{{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 | otherlabel5 = No.of Seasons | years = 2004–present | otherdata7 = | otherlabel7 = | otherdata6 = Culver Max Entertainment<br>(Hindi, Marathi)<br/>Aha<br/>(Telugu) | otherlabel6 = Original network | otherdata5 = 18 | otherdata4 = 4 | otherlabel4 = No.of Versions | tv = {{plainlist| * ''Indian Idol'' * ''Indian Idol Marathi'' * ''Telugu Indian Idol'' }} | website = | otherdata3 = ''Pop Idol'' | otherlabel3 = Based on | otherdata2 = Fremantle<br>ARSenic's Business Empire (2010–present)<br/>Miditech (2005–2009)<br/>Optimystix Entertainment (2004–2005) | otherlabel2 = Produced by | otherdata1 = {{hlist|Hindi|Marathi|Telugu}} | otherlabel1 = Languages | direct-to-video = | color = blue }}
'''''Indian Idol''''' is an Indian music competition television franchise based on the ''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''' | rowspan="6" |'''Indian Idol''' |'''1''' |2004–05 | rowspan="2" |Aman Verma ----Mini Mathur | rowspan="6" |Anu Malik | rowspan="2" |Farah Khan | colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Sonu Nigam | rowspan="16" |SET |30 October 2004 |5 March 2005 | 12 | bgcolor="cyan" |Abhijeet Sawant | bgcolor="cyan" |Amit Sana |- |'''2''' |2005–06 |21 November 2005 |22 April 2006 |12 | bgcolor="cyan" |Sandeep Acharya | bgcolor="cyan" |N. C. Karunya |- |'''3''' |2007 |Hussain Kuwajerwala ----Mini Mathur |Udit Narayan |Alisha Chinai | rowspan="2" |Javed Akhtar |4 May 2007 |23 September 2007 |13 | bgcolor="cyan" |Prashant Tamang | bgcolor="cyan" |Amit Paul |- |'''4''' |2008–09 |Hussain Kuwajerwala ----Meiyang Chang |Sonali Bendre |Kailash Kher |19 September 2008 |1 March 2009 |12 | bgcolor="pink" |Sourabhee Debbarma | bgcolor="cyan" |Kapil Thapa |- |'''5''' |2010 |Hussain Kuwajerwala ----Abhijeet Sawant | rowspan="2" |Sunidhi Chauhan | colspan="2" |Salim Merchant |26 April 2010 |15 August 2010 |13 | bgcolor="cyan" |Sreerama Chandra | bgcolor="pink" |Bhoomi Trivedi |- |'''6''' |2012 |Hussain Kuwajerwala ----Mini Mathur |Salim Merchant |Asha Bhosle |1 June 2012 |1 September 2012 |16 | bgcolor="cyan" |Vipul Mehta | bgcolor="cyan" |Amit Kumar |- | rowspan="2" |'''Indian Idol Junior''' |'''7''' |2013 |Karan Wahi ----Mandira Bedi | rowspan="2" |Vishal Dadlani |Shreya Ghoshal | colspan="2" |Shekhar Ravjiani |1 June 2013 |1 September 2013 |11 | bgcolor="pink" |Anjana Padmanabhan | bgcolor="pink" |Debanjana Karmakar |- |'''8''' |2015 |Hussain Kuwajerwala ----Asha Negi |Salim Merchant | colspan="2" |Sonakshi Sinha |30 May 2015 |6 September 2015 |13 | bgcolor="pink" |Ananya Nanda | bgcolor="pink" |Nahid Afrin |- | rowspan="8" |'''Indian Idol''' |'''9''' |2016–17 |Karan Wahi ----Paritosh Tripathi | rowspan="3" |Anu Malik |Farah Khan | colspan="2" |Sonu Nigam |18 December 2016 |2 April 2017 |14 | bgcolor="cyan" |L. V. Revanth | bgcolor="cyan" |Khuda Baksh |- |'''10''' |2018 |Manish Paul | rowspan="2" |Vishal Dadlani | rowspan="2" |Neha Kakkar |Javed Ali |7 July 2018 |23 December 2018 |14 | bgcolor="cyan" |Salman Ali | bgcolor="cyan" |Ankush Bhardwaj |- |'''11''' |2019 | rowspan="3" |Aditya Narayan | rowspan="3" |Himesh Reshammiya |12 October 2019 |23 February 2020 |16 | bgcolor="cyan" |Sunny Hindustani | bgcolor="cyan" |Rohit Shyam Raut |- |'''12''' |2020–21 | colspan="2" rowspan="5" |Vishal Dadlani | rowspan="2" |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''' |2023–24 |Hussain Kuwajerwala | rowspan="3" |Shreya Ghoshal |Kumar Sanu |7 October 2023 |3 March 2024 |15 | bgcolor="cyan" |Vaibhav Gupta | bgcolor="cyan" |Subhadeep Das Chowdhury |- |'''15''' |2024–25 | rowspan="1" | Aditya Narayan | rowspan="2" | Badshah |26 October 2024 |6 April 2025 |16 | bgcolor="pink" |Manasi Ghosh | bgcolor="cyan" |Subhajit Chakraborty |-
|'''16''' | rowspan="1" | 2025-26 | rowspan="1" | Udit Narayan ----Aditya Narayan | rowspan="1" | 18 October 2025 | rowspan="1" | TBA |16 |TBA |TBA |- ! colspan="15" | |- | style="background: #FFA500;" |'''Marathi''' |'''Indian Idol Marathi''' |'''1''' |2021–22 |Swanandi Tikekar ----Prajakta Mali |Ajay–Atul | colspan="3" |None | rowspan="1" |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''' | rowspan="4" |'''Telugu Indian Idol''' |'''1''' |2022 |Sreerama Chandra | rowspan="4" |Thaman S | rowspan="4" |Karthik | colspan="2" |Nithya Menen | rowspan="4" |Aha |25 February 2022 |17 June 2022 |12 | bgcolor="pink" |BVK Vagdevi | bgcolor="cyan" |Srinivas Darimisetty |- |'''2''' |2023 |Hemachandra | colspan="2" rowspan="2" |Geetha Madhuri |3 March 2023 |4 June 2023 | rowspan="2" |13 | bgcolor="pink" |Soujanya Bhagavatula | bgcolor="cyan" |Jayaram |- |'''3''' |2024 |Sreerama Chandra |14 June 2024 |21 September 2024 | bgcolor="cyan" |Nazeeruddin Shaik | bgcolor="cyan" |Aniruddh Suswaram |- |'''4''' |2025 |Sreerama Chandra ----Sameera Baradwaj | colspan="2" |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