Khatron Ke Khiladi (TV series)
Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi (transl. Fear Factor: Players of Danger) simply known as Khatron Ke Khiladi is an Indian Hindi-language stunt-based reality television series based on the American series Fear Factor.[1] First launched as Fear Factor India on Sony TV, the format was sold by Endemol's domestic division after the second season to Colors TV, becoming Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi on 21 July 2008. A spin-off of the main-series Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi – Made in India was launched on 1 August 2020 where contestants from previous years participated.
Khatron Ke Khiladi | |
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Genre | |
Based on | Fear Factor |
Presented by | Akshay Kumar (season 1, 2, 4) Priyanka Chopra (season 3) Rohit Shetty (season 5–6, 8–14) Arjun Kapoor (season 7) |
Starring | see below |
Country of origin | India |
Original language | Hindi |
No. of seasons | 14 |
No. of episodes | 262 |
Production | |
Production locations | |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | around 120 minutes |
Production companies |
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Original release | |
Network | Colors TV |
Release | 21 July 2008 present | –
Related | |
Series overview
editSeries | Host | Destination | Episodes | Originally aired | Contestants | Winner | Runner-up | ||
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First aired | Last aired | ||||||||
1 | Akshay Kumar | South Africa | 16 | 21 July 2008 | 14 August 2008 | 12 | Nethra Raghuraman | Urvashi Sharma | |
2 | 16 | 7 September 2009 | 1 October 2009 | 13 | Anushka Manchanda | Jesse Randhawa | |||
3 | Priyanka Chopra | Brazil | 16 | 6 September 2010 | 30 September 2010 | 13 | Shabir Ahluwalia | Ritwik Bhattacharya | |
4 | Akshay Kumar | South Africa | 16 | 3 June 2011 | 23 July 2011 | 13 | Aarti Chhabria | Mauli Dave | |
5 | Rohit Shetty | 20 | 22 March 2014 | 25 May 2014 | 17 | Rajneesh Duggal | Gurmeet Choudhary | ||
6 | 20 | 7 February 2015 | 12 April 2015 | 15 | Aashish Chaudhary | Meiyang Chang | |||
7 | Arjun Kapoor | Argentina | 20 | 30 January 2016 | 3 April 2016 | 15 | Sidharth Shukla | Sana Saeed | |
8 | Rohit Shetty | Spain | 21 | 22 July 2017 | 30 September 2017 | 12 | Shantanu Maheshwari | Hina Khan | |
9 | Argentina | 20 | 5 January 2019 | 10 March 2019 | 12 | Punit Pathak | Aditya Narayan | ||
10 | Bulgaria | 22 | 22 February 2020 | 26 July 2020 | 10 | Karishma Tanna | Karan Patel | ||
11 | South Africa | 22 | 17 July 2021 | 26 September 2021 | 13 | Arjun Bijlani | Divyanka Tripathi | ||
12 | 26 | 2 July 2022 | 25 September 2022 | 14 | Tushar Kalia | Faisal Shaikh | |||
13 | 27 | 15 July 2023 | 14 October 2023 | 14 | Dino James | Arjit Taneja | |||
14 | Romania | 20 | 27 July 2024 | 29 September 2024 | 12 | Karan Veer Mehra | Krishna Shroff |
Spin-off
editSeries | Host | Episodes | Originally aired | Contestants | Winner | Runner-up | Destination | ||
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First aired | Last aired | ||||||||
1 | Farah Khan Rohit Shetty | 10 | 1 August 2020 | 30 August 2020 | 9 | Nia Sharma | Karan Wahi | India |
Season 1
editKhatron Ke Khiladi | |
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Season 1 | |
Presented by | Akshay Kumar |
No. of contestants | 15 |
Winner | Nethra Raghuraman |
Runner-up | Urvashi Sharma |
No. of episodes | 16 |
Release | |
Original network | Colors TV |
Original release | 21 July 14 August 2008 | –
Season chronology |
Khatron Ke Khiladi 1 was hosted by Akshay Kumar. Nethra Raghuraman was declared the winner of the season.
Contestants | Occupation | Status | Place | |
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Nethra Raghuraman | Actress | Winner | 1 | |
Urvashi Sharma | Actress | 1st runner-up | 2 | |
Aditi Govitrikar | Model | 2nd runner-up | 3 | |
Pooja Bedi | Actress | Eliminated | 4 | |
Yana Gupta | Model | Eliminated | 5 | |
Eliminated | ||||
Sonali Kulkarni | Actress | Eliminated | 6 | |
Eliminated | ||||
Anjana Sukhani | Actress | Eliminated | 7 | |
Meghna Naidu | Actress | Eliminated | 8 | |
Eliminated | ||||
Dipannita Sharma | Actress | Eliminated | 9 | |
Eliminated | ||||
Anita Hassanandani | Actress | Eliminated | 10 | |
Tapur Chatterjee | Actress | Eliminated | 11 | |
Tupur Chatterjee | Model | Eliminated | 12 | |
Vidya Malavade | Actress | Eliminated | 13 | |
Payal Rohatgi | Actress | Eliminated | 14[2] | |
Sayali Bhagat | Actress | Eliminated | 15[2] |
- Indicates original entrants
- Indicates re-entered entrants
Season 2
editKhatron Ke Khiladi | |
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Season 2 | |
Presented by | Akshay Kumar |
No. of contestants | 14 |
Winner | Anushka Manchanda |
Runner-up | Jesse Randhawa |
No. of episodes | 16 |
Release | |
Original network | Colors TV |
Original release | 7 September 1 October 2009 | –
Season chronology |
Khatron Ke Khiladi 2 was hosted by Akshay Kumar. Anushka Manchanda was declared the winner of the season.
Contestants | Occupation | Status | Place | |
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Anushka Manchanda | Singer | Winner | 1 | |
Jesse Randhawa | Model | 1st runner-up | 2 | |
Carol Gracias | Model | Eliminated | 3 | |
2nd runner-up | ||||
Rosa Catalano | Model | Eliminated | 4 | |
Eliminated | ||||
Nauheed Cyrusi | Actress | Eliminated | 5 | |
Shonali Nagrani | Actress | Eliminated | 6 | |
Eliminated | ||||
Bruna Abdullah | Model | Eliminated | 7 | |
Eliminated | ||||
Pooja Misrra | VJ | Eliminated | 8 | |
Sonika Kaliraman | Wrestler | Eliminated | 9 | |
Shveta Salve | Actress | Eliminated | 10 | |
Mandira Bedi | Actress | Eliminated | 11 | |
Rupali Ganguly | Actress | Eliminated | 12 | |
Pia Trivedi | Model | Eliminated | 13 | |
Sushma Reddy | Actress | Eliminated | 14 |
- Indicates original entrants
- Indicates re-entered entrants
Season 3
editKhatron Ke Khiladi | |
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Season 3 | |
Presented by | Priyanka Chopra |
No. of contestants | 13 |
Winner | Shabir Ahluwalia |
Runner-up | Ritwik Bhattacharya |
No. of episodes | 16 |
Release | |
Original network | Colors TV |
Original release | 6 September 30 September 2010 | –
Season chronology |
Khatron Ke Khiladi 3 was hosted by Priyanka Chopra. Shabir Ahluwalia was declared the winner of the season.
Contestants | Occupation | Partner | Status | Place | |
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Shabir Ahluwalia | Actor | Sushma Gupta | Winner | 1 | |
Ritwik Bhattacharya | Squash player | Avni | 1st runner-up | 2 | |
Dino Morea | Actor | Madhurima Tuli | 2nd runner-up | 3 | |
Milind Soman | Model | Ritisha | Eliminated | 4 | |
Eliminated | |||||
Manjot Singh | Actor | Andressa | Eliminated | 5 | |
Eliminated | |||||
Abhishek Kapoor | Producer | Susheel | Eliminated | 6 | |
Rahul Bose | Actor | Annie Gill | Eliminated | 7 | |
Terence Lewis | Dancer | Ananya Kapoor | Eliminated | 8 | |
Karan Singh Grover | Actor | Aarti | Eliminated | 9 | |
Eliminated | |||||
Cyrus Broacha | VJ | Freisha | Eliminated | 10 | |
Eliminated | |||||
Armaan Ebrahim | Car Racer | Madhura Naik | Eliminated | 11 | |
Rahul Dev | Actor | Kavita Sachdev | Eliminated | 12 | |
Angad Bedi | Model | Mittal | Eliminated | 13 |
- Indicates original entrants
- Indicates re-entered entrants
Season 4
editKhatron Ke Khiladi 4 was hosted by Akshay Kumar. The tagline for this season was "Torchaar 4". Aarti Chhabria was declared the winner of the season.
Season 5
editKhatron Ke Khiladi 5 was hosted by Rohit Shetty The tagline for this season was "Darr Ka Blockbuster". Rajneesh Duggal was declared the winner of the season.[3]
Season 6
editKhatron Ke Khiladi 6 was hosted by Rohit Shetty. The tagline for this season was "Darr Ka Blockbuster Returns". Aashish Chaudhary was declared the winner of the season.
Season 7
editKhatron Ke Khiladi 7 was hosted by Arjun Kapoor. The tagline for this season was "Kabhi पीड़ा Kabhi कीड़ा in Argentina". Sidharth Shukla was declared the winner of the season.
Season 8
editKhatron Ke Khiladi 8 was hosted by Rohit Shetty. The tagline for this season was "Pain in Spain". Shantanu Maheshwari was declared the winner of the season.
Season 9
editKhatron Ke Khiladi 9 was hosted by Rohit Shetty.[4] The tagline for this season was "Jigar Pe Trigger". Punit Pathak was declared as winner of the season.
Season 10
editKhatron Ke Khiladi 10 was hosted by Rohit Shetty. The tagline for this season was "Jahaan Darr Lega Class Aur Dega Trass". The telecast was postponed for 3 months due to COVID-19 pandemic. Week 7 episodes started from 27 June. Karishma Tanna was declared as the winner of the season 10.
Season 11
editKhatron Ke Khiladi 11 was hosted by Rohit Shetty. The tagline for this season was "Darr VS Dare". Arjun Bijlani was declared as winner of the season.
Season 12
editKhatron Ke Khiladi 12 is hosted by Rohit Shetty. The tagline for this season was "Bach Ke Kahan Jayega? Khatra Kahin Se Bhi Aayega!". The show premiered on 2 July 2022, on Colors TV. Tushar Kalia was declared as winner of the season.[5]
Season 13
editKhatron Ke Khiladi 13 is hosted by Rohit Shetty. The tagline for this season was "Iss Baar Har Level, Darr Next Level". The show premiered on 15 July 2023, on Colors TV. Spanning over 27 episodes, it is the longest season of the series since its inception. Dino James was declared as winner of the season.
Season 14
editKhatron Ke Khiladi 14 is hosted by Rohit Shetty.[6] The tagline for this season is "Darr Ki Nayi Kahaaniyaan In Romania".[7] The show premiered on 27 July 2024, on Colors TV and digitally on Jio Cinema.[8]Karan Veer Mehra was declared as the winner of the season.
References
edit- ^ "Meet the contestants of Fear Factor-Khatron Ke Khiladi 5". The Times of India. 30 January 2014.
- ^ a b "Khatron Ke Khiladi -Season 2 winner revealed?". 2 September 2009.
- ^ "Have learnt to face my fears in 'Khatron Ke Khiladi': Rajniesh Duggall". Deccan Chronicle. 22 April 2014.
- ^ "Khatron Ke Khiladi Is Back. Contestants Include Vikas Gupta, Aditya Narayan, Bharti Singh, Haarsh Limbachiyaa". 12 July 2018.
- ^ "Tushar Kalia wins Khatron Ke Khiladi 12, beats Faisal Shaikh and Mohit Malik. See photos". 25 September 2022.
- ^ "Khatron Ke Khiladi 14: Rohit Shetty's show to be shot in Romania; Abhishek Kumar, Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia, Shoaib Ibrahim to participate". 23 April 2024.
- ^ "Colors".
- ^ "Meet the Khatron Ke Khiladi 14 Contestants".