MasterChef India – Hindi | |
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Genre | Reality Cookery |
Created by | Franc Roddam |
Based on | MasterChef Australia |
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Country of origin | India |
Original language | Hindi |
No. of seasons | 10 |
No. of episodes | 296 |
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Running time | 46–48 minutes |
Production company | Endemol Shine India |
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Release | 16 October 2010 (2010-10-16) – present |
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Celebrity MasterChef India Junior Masterchef Swaad Ke Ustaad MasterChef India – Tamil MasterChef India – Telugu |
MasterChefIndia – Hindi (or colloquiallyMasterChef Hindi; formerlyMasterChef India) is an IndianHindi-language competitive cooking reality television series based onMasterChef Australia and is part ofMasterChef India.[1] The series features amateur and home chefs competing to win the title of 'MasterChef'.[2] The current line-up of judges consists ofVikas Khanna,Pooja Dhingra, andRanveer Brar.[3]
MasterChef is based on the Australian seriesMasterChef. The competition takes place in theMasterChef soundstage located inMumbai, India which includes a large kitchen area with several cooking stations which is overlooked by a balcony, a well-stocked pantry, a freezer/fridge area and a fine-dining restaurant/seating dining area room used for certain challenges.
While the particular format of the season has slightly varied over the years, the following challenges have all been regularly featured:
Once the competition is reduced the finalists will compete against each other in a three-course cook-off. All courses of the meal are judged and an overall winner is crowned. The winner of seventh season won ₹ 25,00,000, aMasterChef trophy, and the title ofMasterChef. Some seasons have also added other prizes such as a cookbook deal.
Judges | Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Juniors MasterChef | Season 4 | Season 5 | Season 6 | Season 7 | Season 8 | Celebrity MasterChef |
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Ajay Chopra | Judge | |||||||||
Akshay Kumar | Judge | |||||||||
Farah Khan | Host | |||||||||
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Garima Arora | Judge | |||||||||
Kunal Kapur | Judge | Judge | ||||||||
Pooja Dhingra | Judge | |||||||||
Ranveer Brar | Judge | Judge | ||||||||
Sanjeev Kapoor | Judge | Judge | ||||||||
Surjan Singh Jolly | Judge | |||||||||
Vikas Khanna | Judge | |||||||||
Vineet Bhatia | Judge | |||||||||
Zorawar Kalra | Judge |
MasterChef
Season | Primary Network | Online VOD | No. of Episodes | First Aired | Last Aired | Prize Money | Winner | Runner-up |
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1 | 21 | 16 October 2010 | 25 December 2010 | ₹1 crore | Pankaj Bhadouria | Jayanandan Bhaskar | ||
2 | 22 | 22 October 2011 | 1 January 2012 | ₹1 crore | Shipra Khanna | Salma Shazia Fathima | ||
3 | 70 | 11 March 2013 | 9 June 2013 | ₹1 crore | Ripudaman Handa | Navneet Rastogi | ||
4 | 67 | 26 January 2015 | 12 April 2015 | ₹1 crore | Nikita Gandhi | Neha Deepak Shah | ||
5 | 26 | 1 October 2016 | 25 December 2016 | ₹50 lakh | Kirti Bhoutika | Ashima Arora | ||
6 | 25 | 7 December 2019 | 1 March 2020 | ₹25 lakh | Abinas Nayak | Oindrila Bala | ||
7 | 65 | 2 January 2023 | 31 March 2023 | ₹25 lakh | Nayanjyoti Saikia | Shanta Sarmah | ||
8 | — | 40 | 16 October 2023 | 8 December 2023 | ₹25 lakh | Mohammad Ashiq | Nambie Marak |
Junior MasterChef
Season | Primary Network | Online VOD | No. of episodes | First Aired | Last Aired | Prize Money | Winner | Runner-up |
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1 | StarPlus | — | 22 | 17 August 2013 | 2 November 2013 | ₹25 lakh | Sarthak Bhardwaj | Sakshi Tripathi |
Celebrity MasterChef
Season | Primary Network | Online VOD | No. of episodes | First Aired | Last Aired | Prize Money | Winner | Runner-up |
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1 | Sony Entertainment Television | SonyLIV | 55 | 27 January 2025 | 11 April 2025 | ₹20 lakh | Gaurav Khanna | Nikki Tamboli |
MasterChef India 1 aired from 16 October 2010 to 25 December 2010 onStarPlus.[4] Hosted byAkshay Kumar,Kunal Kapur and Ajay Chopra, it was won byPankaj Bhadouria.
MasterChef India 2 aired from 22 October 2011 to 1 January 2012 onStarPlus. Hosted byVikas Khanna,Kunal Kapur and Ajay Chopra, it was won byShipra Khanna.[5]Nita Mehta andBijou Thaangjam also participated in the program.[6][7]
MasterChef India 3 aired from 11 March 2013 to 9 June 2013 onStarPlus.[8] While the previous seasons were on weekends, this season aired during weekdays.[9] Hosted byVikas Khanna,Kunal Kapur andSanjeev Kapoor, it was won byRipudaman Handa.[8][10]
MasterChef India 4 aired from 26 January 2015 to 12 April 2015 onStarPlus. For the first time in the history of MasterChef, a pure vegetarian format was introduced. Hosted bySanjeev Kapoor,Vikas Khanna andRanveer Brar, Written by Gunjan Joshi, it was won by Nikita Gandhi.[11][12]
MasterChef India 5 aired from 1 October 2016 to 25 December 2016 onStarPlus.[13] Hosted byVikas Khanna,Kunal Kapur and Zorawar Kalra. Kirti Bhoutika won the competition, with Ashima Arora finishing in the second place.
MasterChef India 6 aired from 7 December 2019 to 1 March 2020 onStarPlus. Hosted byVikas Khanna,Ranveer Brar andVineet Bhatia, Written by Gunjan Joshi. The winner was Abinas Nayak, with Oindrila Bala as the runner-up.
The seventh season of the Hindi version ofMasterChef India was announced on 5 August 5, 2022, hosted by the judgesVikas Khanna,Ranveer Brar andGarima Arora.[14] It aired from 2 January 2023 to 31 March 2023 onSET and was also streamed onSonyLIV. The winner was Nayanjyoti Saikia, who got prize money of ₹25,00,000 and the first runner-up was Santa Sarmah and second runner-up was Suvarna Bagul. They both got prize money of ₹5,00,000.[15][16]
After the finale of season 7, it was revealed that a spinoff would premier, titled "MasterChef India - MasterClass". The show will feature the same judges and contestants as the 7th season of MasterChef, but instead the judges will cook for the contestants, teaching them skills and recipes.[17]
The eighth season of the Hindi version ofMasterChef India was announced on 7 July[18] 2023, hosted by the judgesPooja Dhingra,Vikas Khanna andRanveer Brar.[19] It premiered exclusively onSonyLIV on 16 October 2023.[20] The winner of this season was Mohammed Ashiq from Mangalore.
Junior MasterChef India premiered on 17 August 2013 onStarPlus.[21] This was the first and the only season of the junior spin-off. The season was won by Sarthak Bhardwaj in the finale held on 2 November 2013.
Celebrity MasterChef premiered on Sony Entertainment Television on 27th January 2025.Farah Khan, for the first time, joined as the host of the show.Vikas Khanna andRanveer Brar reprised their role as judges from the original series. The season was won byGaurav Khanna on April 11, 2025.
In 2010,Star India licensed the rights for producingMasterChef India in Hindi.[22]
From 2023, the show will air onSony Entertainment Television.
Season 1 opened with an average ratings of 2.6 TVR.[23] The following week, it garnered 2.5 TVR.[24] Overall it ranged around over 2 and 3 TVR.[25] The finale garnered the highest viewership rating of 4.2 TVR.[26]
Season 2 premiered with 2.01 TVR and ended with 2.6 TVR.[27][28]
Season 3 opened with 2.2 TVR while the following weeks garnered a decent ratings between 2 and 2.3 TVR the finale became the most watched reality show of the week with 3.7 TVR.[27][28]
Season 6 garnered low ratings ranging 0.8 and 1.1 TRP.[29]