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*Indian Idol*
Indian Idol
	File:Indian Idol 2012 logo.png Indian Idol logo as of 2012
Genre	Reality television
Created by	Simon Fuller
Directed by	Priya Bhave Sharma (2007–present); Monisha Jaising Vaid (2010–present); Partha Thakur (2010–present); Vishal Mull (2005–06); Niret Alva (2005–06); Nikhil J Alva (2005–06); Nivedith T Alva (2007); Bhavna Israni (2007–13); Indrajit Ray (2007); Satish Datt (2011–12); Ujjwal Anand (2012–13)
Presented by	Mini Mathur (2004–07, 2012); Hussain Kuwajerwala (2007–2015); Aman Verma (2004–06); Meiyang Chang (2008–09); Abhijeet Sawant (2010); Prajakta Shukre (2010); Asha Negi (2015); Karan Wahi (2013, 2017 (2018)); Manish Paul (2018); Aditya Narayan (2019-)
Judges	Anu Malik (2004-2018)(2019-); Sunidhi Chauhan (2010–2012); Salim Merchant (2010–2012); Asha Bhosle (2012); Farah Khan (2004–06, 2016–17); Sonu Nigam (2004–06, 2016–17); Alisha Chinai (2007); Udit Narayan (2007); Javed Akhtar (2007–09); Sonali Bendre (2008–09); Kailash Kher (2008–09); Sonakshi Sinha (2015); Shalmali Kholgade (2015); Vishal Dadlani (2013–2015, 2018,2019); Shekhar Ravjiani (2013); Shreya Ghoshal (2013); Neha Kakkar (2018-2019); Javed Ali (2018)
Theme music composer	Julian Gingell; Barry Stone; Cathy Dennis
Country of origin	India
Original languages	English; Hindi
No. of seasons	11 (10 since completed)
No. of episodes	250
Production
Executive producers	Anupama Mandloi (2010–present); Niret Alva (2005–09); Nikhil J Alva (2005–09)
Producers	Namit Sharma (2010–present); Ashok (2008–09)
Production locations	Initial auditions: Various; Mumbai auditions: National Centre of Performing Arts, Mumbai
Running time	Varies between 1 hour to 2 hours
Production companies	Wizcraft International Entertainment Pvt. Ltd. (2010–present); Fremantlemedia India; Miditech Pvt. Ltd. (2005–09)
Original release
Network	SET
Release	28 October 2004 –; present

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Indian Idol is the Indian version of the Pop Idol format that airs on Sony Entertainment Television since 2004.^[1] It started airing in India with the first season in 2004–2005 and was followed by second (2005–2006), third (2007), fourth (2008–2009), fifth (2010) and sixth season (2012). For the seventh and eight season Indian Idol Junior replaced the show before the original Indian Idol returned for 9th season in 2016^[2] and the 10th season in 2018. The 11th season in 2019 is going to be aired on Sony TV.

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	Sony TV	Aman Verma Mini Mathur	12	Sandeep Acharya	N. C. Karunya
3	2007	Sony TV	Hussain Kuwajerwala Mini Mathur	13	Prashant Tamang	Amit Paul
4	2008-09	Sony TV	Hussain Kuwajerwala Meiyang Chang	12	Sourabhee Debbarma	Kapil Thapa
5	2010	Sony TV	Hussain Kuwajerwala Abhijeet Sawant	13	Sreerama Chandra Mynampati	Rakesh Miami
6	2012	Sony TV	Hussain Kuwajerwala Mini Mathur	16	Vipul Mehta	Amit Kumar
Indian Idol Junior Season 1	2013	Sony TV	Karan Wahi Mandira Bedi	11	Anjana Padmanabhan	Debanjana Karmakar
Indian Idol Junior Season 2	2015	Sony TV	Hussain Kuwajerwala Asha Negi	13	Ananya Nanda	Nahid Afrin
9	2016-17	Sony TV	Karan Wahi Paritosh Tripathi	14	LV Revanth^[3]	Khuda Baksh
10	2018	Sony TV	Manish Paul	14	Salman Ali^[4]	Ankush Bhardwaj
11	2019	Sony TV	Aditya Narayan	14	TBA	TBA

Season 1

Judges

Anu Malik
Farah Khan
Sonu Nigam

Host

Aman Verma
Mini Mathur

Top 12 Contestants:-

Name	Hometown	Elimination
Abhijeet Sawant	Mumbai	Winner
Amit Sana	Bhilai	Runner-up
Rahul Vaidya	New Delhi	2nd Runner-up
Prajakta Shukre	New Delhi	3rd Runner-up
Ravinder Ravi	Ludhiana	Eliminated 8th
Aditi Paul	Chennai	Eliminated 7th
Mukesh Pancholi	Faridabad	Eliminated 6th
Harish Moyal	Itanagar	Eliminated 5th
Rahul Saxena	Ghaziabad	Eliminated 4th
Amit Tandon	Kolkata	Eliminated 3rd
Vishal Kothari	Kolkata	Eliminated 2nd
Priyanka Venkateshwara	Renukut	Eliminated 1st

Season 2

Judges

Anu Malik
Farah Khan
Sonu Nigam

Host

Mini Mathur

Top 12 Contestants:-

Name	Hometown	Elimination
Sandeep Acharya	Rajasthan	Winner
N. C. Karunya	Hyderabad	1st Runner-up
Anuj Sharma	Himachal Pradesh	2nd Runner-up
Amey Date	Mumbai	Eliminated 9th
Antara Mitra	West Bengal	Eliminated 8th
Meenal Jain	Indore	Eliminated 7th
Ravi K. Tripathi	Uttar Pradesh	Eliminated 6th
Panna Gill	Punjab	Eliminated 5th
Monali Thakur	Kolkata	Eliminated 4th
Neha Kakkar	Rishikesh	Eliminated 3rd
Yashashree Bhave	Satara	Eliminated 2nd
Sagar Sawarkar	Mumbai	Eliminated 1st

Season 3

Judges

Javed Akhtar
Anu Malik
Alisha Chinai
Udit Narayan

Host

Hussain Kuwajerwala
Mini Mathur

Top 13 Contestants:-

Name	Hometown	Elimination
Prashant Tamang	Darjeeling	Winner
Amit Paul	Shillong	1st Runner-up
Emon Chatterjee	Kolkata	2nd Runner-up
Ankita Mishra	New Delhi	3rd Runner-up
Meiyang Chang	Dhanbad	Eliminated 9th
Deepali Kishore	Patna	Eliminated 8th
Pooja Chatterjee	Dhanbad	Eliminated 7th
Abhishek Kumar	Mumbai	Eliminated 6th
Parleen Singh Gill	Ambala	Eliminated 5th
Charu Semwal	Dehradun	Eliminated 4th
Smita Adhikari	Kolkata	Eliminated 3rd
Jolly Das	Kolkata	Eliminated 2nd
Richa Aneja	Punjab	Eliminated 1st

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.

The fourth season saw Anu Malik and Javed Akhtar as judges once again. New to this season were singer Kailash Kher and Indian actress Sonali Bendre, while singer Alka Yagnik joined the panel for a few audition rounds. The fourth season was hosted by Hussain Kuwajerwala and former contestant Meiyang Chang.

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.^{[citation needed]}

Top Contestants of Season 4

Sourabhee Debbarama - Winner^[5]
Kapil Thapa - 1st Runner Up
Torsha Sarkar - 2nd Runner Up

Season 5

Judges

Anu Malik
Sunidhi Chauhan
Salim Merchant

Host

Abhijeet Sawant
Husain

Top 13 Contestants:-

Name	Hometown	Elimination
Sreerama Chandra Mynampati	Hyderabad	Winner
Rakesh Maini	Mumbai	1st Runner-up
Bhoomi Trivedi	Gujarat	2nd Runner-up
Swaroop Khan	Rajasthan	Eliminated 10th
Shivam Pathak	Gujarat	Eliminated 9th
Tia Kar	Mumbai	Eliminated 8th
Naushad Ali	Rajasthan	Eliminated 7th
Shashi Suman	Patna	Eliminated 6th
Arpita Khan	West Bengal	Eliminated 5th
Yashraj Kapil	Faridabad	Eliminated 4th
Manisha Karmakar	Kolkata	Eliminated 3rd
Meghna Kumar	Jhansi	Eliminated 2nd
Vishwas Rai	Allahabad	Eliminated 1st

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 who received the highest number of votes.^[6]^[7]^[8]

Mini Mathur and Hussain Kuwajerwala returned to host Season 6. The judges for this season were Anu Malik, Sunidhi Chauhan, and Salim Merchant. Asha Bhosle joined the judging panel after the audition rounds.

On 23 June 2012, the judges selected the top 16 contestants to perform in the Gala Rounds. These contestants were:

Name	Hometown	Elimination
Amit Kumar		Runner-up
Amitabh Narayan
Amrita Panda
Charit Dixit
Deeksha Piyush
Deepak Maher
Devender Pal Singh		Runner-up
Kaushik Deshpande
Kritika Tanwar
Poorvi Koutish	Chandigarh
Ravi Kumar Mishra
Ritika Raj
Saumya Mishra
Simran Kaur
Sohini Mishra
Vipul Mehta	Amritsar	Winner

Indian Idol Junior Season 1

Judges

Vishal Dadlani
Shreya Ghoshal
Shekhar Ravjiani

Host

Karan Wahi
Mandira Bedi

Top 11 Contestants

Name	Hometown	Elimination
Anjana Padmanabhan	Bengaluru	Winner
Debanjana Karmakar	Kolkata	1st Runner-up
Anmol Jaswal	Jammu Tawi	2nd Runner-up
Nirvesh Dave	Ahmedabad	3rd Runner-up
Akash Sharma	Harayana	Eliminated 7th
Aryan Das	Cuttack	Eliminated 6th
Sonakshi Kar	Kolkata	Eliminated 5th
Priyam Borpatragohain	Assam	Eliminated 4th
Eman Chaudhary	Assam	Eliminated 3rd
Sugandha Date	Nagpur	Eliminated 2nd
Sankalp Yaduwanshi	Moradabad	Eliminated 1st

Indian Idol Junior Season 2

Judges

Salim Merchant
Sonakshi Sinha
Vishal Dadlani

Host

Hussain Kuwajerwala
Asha Negi

Top 13 Contestants:-

Name	Hometown	Elimination
Ananya Nanda	Odisha	Winner
Nahid Afrin	Assam	1st Runner-up
Nithyashree Venkataramanan	Chennai	2nd Runner-up
Vaishnav Girish	Kerala	Eliminated 10th
Moti Khan	Rajasthan	Eliminated 9th
Niharika Nath	Agartala	Eliminated 8th
Ranita Banerjee	Kolkata	Eliminated 7th
Sreelakshmi Belmannu	Bangalore	Eliminated 6th
Ajay Brijwasi	Mathura	Eliminated 5th
Yumna Ajin	Kerala	Eliminated 4th
Surendra Singh Panwar	Rajasthan	Eliminated 3rd
Vidhi Jaswal	Jammu and Kashmir	Eliminated 2nd
Shubhankar	Kolkata	Eliminated 1st

Season 9

Judges

Anu Malik
Farah Khan
Sonu Nigam

Host

Karan Wahi
Paritosh Tripathi

Top 14 Contestants:-

Name	Hometown	Elimination
LV Revanth	Hyderabad	Winner^[9]
Khuda Baksh	Punjab	Runner-up^[10]
PVNS Rohit	Hyderabad	2nd Runner-up
Malvika Sunder	Chennai	Eliminated 11th
Mohit Chopra	New Delhi	Eliminated 10th
Manya Narang	New Delhi	Eliminated 9th
Hardeep Singh	Ludhiana	Eliminated 8th
R P Shravan	Chennai	Eliminated 7th
Tajinder Singh	Faridabad	Eliminated 6th
Jeli Kayi	Itanagar	Eliminated 5th
Bharti Gupta	Ghaziabad	Eliminated 4th
Mansi Bhardwaj	Kolkata	Eliminated 3rd
Stuti Tiwari	Kolkata	Eliminated 2nd
Saumya Mishra	Renukut	Eliminated 1st

Season 10

Judges

Anu Malik; later replaced by Javed Ali^[11]
Neha Kakkar
Vishal Dadlani

Host

Manish Paul

Top 14 Contestants:-

Name	Hometown	Elimination
Salman Ali	Mewat, Haryana	Winner^[12]
Ankush Bhardwaj	Shimla	Runner-up
Neelanjana Ray	Kolkata	2nd Runner-up
Nitin Kumar	Una	3rd Runner-up
Vibhor Parashar	New Delhi	4th Runner-up
Kunal Pandit	Mumbai	Eliminated 8th
Renu Nagar	Rajasthan	Eliminated 7th
Soumaya Chakrabotty	Kolkata	Eliminated 6th
Avanti Patel	Mumbai	Eliminated 5th
Sourabh Valmiki	Lakhimpur	Eliminated 4th
Biswajit Mohapatra	Orissa	Eliminated 4th
Krishnakali Saha	Tripura	Eliminated 3rd
Indira Das	Kolkata	Eliminated 2nd
Sonia Gazmer	Kolkata	Eliminated 1st

Season 11

The eleventh season started to air from 12 October 2019 on Sony TV. It will be hosted by singer Aditya Narayan.^[13] Neha Kakkar is scheduled to return as one of the judges along with Vishal Dadlani and Anu Malik, who came back to the show as a judge after his suspension from the judge panel for Me Too allegations.^[14] ^[15] Malik's return was condemned by several singers and supported by others, including host Aditya Narayan.^[16]^[17]

Judges

Anu Malik; later replaced by Himesh Reshammiya
Vishal Dadlani
Neha Kakkar

Host

Aditya Narayan

Top 15 contestant are:-

Name	Hometown	Elimination
Rishabh Chaturvedi	Amritsar, Punjab
Chetna Bhardawaj	Ghaziabad
Adriz Ghosh	Kolkata
Jannabi Das	New Delhi
Sunny Hindustani	Punjab
Shahzaan Mujeeb	Aligarh
Ridham Kalyan	Amritsar, Punjab
Azmat Hussain	Jaipur
Rohit Raut	Maharashtra
Kaivalya Kejkar	Nagpur	Eliminated 17th
Shubadeep Das	Kolkata	Eliminated 5th
Stuti Tiwari	New Delhi	Eliminated 4th
Nidhi Kumari	Jamshedpur	Eliminated 3rd
Chelsi Behura	Orissa	Eliminated 2nd
Pallav Singh	Ballia	Eliminated 1st

The Show is telecated On SET.

References

^ "Making of an Idol". India Today. 28 February 2005. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
^ "Delhi's talent leaves 'Indian Idol Junior' judges 'amazed'". 15 April 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
^ "Indian Idol 9: LV Revanth is the winner of the reality show - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
^ "Indian Idol 10 winner: Haryana's Salman Ali bags the trophy - Times of India ►". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
^ "Indian Idol Season 4 (Contestants Name + Winner + Judges)". 30 December 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2018.
^ PTI (2 September 2012). "Vipul Mehta wins Indian Idol 6". The Times of India. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
^ "Vipul Mehta wins 'Indian Idol 6'". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 28 October 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
^ "Punjabi boy Vipul Mehta wins Indian Idol 6". Retrieved 7 August 2015.
^ "LV Revanth is the winner of Indian Idol 9. See poll". The Indian Express. 1 April 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
^ "Indian Idol Season 9: Finalist Khuda Baksh's journey on the show - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
^ "Anu Malik confirms stepping down as 'Indian Idol' judge - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
^ "Indian Idol 10 winner Salman Ali says he will fix his house's broken roof with Rs 25 lakh prize money". Hindustan Times. 24 December 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
^ "Singer Aditya Narayan to host 'Indian Idol 11'". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
^ "Indian Idol: On popular demand, singer Neha Kakkar returns as a judge - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
^ "Indian Idol Season 11: This season competition is very tough judges had a lot of difficulty in choosing the contestant this season. The winner of this season was Sunny. - Turbo Tv". Turbo Tv. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
^ "Indian Idol 11: Anu Malik is very much a part of the show; not going anywhere". 6 November 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.
^ "Aditya Narayan defends #MeToo named Anu Malik on return to Indian Idol: He has been nice to me". 24 September 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.

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[season1-1] "Making of an Idol". India Today. 28 February 2005. Retrieved 14 March 2018.

[2] "Delhi's talent leaves 'Indian Idol Junior' judges 'amazed'". 15 April 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2018.

[3] "Indian Idol 9: LV Revanth is the winner of the reality show - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 August 2019.

[4] "Indian Idol 10 winner: Haryana's Salman Ali bags the trophy - Times of India ►". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 August 2019.

[5] "Indian Idol Season 4 (Contestants Name + Winner + Judges)". 30 December 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2018.

[6] PTI (2 September 2012). "Vipul Mehta wins Indian Idol 6". The Times of India. Retrieved 4 October 2018.

[7] "Vipul Mehta wins 'Indian Idol 6'". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 28 October 2012. Retrieved 7 August 2015.

[8] "Punjabi boy Vipul Mehta wins Indian Idol 6". Retrieved 7 August 2015.

[9] "LV Revanth is the winner of Indian Idol 9. See poll". The Indian Express. 1 April 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2019.

[10] "Indian Idol Season 9: Finalist Khuda Baksh's journey on the show - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 August 2019.

[11] "Anu Malik confirms stepping down as 'Indian Idol' judge - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 August 2019.

[12] "Indian Idol 10 winner Salman Ali says he will fix his house's broken roof with Rs 25 lakh prize money". Hindustan Times. 24 December 2018. Retrieved 27 August 2019.

[13] "Singer Aditya Narayan to host 'Indian Idol 11'". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 27 August 2019.

[14] "Indian Idol: On popular demand, singer Neha Kakkar returns as a judge - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 27 August 2019.

[15] "Indian Idol Season 11: This season competition is very tough judges had a lot of difficulty in choosing the contestant this season. The winner of this season was Sunny. - Turbo Tv". Turbo Tv. Retrieved 12 October 2019.

[16] "Indian Idol 11: Anu Malik is very much a part of the show; not going anywhere". 6 November 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.

[17] "Aditya Narayan defends #MeToo named Anu Malik on return to Indian Idol: He has been nice to me". 24 September 2019. Retrieved 15 November 2019.

[18] Malik was replaced by Javed Ali in Season 10 and by Himesh Reshammiya in Season 11

[19] Neha was replaced by Sonu Kakkar in Season 12

[20] Dadlani was replaced by Anu Malik in Season 12

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v t e Indian Idol
Seasons	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
Winners	Abhijeet Sawant Sandeep Acharya Prashant Tamang Sourabhee Debbarma Sreerama Chandra Vipul Mehta L. V. Revanth Salman Ali Sunny Hindustani
1st runners-up	Amit Sana N. C. Karunya Amit Paul Kapil Thapa Bhoomi Trivedi & Rakesh Maini Amit Kumar & Devender Pal Singh Khuda Baksh Rohit Raut
Judges	Anu Malik (Season 1–6; 9-12)^[a] Farah Khan (Season 1, 2, 9) Sonu Nigam (Season 1, 2, 9) Javed Akhtar (Season 3, 4) Alisha Chinai (Season 3) Udit Narayan (Season 3) Sonali Bendre (Season 4) Kailash Kher (Season 4) Sunidhi Chauhan (Season 5, 6) Salim Merchant (Season 5, 6) Asha Bhonsle (Season 6) Javed Ali (Season 10) Neha Kakkar (Season 10–12)^[b] Vishal Dadlani (Season 10–12)^[c] Himesh Reshammiya (Season 11–12) Sonu Kakkar (Season 12)
Related articles	Indian Idol Junior Idols series Asian Idol
^ Malik was replaced by Javed Ali in Season 10 and by Himesh Reshammiya in Season 11 ^ Neha was replaced by Sonu Kakkar in Season 12 ^ Dadlani was replaced by Anu Malik in Season 12

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