Telugu Indian Idol

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Telugu Indian Idol
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Genre Reality television
Created by Simon Fuller
Based on Simon Fuller
Directed byAdvait Shelke
Presented by
Judges
Theme music composerJulian Gingell
Barry Stone
Cathy Dennis
Country of originIndia
Original languageTelugu
No. of seasons3
No. of episodes60 (as of 4th June 2023)
Production
Camera setupMulti-camera
Production company Fremantle
Original release
Network Aha
Release25 February 2022 (2022-02-25) 
present

Telugu Indian Idol is an Indian Telugu-language music competition television series and is part of Indian Idol . It is Telugu version of the Pop Idol format. First season of the show was premiered on 25 February 2022 on Aha. [1] [2] Vagdevi was announced as the winner of the first season. [3]

Contents

Season 1

Production

The finale episode of the season was initially scheduled to be shot on 6 June 2022, but was postponed to 7 June 2022. [4]

Judges and presenters

Sreerama Chandra was signed as the presenter of the first season after becoming the runner-up of the reality show Bigg Boss 5. [5] [6] While, the judges of the first season are Nithya Menen, Karthik and Thaman S. [7] After Karthik was announced as one of the judges, the show faced criticism. Several netizens argued that he is accused of MeToo and slammed the production for choosing him. [8]

Contestants

StandingNameHometownResult
1stKumara Vagdevi Nellore Winner
2ndSrinivas Darimisetty Kadapa 1st Runner-up
3rd Vaishnavi Kovvuri Chennai 2nd Runner-up
K Pranathi Hyderabad Finalist
Boda Jayanth Maadhur Ramagundam Finalist
Lalasa Rachapudi Hyderabad Eliminated 7th
Sake Renu Kumar Tirupati Eliminated 6th
Aditi Bhavaraju Hyderabad Eliminated 5th
Maruthi Kodimoju Rajanna Sircilla Eliminated 4th
Chitta Lakshmi Sravani Kothagudem Eliminated 3rd
A. Manya Chandran Tirupati Eliminated 2nd
Jaskiran Singh Punjab Eliminated 1st

Season 2

Contestants

NameHometownResult
Sruthi Nanduri New Jersey
Soujanya Bhagavatula Visakhapatnam Winner
Lasya Priya Siddipet 2nd Runner-up
Karthikeya Hyderabad
Jayaram Hyderabad 1st Runner-up
Pranathi Visakhapatnam Eliminated 8th
Chakrapani Palasa Eliminated 7th
Hitesh Sai Vizag Eliminated 6th
Saketh Hyderabad Eliminated 5th
Aditya Hyderabad Eliminated 4th
Sai Vaishnavi Vijayawada Eliminated 3rd
Manasa Hyderabad Eliminated 2nd
Yuti Harshavardhana Bengaluru Eliminated 1st
Episode NoGuest Name
5 - 7 Nandamuri Balakrishna
8 - 9 Koti
10 - 11 Baba Sehgal
12 - 13 S. P. Charan
13 Nani
14 - 15 Chandrabose
16 - 17 B. V. Nandini Reddy, Santosh Sobhan, Malvika Nair
20 - 21 Smita
22 - 23 K.S Chithra
24 - 25 Devi Sri Prasad
28 - 29 Allu Arjun

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