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Indian Idol
Format	Interactive reality game show
Created by	Simon Fuller
Presented by	Mini Mathur (2005-2007) Aman Verma (2005-2006) Hussain Kuwajerwala Meiyang Chang (2008-2009) Deepali Kishore (2008-2009)
Judges	Farah Khan (2005-2006) Anu Malik (2005-present) Sonu Nigam (2005-2006) Alisha Chinai (2007) Udit Narayan (2007) Javed Akhtar (2007-present) Kailash Kher (2008) Sonali Bendre (2008)
Country of origin	India
No. of seasons	4
Production
Running time	Varies
Broadcast
Original channel	SET
Original run	2004 – Present
External links
Official website

[edit] Season 1

The winner of the first season of Indian Idol was Abhijeet Sawant.

Rahul Saxena, who failed to make it to the top 6, has been offered a song by Indian Idol judge and director, Farah Khan, in her new film Om Shanti Om and Amit Tandon got work in a new serial from Ekta Kapoor and Balaji Telefilms. Amit Sana, Rahul Vaidya and Prajakta Shukre have released their solo albums.

Abhijeet Sawant participated in Asian Idol, representing India, and placed third. He also released his second album Junoon which was a success and he also did play back for the movie, Ashiq Banaya Apne.

Abhijeet Sawant did some commercials for Spraymint. He started acting with his debut film Lottery, which is expected to release March 2009.

Rahul Vaidya, the runner up, hosted the show Aaja Mahi Ve on the channel Star Plus. He also hosted the popular dance reality show, Jhoom India. He did playback singing in the film, Shadi no. 1.

[edit] Season 2

The winner of the second season of Indian Idol was Sandip Acharya.

Many of the top 10 contestants have commenced their singing careers. Neha Kakkar has rendered a song for a pop album where she sings "Chandani Raatein". Yashashree Bhave has tied the knot and settled down, teaching students music at her home. Panna Gill is doing stage shows and has just released a solo album. Sixth place contestant Meenal Jain has done stage shows with Sonu Nigam and also received an offer from Anu Malik. In addition, Antara Mitra, a regular favorite of Anu Malik, has also been presented an offer from many music directors and also is recording her solo album. Antara also gets to fifth place instead of fourth place.

Monali Thakur sang the song Zara Zara Touch Me in the film Race (film) as well as the song Sexy Lady (Khaab Dekhe Chote Mote). Impressed with her singing, music director Pritam offered her another chance in the film Golmaal with a song titled, Meow.

Antara Mitra sang the remix of the song, Ye Ishq Hai in the film Jab We Met.

Karunya released his solo album titled Aapka Karunya. Karunya also got an opportunity to sing in the film,Lage Raho Munna Bhai, with the song, Aane Chaar Aane.

Neha Kakkar released her solo album, Tere Baap Ka, by Meet Brothers.

Meenal Jain released her debut solo album, Mehraam.

[edit] Season 3

The winner of the Third season was Prashant Tamang, who hails from Darjeeling in West Bengal. The runner-up, Amit Paul was from Shillong, Meghalaya. Voting count of Indian Idol 3 Finale has broken many records, around 7 crore (70 million) votes were received. Prashant Tamang has cut a solo album as per contract with Sony. He also conducted a world tour of shows. Suhit Gosain (Top 14) appeared in a successful KitKat chocolate advertisement. Four finalists, Chang, Suhit, Parleen & Abhishek entered into a contract with Sony BMG and cut an album named Tu To Na Aayi as a band of Boys named F4. Videos of the title song and another number Udd Chale have been released. F4 was also declared 'The Next Big Thing' on channel V. Sameer Rana from meerut and Deepali Kishore sung a song I Love You, composed by Anu Malik for the film Don Muthuswami.

Amit Paul sang the song "Pyaar Ki Dastaan" in the film Luck by Chance (starring Farhan Akhtar and Konkona Sen Sharma). This song was offered to him by Javed Akhtar.

[edit] Season 4

Registration for season 4 began on April 1, 2008 ^[1]. The fourth season saw Anu Malik and Javed Akhtar on the hot seats as they took judges' chair once again for the show. New to this season were singer Kailash Kher and Indian actress Sonali Bendre.

Like the previous season, the first four finalists to be eliminated were female, and the judges believed that some of these girls were better singers than some of the remaining boys. All the previous years' top 3 finalists have also been male, leading to speculation of sexism against women among the Indian voting public.

For the first time in Indian Idol history there were two girls in the top 3 after Rajdeep Chaterjee was eliminated on February 14. Sourabhee Debbarma won the title of the Indian Idol and became the first female contestant to do so.By doing so she won a contract of Rs. 1 crore with Sony Entertainment Television and a TATA Winger. Kapil Thapa finished second and Torsha Sarkar finished third.

[edit] Audition Centres

The audition centres location varies in accordance with the participating level. The Audition Zones are divided into 5 which include :

North Zone

• New Delhi
• Chandigarh
• Amritsar
• Lucknow
• Kanpur
• Varanasi
• Allahabad
• Dehradun

East Zone

• Kolkata
• Bhubaneshwar
• Patna

South Zone

• Hyderabad
• Chennai
• Trivendrum
• Bangalore
• Mysore

West Zone

• Mumbai
• Pune
• Nasik
• Kolhapur
• Ahemedabad
• Jaipur

Central Zone

• Bhopal
• Indore
• Gwalior
• Jabalpur
• Nagpur

It also had auditions outside India like in London, Dubai etc.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Indian Idol official website
• Indian Idol at the Internet Movie Database

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