Indian Idol

Indian Idol
Indian Idol
Created by	Simon Fuller
Years	2004–present
Films and television
Television series	Indian Idol; Indian Idol Marathi; Telugu Indian Idol;
Miscellaneous
Languages	Hindi; Marathi; Telugu;
Produced by	Fremantle; ARSenic's Business Empire (2010–present); Miditech (2005–2009); Optimystix Entertainment (2004-2005)
Based on	Pop Idol
No.of Versions	4
No.of Seasons	16
Original network	Culver Max Entertainment; (Hindi, Marathi); Aha; (Telugu)

Indian Idol is the Indian music competition television franchise based on the Pop Idol format.^[1]

Its production takes place in Mumbai, Maharashtra.^{[citation needed]}

Versions

Currently airing – 1

Upcoming for airing – 1

Recently concluded – 1

No longer airing – 1

Language	Show	Season	Year	Host	Judges				Network	Premiere	Finale	Episodes	Contestants	Winner	Runner up
Language	Show	Season	Year	Host	1	2	3	4	Network	Premiere	Finale	Episodes	Contestants	Winner	Runner up
Hindi	Indian Idol	1	2004–05	Aman Verma Mini Mathur	Anu Malik	Farah Khan	Sonu Nigam	None	SET	30 October 2004	5 March 2005		12	Abhijeet Sawant	Amit Sana
		2	2005–06	Aman Verma Mini Mathur		Farah Khan	Sonu Nigam	None					12	Sandeep Acharya	N. C. Karunya
		3	2007	Hussain Kuwajerwala Mini Mathur		Udit Narayan	Alisha Chinai	Javed Akhtar					13	Prashant Tamang	Amit Paul
		4	2008–09	Hussain Kuwajerwala Meiyang Chang		Sonali Bendre	Kailash Kher	Javed Akhtar		19 September 2008	1 March 2009		12	Sourabhee Debbarma	Kapil Thapa
		5	2010	Hussain Kuwajerwala Abhijeet Sawant		Sunidhi Chauhan	Salim Merchant	None					13	Sreerama Chandra	Bhoomi Trivedi
		6	2012	Hussain Kuwajerwala Mini Mathur		Sunidhi Chauhan	Salim Merchant	Asha Bhosle		1 June 2012	1 September 2012		16	Vipul Mehta	Amit Kumar
	Indian Idol Junior	7	2013	Karan Wahi Mandira Bedi	Vishal Dadlani	Shreya Ghoshal	Shekhar Ravjiani	None		1 June 2013			11	Anjana Padmanabhan	Debanjana Karmakar
	Indian Idol Junior	8	2015	Hussain Kuwajerwala Asha Negi	Vishal Dadlani	Salim Merchant	Sonakshi Sinha			30 May 2015	6 September 2015		13	Ananya Nanda	Nahid Afrin
	Indian Idol	9	2016–17	Karan Wahi Paritosh Tripathi	Anu Malik	Farah Khan	Sonu Nigam						14	L. V. Revanth	Khuda Baksh
		10	2018	Manish Paul		Vishal Dadlani	Neha Kakkar	Javed Ali					14	Salman Ali	Ankush Bhardwaj
		11	2019	Aditya Narayan				Himesh Reshammiya		12 October 2019			17	Sunny Hindustani	Rohit Shyam Raut
		12	2020–21		None					28 November 2020	15 August 2021		15	Pawandeep Rajan	Arunita Kanjilal
		13	2022–23							10 September 2022	2 April 2023		15	Rishi Singh	Deboshmita Roy
		14	2023	~~Hussain Kuwajerwala~~ ~~Aditya Narayan~~ Hussain Kuwajerwala			Shreya Ghoshal	Kumar Sanu		7 October 2023				TBA	TBA

Marathi	Indian Idol Marathi	1	2021–22	Swanandi Tikekar Prajakta Mali	Ajay–Atul	None			Sony Marathi	22 November 2021	20 April 2022	56	15	Sagar Mhatre	Jagdish Chavan

Telugu	Telugu Indian Idol	1	2022	Sreerama Chandra	Thaman S	Karthik	Nithya Menen	None	Aha	25 February 2022	17 June 2022	31	12	BVK Vagdevi	Srinivas Darimisetty
Telugu	Telugu Indian Idol	2	2023	Hemachandra	Thaman S	Karthik	Geetha Madhuri	None	Aha	3 March 2023	TBA	TBA	12	Soujanya Bhagavatula	Jayaram

References

^ Beaster-Jones, Jayson; Sarrazin, Natalie (4 October 2016). Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity. Taylor & Francis. pp. 76–90. ISBN 978-1-317-39970-4.

[1] Beaster-Jones, Jayson; Sarrazin, Natalie (4 October 2016). Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity. Taylor & Francis. pp. 76–90. ISBN 978-1-317-39970-4.

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