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MasterChef India – Hindi
Season 7
Judges	Vikas Khanna Ranveer Brar Garima Arora
No. of days	65
No. of contestants	16
Winner	Nayanjyoti Saikia
Runner-up	Shanta Sarmah
No. of episodes	70
Release
Original network	Sony Entertainment Television
Original release	2 January (2023-01-02) – 8 April 2023 (2023-04-08)
Season chronology
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Season 7 of the Indian Hindi-language competitive reality TV series MasterChef India – Hindi premiered on Sony Entertainment Television on 2 January 2023. The winner of this season was Nayanjyoti Saikia and the runner-up was Santa Sarmah.

Vikas Khanna and Ranveer Brar returned as one of the judges for the show while Vineet Bhatia was replaced by Garima Arora.

This season marked Khanna's sixth consecutive season serving as a judge on the show and Brar's third season. Similar to the past seasons, Amul remained the title sponsor of the show. The Masterchef India season 7 was announced on 14 August 2022 on Sony Entertainment Television channel and audition rounds were conducted in 4 cities across the country- Kolkata (24 September), Delhi (1 October), Hyderabad (8 October) and Mumbai (15 October). The shown ended with grand finale on 31 March 2023. The winner was Nayanjyoti Saikia, a student from Tinsukia, Assam and got the prize money of ₹25,00,000 while the first runner-up was Santa Sarmah, a homemaker from Guwahati and second runner-up was Suvarna Bagul, a homemaker from Mumbai, both got the prize money of ₹5,00,000.

Masterchef India-Masterclass- an extension of the show, featuring the same contestants and judges as 7th season but instead the judges will cook for the contestants, teaching them skills and recipes started on 2 April 2023 and ended on 8 April 2023.

Top 16

A large number of home cooks appeared at the nationwide auditions, of which 36 cooks were selected by MasterChef India judges and welcomed at the MasterChef Kitchen. They competed in a cook-off to win the final 16 spots. The top 16 contestants were revealed on 6 January 2023.

Elimination Table

  (WINNER) The cook won the competition.

  (RUNNER-UPS) The cooks finished in the second and third place.

  (WIN) The cook won the Mystery Box challenge, or any other individual / pair challenge.

  (WIN) The cook was on the winning team in the Team Challenge and directly advanced to the next round.

  (TOP) The cook was one of the top entries in the individual challenge.

  (IMN) The cook won an Immunity Pin in a given challenge.

  (IMM) The cook didn't participate in the challenge as he/she already advanced to the next week.

  (IN) The cook wasn't selected as a top or bottom entry in an individual / pair challenge.

  (PT) The cook competed in the Pressure Test in elimination round, and advanced.

  (LOW) The cook was on the losing team in the Team Challenge.

  (LOW) The cook was one of the bottom entries in an individual challenge.

  (BTM) The cook was one of the bottom entries in an individual challenge and had to compete in the upcoming elimination challenge.

  (NOT) This cook did not participate in the challenge(s) as he/she had won Ticket to Finale or was disqualified.

  (WDR) The cook withdraw from the MasterChef Kitchen.

  (ELIM) The cook was eliminated from the MasterChef Kitchen.

  (VIS) The cook returned to MasterChef Kitchen as Visitor Appearance and participated in a challenge.

1. Avinash and Suvarna were given the black aprons after the challenge due to being the weakest contestants.
2. Even though she won the previous challenge, Suvarna had to compete in this challenge and did not advance for next week because of previously having the black apron.
3. Aruna used her previously won Immunity Pin to spare herself from the elimination challenge in this episode.

Controversies

The season was marked by a series of controversies, including:

• The season first landed in controversy when home cook Aruna Vijay, who is a vegetarian, was allowed to cook paneer as a substitute for fish. Audience termed this move as biasedness and favoritism towards Aruna.
• Homecook Aruna Vijay's dish was selected in Top 3, wherein she had made "Appam Stew". Netizens alleged that it was a 'plain looking' dish and saw this as an act of biasedness and how it appeared as though the show was fixed.

Episodes

References

1. Devnath, Aparupa (2 January 2023). "MasterChef India Season 7: When & where to watch Vikas Khanna, Ranveer Brar's cooking reality show". www.indiatvnews.com. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
2. "MasterChef India winner is Nayanjyoti Saikia from Assam!". India Today.
3. "MasterChef India Season 7 to air tonight on Sony Entertainment Television and SonyLIV". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
4. "'Sindhi home cook from Chennai Deepa Chauhan gets eliminated from the MasterChef India's kitchen'". The Times of India. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
5. "Bengaluru home cook Priya Vijan bids adieu to Masterchef India this week". The Times of India. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
6. "Odisha's Avinash Patnaik bids adieu to 'MasterChef India'". The Times of India. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
7. "MasterChef India: Vineet Yadav gets eliminated from the show - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
8. "Master Chef India: Yashu Verma and Dyuti Banerjee get eliminated after the Parsi cuisine's pressure test - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
9. "Masterchef India: Mumbai's Urmila Jamnadas Asher aka 'Baa' gets eliminated from the show first - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
10. "MasterChef India 7 Day 21 highlights: From childhood desserts to special guests; Here's what you missed". PINKVILLA. 31 January 2023. Retrieved 4 February 2023.
11. "Controversy erupts over judges' decision in latest episode of MasterChef India". India Today NE. 21 February 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
12. "MasterChef India row after judges allow cheese to be used in fish round". BBC News. 20 February 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
13. "From favouring a home cook to getting slammed for being biased; Times when MasterChef India's latest season courted controversy". The Times of India. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
14. "Masterchef India judges face netizens' negative comments after praising chef Aruna's 'plain looking' dish; a user writes 'What's eye-catchy about this?". The Times of India. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 7 March 2023.
15. "MasterChef India: Aruna Vijay's dish gets selected in top 3, fans call out 'favouritism' by the channel and judges". The Indian Express. 24 February 2023. Retrieved 7 March 2023.

External links

• MasterChef India Season 8 on SonyLIV

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