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; Tamil;
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	Sony Pictures Networks; (Hindi, Marathi, Tamil); 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 and there has been 18 seasons to date.

Versions

Currently airing – 1

Upcoming for airing – 0

Recently concluded – 1

No longer airing – 1

Language	Show	Season	Year	Host	Judges				Network	Premiere	Finale	Contestants	Winner	Runner up
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	Aman Verma Mini Mathur		Farah Khan	Sonu Nigam			21 November 2005	22 April 2006	12	Sandeep Acharya	N. C. Karunya
		3	2007	Hussain Kuwajerwala Mini Mathur		Udit Narayan	Alisha Chinai	Javed Akhtar		4 May 2007	23 September 2007	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			26 April 2010	15 August 2010	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			1 June 2013	1 September 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			18 December 2016	2 April 2017	14	L. V. Revanth	Khuda Baksh
		10	2018	Manish Paul		Vishal Dadlani	Neha Kakkar	Javed Ali		7 July 2018	23 December 2018	14	Salman Ali	Ankush Bhardwaj
		11	2019	Aditya Narayan		Vishal Dadlani	Neha Kakkar	Himesh Reshammiya		12 October 2019	23 February 2020	16	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				Neha Kakkar			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	6 April 2025	16	Manasi Ghosh	Subhajit Chakraborty
		16	2025-26	Udit Narayan Aditya Narayan				Badshah		18 October 2025	26 July 2026	16	Jyotirmayee Nayak	Tanishk Shukla
		17	2026-present	Aditya Narayan	Himesh Reshammiya					17 October 2026		17

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	13	Nazeeruddin Shaik	Aniruddh Suswaram
		4	2025	Sreerama Chandra Sameera Baradwaj						29 August 2025	1 November 2025	12	Brinda	Pavan Kalyan

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.