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Season 4

The Fourth season of Indian Idol was aired on Sony TV from September 19, 2008 to March 1, 2009. For the first time in Indian Idol history, there were two girls in the top 3 after Rajdeep Chaterjee was eliminated on February 14. Sourabhee Debbarma won the title of the Indian Idol and became the first female contestant to do so. By doing so, she also won a contract of Rs. 1 crore with Sony Entertainment Television and a TATA Winger. Kapil Thapa finished as a 1st runner-up while Torsha Sarkar finished third. Sourabhee did some stage shows around the world with Sony TV, including her recent tours to USA in Oct-Nov' 2009.

Registration for season 4 began on April 1, 2008. The fourth season saw Anu Malik and Javed Akhtar on the hot seats as they took judges' chair once again for the show. New to this season were singer Kailash Kher and Indian actress Sonali Bendre. Fourth season was hosted by Hussain Kuwajerwala and Meiyang Chаng.

Like the previous season, the first four finalists to be eliminated were female, and the judges believed that some of these girls were better singers than some of the remaining boys. All the previous years' top 3 finalists have also been male, leading to speculation of ***ism against women among the Indian voting public. But still, the public proved it wrong when Sourabhee was declared winner.

Entry procedure for Indian Idol

The Contestants registered to participate in the Regional Auditions of the Competition via a phone registration process and completing an application form available at the audition venues at the Regional Auditions. The Competition is open to individuals aged between 16 and 30 on April 1, 2008 and citizens of India.

Regional Auditions

• Mumbai: May 5 & 6th
• Ahmedabad: May 7 & 8th
• Amritsar: May 9 & 10th
• Bangalore: May 12 & 13th
• Guwahati: May 13 & 14th
• Kolkata: May 20th
• Banaras: May 16 & 17th
• Delhi: 23 May

The Theatre Audition Round

The Final 100 were be invited to participate in the next round of the Competition to be held in Mumbai in June/July 2008. As soon as reasonably practicable following completion of the Theatre Audition Round, the Contestants were notified who has been selected by the Judges to be one of the Final 30 going through to the Piano Shows of the Competition.

The Piano Shows

The Final 30 were be divided into 3 groups of 10 (ten) Contestants. Piano round of Indian Idol will ran between June 2008 to October 2008. From Piano round 11 contestant were be selected for Spectacular round by public voting. Those who are not selected in Piano round entered into ‘Wild Card Round’ and one contestant were by public voting to participate in spectacular round.

The Spectacular

Final 14 competed with each other in Spectacular round which ran over the course of 12 weeks from November 2008 to February 2009. At the end of every week, one contestant will got eliminated by public votes until only 3 Contestants – the Finalists – remain in the Competition.

The Finale of Indian Idol 4

The final will took place on March 1, 2009. The winner was Sourabhee, the first girl Indian Idol in the history, chosen by public voting.


Celebrity judges

The celebrity guests of Indian Idol 4 were:

• Deepika Padukone
• Priyanka Chopra
• Sonu Nigam
• Ranjan sharma(audition)
• Alka Yagnik (auditions)
• Raima Sen (audition)
• Alka singh(audition)
• Randeep Hooda(audition)
• Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
• Sonam Kapoor
• Shaan Mukherjee
• Farhan Akhtar, Zoya Akhtar
• Neil Nitin Mukesh, Bipasha basu
• Abhishek Bachchan
• Kunal Khemu (audition)
• Abhijeet Sawant
• Amit Paul
• Mohit Chauhan, Javed Ali