India's Best Cinestar Ki Khoj is an Indian television series that premiered on Zee TV in 2004. The first season of the stage show was directed by Gajendra Singh[citation needed] while the reality episodes were directed by Ramon Chibb and Siddharth Bahuguna.[citation needed] The show in its first season had Sudhir Mishra and Vivek Vaswani[1] as mentors to the budding talent. It is a talent show for aspiring actors, and the first prize is the lead role in a film.[2] Two winners, one male and one female, are crowned at the finale. The show returned for its second season in 2006 and a third one in 2014.
| India's Best Cinestars Ki Khoj | |
|---|---|
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| Presented by | Season 1: Roshan Abbas Malaika Arora Season 2: Aman Verma Season 3: Hussain Kuwajerwala Vishal Malhotra Season 4: Asha Negi |
| Judges | Season 1: Mahesh Manjrekar Satish Kaushik Ken Ghosh Season 2: Anupam Kher Pooja Bhatt Madhur Bhandarkar Season 3: Vijay Krishna Acharya Anurag Basu Sonali Bendre |
| Country of origin | India |
| Production | |
| Running time | 70 Minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Zee TV |
Season 1
editThe winners of the first season were Sarwar Ahuja and Aditi Sharma.
| Aditi Sharma | Lucknow |
| Sarwar Ahuja | Hyderabad |
| Amruta Khanvilkar | Pune |
| Yuvika Chaudhary | Delhi |
| Nivaan Sen | Varanasi |
| Abhinav Kohli | Bangalore |
| Abhishek Avasthi | Kanpur |
| Ashok Saharan | Jaipur |
| Bhaumik Sampat | Rajkot |
| Preeti Amin | Hyderabad |
| Himanshu Malhotra | Varanasi |
| Peyush Dixit | Jodhpur |
| Sudeepa Singh | Ludhiana |
| Vipul Roy | Bhopal |
| Sharad Malhotra | Kolkata |
| Manmeet Jaggi | Bhopal |
| Ankita Lokhande | Indore |
| Manas Satpathy | Bangalore |
| Anjali Pandey | Delhi |
| Vipul Kumar Sharma | Delhi |
| Bharat Chawda | Indore |
| Deepika Tiwari | Lucknow |
| Simran Vaid | Jammu |
| Sohan Master | Ahmedabad |
| Pinky Sarkar | Jamshedpur |
| Mohit Chadda | New Delhi |
| Shreya Arora | Kanpur |
| Abbas Khan | Lucknow |
| Naziya Khan | Mumbai |
| Rishiraj Singh | Jaipur |
| Loveleen Walia | Singapore |
| Shareen Pathak | Singapore |
| Naman Shaw | Jamshedpur |
| Suraj Joshi | Bangalore |
| Gargi Sharma | Jaipur |
| Ravish Sharma | Ludhiana |
| Shraddha Arya | New Delhi |
| Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya | Bhopal |
Season 2
editSee Idea Zee Cinestars Like season 1, season 2 also gave many stars to entertainment industry. Winners of Zee Cinestars 2007
- Piyush Chopra --- Group B
- Sabina Sheema --- Group B
Runner-up Zee Cinestars 2007
- Gaurav Bajpai --- Group B
- Chandani Desai --- Group B
Contestants
edit- Group A
- Aadil Sharma
- Mamta Dutta
- Manav Sharma
- Pallavi Dutt
- Mrityunjay Nigam
- Piku Sharma
- Rahul Manchanda
- Rakhi Verma
- Rizwan Sikander
- Ritwika Ghoshal
- Sahil Arora
- Varsha Lodh
- Rati Pandey
- Varun Jaiswal
- Group B
- Aalesha Syed
- Ajay Chabria
- Ankita Lokhande
- Ashif
- Chandani Desai
- Gaurav Bajpai
- Kanchan More
- Hardik Soni
- Minal Gorpade
- Kartik Shetty
- Rachel Gurjar
- Prabhjot Dhillon
- Surod Rizvi
- Rohit Raghav
- Piyush Chopra
- Raj Saluja
- Ruchika Babbar
- Sabina Sheema
- Vinay Kamble
References
edit- ^ https://indiantelevision.com/television/tv-channels/gecs/zee-announces-film-race-with-cinestar-ki-khoj-winners-041129 [bare URL]
- ^ "Zee launches star hunt 'India's Best Cinestars Ki Khoj'". Indiantelevision.com. 21 April 2004. Archived from the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
