Sayli Kamble | Mumbai | 2nd Runner-up | 3rd |
| Mohd. Danish | Muzaffarnagar | 3rd Runner-up | 4th |
| Nihal Tauro | Mangalore | 4th Runner-up | 5th |
| Shanmukha Priya | Visakhapatnam | 5th Runner-up | 6th |
| Ashish Kulkarni | Pune | Eliminated | 7th |
| Sawai Bhatt | Nagaur | Eliminated | 8th |
| Anjali Gaikwad | Ahmednagar | Eliminated | 9th |
| Nachiket Lele | Kalyan | Eliminated | 10th |
| Sireesha Bhagavatula | Visakhapatnam | Eliminated | 11th |
| Anushka Banerjee | Chandigarh | Eliminated | 12th |
| Vaishnav Girish | Thrissur | Eliminated | 13th |
| Samyak Prasana | Delhi | Eliminated | 14th |
| Sahil Solanki | Hisar | Eliminated | 15th |
Controversy and credibility
Indian Idol show has been in the news for controversies. The contestants say that the work of increasing the TRP of the show is done by showing them the poor householder on TV.[24] The show is rumoured to be just a means of earning money and playing with the lives of talented contestants.[25] Playback singer and ex-judge of Indian Idol Sunidhi Chauhan and Kishore Kumar's son Amit Kumar revealed that they were asked to praise all the contestants irrespective of their opinions. They were told to not criticize any contestant even if they don't like his/her performance.[26] Singer-composer and ex-judge of Indian Idol Salim Merchant also revealed that he too was asked to praise contestants by the makers of a show.[27] Playback singer and winner of the first season of Indian Idol Abhijeet Sawant criticized the show for focusing on fake love stories and poverty instead of singing talent of its contestants.[28]
Notes
Replacement for 1 week in 2021,due to Narayan off.
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