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Indian Idol
GenreReality television
Created bySimon Fuller
Based onPop Idol
Directed by
  • Vandy
  • Monisha Jaising Vaid
  • Partha Thakur
  • Vishal Mull
  • Niret Alva
  • Nikhil J Alva
  • Nivedith T Alva
  • Bhavna Israni
  • Indrajit Ray
  • Satish Datt
  • Ujjwal Anand
Presented by
Judges
Theme music composerJulian Gingell
Barry Stone
Cathy Dennis
Badshah
Country of originIndia
Original languageHindi
No. of seasons14
No. of episodes317
Production
Executive producersAnupama Mandloi (2010–present)
Niret Alva (2005–2009)
Nikhil J Alva (2005–2009)
ProducersNamit Sharma (2010–present)
Ashok (2008–09)
CinematographySurindra Rao
EditorKumar Priyadarshi (2007, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
Camera setupNitesh Choudhary
Production companiesARSenic's Business Empire (2010–present)
Fremantle Media India
Miditech Pvt. Ltd. (2005–2009)
Optimystix Entertainment (2004–2005)
Original release
NetworkSony Entertainment Television
Release30 October 2004 (2004-10-30) –
present
Related

Indian Idol is an Indian Hindi-language singing reality competition on Sony TV. It is an Indian version of the British show Pop Idol and is part of the Indian Idol series. It has aired on Sony Entertainment Television since 2004.[1] Originally produced by Miditech Studios and its iconic producer-brothers, Niret Alva, Nikhil J Alva and Nivedith Alva, the series was an instant success. The brothers produced the first 5 seasons of the series and were instrumental in laying the foundation for its future success.[2]

Indian Idol's production and taping take place in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It broadcasts on Saturdays and Sundays and digitally airs on SonyLIV application.

Judges and hosts

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  Host
  Guest Host
  Judge
  Guest Judge
  Contestant
Cast member Season
1
2004 		2
2005 		3
2007 		4
2008 		5
2010 		6
2012 		7
2013 		8
2015 		9
2016 		10
2018 		11
2019 		12
2020 		13
2022 		14
2023 		15
2024
Anu Malik ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Sonu Nigam ● ● ● ●
Farah Khan ● ● ●
Alisha Chinai ●
Udit Narayan ●
Javed Akhtar ● ●
Sonali Bendre ●
Kailash Kher ●
Sunidhi Chauhan ● ●
Salim Merchant ● ●
Asha Bhosle ●
Vishal Dadlani ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ●
Shekhar Ravjiani ●
Shreya Ghoshal ● ● ●
Javed Ali ●
Neha Kakkar ● ● ● ● ●
Himesh Reshammiya ● ● ●
Sonu Kakkar ●
Kumar Sanu ●
Kavita Krishnamurti ●
Badshah ●
Neeti Mohan ●
Aman Verma ● ●
Mini Mathur ● ● ●
Hussain Kuwajerwala ● ● ● ● ● ●
Meiyang Chang ● ●
Abhijeet Sawant ● ●
Karan Wahi ● ●
Mandira Bedi ●
Asha Negi ●
Paritosh Tripathi ●
Manish Paul ●
Aditya Narayan ● ● ● ● ●
Bharti Singh ● ●
Haarsh Limbachiyaa ● ●
Jay Bhanushali ●
Rithvik Dhanjani ●
Pawandeep Rajan ● ●
Mohd. Danish ● ●

Series overview

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Season Episodes Originally aired Winner Runner-up
First aired Last aired
1 27 30 October 2004 Abhijeet Sawant Amit Sana
2 28 Sandeep Acharya N. C. Karunya
3 [to be determined] Prashant Tamang Amit Paul
4 [to be determined] 19 September 2008 1 March 2009 Sourabhee Debbarma Kapil Thapa
5 42 Sreerama Chandra Mynampati Bhoomi Trivedi / Rakesh Maini
6 30 1 June 2012 1 September 2012 Vipul Mehta Amit Kumar / Devender Pal Singh
IIJ 1 (7) [to be determined] Anjana Padmanabhan Debanjana Karmakar
IIJ 2 (8) [to be determined] 30 May 2015 6 September 2015 Ananya Nanda Nahid Afrin
9 [to be determined] L. V. Revanth Khuda Baksh
10 50 Salman Ali Ankush Bhardwaj
11 40 12 October 2019 Sunny Hindustani Rohit Raut
12 75 28 November 2020 15 August 2021 Pawandeep Rajan Arunita Kanjilal
13 60 10 September 2022 April 2, 2023 Rishi Singh Deboshmita Roy
14 43 7 October 2023 3 March 2024 Vaibhav Gupta Subhadeep Das Choudhary
15 TBA 26 October 2024 TBA TBA TBA

Season synopses

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Season 1

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  • Judges

Anu Malik

Farah Khan

Sonu Nigam

  • Host

Aman Verma

Mini Mathur

Top 12 Contestants

Name Age Hometown Result Place
Abhijeet Sawant 23 Mumbai Idol 1st
Amit Sana 21 Bhilai 1st Runner-up 2nd
Rahul Vaidya 17 Nagpur 2nd Runner-up 3rd
Prajakta Shukre 16 Jabalpur 3rd Runner-up 4th
Ravinder Ravi 29 Ludhiana Eliminated 5th
Aditi Paul 25 Chennai Eliminated 6th
Mukesh Pancholi 26 Faridabad Eliminated 7th
Harish Moyal 26 Itanagar Eliminated 8th
Rahul Saxena 22 Ghaziabad Eliminated 9th
Amit Tandon 25 Kolkata Eliminated 10th
Vishal Kothari 21 Mumbai Eliminated 11th
Priyanka Venkateswar 17 Mumbai Quit 12th

Season 2

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  • Judges

Anu Malik

Farah Khan

Sonu Nigam

  • Host

Mini Mathur Aman Verma

Top 12 Contestants

Name Age Hometown Result Place
Sandeep Acharya 21 Bikaner Idol 1st
N. C. Karunya 19 Hyderabad 1st Runner-up 2nd
Anuj Sharma 29 Himachal Pradesh 2nd Runner-up 3rd
Ameya Date 26 Mumbai Eliminated 4th
Antara Mitra 18 West Bengal Eliminated 5th
Meenal Jain 20 Indore Eliminated 6th
Ravi K. Tripathi 29 Uttar Pradesh Eliminated 7th
Panna Gill 24 Punjab Eliminated 8th
Monali Thakur 20 Kolkata Eliminated 9th
Neha Kakkar 17 Rishikesh Eliminated 10th
Yashashree Bhave 24 Satara Eliminated 11th
Sagar Sawarkar 20 Mumbai Eliminated 12th

Season 3

[edit]
  • Judges

Javed Akhtar

Anu Malik

Alisha Chinai

Udit Narayan

  • Host

Hussain Kuwajerwala

Mini Mathur

Top 13 Contestants

Name Age Hometown Result Place
Prashant Tamang 24 Darjeeling Idol 1st
Amit Paul 24 Shillong Runner-up 2nd
Emon Chatterjee 17 Kolkata Eliminated 3rd
Ankita Mishra 17 Kanpur Eliminated 4th
Meiyang Chang 24 Dhanbad Eliminated 5th
Pooja Chatterjee 18 Dhanbad Eliminated 6th
Deepali Kishore 18 Patna Eliminated 7th
Abhishek Kumar 20 Mumbai Eliminated 8th
Parleen Singh Gill 19 Ambala Eliminated 9th
Charu Semwal 19 Dehradun Eliminated 10th
Smita Adhikari 24 Kolkata Eliminated 11th
Jolly Das 25 Kolkata Eliminated 12th
Richa Aneja 17 Punjab Eliminated 13th

Season 4

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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.

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.[3]

  • Judges

Javed Akhtar

Anu Malik

Sonali Bendre

Kailash Kher

  • Host

Hussain Kuwajerwala

Meiyang Chang

Top 14 Contestants

Name Hometown Result Place
Sourabhee Debbarma Agartala Idol 1st[4]
Kapil Thapa Dehradun 1st Runner-up 2nd
Torsha Sarkar Bhagalpur 2nd Runner-up 3rd
Rajdeep Chatterjee Jamshedpur Eliminated 4th
Remo Ghosh Dimapur Eliminated 5th
Bhavya Pandit Pune Eliminated 6th
Prasenjit Kosambi Kolhapur Eliminated 7th
Bhanu Pratap Singh Jaipur Eliminated 8th
Mohit Lawani Delhi Eliminated 9th
Kuldeep Singh Chauhan Banda Eliminated 10th
Priyanka Negi Dehradun Eliminated 11th
Gautam Mrinal Jamui Eliminated 12th
Tulika Ganguly Faridabad Eliminated 13th
Ananya Mishra Lucknow Eliminated 14th

Season 5

[edit]
  • Judges

Shreya Ghoshal

Sunidhi Chauhan

Salim Merchant

  • Host

Hussain Kuwajerwala

Abhijeet Sawant

Top 13 Contestants

Name Hometown Result Place
Sreerama Chandra Hyderabad Idol 1st
Bhoomi Trivedi Gujarat Runner-up 2nd
Rakesh Maini Mumbai Runner-up
Swaroop Khan Rajasthan Eliminated 4th
Shivam Pathak Gujarat Eliminated 5th
Tia Kar Mumbai Eliminated 6th
Naushad Ali Rajasthan Eliminated 7th
Shashi Suman Patna Eliminated 8th
Arpita Khan West Bengal Eliminated 9th
Yashraj Kapil Faridabad Eliminated 10th
Manisha Karmakar Kolkata Eliminated 11th
Meghna Kumar Jhansi Eliminated 12th
Vishwas Rai Allahabad Eliminated 13th

Note: Sreerama, Rakesh, and Bhoomi were the top 3. Sreeram was crowned the winner without announcing the 1st and 2nd runner-ups.

Season 6

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The sixth season aired on Sony TV from 1 June 2012 to 1 September 2012. The winner of the sixth season was Vipul Mehta.[5][6][7]

  • Judges

Anu Malik

Sunidhi Chauhan

Salim Merchant

Asha Bhosle

  • Host

Hussain Kuwajerwala

Mini Mathur

On 23 June 2012, the judges selected the top 16 contestants to perform in the Gala Rounds.

Contestants

Name Hometown Result Place
Vipul Mehta Amritsar Idol 1st
Amit Kumar Amritsar Runner-up 2nd
Devender Pal Singh Ludhiana Runner-up
Poorvi Kautish Eliminated 4th
Sohini Mishra Cuttack Eliminated 5th
Amitabh Narayan Eliminated 6th
Deeksha Toor Delhi Eliminated 7th
Deepak Maher Eliminated 8th
Kaushik Deshpande Mumbai Eliminated 9th
Kritika Tanwar Eliminated 10th
Charith Dixit Chandigarh Eliminated 11th
Ravi Kumar Mishra Eliminated 12th
Ritika Raj Patna Eliminated 13th
Saumya Mishra Eliminated 14th
Simran Kaur Punjab Eliminated 15th
Amrita Bharati Bhubaneswar Eliminated 16th

Indian Idol Junior Season 1

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  • Judges

Vishal Dadlani

Shreya Ghoshal

Shekhar Ravjiani

  • Host

Karan Wahi

Mandira Bedi

Top 11 Contestants

Name Hometown Result Place
Anjana Padmanabhan Bengaluru Idol 1st
Debanjana Karmakar Kolkata 1st Runner-up 2nd
Anmol Jaswal Jammu and Kashmir 2nd Runner-up 3rd
Nirvesh Dave Ahmedabad 3rd Runner-up 4th
Sugandha Date Nagpur Eliminated 5th
Sonakshi Kar Kolkata Eliminated 6th
Priyam Borpatragohain Assam Eliminated 7th
Akash Sharma Haryana Eliminated 8th
Sankalp Yaduwanshi Moradabad Eliminated 9th
Eman Chaudhary Assam Eliminated 10th
Aryan Das Cuttack Eliminated 11th

Indian Idol Junior Season 2

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Indian Idol Junior Season 2 started on 30 May 2015 and finished on 6 September 2015.

  • Judges

Salim Merchant

Sonakshi Sinha replaced Shalmali Kholgade

Vishal Dadlani

  • Host

Hussain Kuwajerwala

Asha Negi

Top 13 Contestants

Name Hometown Result Place
Ananya Nanda Bhubaneswar Idol 1st
Nahid Afrin Assam 1st Runner-up 2nd
Nithyashree Venkataramanan Chennai 2nd Runner-up 3rd
Vaishnav Girish Thrissur Eliminated 4th
Moti Khan Rajasthan Eliminated 5th
Niharika Nath Agartala Eliminated 6th
Ranita Banerjee Kolkata Eliminated 7th
Sreelakshmi Belmannu Bangalore Eliminated 8th
Ajay Brijwasi Mathura Eliminated 9th
Yumna Ajin Vengara Eliminated 10th
Surendra Singh Panwar Rajasthan Eliminated 11th
Vidhi Jaswal Jammu and Kashmir Eliminated 12th
Shubhankar Kolkata Eliminated 13th

Season 9

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  • Judges

Anu Malik

Farah Khan

Sonu Nigam

  • Host

Karan Wahi

Paritosh Tripathi

Top 14 Contestants

Name Hometown Result Place
L. V. Revanth Visakhapatnam Idol 1st[8]
Khuda Baksh Punjab 1st Runner-up 2nd[9]
PVNS Rohit Hyderabad 2nd Runner-up 3rd
Maalavika Sunder Chennai Eliminated 4th
Mohit Chopra New Delhi Eliminated 5th
Tajinder Singh Faridabad Eliminated 6th
R P Shravan Chennai Eliminated 7th
Manya Narang New Delhi Eliminated 8th
Hardeep Singh Ludhiana Eliminated 9th
Jeli Kayi Itanagar Eliminated 10th[10]
Bharti Gupta Ghaziabad Eliminated 11th
Mansi Bhardwaj Delhi Eliminated 12th
Stuti Tiwari Delhi Eliminated 13th
Saumya Mishra Renukut Eliminated 14th

Season 10

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  • Judges

Javed Ali replaced Anu Malik[11]

Neha Kakkar

Vishal Dadlani

  • Host

Manish Paul

Top 14 Contestants

Name Hometown Result Place
Salman Ali Mewat Idol 1st[12]
Ankush Bhardwaj Kotgarh 1st Runner-up 2nd
Neelanjana Ray Alipurduar 2nd Runner-up 3rd
Nitin Kumar Una 3rd Runner-up 4th
Vibhor Parashar New Delhi 4th Runner-up 5th
Kunal Pandit Mumbai Eliminated 6th
Renu Nagar Alwar Eliminated 7th
Soumya Chakraborty Kolkata Eliminated 8th
Avanti Patel Mumbai Eliminated 9th
Saurabh Valmiki Lakhimpur Kheri Eliminated 10th
Biswajit Mohapatra Odisha Eliminated 11th
Krishnakali Saha Tripura Eliminated 12th
Indira Das Kolkata Eliminated 13th
Sonia Gazmer Kolkata Eliminated 14th

Season 11

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The 11th season started to air on 12 October 2019 on Sony TV. It was being hosted by singer Aditya Narayan.[13] 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 judging panel for Me Too allegations. He was then replaced by Himesh Reshammiya.[14][15]

  • Judges

Himesh Reshammiya replaced Anu Malik[11]

Neha Kakkar

Vishal Dadlani

  • Host

Aditya Narayan

Top 16 contestants

Name Hometown Elimination Place
Sunny Hindustani Bathinda Idol 1st[16]
Rohit Shyam Raut Latur 1st Runner-up 2nd
Ankona Mukherjee Bankura 2nd Runner-up 3rd
Ridham Kalyan Amritsar 3rd Runner-up 4th
Adriz Ghosh Murshidabad 4th Runner-up 5th
Shahzaan Mujeeb Aligarh Eliminated 6th
Rishabh Chaturvedi Amritsar Eliminated 7th
Stuti Tiwari New Delhi Eliminated 8th
Jannabi Das New Delhi Eliminated 9th
Azmat Hussain Jaipur Eliminated 10th
Chetna Bharadwaj Ghaziabad Eliminated 11th
Kaivalya Kejkar Nagpur Eliminated 12th
Subhadeep Das Chowdhury Kolkata Eliminated 13th
Pallav Singh Ballia Eliminated 14th
Nidhi Kumari Jamshedpur Eliminated 15th
Chelsi Behura Orissa Eliminated 16th

Season 12

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The 12th season started on 28 November 2020 on Sony TV. The grand finale aired from 12 noon to 12 midnight on 15 August 2021.[17] Pawandeep Rajan was declared the winner of the season and Arunita Kanjilal became the 1st Runner-up.[18] This was the longest running season of Indian Idol.

  • Judges

Anu Malik

Sonu Kakkar

Himesh Reshammiya[19][20]

  • Former judges

Vishal Dadlani

Neha Kakkar

Although Vishal Dadlani, Neha Kakkar and Himesh Reshammiya were the original judges, when the shoot shifted out of Mumbai, then Vishal Dadlani, and Neha Kakkar couldn't join and makers replaced them by Anu Malik and Sonu Kakkar.

  • Host

Aditya Narayan

  • Former Hosts

Bharti Singh

Haarsh Limbachiyaa

Rithvik Dhanjani

Jay Bhanushali

Aditya Narayan was the original host but Bharti & Harsh, Rithvik and Jay replaced him when he came out to be COVID +ve. Bharti and Harsh replaced him on February 28.

The judges have decided to do a power play for 9 weeks and let the audience decide who they want to see in the Top 8. Elimination will happen after the 9 weeks of power play. This season was extended because the contestants have given so much love and entertainment to the audience in the COVID pandemic. The 9 weeks of power play were completed and Anjali Gaikwad got eliminated.

Top 15 contestants

Name Hometown Result Standing
Pawandeep Rajan Uttarkhand Idol 1st
Arunita Kanjilal Kolkata 1st Runner-up 2nd
Sayli Kamble Patil Mumbai 2nd Runner-up 3rd
Mohd Danish Muzaffarnagar 3rd Runner-up 4th
Nihal Tauro Mangalore 4th Runner-up 5th
Shanmukha Priya Visakhapatnam 5th Runner-up 6th
Ashish Kulkarni Pune Eliminated 7th
Sawai Bhatt Nagaur Eliminated 8th
Anjali Gaikwad Ahmednagar Eliminated 9th
Nachiket Lele Kalyan Eliminated 10th
Sireesha Bhagavatula Visakhapatnam Eliminated 11th
Anushka Banerjee Chandigarh Eliminated 12th
Vaishnav Girish Thrissur Eliminated 13th
Samyak Prasana Delhi Eliminated 14th
Sahil Solanki Hisar Eliminated 15th

Season 13

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The Ground Auditions started in July 2022. The show started on 10 September 2022.[21] The finale was held on April 2, 2023, with Rishi Singh being declared as the winner of the season along with Deboshmita Roy as the 1st runner up.[22]

  • Judges

Himesh Reshammiya

Vishal Dadlani

  • Host

Aditya Narayan

  • Former Judge

Neha Kakkar

  • Guest Hosts

Haarsh Limbachiyaa

Bharti Singh

Top 15 Contestants

The judges have decided to do a power play for 4 weeks and let the audience decide who they want to see in the Top 7. Elimination will happen after the 4 weeks of power play. The 4 weeks of power play were completed and Navdeep Wadali got eliminated on February 26, 2023. The last contestant who got eliminated from the show was Senjuti Das on March 25, 2023, leaving the top 6 finalists[23] to compete for the Indian Idol trophy.

Name Hometown Result Place
Rishi Singh Ayodhya Idol 1st
Deboshmita Roy Kolkata 1st Runner-up 2nd
Chirag Kotwal Bhaderwah 2nd Runner-up 3rd
Bidipta Chakraborty Kolkata 3rd Runner-up 4th
Shivam Singh Vadodara 4th Runner-up 5th
Sonakshi Kar Kolkata 5th Runner-up 6th
Senjuti Das Kolkata Eliminated 7th
Navdeep Wadali Amritsar Eliminated 8th
Kavya Limaye Vadodara Eliminated 9th[a]
Vineet Singh Lucknow Eliminated 10th[b]
Anushka Patra Kolkata Eliminated 11th
Rupam Bharnarhia Amritsar Eliminated 12th
Sanchari Sengupta Kolkata Eliminated 13th
Pritam Roy Kolkata Eliminated 14th
Shagun Pathak Jharkhand Eliminated 15th

Season 14

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Main article: Indian Idol (Hindi TV series) season 14

The fourteenth season premiered on 7 October 2023, with the theme Ek Awaz Lakhon Ehsaas (lit. One Voice, Million Emotion). The season was hosted by Hussain Kuwajerwala. Aditya Narayan hosted the show for a week, in the absence of Kuwajerwala. Kumar Sanu, Shreya Ghoshal and Vishal Dadlani were the judges. On 3 March 2024, the season concluded, with Vaibhav Gupta crowned as the winner, with Subhadeep Das Choudhary finishing as the runner-up.

Season 15

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Main article: Indian Idol (Hindi TV series) season 15

The fifteenth season premiered in October 2024, with the theme Jo Gayega, Wo Nazar Aayega (lit. --). The season was hosted by Aditya Narayan. Badshah, Shreya Ghoshal and Vishal Dadlani are the judges.

Criticism

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Sunidhi Chauhan who judged this show's seasons 5 and 6, in her interview with Vicky Lalwani of The Economic Times YouTube channel revealed that this show's makers asked her and other judges to praise every contestant. According to Lalwani since 2022, judges of Indian Idol do not give critical comments or point out flaws in singing after a contestant performed, and they praise everyone, and the audience also gets confused. In 2021, Amit Kumar also expressed the same thing after he appeared as a guest judge, he said that the makers of Indian Idol specifically told him while filming that you have to praise every contestant and not criticize.[25][26] In 2018, a participant Nishant Kaushik revealed on Twitter the suffering and ill-treatment of the people who come for the auditions of this show. He expressed his experience with his Indian Idol audition. He elaborated that, he participated in the 2012 Indian Idol audition, people of this show do not give any service to the participants, and contestants kept standing with no access to food, drinking water, or toilet. Former host of Indian idol Mini Mathur in response to this tweet thread wrote these kinds of things happened in Indian reality shows, that is why she quit doing work in them.[27]

In 2021 many fans alleged the show for showing scripted stories to gain TRP. In the season fans expressed on social media that the love angle of Pawandeep Rajan and Arunita Kanjilal was fake, and makers are deliberately trying to show the love angle.[28] The show frequently alleged of showing fake emotional, drama and sob stories of the contestants. Amid the 12th season viewers slammed makers for altering the performance of Pawandeep Rajan.[29]

References

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