Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi

Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi
Title card of Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi.
Genre	Reality, Stunt Show
Presented by	Akshay Kumar (1, 2, 4) Priyanka Chopra (3) Rohit Shetty (5, 6) Arjun Kapoor (7)
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Hindi
No. of seasons	07
Production
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	Approx. 45 minutes
Production company(s)	Sphere Origins (Season 1) Endemol India (Season 2 -)
Release
Original network	Colors TV ARY Digital
Picture format	720i (SDTV)
Original release	21 July 2008 – Present
Chronology
Related shows	Fear Factor India
External links
Fear Factor — Khatron Ke Khiladi

Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi is an Indian stunt/dare reality game show, based on the American 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 up its rights to Colors TV and the series was relaunched as Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi on 21 July 2008.^[1]

Host

The first two seasons were hosted by Akshay Kumar.^[2] He was replaced by Priyanka Chopra in the third season due to scheduling conflicts. However, Akshay Kumar was roped in again for the fourth season.^[3] For season 5, Rohit Shetty replaced Akshay Kumar as he had family problems. Arjun Kapoor was decided to be the host for Season 7^[4]

Series details

Season	Host	Launch	Finale	Episodes	Winner	All contestants
1	Akshay Kumar	21 July 2008	14 August 2008	16	Nethra Raghuraman	Anjana Sukhani, Aditi Govitrikar, Pooja Bedi, Sonali Kulkarni, Yana Gupta, Meghana Naidu, Anita Hassanandani Reddy, Dipannita Sharma, Vidya Malvade, Urvashi Sharma, Tapur Chatterjee, Nethra Raghuraman, Tupur Chatterjee
2		7 September 2009	1 October 2009	16	Anushka Manchanda	Jesse Randhawa, Carol Gracias, Rosa Catalano, Mandira Bedi, Nauheed Cyrusi, Rupali Ganguly, Bruna Abdullah, Shweta Salve, Sonika Kaliraman, Pia Trivedi, Shonali Nagrani, Sushma Reddy, Anushka Manchanda
3	Priyanka Chopra	6 September 2010	30 September 2010	16	Shabbir Ahluwalia	Ritwik Bhattacharya, Milind Soman, Dino Morea, Cyrus Barocha, Manjot Singh, Abhishek Kapoor, Angad Bedi, Rahul Bose, Karan Singh Grover, Terrance, Armaan, Shabbir Ahluwalia, Rahul Dev
4	Akshay Kumar	3 June 2011	23 July 2011	16	Aarti Chhabria	Aashka Goradia,[5] Alesia Raut,[6] Anjum Chopra,[7] VJ Bani,[8] Diandra Soares,[9] Dina Singh, Kashmira Shah,[10] Mauli Dave,[11] VJ Mia,[12] Poonam Pandey,[13] Sambhavana Sheth,[14] Smita Bansal[15]
5	Rohit Shetty	22 March 2014	25 May 2014	20	Rajneesh Duggal[16]	Gurmeet Choudhary,[17] Nikitin Dheer,[18] Debina Bonnerjee,[17] Salman Yusuff Khan,[19] Ranvir Shorey,[20] Karanvir Bohra,[21] Teejay Sidhu,[22] Deana Uppal,[23] Gauhar Khan,[24] Ajaz Khan,[25] Geeta Tandon,[26] Dayanand Shetty,[27] Kushal Tandon,[28] Mugdha Godse,[29] Rochelle Maria Rao,[30] Pooja Gor,[31]
6		7 February 2015	12 April 2015	20	Aashish Chaudhary	Harshad Arora, Siddharth Bhardwaj, Archana Vijaya, Riddhi Dogra, Nathalia Kaur, Salman Yusuff Khan, Sana Khan, Rashmi Desai, Nandish Sandhu, Asha Negi, Rakesh Kumar, Hussain Kuwajerwala, Sagarika Ghatge, Mohammed Iqbal Khan Meiyang Chang,
7	Arjun Kapoor	30 January 2016	3 April 2016	20	Siddharth Shukla	Mukti Mohan, Tanishaa Mukerji, Tina Dutta, Parvathy Omanakuttan, Aishwarya Sakhuja, Jay Bhanushali, Mahhi Vij, Faisal Khan, Raghav Juyal, Sana Saeed, Siddharth Shukla, Vivan Bhatena, Himmanshoo A. Malhotra, Yuvraj Walmiki, Vivian Dsena

See also

• Fear Factor India

References

1. "Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi on Colors". Indiantelevision.com. 2 July 2008.
2. "Colors launches marketing campaign with Fear Factor promos". Indiantelevision.com. 12 June 2008.
3. "Aarti Chhabria wins Khatron Ke Khiladi 4". 11 May 2011.
4. "Ajay Devgn replaces Akshay on 'Khatron Ke Khiladi'". The Times of India. 6 July 2012.
5. "Akshay helps Aashka Goradia to loosen up". Mid day. 2011-01-06.
6. "Akshay's live stunt for 'Khatron Ke Khiladi'". Times of India. 2011-03-06.
7. "Let's get dangerous". Midday. 2011-06-05.
8. "VJ Bani in another reality show". Times of India. 2011-07-04.
9. "Akshay Makes Diandra Inscribe KKK4 On Her Scalp". NDTV. 2011-05-24.
10. "I signed up four months ago: Akki". Hindustan Times. 2011-05-22.
11. "Akshay Kumar on 'Fear Factor Khatron Ke Khiladi Torchaar'". Dainik Bhaskar. 2011-03-06.
12. "VJ Mia hopes to work in Bollywood". Times of India. 2011-05-29.
13. "Akshay performs live stunt to promote KKK-4". Times of India. 2011-03-06.
14. "Sambhavna eliminated from 'Khatron Ke Khiladi' season 4". Sahara Samay. 2011-03-06.
15. "We all vied for Akshay's attention on 'Khatron': Smita Bansal". Indian Express. 2011-05-27.
16. Have learnt to face my fears in 'Khatron Ke Khiladi': Rajniesh Duggall
17. Gurmeet Choudhary, Debina Bonnerjee to compete on 'Khatron Ke Khiladi 5'
18. PIX: Meet the contestants of Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 5
19. ‘Fear Factor- Khatron Ke Khiladi’: Gauhar, Kushal, Ranvir Shorey, Mugdha Godse make it to Final List
20. Ranvir Shorey, Rajniesh Duggall to be part of 'Khatron Ke Khiladi 5'
21. "Teejay Sidhu , Karanvir Bohra join 'Khatron Ke Khiladi 5'". IANS. Zee News. 11 February 2014.
22. Teejay, Karanvir join Khatron Ke Khiladi 5
23. Ex Miss India UK Deana Uppal to contest in Khatron Ke Khiladi 5
24. Is Ajaz Khan responsible? After Kushal's exit, Gauhar eliminated from Khatron Ke Khiladi 5
25. Ajaz Khan enters Khatron Ke Khiladi
26. Geeta Tandon on her journey from being a Bollywood stunt girl to ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi’
27. Daya eliminated from Khatron Ke Khiladi
28. Ajaz Khan doesn't exist for me: Kushal Tandon
29. Advertisement Behind the Scenes: Gauhar, Kushal, Mugdha Godse on the sets of Khatron Ke Khiladi 5
30. Khatron Ke Khiladi was like roller-coaster ride for Rochelle Maria Rao
31. Pooja Gor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 5 helped me overcome my fears

External links

• Official website