Indian Idol (season 3)
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The third season of Indian Idol began on 4 May 2007 and concluded on 23rd September 2007. It was hosted by Mini Mathur and Hussain Kuwajerwala. Anu Malik, Alisha Chinai, Javed Akhtar and Udit Narayan were the judges.Prashant Tamang won the competition.
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[edit] Auditions
|-Jodhpur & Bhubaneshwar—February 16
Hyderabad & Amritsar—February 18
Baroda—February 27 & February 28
Bhopal—March 7 & March 8
Kanpur—March 12 & March 13
Delhi—March 17, March 18 & March 19
Kolkata—March 24, March 25 & March 26
Birmingham, UK—March 30, March 31 & April 1
Mumbai—March 31, April 1 & April 3
[edit] List of Indian Idol Season 3 Episodes.
The Top 13 are:
Girls:
- Ankita Mishra (Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh) - Eliminated on 1st September
- Charu Semwal (Dehradun, Uttaranchal) - Eliminated on 21st July
- Deepali Kishore (Patna, Bihar) - Eliminated on 11th August
- Jolly Das (from Season 2) (Konnagar, West Bengal) - Eliminated on 7th July
- Puja Chatterjee (Dhanbad, Jharkhand) - Eliminated on 18th August
- Richa Aneja (Amritsar, Punjab) - Eliminated on 30th June
- Smita Adhikari (Kolkata, West Bengal) - Eliminated on 14th July
Boys:
- Abhishek Kumar (Bangalore,Karnataka) - Eliminated on 4th August
- Amit Paul (Shillong, Meghalaya) - Eliminated on 23rd September
- Emon Chatterjee (Kolkata, West Bengal - Eliminated on 8th September
- Meiyang Chang (Dhanbad, Jharkhand) - Eliminated on 25th August
- Parleen Singh Gill (Chandigarh, Haryana) - Eliminated on 28th July
- Prashant Tamang (Darjeeling, West Bengal) - Indian Idol 2007
[edit] Danger Zone Statistics
[edit] Elimination Chart
| Date | Bottom Four | |||
| June 30 | Richa Aneja | Puja Chatterjee | Parleen Singh Gill | Charu Semwal |
| July 7 | Jolly Das | Smita Adhikari | Emon Chatterjee | Deepali Kishore |
| July 14 | Smita Adhikari (2) | Parleen Singh Gill (2) | Charu Semwal (2) | |
| July 21 | Charu Semwal (3) | Deepali Kishore (2) | Puja Chatterjee (2) | Abhishek Kumar |
| July 28 | Parleen Singh Gill (3) | Deepali Kishore (3) | Puja Chatterjee (3) | |
| August 4 | Abhishek Kumar (2) | Ankita Mishra | Puja Chatterjee (4) | Emon Chatterjee (2) |
| August 11 | Deepali Kishore (4) | Ankita Mishra (2) | Emon Chatterjee (3) | |
| August 18 | Puja Chatterjee (5) | Ankita Mishra (3) | Meiyang Chang | |
| August 25 | Meiyang Chang (2) | Amit Paul | Emon Chatterjee (4) | |
| September 1 | Ankita Mishra (4) | Emon Chatterjee (5) | ||
| September 8 | Emon Chatterjee (6) | Prashant Tamang | ||
| September 23 | Amit Paul (2) | Prashant Tamang | ||
[edit] Celebrity Judges
Every week a celebrity judge is called on the show to comment on the performances and to inspire the singers. Here is a list of special judges who appeared in Indian Idol 3:
(Celebrity judges of Indian idol 3 in chronological order)
John Abraham, Mika Singh, Abhijeet Sawant, Sandeep Acharya, Sukhwinder Singh -- Grand Finals on Sunday, September 23, 2007
Usha Uthup, Zubeen Garg and Mona Singh -- Friday, September 21, 2007
John Abraham and Bipasha Basu -- Gala on Saturday, September 15, 2007
Sanjay Dutt, Karishma Tanna, Ritesh Deshmukh and Chak De India girls -- Friday, September 14, 2007
Sajid Khan and Wajid Kahn -- Robaroo on Thursday, September 13, 2007
Adnan Sami -- Gala on Friday, September 07, 2007
Tushar Kapoor, Sharman Joshi and Kunal Khemu -- Gala on Friday, August 31, 2007
Leslie Lewis -- Robaroo on Thursday, August 30, 2007
Sonu Nigam -- Gala on Friday, August 17, 2007
Soniya Mehra -- Robaroo on Thursday, August 16, 2007
Anil Kapoor and Ajay Jadeja (Guest Appearance on Friday) -- Gala on Friday, August 10, 2007
Ganesh Hegde -- Robaroo on Thursday, August 09, 2007
Ila Arun -- Gala on Friday, August 03, 2007
Dr.Seema Hingorani -- Robaroo on Thursday, August 02, 2007
Ritesh Deshmukh -- Robaroo on Thursday July 26, 2007.
Govinda Ahuja -- Gala on Friday July 20, 2007
Shabana Azmi -- Gala on Friday July 13, 2007
Sunidhi Chauhan -- Saturday June 23, 2007
Zayed Khan -- Friday June 22, 2007
Kailash Kher -- Auditions
[edit] Finalists
Contestants are in alphabetical order by first name, then by reverse chronological order of elimination.
| Female | Male | Top 13 |
| Stages: | Finals | |||||||||||||||
| Weeks: | 6/30 | 7/07 | 7/14 | 7/21 | 7/28 | 8/04 | 8/11 | 8/18 | 8/25 | 9/01 | 9/08 | 9/23 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Place | Contestant | Result | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | Prashant Tamang | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Top 3 | Top 2 | Top 2 | Btm 2 | Winner | |||
| 2 | Amit Paul | Top 3 | Safe | Safe | Safe | Top 3 | Safe | Safe | Top 2 | Btm 2 | Top 2 | Safe | Runner-up | |||
| 3 | Emon Chatterjee | Safe | Btm 3 | Top 2 | Safe | Top 3 | Btm 4 | Btm 3 | Top 3 | Btm 3 | Btm 2 | Elim | ||||
| 4 | Ankita Mishra | Top 3 | Safe | Safe | Safe | Top 3 | Btm 2 | Btm 3 | Btm 2 | Top 2 | Elim | |||||
| 5 | Meiyang Chang | Safe | Safe | Top 2 | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Btm 3 | Elim | ||||||
| 6 | Puja Chatterjee | Btm 2 | Safe | Safe | Btm 3 | Btm 3 | Btm 3 | Safe | Elim | |||||||
| 7 | Deepali Kishore | Safe | Btm 4 | Safe | Btm 2 | Btm 2 | Safe | Elim | ||||||||
| 8 | Abhishek Kumar | Top 3 | Safe | Safe | Btm 4 | Safe | Elim | |||||||||
| 9 | Parleen Singh Gill | Btm 3 | Safe | Btm 2 | Safe | Elim | ||||||||||
| 10 | Charu Semwal | Btm 4 | Safe | Btm 3 | Elim | |||||||||||
| 11 | Smita Adhikari | Safe | Btm 2 | Elim | ||||||||||||
| 12 | Jolly Das | Safe | Elim | |||||||||||||
| 13 | Richa Aneja | Elim | ||||||||||||||
