India's Best Cinestars Ki Khoj

India's Best Cinestar Ki Khoj is an Indian television series that premiered on Zee TV in 2004. The first season of the stage show was directed by Gajendra Singh[citation needed] while the reality episodes were directed by Ramon Chibb and Siddharth Bahuguna.[citation needed] The show in its first season had Sudhir Mishra and Vivek Vaswani[1] as mentors to the budding talent. It is a talent show for aspiring actors, and the first prize is the lead role in a film.[2] Two winners, one male and one female, are crowned at the finale. The show returned for its second season in 2006 and a third one in 2014.

India's Best Cinestars Ki Khoj
Presented bySeason 1: Roshan Abbas
Malaika Arora
Season 2: Aman Verma
Season 3: Hussain Kuwajerwala
Vishal Malhotra
Season 4: Asha Negi
JudgesSeason 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 originIndia
Production
Running time70 Minutes
Original release
NetworkZee TV

Season 1

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The winners of the first season were Sarwar Ahuja and Aditi Sharma.

Aditi Sharma Lucknow
Sarwar Ahuja Hyderabad
Amruta Khanvilkar Pune
Yuvika Chaudhary Delhi
Nivaan Sen Varanasi
Abhinav Kohli Bangalore
Abhishek Avasthi Kanpur
Ashok Saharan Jaipur
Bhaumik Sampat Rajkot
Preeti Amin Hyderabad
Himanshu Malhotra Varanasi
Peyush Dixit Jodhpur
Sudeepa Singh Ludhiana
Vipul Roy Bhopal
Sharad Malhotra Kolkata
Manmeet Jaggi Bhopal
Ankita Lokhande Indore
Manas Satpathy Bangalore
Anjali Pandey Delhi
Vipul Kumar Sharma Delhi
Bharat Chawda Indore
Deepika Tiwari Lucknow
Simran Vaid Jammu
Sohan Master Ahmedabad
Pinky Sarkar Jamshedpur
Mohit Chadda New Delhi
Shreya Arora Kanpur
Abbas Khan Lucknow
Naziya Khan Mumbai
Rishiraj Singh Jaipur
Loveleen Walia Singapore
Shareen Pathak Singapore
Naman Shaw Jamshedpur
Suraj Joshi Bangalore
Gargi Sharma Jaipur
Ravish Sharma Ludhiana
Shraddha Arya New Delhi
Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya Bhopal

Season 2

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See Idea Zee Cinestars Like season 1, season 2 also gave many stars to entertainment industry. Winners of Zee Cinestars 2007

  • Piyush Chopra --- Group B
  • Sabina Sheema --- Group B

Runner-up Zee Cinestars 2007

  • Gaurav Bajpai --- Group B
  • Chandani Desai --- Group B

Contestants

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Group A
  • Aadil Sharma
  • Mamta Dutta
  • Manav Sharma
  • Pallavi Dutt
  • Mrityunjay Nigam
  • Piku Sharma
  • Rahul Manchanda
  • Rakhi Verma
  • Rizwan Sikander
  • Ritwika Ghoshal
  • Sahil Arora
  • Varsha Lodh
  • Rati Pandey
  • Varun Jaiswal
Group B
  • Aalesha Syed
  • Ajay Chabria
  • Ankita Lokhande
  • Ashif
  • Chandani Desai
  • Gaurav Bajpai
  • Kanchan More
  • Hardik Soni
  • Minal Gorpade
  • Kartik Shetty
  • Rachel Gurjar
  • Prabhjot Dhillon
  • Surod Rizvi
  • Rohit Raghav
  • Piyush Chopra
  • Raj Saluja
  • Ruchika Babbar
  • Sabina Sheema
  • Vinay Kamble

References

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  1. ^ https://indiantelevision.com/television/tv-channels/gecs/zee-announces-film-race-with-cinestar-ki-khoj-winners-041129 [bare URL]
  2. ^ "Zee launches star hunt 'India's Best Cinestars Ki Khoj'". Indiantelevision.com. 21 April 2004. Archived from the original on 25 December 2018. Retrieved 13 June 2011.