| Indian Idol | |
|---|---|
| Created by | Simon Fuller |
| Years | 2004–present |
| Films and television | |
| Television series | |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Languages | |
| 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 | 18 |
| Original network | Culver Max Entertainment (Hindi, Marathi) Aha (Telugu) |
Indian Idol is an Indian music competition television franchise based on the Pop Idol format. Several iterations of the series have been produced by different companies. The first series premiered in 2004. There have been 18 seasons to date.
Versions
- Currently airing – 0
- Recently concluded – 3
| Language | Show | Season | Year | Host | Judges | Network | Premiere | Finale | Contestants | Winner | Runner up | |||
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| Hindi | Indian Idol | 1 | 2004–05 | Aman Verma
Mini Mathur |
Anu Malik | Farah Khan | Sonu Nigam | SET | 30 October 2004 | 5 March 2005 | 12 | Abhijeet Sawant | Amit Sana | |
| 2 | 2005–06 | 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 | 19 September 2008 | 1 March 2009 | 12 | Sourabhee Debbarma | Kapil Thapa | |||||
| 5 | 2010 | Hussain Kuwajerwala
Abhijeet Sawant |
Sunidhi Chauhan | Salim Merchant | 13 | Sreerama Chandra | Bhoomi Trivedi | |||||||
| 6 | 2012 | Hussain Kuwajerwala
Mini Mathur |
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 | 1 June 2013 | 11 | Anjana Padmanabhan | Debanjana Karmakar | ||||
| 8 | 2015 | Hussain Kuwajerwala
Asha Negi |
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 | Vishal Dadlani | Neha Kakkar | 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 | 2023–24 | Hussain Kuwajerwala | Shreya Ghoshal | Kumar Sanu | 7 October 2023 | 3 March 2024 | 15 | Vaibhav Gupta | Subhadeep Das Chowdhury | |||||
| 15 | 2024-25 | Aditya Narayan | Badshah | 26 October
2024 |
16 | |||||||||
| Marathi | Indian Idol Marathi | 1 | 2021–22 | Swanandi Tikekar
Prajakta Mali |
Ajay–Atul | None | Sony Marathi | 22 November 2021 | 20 April 2022 | 15 | Sagar Mhatre | Jagdish Chavan | ||
| Telugu | Telugu Indian Idol | 1 | 2022 | Sreerama Chandra | Thaman S | Karthik | Nithya Menen | Aha | 25 February 2022 | 17 June 2022 | 12 | BVK Vagdevi | Srinivas Darimisetty | |
| 2 | 2023 | Hemachandra | Geetha Madhuri | 3 March 2023 | 4 June 2023 | 13 | Soujanya Bhagavatula | Jayaram | ||||||
| 3 | 2024 | Sreerama Chandra | 14 June 2024 | 21 September 2024 | Nazeeruddin Shaik | Aniruddh Suswaram | ||||||||
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.
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