Indian Idol


Indian Idol is the Indian version of the Pop Idol format that has aired on Sony Entertainment Television since 2004. The show has spawned spin-offs, including Indian Idol Junior. The spin-off replaced the show for the seventh and eight season. The current winner of season 12 is Sunny Hindustani.

Summary

SeasonYearChannelHostContestantsWinnerRunner-up
12004–05Sony TVAman Verma
Mini Mathur		12Abhijeet SawantAmit Sana
22005–06Sony TVAman Verma
Mini Mathur		12Sandeep AcharyaN. C. Karunya
32007Sony TVHussain Kuwajerwala
Mini Mathur		13Prashant TamangAmit Paul
42008–09Sony TVHussain Kuwajerwala
Meiyang Chang		12Sourabhee DebbarmaKapil Thapa
52010Sony TVHussain Kuwajerwala
Abhijeet Sawant		13Sreerama Chandra MynampatiRakesh Maini
62012Sony TVHussain Kuwajerwala
Mini Mathur		16Vipul MehtaAmit Kumar
Indian Idol Junior Season 12013Sony TVKaran Wahi
Mandira Bedi		11Anjana PadmanabhanDebanjana Karmakar
Indian Idol Junior Season 22015Sony TVHussain Kuwajerwala
Asha Negi		13Ananya NandaNahid Afrin
92016–17Sony TVKaran Wahi
Paritosh Tripathi		14LV RevanthKhuda Baksh
102018Sony TVManish Paul14Salman AliAnkush Bhardwaj
112019Sony TVAditya Narayan17Sunny HindustaniRohit Shyam Raut

Season 1

Anu Malik
Farah Khan
Sonu Nigam
Aman Verma
Mini Mathur
Top 12 Contestants:-
NameHometownElimination
Abhijeet SawantMumbaiWinner
Amit SanaBhilaiRunner-up
Rahul VaidyaMumbai2nd Runner-up
Prajakta ShukreNew Delhi3rd Runner-up
Ravinder RaviLudhianaEliminated 8th
Aditi PaulChennaiEliminated 7th
Mukesh PancholiFaridabadEliminated 6th
Harish MoyalItanagarEliminated 5th
Rahul SaxenaGhaziabadEliminated 4th
Amit TandonKolkataEliminated 3rd
Vishal KothariKolkataEliminated 2nd
Priyanka VenkateswarMumbaiWithdrew

Season 2

Anu Malik

Farah Khan

Sonu Nigam
Mini Mathur
Top 12 Contestants:-
NameHometownElimination
Sandeep AcharyaRajasthanWinner
N. C. KarunyaHyderabad1st Runner-up
Anuj SharmaHimachal Pradesh2nd Runner-up
Amey DateMumbaiEliminated 9th
Antara MitraWest BengalEliminated 8th
Meenal JainIndoreEliminated 7th
Ravi K. TripathiUttar PradeshEliminated 6th
Panna GillPunjabEliminated 5th
Monali ThakurKolkataEliminated 4th
Neha KakkarRishikeshEliminated 3rd
Yashashree BhaveSataraEliminated 2nd
Sagar SawarkarMumbaiEliminated 1st

Season 3

Javed Akhtar
Anu Malik
Alisha Chinai
Udit Narayan
Hussain Kuwajerwala
Mini Mathur
Top 13 Contestants:-
NameHometownElimination
Prashant TamangDarjeelingWinner
Amit PaulShillong1st Runner-up
Emon ChatterjeeKolkata2nd Runner-up
Ankita MishraNew Delhi3rd Runner-up
Meiyang ChangDhanbadEliminated 9th
Deepali KishorePatnaEliminated 8th
Pooja ChatterjeeDhanbadEliminated 7th
Abhishek KumarMumbaiEliminated 6th
Parleen Singh GillAmbalaEliminated 5th
Charu SemwalDehradunEliminated 4th
Smita AdhikariKolkataEliminated 3rd
Jolly DasKolkataEliminated 2nd
Richa AnejaPunjabEliminated 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.
Top Contestants of Season 4
Anu Malik
Sunidhi Chauhan
Salim Merchant
Abhijeet Sawant
Hussain Kuwajerwala
Top 13 Contestants:-
NameHometownElimination
Sreerama Chandra MynampatiHyderabadWinner
Rakesh MainiMumbai1st Runner-up
Bhoomi TrivediGujarat2nd Runner-up
Swaroop KhanRajasthanEliminated 10th
Shivam PathakGujaratEliminated 9th
Tia KarMumbaiEliminated 8th
Naushad AliRajasthanEliminated 7th
Shashi SumanPatnaEliminated 6th
Arpita KhanWest BengalEliminated 5th
Yashraj KapilFaridabadEliminated 4th
Manisha KarmakarKolkataEliminated 3rd
Meghna KumarJhansiEliminated 2nd
Vishwas RaiAllahabadEliminated 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.
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:
NameHometownElimination
Amit KumarRunner-up
Amitabh Narayan
Amrita Panda
Charit Dixit
Deeksha Piyush
Deepak Maher
Devender Pal SinghRunner-up
Kaushik Deshpande
Kritika Tanwar
Poorvi KoutishChandigarh
Ravi Kumar Mishra
Ritika Raj
Saumya Mishra
Simran Kaur
Sohini Mishra
Vipul MehtaAmritsarWinner

Indian Idol Junior Season 1

Vishal Dadlani
Shreya Ghoshal
Shekhar Ravjiani
Karan Wahi
Mandira Bedi
Top 11 Contestants
NameHometownElimination
Anjana PadmanabhanBengaluruWinner
Debanjana KarmakarKolkata1st Runner-up
Anmol JaswalJammu Tawi2nd Runner-up
Nirvesh DaveAhmedabad3rd Runner-up
Akash SharmaHarayanaEliminated 7th
Aryan DasCuttackEliminated 6th
Sonakshi KarKolkataEliminated 5th
Priyam BorpatragohainAssamEliminated 4th
Eman ChaudharyAssamEliminated 3rd
Sugandha DateNagpurEliminated 2nd
Sankalp YaduwanshiMoradabadEliminated 1st

Indian Idol Junior Season 2

Salim Merchant
Sonakshi Sinha
Vishal Dadlani
Hussain Kuwajerwala
Asha Negi
Top 13 Contestants:-
NameHometownElimination
Ananya NandaOdishaWinner
Nahid AfrinAssam1st Runner-up
Nithyashree VenkataramananChennai2nd Runner-up
Vaishnav GirishKeralaEliminated 10th
Moti KhanRajasthanEliminated 9th
Niharika NathAgartalaEliminated 8th
Ranita BanerjeeKolkataEliminated 7th
Sreelakshmi BelmannuBangaloreEliminated 6th
Ajay BrijwasiMathuraEliminated 5th
Yumna AjinKeralaEliminated 4th
Surendra Singh PanwarRajasthanEliminated 3rd
Vidhi JaswalJammu and KashmirEliminated 2nd
ShubhankarKolkataEliminated 1st

Season 9

Anu Malik
Farah Khan
Sonu Nigam
Karan Wahi
Paritosh Tripathi
Top 14 Contestants:-
NameHometownElimination
LV RevanthHyderabadWinner
Khuda BakshPunjabRunner-up
PVNS RohitHyderabad2nd Runner-up
Malvika SunderChennaiEliminated 11th
Mohit ChopraNew DelhiEliminated 10th
Manya NarangNew DelhiEliminated 9th
Hardeep SinghLudhianaEliminated 8th
R P ShravanChennaiEliminated 7th
Tajinder SinghFaridabadEliminated 6th
Jeli KayiItanagarEliminated 5th
Bharti GuptaGhaziabadEliminated 4th
Mansi BhardwajNew DelhiEliminated 3rd
Stuti TiwariKolkataEliminated 2nd
Saumya MishraRenukutEliminated 1st

Season 10

Anu Malik
Neha Kakkar
Vishal Dadlani
Manish Paul
Top 14 Contestants:-
NameHometownElimination
Salman AliMewat, HaryanaWinner
Ankush BhardwajShimlaRunner-up
Neelanjana RayKolkata2nd Runner-up
Nitin KumarUna3rd Runner-up
Vibhor ParasharNew Delhi4th Runner-up
Kunal PanditMumbaiEliminated 8th
Renu NagarAlwar, RajasthanEliminated 7th
Soumaya ChakrabottyKolkataEliminated 6th
Avanti PatelMumbaiEliminated 5th
Sourabh ValmikiLakhimpurEliminated 4th
Biswajit MohapatraOrissaEliminated 4th
Krishnakali SahaTripuraEliminated 3rd
Indira DasKolkataEliminated 2nd
Sonia GazmerKolkataEliminated 1st

Season 11

The 11th season started to air from 12 October 2019 on Sony TV. It is 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 judge panel for Me Too allegations. He has then been replaced by Himesh Reshammiya. Malik's return was condemned by several singers and supported by others, including host Aditya Narayan. The season ended on 23 February 2020.
Himesh Reshammiya replaced Anu Malik

Vishal Dadlani

Neha Kakkar
Top 15 contestants + 2 wild card entries are:-
NameHometownElimination
Sunny HindustaniBathinda, Punjab
Rohit Shyam RautMaharashtraRunner-up
Ankona MukherjeeBankura, West Bengal2nd Runner-up
Ridham KalyanAmritsar, Punjab3rd Runner-up
Adriz GhoshMurshidabad, West Bengal4th Runner-up
Shahzaan MujeebAligarh, PunjabEliminated 12th
Rishabh ChaturvediAmritsar, PunjabEliminated 11th
Stuti TiwariNew DelhiEliminated 10th
Jannabi DasNew DelhiEliminated 9th
Azmat HussainJaipurEliminated 8th
Chetna BharadwajGhaziabadEliminated 7th
Kaivalya KejkarNagpurEliminated 6th
Shubhadeep DasKolkataEliminated 5th
Stuti TiwariNew DelhiEliminated 4th
Nidhi KumariJamshedpurEliminated 3rd
Chelsi BehuraOrissaEliminated 2nd
Pallav SinghBallia, Uttar PradeshEliminated 1st

Season 12

On July 12, it was announced that Indian Idol was renewed for a twelfth season. Auditions are set to start on July 25th. It is confirmed that Aditya Narayan will return to be the host.
Judges for the 12th Season are Himesh Reshamiya,Vishal Dadlani,Neha Kakkar and Sunidhi Chauhan.