Indian Idol 3 - Full Details
Season 3
Third season was aired on Sony TV from May 4, 2007 to September 23, 2007. The winner of the Third season was Prashant Tamang, who hails from Darjeeling in West Bengal. The runner-up, Amit Paul was from Shillong, Meghalaya.
Voting count of Indian Idol 3 Finale has broken many records, around 7 crore (70 million) votes were received. The judges for this season were Anu Malik, Javed Akhtar, Alisha Chinai, Udit Narayan. The third season was hosted by Hussain Kuwajerwala and Mini Mathur.
Auditions
- Jodhpur & Bhubaneshwar: February 16
- Hyderabad & Amritsar: February 18
- Srinagar & Nagpur: February 21
- 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
- Dubai, UAE: April 6 & April 7
Prashant Tamang has cut a solo album as per contract with Sony. He also conducted a world tour of shows. Suhit Gosain (Top 14) appeared in a successful KitKat chocolate advertisement. Four finalists, Chang, Suhit Gosain, Parleen & Abhishek entered into a contract with Sony BMG and cut an album named Tu To Na Aayi as a band of Boys named F4. Videos of the title song and another number Udd Chale have been released. F4 was also declared 'The Next Big Thing' on channel V. Emon Chatterjee from Kolkatta and Deepali Kishore sung a song I Love You, composed by Anu Malik for the film Don gadha.
Meiyang Chаng, who was placed 5th in this season, also got an offer to act in a movie Badmaash Company with Shahid Kapoor. He hosted the 4th season of the Indian Idol with Husain Kuwajerwala, replacing Mini Mathur.
Amit Paul sang the song "Pyaar Ki Dastaan" in the film Luck by Chance (starring Farhan Akhtar and Konkona Sen Sharma). This song was offered to him by Javed Akhtar.
The third season of Indian Idol began on 4 May 2007 and concluded on 23 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.
Celebrity judges
Here is a list of special judges who appeared in Indian Idol 3:
- 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
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