Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi is an Indian stunt/dare reality game show, based on the American program 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 its rights to Colors TV and the series was relaunched as Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi on 21 July 2008. The first two seasons were hosted by Akshay Kumar. He was replaced by Priyanka Chopra in the third season due to scheduling conflicts, but Kumar again hosted the fourth season. For the fifth and sixth seasons, Rohit Shetty replaced Kumar. Arjun Kapoor was chosen to be the host for the seventh season. Shetty came back to host the eighth and ninth season of the show. Shetty has hosted four seasons of the show till now.
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Genre | Reality |
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Country of origin | India |
Original language(s) | Hindi |
No. of seasons | 9 |
No. of episodes | 44 |
Production | |
Camera setup | Multi-camera |
Running time | Approx. 45 minutes |
Production company(s) | Sphere Origins (Season 1) Endemol India (Season 2—) |
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Picture format | 720i (SDTV) |
Original release | 21 July 2008 – Present |
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Related shows | Fear Factor India |
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Fear Factor — Khatron Ke Khiladi |
Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi is an Indian stunt/dare reality game show, based on the American program Fear Factor.[citation needed] 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 its rights to Colors TV and the series was relaunched as Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi on 21 July 2008.[1]
The first two seasons were hosted by Akshay Kumar.[2] He was replaced by Priyanka Chopra in the third season due to scheduling conflicts, but Kumar again hosted the fourth season.[3] For the fifth and sixth seasons, Rohit Shetty replaced Kumar. Arjun Kapoor was chosen to be the host for the seventh season.[4] Shetty came back to host the eighth and ninth season of the show.[5] Shetty has hosted four seasons of the show till now.
Season | Host | Launch | Finale | Contestants | Episodes | Winner | Runner Up | Destination |
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1 | Akshay Kumar | 21 July 2008 | 14 August 2008 | 12 | 16 | Nethra Raghuraman | Urvashi Sharma | Kuala Lumpur |
2 | 7 September 2009 | 1 October 2009 | 13 | Anushka Manchanda | Jesse Randhawa | South Africa | ||
3 | Priyanka Chopra | 6 September 2010 | 30 September 2010 | Shabbir Ahluwalia | Ritwik Bhattacharya | Brazil | ||
4 | Akshay Kumar | 3 June 2011 | 23 July 2011 | Aarti Chhabria | Mauli Dave | South Africa | ||
5 | Rohit Shetty | 22 March 2014 | 25 May 2014 | 17 | 20 | Rajneesh Duggal | Gurmeet Choudhary | South Africa |
6 | 7 February 2015 | 12 April 2015 | 15 | Aashish Chaudhary | Meiyang Chang | |||
7 | Arjun Kapoor | 30 January 2016 | 3 April 2016 | Siddharth Shukla | Sana Saeed | Argentina | ||
8 | Rohit Shetty | 22 July 2017 | 30 September 2017 | 12 | 21 | Shantanu Maheshwari | Hina Khan | Spain |
9 | 5 January 2019 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | Argentina | ||
Khatron Ke Khiladi 1 was hosted by Akshay Kumar. Nethra Raghuraman was declared as the winner of the season.
Khatron Ke Khiladi 2 was hosted by Akshay Kumar. Anushka Manchanda was declared as the winner of the season.
Khatron Ke Khiladi 3 was hosted by Priyanka Chopra. Shabbir Ahluwalia was declared as the winner of the season.
Khatron Ke Khiladi 4 was hosted by Akshay Kumar. Aarti Chhabria was declared as the winner of the season.
Khatron Ke Khiladi 5 was hosted by Rohit Shetty. Rajneesh Duggal was declared as the winner of the season.[17]
Khatron Ke Khiladi 6 was hosted by Rohit Shetty. Aashish Chaudhary was declared as the winner of the season.
Khatron Ke Khiladi 7 was hosted by Arjun Kapoor. Siddharth Shukla was declared as the winner of the season.
Khatron Ke Khiladi 8 was hosted by Rohit Shetty. Shantanu Maheshwari was declared as the winner of the season.
Contestants :
Khatron Ke Khiladi 9 is being hosted by Rohit Shetty.[33]
Khatron ke Khiladi 9 Contestantas List