Anu Malik Farah Khan Sonu Nigam Aman Verma Mini Mathur Top 12 Contestants Anu Malik Farah Khan Sonu Nigam Mini Mathur Aman Verma Top 12 Contestants Javed Akhtar Anu Malik Alisha Chinai Udit Narayan Hussain Kuwajerwala Mini Mathur Top 13 Contestants The fourth season of Indian Idol was aired on Sony TV from 19 September 2008 to 1 March 2009.

One of the contestants, Bhavya Pandit, received an offer to sing the song "Aaja Lehraate" for the film What's Your Raashee, alongside singer Gautam Mrinaal.

[5][6][7] Anu Malik Sunidhi Chauhan Salim Merchant Asha Bhosle Hussain Kuwajerwala Mini Mathur On 23 June 2012, the judges selected the top 16 contestants to perform in the Gala Rounds.

Salim Merchant Sonakshi Sinha replaced Shalmali Kholgade Vishal Dadlani Hussain Kuwajerwala Asha Negi Top 13 Contestants Anu Malik Farah Khan Sonu Nigam Karan Wahi Paritosh Tripathi Top 14 Contestants Javed Ali replaced Anu Malik[11] Neha Kakkar Vishal Dadlani Manish Paul Top 14 Contestants The 11th season started to air on 12 October 2019 on Sony TV.

[14][15] Himesh Reshammiya replaced Anu Malik[11] Neha Kakkar Vishal Dadlani Aditya Narayan Top 16 contestants The 12th season started on 28 November 2020 on Sony TV.

[21] The finale was held on April 2, 2023, with Rishi Singh being declared as the winner of the season along with Deboshmita Roy as the 1st runner up.

The last contestant who got eliminated from the show was Senjuti Das on March 25, 2023, leaving the top 6 finalists[23] to compete for the Indian Idol trophy.

The fourteenth season premiered on 7 October 2023, with the theme Ek Awaz Lakhon Ehsaas (lit.

On 3 March 2024, the season concluded, with Vaibhav Gupta crowned as the winner, with Subhadeep Das Choudhary finishing as the runner-up.

The fifteenth season premiered in October 2024, with the theme Jo Gayega, Wo Nazar Aayega (lit.

According to Dutta since 2022, judges of Indian Idol do not give critical comments or point out flaws in singing after a contestant performed, and they praise everyone, and the audience also gets confused.

In 2021, Amit Kumar also expressed the same thing after he appeared as a guest judge, he said that the makers of Indian Idol specifically told him while filming that you have to praise every contestant and not criticize.

[25][26] In 2018, a participant Nishant Kaushik revealed on Twitter the suffering and ill-treatment of the people who come for the auditions of this show.