Khatron Ke Khiladi (TV series)

*Khatron Ke Khiladi*
Khatron Ke Khiladi
Season 2
	Title screen
Presented by	Akshay Kumar
No. of contestants	14
Winner	Anushka Manchanda
Runner-up	Jesse Randhawa
No. of episodes	16
Release
Original network	Colors TV
Original release	7 September –; 1 October 2009
Season chronology
	← Previous; Season 1 Next →; Season 3

*Khatron Ke Khiladi*
Khatron Ke Khiladi
Season 1
	Title screen
Presented by	Akshay Kumar
No. of contestants	15
Winner	Firdous Ansari
Runner-up	Urvashi Sharma
No. of episodes	16
Release
Original network	Colors TV
Original release	21 July –; 14 August 2008
Season chronology
	Next →; Season 2

*Khatron Ke Khiladi*
Khatron Ke Khiladi
Genre	Action; Reality;
Based on	Fear Factor
Presented by	Akshay Kumar (season 1, 2, 4) ; Priyanka Chopra (season 3) ; Rohit Shetty (season 5–6, 8–14) ; Arjun Kapoor (season 7)
Starring	see below
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	14
No. of episodes	262
Production
Production locations	South Africa; (season 1–2, 4–6, 11–13); Brazil; (season 3); Argentina; (season 7, 9); Spain; (season 8); Bulgaria; (season 10); Romania; (season 14);
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	around 120 minutes
Production companies	Sphere Origins; (season 1); Endemol Shine India; (season 2— present);
Original release
Network	Colors TV
Release	21 July 2008 –; present
Related
	Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi – Made in India;

Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi (transl. Fear Factor: Players of Danger) simply known as Khatron Ke Khiladi is an Indian Hindi-language stunt-based reality television series based on the American series Fear Factor.^[1] First launched as Fear Factor India on Sony TV, the format was sold by Endemol's domestic division after the second season to Colors TV, becoming Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi on 21 July 2008. A spin-off of the main-series Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi – Made in India was launched on 1 August 2020 where contestants from previous years participated.

Series overview

Series	Host	Destination	Episodes	Originally aired		Contestants	Winner	Runner-up
Series	Host	Destination	Episodes	First aired	Last aired	Contestants	Winner	Runner-up
1	Akshay Kumar	South Africa	16	21 July 2008 (2008-07-21)	14 August 2008 (2008-08-14)	12	Nethra Raghuraman	Urvashi Sharma
2	Akshay Kumar	South Africa	16	7 September 2009 (2009-09-07)	1 October 2009 (2009-10-01)	13	Anushka Manchanda	Jesse Randhawa
3	Priyanka Chopra	Brazil	16	6 September 2010 (2010-09-06)	30 September 2010 (2010-09-30)	13	Shabir Ahluwalia	Ritwik Bhattacharya
4	Akshay Kumar	South Africa	16	3 June 2011 (2011-06-03)	23 July 2011 (2011-07-23)	13	Aarti Chhabria	Mauli Dave
5	Rohit Shetty		20	22 March 2014 (2014-03-22)	25 May 2014 (2014-05-25)	17	Rajneesh Duggal	Gurmeet Choudhary
6	Rohit Shetty		20	7 February 2015 (2015-02-07)	12 April 2015 (2015-04-12)	15	Aashish Chaudhary	Meiyang Chang
7	Arjun Kapoor	Argentina	20	30 January 2016 (2016-01-30)	3 April 2016 (2016-04-03)	15	Sidharth Shukla	Sana Saeed
8	Rohit Shetty	Spain	21	22 July 2017 (2017-07-22)	30 September 2017 (2017-09-30)	12	Shantanu Maheshwari	Hina Khan
9		Argentina	20	5 January 2019 (2019-01-05)	10 March 2019 (2019-03-10)	12	Punit Pathak	Aditya Narayan
10		Bulgaria	22	22 February 2020 (2020-02-22)	26 July 2020 (2020-07-26)	10	Karishma Tanna	Karan Patel
11		South Africa	22	17 July 2021 (2021-07-17)	26 September 2021 (2021-09-26)	13	Arjun Bijlani	Divyanka Tripathi
12			26	2 July 2022 (2022-07-02)	25 September 2022 (2022-09-25)	14	Tushar Kalia	Faisal Shaikh
13			27	15 July 2023 (2023-07-15)	14 October 2023 (2023-10-14)	14	Dino James	Arjit Taneja
14		Romania	20	27 July 2024 (2024-07-27)	29 September 2024 (2024-09-29)	12	Karan Veer Mehra	Krishna Shroff

Spin-off

Series	Host	Episodes		Originally aired		Contestants	Winner	Runner-up	Destination
Series	Host	Episodes		First aired	Last aired	Contestants	Winner	Runner-up	Destination
1	Farah Khan Rohit Shetty	10		1 August 2020 (2020-08-01)	30 August 2020 (2020-08-30)	9	Nia Sharma	Karan Wahi	India

Season 1

Khatron Ke Khiladi 1 was hosted by Akshay Kumar. Nethra Raghuraman was declared the winner of the season.

	Occupation	Status	Place
Nethra Raghuraman	Actress	Winner	1
Urvashi Sharma	Actress	1st runner-up	2
Aditi Govitrikar	Model	2nd runner-up	3
Pooja Bedi	Actress	Eliminated	4
Yana Gupta	Model	Eliminated	5
Yana Gupta	Model	Eliminated	5
Sonali Kulkarni	Actress	Eliminated	6
Sonali Kulkarni	Actress	Eliminated	6
Anjana Sukhani	Actress	Eliminated	7
Meghna Naidu	Actress	Eliminated	8
Meghna Naidu	Actress	Eliminated	8
Dipannita Sharma	Actress	Eliminated	9
Dipannita Sharma	Actress	Eliminated	9
Anita Hassanandani	Actress	Eliminated	10
Tapur Chatterjee	Actress	Eliminated	11
Tupur Chatterjee	Model	Eliminated	12
[Firdous]]	Actress	Eliminated	13
Payal Rohatgi	Actress	Eliminated	14^[2]
Sayali Bhagat	Actress	Eliminated	15^[2]

Indicates original entrants

Indicates re-entered entrants

Season 2

Khatron Ke Khiladi 2 was hosted by Akshay Kumar. Anushka Manchanda was declared the winner of the season.

	Occupation	Status	Place
Anushka Manchanda	Singer	Winner	1
Jesse Randhawa	Model	1st runner-up	2
Carol Gracias	Model	Eliminated	3
Carol Gracias	Model	2nd runner-up	3
Rosa Catalano	Model	Eliminated	4
Rosa Catalano	Model	Eliminated	4
Nauheed Cyrusi	Actress	Eliminated	5
Shonali Nagrani	Actress	Eliminated	6
Shonali Nagrani	Actress	Eliminated	6
Bruna Abdullah	Model	Eliminated	7
Bruna Abdullah	Model	Eliminated	7
Pooja Misrra	VJ	Eliminated	8
Sonika Kaliraman	Wrestler	Eliminated	9
Shveta Salve	Actress	Eliminated	10
Mandira Bedi	Actress	Eliminated	11
Rupali Ganguly	Actress	Eliminated	12
Pia Trivedi	Model	Eliminated	13
Sushma Reddy	Actress	Eliminated	14

Indicates original entrants

Indicates re-entered entrants

Season 3

Khatron Ke Khiladi
Season 3
Title screen

Presented by	Priyanka Chopra
No. of contestants	13
Winner	Shabir Ahluwalia
Runner-up	Ritwik Bhattacharya

No. of episodes	16
Release
Original network	Colors TV
Original release	6 September (2010-09-06) – 30 September 2010 (2010-09-30)
Season chronology
← Previous Season 2 Next → Season 4

Khatron Ke Khiladi 3 was hosted by Priyanka Chopra. Shabir Ahluwalia was declared the winner of the season.

	Occupation	Partner	Status	Place
Shabir Ahluwalia	Actor	Sushma Gupta	Winner	1
Ritwik Bhattacharya	Squash player	Avni	1st runner-up	2
Dino Morea	Actor	Madhurima Tuli	2nd runner-up	3
Milind Soman	Model	Ritisha	Eliminated	4
Milind Soman	Model	Ritisha	Eliminated	4
Manjot Singh	Actor	Andressa	Eliminated	5
Manjot Singh	Actor	Andressa	Eliminated	5
Abhishek Kapoor	Producer	Susheel	Eliminated	6
Rahul Bose	Actor	Annie Gill	Eliminated	7
Terence Lewis	Dancer	Ananya Kapoor	Eliminated	8
Karan Singh Grover	Actor	Aarti	Eliminated	9
Karan Singh Grover	Actor	Aarti	Eliminated	9
Cyrus Broacha	VJ	Freisha	Eliminated	10
Cyrus Broacha	VJ	Freisha	Eliminated	10
Armaan Ebrahim	Car Racer	Madhura Naik	Eliminated	11
Rahul Dev	Actor	Kavita Sachdev	Eliminated	12
Angad Bedi	Model	Mittal	Eliminated	13

Indicates original entrants

Indicates re-entered entrants

Season 4

Khatron Ke Khiladi 4 was hosted by Akshay Kumar. The tagline for this season was "Torchaar 4". Aarti Chhabria was declared the winner of the season.

Season 5

Khatron Ke Khiladi 5 was hosted by Rohit Shetty The tagline for this season was "Darr Ka Blockbuster". Rajneesh Duggal was declared the winner of the season.^[3]

Season 6

Khatron Ke Khiladi 6 was hosted by Rohit Shetty. The tagline for this season was "Darr Ka Blockbuster Returns". Aashish Chaudhary was declared the winner of the season.

Season 7

Khatron Ke Khiladi 7 was hosted by Arjun Kapoor. The tagline for this season was "Kabhi पीड़ा Kabhi कीड़ा in Argentina". Sidharth Shukla was declared the winner of the season.

Season 8

Khatron Ke Khiladi 8 was hosted by Rohit Shetty. The tagline for this season was "Pain in Spain". Shantanu Maheshwari was declared the winner of the season.

Season 9

Khatron Ke Khiladi 9 was hosted by Rohit Shetty.^[4] The tagline for this season was "Jigar Pe Trigger". Punit Pathak was declared as winner of the season.

Season 10

Khatron Ke Khiladi 10 was hosted by Rohit Shetty. The tagline for this season was "Jahaan Darr Lega Class Aur Dega Trass". The telecast was postponed for 3 months due to COVID-19 pandemic. Week 7 episodes started from 27 June. Karishma Tanna was declared as the winner of the season 10.

Season 11

Khatron Ke Khiladi 11 was hosted by Rohit Shetty. The tagline for this season was "Darr VS Dare". Arjun Bijlani was declared as winner of the season.

Season 12

Khatron Ke Khiladi 12 is hosted by Rohit Shetty. The tagline for this season was "Bach Ke Kahan Jayega? Khatra Kahin Se Bhi Aayega!". The show premiered on 2 July 2022, on Colors TV. Tushar Kalia was declared as winner of the season.^[5]

Season 13

Khatron Ke Khiladi 13 is hosted by Rohit Shetty. The tagline for this season was "Iss Baar Har Level, Darr Next Level". The show premiered on 15 July 2023, on Colors TV. Spanning over 27 episodes, it is the longest season of the series since its inception. Dino James was declared as winner of the season.

Season 14

Khatron Ke Khiladi 14 is hosted by Rohit Shetty.^[6] The tagline for this season is "Darr Ki Nayi Kahaaniyaan In Romania".^[7] The show premiered on 27 July 2024, on Colors TV and digitally on Jio Cinema.^[8]Karan Veer Mehra was declared as the winner of the season.

References

^ "Meet the contestants of Fear Factor-Khatron Ke Khiladi 5". The Times of India. 30 January 2014.
^ ^a ^b "Khatron Ke Khiladi -Season 2 winner revealed?". 2 September 2009.
^ "Have learnt to face my fears in 'Khatron Ke Khiladi': Rajniesh Duggall". Deccan Chronicle. 22 April 2014.
^ "Khatron Ke Khiladi Is Back. Contestants Include Vikas Gupta, Aditya Narayan, Bharti Singh, Haarsh Limbachiyaa". 12 July 2018.
^ "Tushar Kalia wins Khatron Ke Khiladi 12, beats Faisal Shaikh and Mohit Malik. See photos". 25 September 2022.
^ "Khatron Ke Khiladi 14: Rohit Shetty's show to be shot in Romania; Abhishek Kumar, Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia, Shoaib Ibrahim to participate". 23 April 2024.
^ "Colors".
^ "Meet the Khatron Ke Khiladi 14 Contestants".

External links

Khatron Ke Khiladi at IMDb
Khatron Ke Khiladi on Voot

[1] "Meet the contestants of Fear Factor-Khatron Ke Khiladi 5". The Times of India. 30 January 2014.

[indianexpress.com-2] "Khatron Ke Khiladi -Season 2 winner revealed?". 2 September 2009.

[3] "Have learnt to face my fears in 'Khatron Ke Khiladi': Rajniesh Duggall". Deccan Chronicle. 22 April 2014.

[kkk9-4] "Khatron Ke Khiladi Is Back. Contestants Include Vikas Gupta, Aditya Narayan, Bharti Singh, Haarsh Limbachiyaa". 12 July 2018.

[5] "Tushar Kalia wins Khatron Ke Khiladi 12, beats Faisal Shaikh and Mohit Malik. See photos". 25 September 2022.

[6] "Khatron Ke Khiladi 14: Rohit Shetty's show to be shot in Romania; Abhishek Kumar, Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia, Shoaib Ibrahim to participate". 23 April 2024.

[7] "Colors".

[8] "Meet the Khatron Ke Khiladi 14 Contestants".

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v t e Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi
Seasons	1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Spin-off 11 12 13
Hosts	Rohit Shetty (current) Akshay Kumar (2008, 2009–2011) Priyanka Chopra (2010) Arjun Kapoor (2016)
Winners	Nethra Raghuraman (season 1) Anushka Manchanda (season 2) Shabir Ahluwalia (season 3) Aarti Chhabria (season 4) Rajneesh Duggal (season 5) Aashish Chaudhary (season 6) Sidharth Shukla (season 7) Shantanu Maheshwari (season 8) Punit Pathak (season 9) Karishma Tanna (season 10) Nia Sharma (Made in India (Spin-off)) Arjun Bijlani (season 11) Tushar Kalia (season 12) Dino James (season 13)
Related articles	Fear Factor (international)