Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi

Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi

Title card of Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi.
Genre Reality, Stunt Show
Presented by Akshay Kumar (1, 2, 4)
Priyanka Chopra (3)
Rohit Shetty (5, 6)
Arjun Kapoor (7)
Country of origin India
Original language(s) Hindi
No. of seasons 07
Production
Camera setup Multi-camera
Running time Approx. 45 minutes
Production company(s) Sphere Origins (Season 1)
Endemol India (Season 2 -)
Release
Original network Colors TV
ARY Digital
Picture format 720i (SDTV)
Original release 21 July 2008 (2008-07-21) – Present
Chronology
Related shows Fear Factor India
External links
Fear Factor — Khatron Ke Khiladi

Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi is an Indian stunt/dare reality game show, based on the American Fear Factor. The series was first launched as Fear Factor India on Sony TV in 2006 by the Programming team of Tarun Katial and Anupama Mandloi where it received a great response from the viewers; however, the channel discontinued the series after one season. The channel gave up its rights to Colors TV and the series was relaunched as Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi on 21 July 2008.[1]

Host

The first two seasons were hosted by Akshay Kumar.[2] He was replaced by Priyanka Chopra in the third season due to scheduling conflicts. However, Akshay Kumar was roped in again for the fourth season.[3] For season 5, Rohit Shetty replaced Akshay Kumar as he had family problems. Arjun Kapoor was decided to be the host for Season 7[4]

Series details

Season Host Launch Finale Episodes Winner All contestants
1 Akshay Kumar 21 July 2008 14 August 2008 16 Nethra Raghuraman Anjana Sukhani, Aditi Govitrikar, Pooja Bedi, Sonali Kulkarni, Yana Gupta, Meghana Naidu, Anita Hassanandani Reddy, Dipannita Sharma, Vidya Malvade, Urvashi Sharma, Tapur Chatterjee, Nethra Raghuraman, Tupur Chatterjee
2 7 September 2009 1 October 2009 16 Anushka Manchanda Jesse Randhawa, Carol Gracias, Rosa Catalano, Mandira Bedi, Nauheed Cyrusi, Rupali Ganguly, Bruna Abdullah, Shweta Salve, Sonika Kaliraman, Pia Trivedi, Shonali Nagrani, Sushma Reddy, Anushka Manchanda
3 Priyanka Chopra 6 September 2010 30 September 2010 16 Shabbir Ahluwalia Ritwik Bhattacharya, Milind Soman, Dino Morea, Cyrus Barocha, Manjot Singh, Abhishek Kapoor, Angad Bedi, Rahul Bose, Karan Singh Grover, Terrance, Armaan, Shabbir Ahluwalia, Rahul Dev
4 Akshay Kumar 3 June 2011 23 July 2011 16 Aarti Chhabria Aashka Goradia,[5] Alesia Raut,[6] Anjum Chopra,[7] VJ Bani,[8] Diandra Soares,[9] Dina Singh, Kashmira Shah,[10] Mauli Dave,[11] VJ Mia,[12] Poonam Pandey,[13] Sambhavana Sheth,[14] Smita Bansal[15]
5 Rohit Shetty 22 March 2014 25 May 2014 20 Rajneesh Duggal[16] Gurmeet Choudhary,[17] Nikitin Dheer,[18] Debina Bonnerjee,[17] Salman Yusuff Khan,[19]

Ranvir Shorey,[20] Karanvir Bohra,[21] Teejay Sidhu,[22] Deana Uppal,[23] Gauhar Khan,[24] Ajaz Khan,[25]
Geeta Tandon,[26] Dayanand Shetty,[27] Kushal Tandon,[28] Mugdha Godse,[29] Rochelle Maria Rao,[30] Pooja Gor,[31]

6 7 February 2015 12 April 2015 20 Aashish Chaudhary Harshad Arora, Siddharth Bhardwaj, Archana Vijaya, Riddhi Dogra, Nathalia Kaur, Salman Yusuff Khan, Sana Khan, Rashmi Desai, Nandish Sandhu, Asha Negi, Rakesh Kumar, Hussain Kuwajerwala, Sagarika Ghatge, Mohammed Iqbal Khan Meiyang Chang,
7 Arjun Kapoor 30 January 2016 3 April 2016 20 Siddharth Shukla Mukti Mohan, Tanishaa Mukerji, Tina Dutta, Parvathy Omanakuttan, Aishwarya Sakhuja, Jay Bhanushali, Mahhi Vij, Faisal Khan, Raghav Juyal, Sana Saeed, Siddharth Shukla, Vivan Bhatena, Himmanshoo A. Malhotra, Yuvraj Walmiki, Vivian Dsena

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi on Colors". Indiantelevision.com. 2 July 2008.
  2. ↑ "Colors launches marketing campaign with Fear Factor promos". Indiantelevision.com. 12 June 2008.
  3. ↑ "Aarti Chhabria wins Khatron Ke Khiladi 4". 11 May 2011.
  4. ↑ "Ajay Devgn replaces Akshay on 'Khatron Ke Khiladi'". The Times of India. 6 July 2012.
  5. ↑ "Akshay helps Aashka Goradia to loosen up". Mid day. 2011-01-06.
  6. ↑ "Akshay's live stunt for 'Khatron Ke Khiladi'". Times of India. 2011-03-06.
  7. ↑ "Let's get dangerous". Midday. 2011-06-05.
  8. ↑ "VJ Bani in another reality show". Times of India. 2011-07-04.
  9. ↑ "Akshay Makes Diandra Inscribe KKK4 On Her Scalp". NDTV. 2011-05-24.
  10. ↑ "I signed up four months ago: Akki". Hindustan Times. 2011-05-22.
  11. ↑ "Akshay Kumar on 'Fear Factor Khatron Ke Khiladi Torchaar'". Dainik Bhaskar. 2011-03-06.
  12. ↑ "VJ Mia hopes to work in Bollywood". Times of India. 2011-05-29.
  13. ↑ "Akshay performs live stunt to promote KKK-4". Times of India. 2011-03-06.
  14. ↑ "Sambhavna eliminated from 'Khatron Ke Khiladi' season 4". Sahara Samay. 2011-03-06.
  15. ↑ "We all vied for Akshay's attention on 'Khatron': Smita Bansal". Indian Express. 2011-05-27.
  16. ↑ Have learnt to face my fears in 'Khatron Ke Khiladi': Rajniesh Duggall
  17. 1 2 Gurmeet Choudhary, Debina Bonnerjee to compete on 'Khatron Ke Khiladi 5'
  18. ↑ PIX: Meet the contestants of Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 5
  19. ↑ ‘Fear Factor- Khatron Ke Khiladi’: Gauhar, Kushal, Ranvir Shorey, Mugdha Godse make it to Final List
  20. ↑ Ranvir Shorey, Rajniesh Duggall to be part of 'Khatron Ke Khiladi 5'
  21. ↑ "Teejay Sidhu , Karanvir Bohra join 'Khatron Ke Khiladi 5'". IANS. Zee News. 11 February 2014.
  22. ↑ Teejay, Karanvir join Khatron Ke Khiladi 5
  23. ↑ Ex Miss India UK Deana Uppal to contest in Khatron Ke Khiladi 5
  24. ↑ Is Ajaz Khan responsible? After Kushal's exit, Gauhar eliminated from Khatron Ke Khiladi 5
  25. ↑ Ajaz Khan enters Khatron Ke Khiladi
  26. ↑ Geeta Tandon on her journey from being a Bollywood stunt girl to ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi’
  27. ↑ Daya eliminated from Khatron Ke Khiladi
  28. ↑ Ajaz Khan doesn't exist for me: Kushal Tandon
  29. ↑ Advertisement Behind the Scenes: Gauhar, Kushal, Mugdha Godse on the sets of Khatron Ke Khiladi 5
  30. ↑ Khatron Ke Khiladi was like roller-coaster ride for Rochelle Maria Rao
  31. ↑ Pooja Gor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 5 helped me overcome my fears

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