Indian Idol (Hindi TV series)

Indian Idol
Genre	Reality television
Created by	Simon Fuller
Based on	Pop Idol
Directed by	Vandy Monisha Jaising Vaid Partha Thakur Vishal Mull Niret Alva Nikhil J Alva Nivedith T Alva Bhavna Israni Indrajit Ray Satish Datt Ujjwal Anand
Presented by	Mini Mathur Hussain Kuwajerwala Aman Verma Meiyang Chang Abhijeet Sawant Prajakta Shukre Asha Negi Karan Wahi Paritosh Tripathi Manish Paul Jay Bhanushali Aditya Narayan Bharti Singh Haarsh Limbachiyaa Rithvik Dhanjani
Judges	Shreya Ghoshal Anu Malik Salim Merchant Asha Bhosle Farah Khan Sonu Nigam Alisha Chinai Udit Narayan Javed Akhtar Sonali Bendre Kailash Kher Sonakshi Sinha Shalmali Kholgade Sunidhi Chauhan Shekhar Ravjiani Vishal Dadlani Neha Kakkar Javed Ali Himesh Reshammiya Manoj Muntashir Sonu Kakkar Kumar Sanu
Theme music composer	Julian Gingell Barry Stone Cathy Dennis
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	14
No. of episodes	317
Production
Executive producers	Anupama Mandloi (2010–present) Niret Alva (2005–2009) Nikhil J Alva (2005–2009)
Producers	Namit Sharma (2010–present) Ashok (2008–09)
Cinematography	Surindra Rao
Editor	Kumar Priyadarshi (2007, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
Camera setup	Nitesh Choudhary
Production companies	ARSenic's Business Empire (2010–present) Fremantle Media India Miditech Pvt. Ltd. (2005–2009) Optimystix Entertainment (2004–2005)
Original release
Network	Sony Entertainment Television
Release	30 October 2004 (2004-10-30) – present

Indian Idol is an Indian Hindi-language singing reality show of Sony TV. It is an Indian version of the British show Pop Idol and is part of Indian Idol series. It has aired on Sony Entertainment Television since 2004. Originally produced by Miditech Studios and its iconic producer-brothers, Niret Alva, Nikhil J Alva and Nivedith Alva, the series was an instant success when it launched. The brothers produced the first 5 seasons of the series and were instrumental in laying the foundation for its future success.

Indian Idol's production and taping take place in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It broadcasts on Saturdays and Sundays and digitally airs on SonyLIV application.

Season 13 was the most recent edition of the show, with Himesh Reshammiya and Vishal Dadlani being the judges, while one or two guest judges related to Hindi films appeared every week. The season was won by Rishi Singh of Ayodhya.

Host and Judges

Season	Host		Main Judge
	1	2	1	2	3	4
1	Aman Verma	Mini Mathur	Anu Malik	Farah Khan	Sonu Nigam	—
2	Hussain Kuwajerwala
3				Alisha Chinai	Javed Akhtar	Udit Narayan
4		Meiyang Chang		Sonali Bendre		Kailash Kher
5		Abhijeet Sawant		Sunidhi Chauhan	Salim Merchant
6		Mini Mathur				Asha Bhosle
IIJ 1 (7)		Mandira Bedi	Vishal Dadlani	Shekhar Ravjiani	Shreya Ghoshal	—
IIJ 2 (8)	Hussain Kuwajerwala	Asha Negi		Shalmali Kholgade	Salim Merchant
9	Karan Wahi	Paritosh Tripathi	Anu Malik	Farah Khan	Sonu Nigam
10	Manish Paul	—		Vishal Dadlani	Neha Kakkar
11	Aditya Narayan
12			Himesh Reshammiya
13
14	Hussain Kuwajerwala		Kumar Sanu		Shreya Ghoshal

Summary

Season	Year	Judges				Network	Contestants	Winner	Runner-up
1	2004–05	Anu Malik	Farah Khan	Sonu Nigam		Sony TV	12	Abhijeet Sawant	Amit Sana
2	2005–06							Sandeep Acharya	N. C. Karunya
3	2007		Alisha Chinai	Javed Akhtar	Udit Narayan		13	Prashant Tamang	Amit Paul
4	2008–09		Sonali Bendre		Kailash Kher		12	Sourabhee Debbarma	Kapil Thapa
5	2010		Sunidhi Chauhan	Salim Merchant			13	Sreerama Chandra Mynampati	Bhoomi Trivedi
									Rakesh Maini
6	2012				Asha Bhosle		16	Vipul Mehta	Devender Pal Singh
									Amit Kumar
IIJ S1	2013	Vishal Dadlani	Shekhar Ravjiani	Shreya Ghoshal			11	Anjana Padmanabhan	Debanjana Karmakar
IIJ S2	2015		Shalmali Kholgade	Salim Merchant			13	Ananya Nanda	Nahid Afrin
			Sonakshi Sinha
9	2016–17	Anu Malik	Farah Khan	Sonu Nigam			14	L. V. Revanth	Khuda Baksh
									Rohit Paritala
10	2018	Anu Malik	Vishal Dadlani	Neha Kakkar				Salman Ali	Ankush Bhardwaj
		Javed Ali
11	2019	Anu Malik					17	Sunny Hindustani	Rohit Shyam Raut
		Himesh Reshammiya
12	2020-2021		Vishal Dadlani	Neha Kakkar			15	Pawandeep Rajan	Arunita Kanjilal
			Anu Malik	Sonu Kakkar
13	2022-2023		Vishal Dadlani					Rishi Singh	Deboshmita Roy
14	2023	Kumar Sanu		Shreya Ghoshal

Season 1

• Judges

Anu Malik

Farah Khan

Sonu Nigam

• Host

Aman Verma

Mini Mathur

Top 12 Contestants

Name	Age	Hometown	Result	Place
Abhijeet Sawant	23	Mumbai	Winner	1st
Amit Sana	21	Bhilai	1st Runner-up	2nd
Rahul Vaidya	17	Nagpur	2nd Runner-up	3rd
Prajakta Shukre	16	Jabalpur	3rd Runner-up	4th
Ravinder Ravi	29	Ludhiana	Eliminated	5th
Aditi Paul	25	Chennai	Eliminated	6th
Mukesh Pancholi	26	Faridabad	Eliminated	7th
Harish Moyal	26	Itanagar	Eliminated	8th
Rahul Saxena	22	Ghaziabad	Eliminated	9th
Amit Tandon	25	Kolkata	Eliminated	10th
Vishal Kothari	21	Mumbai	Eliminated	11th
Priyanka Venkateswar	17	Mumbai	Quit	12th

Season 2

• Judges

Anu Malik

Farah Khan

Sonu Nigam

• Host

Mini Mathur Aman Verma

Top 12 Contestants

Name	Age	Hometown	Result	Place
Sandeep Acharya	21	Bikaner	Winner	1st
N. C. Karunya	19	Hyderabad	1st Runner-up	2nd
Anuj Sharma	29	Himachal Pradesh	2nd Runner-up	3rd
Ameya Date	26	Mumbai	Eliminated	4th
Antara Mitra	18	West Bengal	Eliminated	5th
Meenal Jain	20	Indore	Eliminated	6th
Ravi K. Tripathi	29	Uttar Pradesh	Eliminated	7th
Panna Gill	24	Punjab	Eliminated	8th
Monali Thakur	20	Kolkata	Eliminated	9th
Neha Kakkar	17	Rishikesh	Eliminated	10th
Yashashree Bhave	24	Satara	Eliminated	11th
Sagar Sawarkar	20	Mumbai	Eliminated	12th

Season 3

• Judges

Javed Akhtar

Anu Malik

Alisha Chinai

Udit Narayan

• Host

Hussain Kuwajerwala

Mini Mathur

Top 13 Contestants

Name	Age	Hometown	Result	Place
Prashant Tamang	24	Darjeeling	Winner	1st
Amit Paul	24	Shillong	1st Runner-up	2nd
Emon Chatterjee	17	Kolkata	Eliminated	3rd
Ankita Mishra	17	Kanpur	Eliminated	4th
Meiyang Chang	24	Dhanbad	Eliminated	5th
Pooja Chatterjee	18	Dhanbad	Eliminated	6th
Deepali Kishore	18	Patna	Eliminated	7th
Abhishek Kumar	20	Mumbai	Eliminated	8th
Parleen Singh Gill	19	Ambala	Eliminated	9th
Charu Semwal	19	Dehradun	Eliminated	10th
Smita Adhikari	24	Kolkata	Eliminated	11th
Jolly Das	25	Kolkata	Eliminated	12th
Richa Aneja	17	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.

• 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
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
Gautam Mrinal	Jamui	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	Finalist	2nd
Rakesh Maini	Mumbai	Finalist
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.

• 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	Amritsar	Finalist	2nd
Devender Pal Singh	Ludhiana	Finalist
Amitabh Narayan		Eliminated	4th
Sohini Mishra	Cuttack	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	Patna	Eliminated	13th
Saumya Mishra		Eliminated	14th
Simran Kaur	Punjab	Eliminated	15th
Amrita panda	Cuttack	Eliminated	16th

Indian Idol Junior Season 1

• Judges

Vishal Dadlani

Shreya Ghoshal

Shekhar Ravjiani

• Host

Karan Wahi

Mandira Bedi

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
Sugandha Date	Nagpur	Eliminated	5th
Sonakshi Kar	Kolkata	Eliminated	6th
Priyam Borpatragohain	Assam	Eliminated	7th
Akash Sharma	Haryana	Eliminated	8th
Sankalp Yaduwanshi	Moradabad	Eliminated	9th
Eman Chaudhary	Assam	Eliminated	10th
Aryan Das	Cuttack	Eliminated	11th

Indian Idol Junior Season 2

Indian Idol Junior Season 2 started on 30 May 2015 and finished on 6 September 2015.

• Judges

Salim Merchant

Sonakshi Sinha replaced Shalmali Kholgade

Vishal Dadlani

• Host

Hussain Kuwajerwala

Asha Negi

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
Vaishnav Girish	Thrissur	Eliminated	4th
Moti Khan	Rajasthan	Eliminated	5th
Niharika Nath	Agartala	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

Anu Malik

Farah Khan

Sonu Nigam

• Host

Karan Wahi

Paritosh Tripathi

Top 14 Contestants

Name	Hometown	Result	Place
L. V. Revanth	Visakhapatnam	Winner	1st
Khuda Baksh	Punjab	1st Runner-up	2nd
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

Season 10

• Judges

Javed Ali replaced Anu Malik

Neha Kakkar

Vishal Dadlani

• Host

Manish Paul

Top 14 Contestants

Name	Hometown	Result	Place
Salman Ali	Mewat	Winner	1st
Ankush Bhardwaj	Kotgarh	1st Runner-up	2nd
Neelanjana Ray	Alipurduar	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 Kheri	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. 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.

• Judges

Himesh Reshammiya replaced Anu Malik

Neha Kakkar

Vishal Dadlani

• Host

Aditya Narayan

Top 16 contestants

Name	Hometown	Elimination	Place
Sunny Hindustani	Bathinda	Winner	1st
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
Subhadeep Das Chowdhury	Kolkata	Eliminated	13th
Pallav Singh	Ballia	Eliminated	14th
Nidhi Kumari	Jamshedpur	Eliminated	15th
Chelsi Behura	Orissa	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. Pawandeep Rajan was declared the winner of the season and Arunita Kanjilal became the 1st Runner-up. This was the longest running season of Indian Idol.

• Judges

Anu Malik

Sonu Kakkar

Himesh Reshammiya

• Former judges

Vishal Dadlani

Neha Kakkar

Although Vishal Dadlani, Neha Kakkar and Himesh Reshammiya were the original judges, when the shoot shifted out of Mumbai, then Vishal Dadlani, and Neha Kakkar couldn't join and makers replaced them by Anu Malik and Sonu Kakkar.

• Host

Aditya Narayan

• 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.

The judges have decided to do a power play for 9 weeks and let the audience decide who they want to see in the Top 8. Elimination will happen after the 9 weeks of power play. This season was extended because the contestants have given so much love and entertainment to the audience in the COVID pandemic. The 9 weeks of power play were completed and Anjali Gaikwad got eliminated.

Top 15 contestants

Name	Hometown	Result	Standing
Pawandeep Rajan	Uttarkhand	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

Season 13

The Ground Auditions started in July 2022. The show started on 10 September 2022. The finale was held on April 2, 2023, with Rishi Singh being declared as the winner of the season along with Deboshmita Roy as the 1st runner up.

• Judges

Himesh Reshammiya

Vishal Dadlani

• Host

Aditya Narayan

• Former Judge

Neha Kakkar

• Guest Hosts

Haarsh Limbachiyaa

Bharti Singh

Top 15 Contestants

The judges have decided to do a power play for 4 weeks and let the audience decide who they want to see in the Top 7. Elimination will happen after the 4 weeks of power play. The 4 weeks of power play were completed and Navdeep Wadali got eliminated on February 26, 2023. The last contestant who got eliminated from the show was Senjuti Das on March 25, 2023, leaving the top 6 finalists to compete for the Indian Idol trophy.

Name	Hometown	Result	Place
Rishi Singh	Ayodhya	Winner	1st
Deboshmita Roy	Kolkata	1st Runner-up	2nd
Chirag Kotwal	Jammu & Kashmir	2nd Runner-up	3rd
Bidipta Chakraborty	Kolkata	3rd Runner-up	4th
Shivam Singh	Vadodara	4th Runner-up	5th
Sonakshi Kar	Kolkata	5th Runner-up	6th
Senjuti Das	Kolkata	Eliminated	7th
Navdeep Wadali	Amritsar	Eliminated	8th
Kavya Limaye	Vadodara	Eliminated	9th
Vineet Singh	Lucknow	Eliminated	10th
Anushka Patra	Kolkata	Eliminated	11th
Rupam Bharnarhia	Amritsar	Eliminated	12th
Sanchari Sengupta	Kolkata	Eliminated	13th
Pritam Roy	Kolkata	Eliminated	14th
Shagun Pathak	Jharkhand	Eliminated	15th

Season 14

Main article: Indian Idol (season 14)

Theme of this season is Ek Awaz Lakhon Ehsaas (lit. One Voice, Million Emotion).

• Host

Hussain Kuwajerwala

• Judges

Kumar Sanu

Shreya Ghoshal

Vishal Dadlani

Top 15 Contestants

Indian Idol 14 is a popular Indian singing reality show that features a diverse and talented group of contestants from across India. These contestants come from various backgrounds, cultures, and musical genres, showcasing their exceptional vocal abilities and passion for singing. As they compete week after week, they aim to win the hearts of both the judges and the viewers with their outstanding performances. The show starts from October 7, 2023 at 08:00PM IST.

Name	Hometown	Result	Place
Subhadeep Das	Mumbai
Muskan Srivastava	Ghaziabad
Maithili Shome
Anjana Padhmanabhan	Bengaluru
Surender Kumar	Rajasthan
Utkarsh Wankhede	Nagpur
Dipan Mitra	Kolkata
Gayathry Rajiv	Kochi
Piyush Panwar
Mahima Bhattacharjee	Kolkata
Ananya Pal	Kolkata
Vaibhav Gupta	Kanpur
Menuka Poudel	Nepal
Obom Tangu	Arunachal Pradesh
Adya Mishra	Faridabad

Criticism

Sunidhi Chauhan who judged this show's seasons 5 and 6, in her interview with Vicky Lalwani of The Economic Times youtube channel revealed that this show's makers asked her and other judges to praise every contestant. According to Lalwani since 2022, judges of Indian Idol do not give critical comments or point out flaws in singing after a contestant performed, and they praise everyone, and the audience also gets confused. In 2021, Amit Kumar also expressed the same thing after he appeared as a guest judge, he said that the makers of Indian Idol specifically told him while filming that you have to praise every contestant and not criticize. In 2018, a participant Nishant Kaushik revealed on Twitter the suffering and ill-treatment of the people who come for the auditions of this show. He expressed his experience with his Indian Idol audition. He elaborated that, he participated in the 2012 Indian Idol audition, people of this show do not give any service to the participants, and contestants kept standing with no access to food, drinking water, or toilet. Former host of Indian idol Mini Mathur in response to this tweet thread wrote these kinds of things happened in Indian reality shows, that is why she quit doing work in them. In 2021 many fans alleged the show for showing scripted stories to gain TRP. In the season fans expressed on social media that the love angle of Pawandeep Rajan and Arunita Kanjilal was fake, and makers are deliberately trying to show the love angle. The show frequently alleged of showing fake emotional, drama and sob stories of the contestants. Amid the 12th season viewers slammed makers for altering the performance of Pawandeep Rajan. In one of the season the makers scripted fake love story between show's judge Neha Kakkar and host Aditya Narayan, the latter's father Udit Narayan even came to fix his relationship with Kakkar, some of the audience felt this real but at the end, it was revealed to be fake.