India's Best Cinestars Ki Khoj
| India's Best Cinestar Ki Khoj | |
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Title card of India's Best Cinestars Ki Khoj. | |
| Created by | Zee Network |
| Presented by |
Season 1: Roshan Abbas Malaika Arora Season 2: Aman Verma Season 3: Hussain Kuwajerwala Vishal Malhotra |
| 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 | Approx. 52 Minutes |
| Broadcast | |
| Original channel | Zee TV |
| Picture format | 480i (SDTV) |
India's Best Cinestar Ki Khoj is an Indian television series that premiered on Zee TV in 2004. It is a talent show for aspiring actors, and the first prize is the lead role in a film.[1] Two winners, one male and one female, are crowned at the finale. The show returned for its second season in 2006 and is now currently in its third season in 2014.
Season 1
The winners of the first season were Sarwar Ahuja and Aditi Sharma.
| Aditi Sharma | Punjab |
| Amruta Khanvilkar | Pune |
| Abhinav Kohli | Bangalore |
| Abhishek Avasthi | Kanpur |
| Ashok Saharan | Jaipur |
| Bhaumik Sampat | Rajkot |
| Preeti Amin | Hyderabad |
| Himanshu Malhotra | Varanasi |
| Sudeepa Singh | Ludhiana |
| Vipul Roy | Bhopal |
| Sharad Malhotra | Kolkata |
| Manmeet Jaggi | Bhopal |
| Ankita Lokhande | Nagpur |
| Vishal Kaushik | Baroda |
| Anjali Pandey | Delhi |
| Vipul Kumar Sharma | Delhi |
| Bharat Chawda | Indore |
| Deepika Tiwari | Lucknow |
| Navin Sen | Varanasi |
| Simran Vaid | Mumbai |
| Sohan Master | Ahmedabad |
| Pinky Sarkar | Jamshedpur |
| Mohit Chadda | Bhopal |
| Muskaan Arora | Varanasi |
| Abbas Khan | Lucknow |
| Naziya Khan | Mumbai |
| Rishiraj Singh | Jaipur |
| Loveleen Walia | Singapore |
| Yuvika Chaudhary | Varanasi |
| Naman Shaw | Jamshedpur |
| Suraj Joshi | Bangalore |
| Gargi Sharma | Jaipur |
| Ravish Sharma | Ludhiana |
| Sarwar Ahuja | Hyderabad |
| Shraddha Arya | Delhi |
| Divyanka Tripathi | Bhopal |
Season 2
Season 3
The third season of India's Best Cinestars Ki Khoj is over and the winners are Okasana and Syed . The winners of the show will get an opportunity to make their acting debut in a film written and creatively mentored by Mahesh Bhatt.[2]
The Top 12 contestants in the competition are:
| Participant Name | From | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Abhimanyu Kak | Chandigarh | Eliminated on August 10, 2014 |
| Akshay Nalawade | Mumbai, Maharashtra | |
| Aman Joshi | Dehradun, Uttarakhand | Eliminated on August 3, 2014 |
| Kartik Vyas | Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh | Eliminated on August 24, 2014 |
| Meenu Panchal | Jind, Haryana | |
| Oksana Rasulova WINNER | Baku, Azerbaijan | |
| Prakruti Mishra | Bhubaneswar, Orissa | Eliminated on August 10, 2014 |
| Saurabh Bharadwaj | Jallandhar, Punjab | |
| Sheetal Chauhan | Dehradun, Uttarakhand | Eliminated on August 3, 2014 |
| Sonam Bisht | Dehradun, Uttarakhand | Eliminated on August 24, 2014 |
| Syed Mamoon | lucknow, Uttar Pradesh | |
| Vikram Chatterjee | Kolkata, West Bengal |
References
- ↑ "Zee launches star hunt 'India's Best Cinestars Ki Khoj'". Indiantelevision.com. April 21, 2004.
- ↑ "Mahesh Bhatt to script a film for 'India's Best Cine Stars Ki Khoj' winners". DNA. August 21, 2014.
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