Season 1 •
Judges Anu Malik Farah Khan Sonu Nigam •
Host Aman Verma Mini Mathur Top 12 Contestants Season 2 •
Judges Anu Malik Farah Khan Sonu Nigam •
Host Mini Mathur Aman Verma Top 12 Contestants Season 3 •
Judges Javed Akhtar Anu Malik Alisha Chinai Udit Narayan •
Host Hussain Kuwajerwala Mini Mathur Top 13 Contestants 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. 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. •
Judges Javed Akhtar Anu Malik Sonali Bendre Kailash Kher •
Host Hussain Kuwajerwala Meiyang Chang Top 14 Contestants Season 5 •
Judges Anu Malik Sunidhi Chauhan Salim Merchant •
Host Hussain Kuwajerwala Abhijeet Sawant Top 13 Contestants Note: Sreerama, Rakesh, and Bhoomi were the top 3. Sreeram was crowned the winner without announcing the 1st and 2nd runner-ups.
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. •
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 Indian Idol Junior Season 1 •
Judges Vishal Dadlani Shreya Ghoshal Shekhar Ravjiani •
Host Karan Wahi Mandira Bedi Top 11 Contestants Indian Idol Junior Season 2 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 Season 9 •
Judges Anu Malik Farah Khan Sonu Nigam •
Host Karan Wahi Paritosh Tripathi
Top 14 Contestants Season 10 •
Judges Javed Ali Neha Kakkar Vishal Dadlani •
Former Judge Anu Malik •
Host Manish Paul Top 14 Contestants Season 11 The 11th season started to air on 12 October 2019 on Sony TV. It was 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 judging panel for
Me Too allegations. He was then replaced by
Himesh Reshammiya. •
Judges Himesh Reshammiya replaced
Anu Malik Neha Kakkar Vishal Dadlani •
Host Aditya Narayan Top 16 contestants Season 12 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. Pawandeep Rajan was declared the winner of the season and Arunita Kanjilal became the 1st Runner-up. This was the longest running season of Indian Idol. •
Judges Vishal Dadlani Neha Kakkar Himesh Reshammiya •
Guest judges Anu Malik Sonu 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 •
Guest 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 Season 13 The Ground Auditions started in July 2022. The show started on 10 September 2022. 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. •
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 to compete for the Indian Idol trophy.
Season 14 The fourteenth season premiered on 7 October 2023, with the theme
Ek Awaz Lakhon Ehsaas (lit.
One Voice, Million Emotion). On 3 March 2024, the season concluded, with Vaibhav Gupta crowned as the winner, with Subhadeep Das Choudhary finishing as the runner-up. •
Judges Kumar Sanu Shreya Ghoshal Vishal Dadlani •
Host Hussain Kuwajerwala •
Guest Hosts Aditya Narayan Top 15 Contestants Season 15 The fifteenth season premiered in October 2024, with the theme
Jo Gayega, Wo Nazar Aayega (lit.
Good Singers will get noticed). On 6 April 2025, the season concluded, with Manasi Ghosh crowned as the winner, with Subhajit Chakraborty finishing as the runner-up. •
Judges Badshah Shreya Ghoshal Vishal Dadlani •
Host Aditya Narayan Top 16 Contestants Season 16 The sixteenth season premiered on 18 October 2025, with the theme
Yaadon Ki Playlist. •
Judges Badshah Shreya Ghoshal Vishal Dadlani •
Host Aditya Narayan ==Notes==