# Indian Idol (Hindi TV series) season 14

The fourteenth season of the Hindi-language music competition reality series Indian Idol premiered on 7 October 2023, on the Sony Entertainment Television.
The season was won by Vaibhav Gupta from Kanpur and Shubadeep Das was the runner-up.

## Production

The season was hosted by Hussain Kuwajerwala, marking his return to the show after a hiatus of 11 years. The judging panel saw the return of Vishal Dadlani, alongside new judges Shreya Ghoshal and Kumar Sanu, who replaced Neha Kakkar and Himesh Reshammiya. Saahil Chhabria directed the season, with production handled by Fremantle India.

## Auditions

Remote auditions took place for several days in 2023, as well as a number of open-call auditions, and from these, the producers selected the contestants who were then invited to audition in front of the judges.
Filming does not take place until the judges' audition round. The year, the auditions were filmed at the Film City in Mumbai.
Golden ticket and golden mic were distributed in the auditions, they both advanced the participants to the theatre round. However, this was the last season of golden mic as it was replaced by the platinum mic the next season.

## Top 15 contestants

Of the number of contestants, only fifteen made it to the gala round to start competing in the bi-weekly elimination competition. They are:
| Contestant | From | Status |
| Vaibhav Gupta | Kanpur | Winner on 3 March 2024 |
| Subhadeep Das | Kolkata | Runner-up on 3 March 2024 |
| Piyush Panwar | Rajasthan | Third place on 3 March 2024 |
| Ananya Pal | Kolkata | Fourth place on 3 March 2024 |
| Anjana Padmanabhan | Mumbai | Fifth place on 3 March 2024 |
| Adya Mishra | Faridabad | Sixth place on 3 March 2024 |
| Obom Tangu | Arunachal Pradesh | Eliminated on 24 February 2024 |
| Dipan Mitra | Kolkata | Eliminated on 18 February 2024 |
| Utkarsh Wankhede | Nagpur | Eliminated on 4 February 2024 |
| Menuka Poudel | Nepal | Eliminated on 4 February 2024 |
| Muskan Srivastava | Ghaziabad | Eliminated on 21 January 2024 |
| Mahima Bhattacharjee | Kolkata | Eliminated on 7 January 2024 |
| Surender Kumar | Rajasthan | Eliminated on 10 December 2023 |
| Maithili Shome | Mumbai | Eliminated on 26 November 2023 |
| Gayathry Rajiv | Kochi | Eliminated on 12 November 2023 |

## Elimination chart

Indian Idol season 14 - Eliminations :
| Contestant | Pl. | Top 15 | Top 14 | Top 13 | Top 12 | Top 12 | Top 11 | Top 10 | Top 8 | Semi-Final | Grand-Finale |
| Contestant | Pl. | 11/11–12/11 | 25/11–26/11 | 9/12–10/12 | 23/12–24/12 | 6/1–7/1* | 20/1–21/1 | 3/2–4/2 | 17/2–18/2 | 24/2 | 3/3 |
| Vaibhav Gupta | 1st | Safe | Safe | Saved | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Winner |
| Subhadeep Das | 2nd | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Saved | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Runner-up |
| Piyush Panwar | 3rd | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Immunity | Third place |
| Ananya Pal | 4th | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Fourth place |
| Anjana Padmanabhan | 5th | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Fifth place |
| Adya Mishra | 6th | Saved | Saved | Safe | Safe | Saved | Saved | Safe | Saved | Safe | Sixth place |
| Obom Tangu | 7th | Saved | Safe | Saved | Safe | Safe | Saved | Saved | Saved | Eliminated | |
| Dipan Mitra | 8th | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Eliminated | | |
| Utkarsh Wankhede | 9th | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Eliminated | | | |
| Menuka Poudel | 9th | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Saved | Safe | Eliminated | | | |
| Muskan Srivastava | 11th | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Eliminated | | | | |
| Mahima Bhattacharjee | 12th | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Eliminated | | | | | |
| Surender Kumar | 13th | Safe | Saved | Eliminated | | | | | | | |
| Maithili Shome | 14th | Safe | Eliminated | | | | | | | | |
| Gayathry Rajiv | 15th | Eliminated | | | | | | | | | |

## Celebrity guests

The season saw a large number of celebrity guests who were present either to promote their films or to celebrate their legacy. The guests, in their order of appearance, include:
* Kavita Krishnamurthy
* Salim Sulaiman
* Richa Sharma
* Arshad Warsi
* Abhijeet Sawant
* Mahesh Bhatt
* Mithoon
* Armaan Malik
* Shilpa Rao
* Vicky Kaushal
* Sanya Malhotra
* Sana Sheikh
* Anuradha Paudwal
* Sadhana Sargam
* Ranbir Kapoor
* Rashmika Mandanna
* Karisma Kapoor
* Anand Milind
* Anandji V Shah
* Raj Babbar
* Salma Agha
* Nitin Mukesh
* Subhash Ghai
* Mahima Chaudhry
* Javed Ali
* Annu Kapoor
* Udit Narayan
* Sanjay Dutt
* Shatrughan Sinha
* Amit Kumar
* Zeenat Aman
* Abhijeet Bhattacharya
* Mohnish Bahl
* Moushumi Chatterjee
* Shahid Kapoor
* Kriti Sanon
* Sukhwinder Singh
* Javed Akhtar
* Rajat Sharma
* Urmila Matondkar
* Sonu Nigam
* Hrithik Roshan