# Indian Idol

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{{Short description|Indian singing competition}}
{{Use Indian English|date=February 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2019}}
{{Infobox media franchise
| title = Indian Idol
| creator = [Simon Fuller](/source/Simon_Fuller)
| otherlabel5 = No.of Seasons
| years = 2004–present
| otherdata7 = 
| otherlabel7 = 
| otherdata6 = [Culver Max Entertainment](/source/Culver_Max_Entertainment)<br>(Hindi, Marathi)<br/>[Aha](/source/Aha_(streaming_service))<br/>(Telugu)
| otherlabel6 = Original network
| otherdata5 = 18
| otherdata4 = 4
| otherlabel4 = No.of Versions
| tv = {{plainlist|
* ''[Indian Idol](/source/Indian_Idol_(Hindi_TV_series))''
* ''[Indian Idol Marathi](/source/Indian_Idol_Marathi)''
* ''[Telugu Indian Idol](/source/Telugu_Indian_Idol)''
}}
| website = 
| otherdata3 = ''[Pop Idol](/source/Pop_Idol)''
| otherlabel3 = Based on
| otherdata2 = [Fremantle](/source/Fremantle_(company))<br>ARSenic's Business Empire (2010–present)<br/>[Miditech](/source/Miditech) (2005–2009)<br/>Optimystix Entertainment (2004–2005)
| otherlabel2 = Produced by
| otherdata1 = {{hlist|[Hindi](/source/Hindi)|[Marathi](/source/Marathi_language)|[Telugu](/source/Telugu_language)}}
| otherlabel1 = Languages
| direct-to-video = 
| color = blue
}}

'''''Indian Idol''''' is an Indian [music competition](/source/music_competition) television franchise based on the ''[Pop Idol](/source/Pop_Idol)'' format.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Beaster-Jones |first1=Jayson |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cjolDwAAQBAJ |title=Music in Contemporary Indian Film: Memory, Voice, Identity |last2=Sarrazin |first2=Natalie |date=2016-10-04 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-317-39970-4 |pages=76–90 |language=en}}</ref> 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 ==
: {{color box|#90EE90}} Currently airing – 1
:{{color box|#E0B0FF}} Upcoming for airing – 0
:{{color box|#fff2a5}} Recently concluded – 1
:{{color box|#FFA500}} No longer airing – 1

{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;font-size: 85%;  line-height:20px; width:75%;"
!'''Language'''
!'''Show'''
!'''Season'''
!'''Year'''
!'''Host'''
! colspan="4" |'''Judges'''
!'''Network'''
!'''Premiere'''
!'''Finale'''
!'''Contestants'''
!'''Winner'''
!'''Runner up'''
|-
| rowspan="16" style="background:#90EE90;" |'''[Hindi](/source/Hindi)'''
| rowspan="6" |['''Indian Idol'''](/source/Indian_Idol_(Hindi_TV_series))
|'''1'''
|2004–05
| rowspan="2" |[Aman Verma](/source/Aman_Verma_(actor))
----[Mini Mathur](/source/Mini_Mathur)
| rowspan="6" |[Anu Malik](/source/Anu_Malik)
| rowspan="2" |[Farah Khan](/source/Farah_Khan)
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |[Sonu Nigam](/source/Sonu_Nigam)
| rowspan="16" |[SET](/source/Sony_Entertainment_Television)
|30 October 2004
|5 March 2005
| 12
| bgcolor="cyan" |[Abhijeet Sawant](/source/Abhijeet_Sawant)
| bgcolor="cyan" |[Amit Sana](/source/Amit_Sana)
|-
|'''2'''
|2005–06
|21 November 2005
|22 April 2006
|12
| bgcolor="cyan" |[Sandeep Acharya](/source/Sandeep_Acharya)
| bgcolor="cyan" |[N. C. Karunya](/source/N._C._Karunya)
|-
|'''3'''
|2007
|[Hussain Kuwajerwala](/source/Hussain_Kuwajerwala)
----[Mini Mathur](/source/Mini_Mathur)
|[Udit Narayan](/source/Udit_Narayan)
|[Alisha Chinai](/source/Alisha_Chinai)
| rowspan="2" |[Javed Akhtar](/source/Javed_Akhtar)
|4 May 2007
|23 September 2007
|13
| bgcolor="cyan" |[Prashant Tamang](/source/Prashant_Tamang)
| bgcolor="cyan" |[Amit Paul](/source/Amit_Paul)
|-
|'''4'''
|2008–09
|[Hussain Kuwajerwala](/source/Hussain_Kuwajerwala)
----[Meiyang Chang](/source/Meiyang_Chang)
|[Sonali Bendre](/source/Sonali_Bendre)
|[Kailash Kher](/source/Kailash_Kher)
|19 September 2008
|1 March 2009
|12
| bgcolor="pink" |[Sourabhee Debbarma](/source/Sourabhee_Debbarma)
| bgcolor="cyan" |Kapil Thapa
|-
|'''5'''
|2010
|[Hussain Kuwajerwala](/source/Hussain_Kuwajerwala)
----[Abhijeet Sawant](/source/Abhijeet_Sawant)
| rowspan="2" |[Sunidhi Chauhan](/source/Sunidhi_Chauhan)
| colspan="2" |[Salim Merchant](/source/Salim_Merchant)
|26 April 2010
|15 August 2010
|13
| bgcolor="cyan" |[Sreerama Chandra](/source/Sreerama_Chandra)
| bgcolor="pink" |[Bhoomi Trivedi](/source/Bhoomi_Trivedi)
|-
|'''6'''
|2012
|[Hussain Kuwajerwala](/source/Hussain_Kuwajerwala)
----[Mini Mathur](/source/Mini_Mathur)
|[Salim Merchant](/source/Salim_Merchant)
|[Asha Bhosle](/source/Asha_Bhosle)
|1 June 2012
|1 September 2012
|16
| bgcolor="cyan" |[Vipul Mehta](/source/Vipul_Mehta_(singer))
| bgcolor="cyan" |Amit Kumar
|-
| rowspan="2" |'''[Indian Idol Junior](/source/Indian_Idol_Junior)'''
|'''7'''
|2013
|[Karan Wahi](/source/Karan_Wahi)
----[Mandira Bedi](/source/Mandira_Bedi)
| rowspan="2" |[Vishal Dadlani](/source/Vishal_Dadlani)
|[Shreya Ghoshal](/source/Shreya_Ghoshal)
| colspan="2" |[Shekhar Ravjiani](/source/Shekhar_Ravjiani)
|1 June 2013
|1 September 2013
|11
| bgcolor="pink" |Anjana Padmanabhan
| bgcolor="pink" |Debanjana Karmakar
|-
|'''8'''
|2015
|[Hussain Kuwajerwala](/source/Hussain_Kuwajerwala)
----[Asha Negi](/source/Asha_Negi)
|[Salim Merchant](/source/Salim_Merchant)
| colspan="2" |[Sonakshi Sinha](/source/Sonakshi_Sinha)
|30 May 2015
|6 September 2015
|13
| bgcolor="pink" |[Ananya Nanda](/source/Ananya_Nanda)
| bgcolor="pink" |[Nahid Afrin](/source/Nahid_Afrin)
|-
| rowspan="8" |['''Indian Idol'''](/source/Indian_Idol_(Hindi_TV_series))
|'''9'''
|2016–17
|[Karan Wahi](/source/Karan_Wahi)
----Paritosh Tripathi
| rowspan="3" |[Anu Malik](/source/Anu_Malik)
|[Farah Khan](/source/Farah_Khan)
| colspan="2" |[Sonu Nigam](/source/Sonu_Nigam)
|18 December 2016
|2 April 2017
|14
| bgcolor="cyan" |[L. V. Revanth](/source/L._V._Revanth)
| bgcolor="cyan" |Khuda Baksh
|-
|'''10'''
|2018
|[Manish Paul](/source/Manish_Paul)
| rowspan="2" |[Vishal Dadlani](/source/Vishal_Dadlani)
| rowspan="2" |[Neha Kakkar](/source/Neha_Kakkar)
|[Javed Ali](/source/Javed_Ali)
|7 July 2018
|23 December 2018
|14
| bgcolor="cyan" |[Salman Ali](/source/Salman_Ali)
| bgcolor="cyan" |Ankush Bhardwaj
|-
|'''11'''
|2019
| rowspan="3" |[Aditya Narayan](/source/Aditya_Narayan)
| rowspan="3" |[Himesh Reshammiya](/source/Himesh_Reshammiya)
|12 October 2019
|23 February 2020
|16
| bgcolor="cyan" |[Sunny Hindustani](/source/Sunny_Hindustani)
| bgcolor="cyan" |[Rohit Shyam Raut](/source/Rohit_Raut)
|-
|'''12'''
|2020–21
| colspan="2" rowspan="5" |[Vishal Dadlani](/source/Vishal_Dadlani)
| rowspan="2" |[Neha Kakkar](/source/Neha_Kakkar)
|28 November 2020
|15 August 2021
|15
| bgcolor="cyan" |Pawandeep Rajan
| bgcolor="pink" |Arunita Kanjilal
|-
|'''13'''
|2022–23
|10 September 2022
|2 April 2023
|15
| bgcolor="cyan" |Rishi Singh
| bgcolor="pink" |Deboshmita Roy
|-
|['''14'''](/source/Indian_Idol_(Hindi_TV_series)_season_14)
|2023–24
|[Hussain Kuwajerwala](/source/Hussain_Kuwajerwala)
| rowspan="3" |[Shreya Ghoshal](/source/Shreya_Ghoshal)
|[Kumar Sanu](/source/Kumar_Sanu)
|7 October 2023
|3 March 2024
|15
| bgcolor="cyan" |Vaibhav Gupta
| bgcolor="cyan" |Subhadeep Das Chowdhury
|-
|'''[15](/source/Indian_Idol_(Hindi_TV_series)_season_15)'''
|2024–25
| rowspan="1" | [Aditya Narayan](/source/Aditya_Narayan)
| rowspan="2" | [Badshah](/source/Badshah_(rapper))
|26 October 2024
|6 April 2025
|16
| bgcolor="pink" |Manasi Ghosh
| bgcolor="cyan" |Subhajit Chakraborty
|-

|['''16'''](/source/Indian_Idol_(Hindi_TV_series)_season_16)
| rowspan="1" | 2025-26
| rowspan="1" | [Udit Narayan](/source/Udit_Narayan)
----[Aditya Narayan](/source/Aditya_Narayan)
| rowspan="1" | 18 October 2025
| rowspan="1" | TBA
|16
|TBA
|TBA
|-
! colspan="15" |
|-
| style="background: #FFA500;" |'''[Marathi](/source/Marathi_language)'''
|'''[Indian Idol Marathi](/source/Indian_Idol_Marathi)'''
|'''1'''
|2021–22
|[Swanandi Tikekar](/source/Swanandi_Tikekar)
----[Prajakta Mali](/source/Prajakta_Mali)
|[Ajay–Atul](/source/Ajay%E2%80%93Atul)
| colspan="3" |None
| rowspan="1" |[Sony Marathi](/source/Sony_Marathi)
|22 November 2021
|20 April 2022
|15
| bgcolor="cyan" |Sagar Mhatre
| bgcolor="cyan" |Jagdish Chavan
|-
! colspan="15" |
|-
| rowspan="4" style="background: #fff2a5;" |'''[Telugu](/source/Telugu_language)'''
| rowspan="4" |'''[Telugu Indian Idol](/source/Telugu_Indian_Idol)'''
|'''[1](/source/Telugu_Indian_Idol)'''
|2022
|[Sreerama Chandra](/source/Sreerama_Chandra)
| rowspan="4" |[Thaman S](/source/Thaman_S)
| rowspan="4" |[Karthik](/source/Karthik_(singer))
| colspan="2" |[Nithya Menen](/source/Nithya_Menen)
| rowspan="4" |[Aha](/source/Aha_(streaming_service))
|25 February 2022
|17 June 2022
|12
| bgcolor="pink" |BVK Vagdevi
| bgcolor="cyan" |Srinivas Darimisetty
|-
|'''[2](/source/Telugu_Indian_Idol)'''
|2023
|[Hemachandra](/source/Hemachandra_(singer))
| colspan="2" rowspan="2" |[Geetha Madhuri](/source/Geetha_Madhuri)
|3 March 2023
|4 June 2023
| rowspan="2" |13
| bgcolor="pink" |Soujanya Bhagavatula
| bgcolor="cyan" |Jayaram
|-
|'''[3](/source/Telugu_Indian_Idol)'''
|2024
|[Sreerama Chandra](/source/Sreerama_Chandra)
|14 June 2024
|21 September 2024
| bgcolor="cyan" |Nazeeruddin Shaik
| bgcolor="cyan" |Aniruddh Suswaram
|-
|'''4'''
|2025
|[Sreerama Chandra](/source/Sreerama_Chandra)
----Sameera Baradwaj
| colspan="2" |[Geetha Madhuri](/source/Geetha_Madhuri)
|29 August 2025
|1 November 2025
|12
|bgcolor="pink" |Brinda
|bgcolor="cyan" |Pavan Kalyan
|}

== References ==
{{reflist}}

{{Idol series}}

Category:Indian Idol
Category:Television series by Fremantle (company)
Category:Indian television series based on British television series
Category:Indian singing talent shows

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