# Indian Idol

Indian Idol is an Indian music competition television franchise based on the Pop Idol format. Several iterations of the series have been produced by different companies. The first series premiered in 2004. There have been 18 seasons to date.

## Versions

    Currently airing – 0
    Recently concluded – 3
| Language | Show | Season | Year | Host | Judges | Judges | Judges | Judges | Network | Premiere | Finale | Contestants | Winner | Runner up |
| Hindi | Indian Idol | 1 | 2004–05 | Aman Verma Mini Mathur | Anu Malik | Farah Khan | Sonu Nigam | Sonu Nigam | SET | 30 October 2004 | 5 March 2005 | 12 | Abhijeet Sawant | Amit Sana |
| Hindi | Indian Idol | 2 | 2005–06 | Aman Verma Mini Mathur | Anu Malik | Farah Khan | Sonu Nigam | Sonu Nigam | SET | | | 12 | Sandeep Acharya | N. C. Karunya |
| Hindi | Indian Idol | 3 | 2007 | Hussain Kuwajerwala Mini Mathur | Anu Malik | Udit Narayan | Alisha Chinai | Javed Akhtar | SET | | | 13 | Prashant Tamang | Amit Paul |
| Hindi | Indian Idol | 4 | 2008–09 | Hussain Kuwajerwala Meiyang Chang | Anu Malik | Sonali Bendre | Kailash Kher | Javed Akhtar | SET | 19 September 2008 | 1 March 2009 | 12 | Sourabhee Debbarma | Kapil Thapa |
| Hindi | Indian Idol | 5 | 2010 | Hussain Kuwajerwala Abhijeet Sawant | Anu Malik | Sunidhi Chauhan | Salim Merchant | Salim Merchant | SET | | | 13 | Sreerama Chandra | Bhoomi Trivedi |
| Hindi | Indian Idol | 6 | 2012 | Hussain Kuwajerwala Mini Mathur | Anu Malik | Sunidhi Chauhan | Salim Merchant | Asha Bhosle | SET | 1 June 2012 | 1 September 2012 | 16 | Vipul Mehta | Amit Kumar |
| Hindi | Indian Idol Junior | 7 | 2013 | Karan Wahi Mandira Bedi | Vishal Dadlani | Shreya Ghoshal | Shekhar Ravjiani | Shekhar Ravjiani | SET | 1 June 2013 | | 11 | Anjana Padmanabhan | Debanjana Karmakar |
| Hindi | Indian Idol Junior | 8 | 2015 | Hussain Kuwajerwala Asha Negi | Vishal Dadlani | Salim Merchant | Sonakshi Sinha | Sonakshi Sinha | SET | 30 May 2015 | 6 September 2015 | 13 | Ananya Nanda | Nahid Afrin |
| Hindi | Indian Idol | 9 | 2016–17 | Karan Wahi Paritosh Tripathi | Anu Malik | Farah Khan | Sonu Nigam | Sonu Nigam | SET | | | 14 | L. V. Revanth | Khuda Baksh |
| Hindi | Indian Idol | 10 | 2018 | Manish Paul | Anu Malik | Vishal Dadlani | Neha Kakkar | Javed Ali | SET | | | 14 | Salman Ali | Ankush Bhardwaj |
| Hindi | Indian Idol | 11 | 2019 | Aditya Narayan | Anu Malik | Vishal Dadlani | Neha Kakkar | Himesh Reshammiya | SET | 12 October 2019 | | 17 | Sunny Hindustani | Rohit Shyam Raut |
| Hindi | Indian Idol | 12 | 2020–21 | Aditya Narayan | Vishal Dadlani | Vishal Dadlani | Neha Kakkar | Himesh Reshammiya | SET | 28 November 2020 | 15 August 2021 | 15 | Pawandeep Rajan | Arunita Kanjilal |
| Hindi | Indian Idol | 13 | 2022–23 | Aditya Narayan | Vishal Dadlani | Vishal Dadlani | Neha Kakkar | Himesh Reshammiya | SET | 10 September 2022 | 2 April 2023 | 15 | Rishi Singh | Deboshmita Roy |
| Hindi | Indian Idol | 14 | 2023–24 | Hussain Kuwajerwala | Vishal Dadlani | Vishal Dadlani | Shreya Ghoshal | Kumar Sanu | SET | 7 October 2023 | 3 March 2024 | 15 | Vaibhav Gupta | Subhadeep Das Chowdhury |
| Hindi | Indian Idol | 15 | 2024-25 | Aditya Narayan | Vishal Dadlani | Vishal Dadlani | Shreya Ghoshal | Badshah | SET | 26 October 2024 | | 16 | | |
| Marathi | Indian Idol Marathi | 1 | 2021–22 | Swanandi Tikekar Prajakta Mali | Ajay–Atul | None | None | None | Sony Marathi | 22 November 2021 | 20 April 2022 | 15 | Sagar Mhatre | Jagdish Chavan |
| Telugu | Telugu Indian Idol | 1 | 2022 | Sreerama Chandra | Thaman S | Karthik | Nithya Menen | Nithya Menen | Aha | 25 February 2022 | 17 June 2022 | 12 | BVK Vagdevi | Srinivas Darimisetty |
| Telugu | Telugu Indian Idol | 2 | 2023 | Hemachandra | Thaman S | Karthik | Geetha Madhuri | Geetha Madhuri | Aha | 3 March 2023 | 4 June 2023 | 13 | Soujanya Bhagavatula | Jayaram |
| Telugu | Telugu Indian Idol | 3 | 2024 | Sreerama Chandra | Thaman S | Karthik | Geetha Madhuri | Geetha Madhuri | Aha | 14 June 2024 | 21 September 2024 | 13 | Nazeeruddin Shaik | Aniruddh Suswaram |