Indian Idol
Season Year Channel Host Contestants Winner Runner-up
1 2004-05 Sony TV Aman Verma Mini Mathur 12 Abhijeet Sawant Amit Sana
2 2005-06 Sony TV Aman Verma Mini Mathur 12 Sandeep Acharya N. C. Karunya
3 2007 Sony TV Hussain Kuwajerwala Mini Mathur 13 Prashant Tamang Amit Paul
4 2008-09 Sony TV Hussain Kuwajerwala Meiyang Chang 12 Sourabhee Debbarma Kapil Thapa
5 2010 Sony TV Hussain Kuwajerwala Abhijeet Sawant 13 Sreerama Chandra Mynampati Rakesh Maini
6 2012 Sony TV Hussain Kuwajerwala Mini Mathur 16 Vipul Mehta Amit Kumar
Indian Idol Junior Season 1 2013 Sony TV Karan Wahi Mandira Bedi 11 Anjana Padmanabhan Debanjana Karmakar
Indian Idol Junior Season 2 2015 Sony TV Hussain Kuwajerwala Asha Negi 13 Ananya Nanda Nahid Afrin
9 2016-17 Sony TV Karan Wahi Paritosh Tripathi 14 LV Revanth Khuda Baksh
10 2018 Sony TV Manish Paul 14 Salman Ali Ankush Bhardwaj
11 2019 Sony TV Aditya Narayan 17
Summary
Indian Idol is the Indian version of the Pop Idol format that airs on Sony Entertainment Television since 2004. It started airing in India with the first season in 2004-2005 and was followed by second (2005-2006), third (2007), fourth (2008-2009), fifth (2010) and sixth season (2012). For the seventh and eight season Indian Idol Junior replaced the show before the original Indian Idol returned for 9th season in 2016 and the 10th season in 2018. The 11th season in 2019-20 is aired on Sony TV.