To mark 20 years of Indian Idol, the platinum mic[5] was introduced that guarantees the contestant a position in Top 15.

The platinum mics were given to Srijan Porail, Mayuri Saha and Sneha Shankar by Dadlani, Ghoshal and Badshah respectively.

Also, during the judges' audition, the traditional "sticker" of contestant's serial number was replaced with a new "identity card" as shown in the promo.

[citation needed] The Theatre round featured the top 31 golden ticket holder contestants performing for the judges.

Neeti Mohan served as the guest judge and mentor in absence of Badshah, and Pawandeep Rajan and Mohd.

Colour Key: Special guests: Usha Mangeshkar, Sanjeev Kapoor, Manoj Tiwari, Asees Kaur, Goldie Sohel, Bhagyashree, Arjun Kanungo, Divyansh Kacholia, Sanjay B Jumani, Kunal Ganjawala Ragini Shinde, who was eliminated in the theatre round, when Badhshah was absent, joined as wild card contestant in Gala 1, on request of Badshah, to make it Top 16.

To celebrate an year of the movie Animal, its director Sandeep Reddy Vanga joined as a special guest on the first night.

Karisma Kapoor, Padmini Kolhapure and Anees Bazmee joined as special guests for the week.

In this week Indian Idol celebrated the greatest love songs with singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya and his wife Sumati Bhattacharya, music composer Lalit Pandit of the duo Jatin-Lalit, singer Sadhana Sargam and actress Preeti Jhangiani.

For night 1, the crew and cast of upcoming film Azaad, namely, Rasha Thadani, Amaan Devgan, Abhishek Kapoor and Amit Trivedi joined for the promotions.

[10] And in night 2, the cast of upcoming film Emergency, Kangana Ranaut and Anupam Kher joined for the promotion.

In this Episode Vikas Khanna and Ranveer Brar joined the sets with Rajiv Adatia, Archana Gautam, Tejasswi Prakash, Faisal Shaikh, Gaurav Khanna and Abhijeet Sawant contestants of Celebrity Masterchef India In next Episode Akshay Kumar and Veer Pahariya joined the sets for the promotion of their film Sky Force.

In Part 1 contestants sang evergreen songs and Junaid Khan and Khushi Kapoor joined the sets for the promotion of their movie Loveyapa In Part 2 Megastar Jeetendra joined the sets to celebrate evergreen songs.