Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi
Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi (Fear Factor: Players of Danger) simply known as Khatron Ke Khiladi is an Indian Hindi-language stunt based reality television series based on the American series Fear Factor.[1] First launched as Fear Factor India on Sony TV it was sold to Colors TV and was relaunched as Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi on 21 July 2008. A spin-off of the main-series Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi – Made in India was launched on 1 August 2020 where previous year contestants participated.
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| Based on | Fear Factor |
| Presented by | Akshay Kumar (season 1, 2, 4) Priyanka Chopra (season 3) Rohit Shetty (season 5-6, 8-13) Arjun Kapoor (season 7) |
| Starring | see below |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original language | Hindi |
| No. of seasons | 13 |
| No. of episodes | 235 |
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| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | around 120 minutes |
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| Original network | Colors TV |
| Picture format | 720p HDTV |
| Original release | 21 July 2008 – present |
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Series overview
Season 1
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| Season 1 | |
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| Presented by | Akshay Kumar |
| No. of contestants | 12 |
| Winner | Nethra Raghuraman |
| Runner-up | Urvashi Sharma |
| Country of origin | India |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Colors TV |
| Original release | 21 July – 14 August 2008 |
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Khatron Ke Khiladi 1 was hosted by Akshay Kumar. Nethra Raghuraman was declared the winner of the season.
Contestants
- Nethra Raghuraman (winner)
- Urvashi Sharma (runner-up)
- Aditi Govitrikar (3rd place)
- Anjana Sukhani (4th place)
- Pooja Bedi (5th place)
- Sonali Kulkarni (6th place)
- Yana Gupta (7th place)
- Meghana Naidu (8th place)
- Anita Hassanandani (9th place)
- Dipannita Sharma (10th place)
- Vidya Malvade (11th place)
- Tapur Chatterjee (12th place)
Season 2
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| Season 2 | |
Title screen | |
| Presented by | Akshay Kumar |
| No. of contestants | 13 |
| Winners | Anushka Manchanda |
| Runner-up | Jesse Randhawa |
| Country of origin | India |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Colors TV |
| Original release | 7 September – 1 October 2009 |
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Khatron Ke Khiladi 2 was hosted by Akshay Kumar. Anushka Manchanda was declared the winner of the season.
Contestants
- Anushka Manchanda (winner)
- Jesse Randhawa (runner-up)
- Carol Gracias (3rd place)
- Rosa Catalano (4th place)
- Nauheed Cyrusi (5th place)
- Shonali Nagrani (6th place)
- Bruna Abdullah (7th place)
- Sonika Kaliraman (8th place)
- Shweta Salve (9th place)
- Mandira Bedi (10th place)
- Pia Trivedi (11th place)
- Rupali Ganguly (12th place)
- Sushma Reddy (13th place)
Season 3
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| Season 3 | |
Title screen | |
| Presented by | Priyanka Chopra |
| No. of contestants | 13 |
| Winner | Shabir Ahluwalia |
| Runner-up | Ritwik Bhattacharya |
| Country of origin | India |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
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| Original network | Colors TV |
| Original release | 6 September – 30 September 2010 |
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Khatron Ke Khiladi 3 was hosted by Priyanka Chopra. Shabir Ahluwalia was declared the winner of the season.
Contestants
- Shabir Ahluwalia (winner)
- Ritwik Bhattacharya (runner-up)
- Dino Morea (3rd place)
- Milind Soman (4th place)
- Manjot Singh (5th place)
- Abhishek Kapoor (6th place)
- Rahul Bose (7th place)
- Terence Lewis (8th place)
- Karan Singh Grover (9th place)
- Cyrus Broacha (10th place)
- Rahul Dev (11th place)
- Angad Bedi (12th place)
- Armaan Ebrahim (13th place)
Season 4
Khatron Ke Khiladi 4 was hosted by Akshay Kumar. The tagline for this season was "Torchaar 4". Aarti Chhabria was declared the winner of the season.
Contestants
- Aarti Chabria (winner)[2]
- Mauli Dave (runner-up)
- Diandra Soares (3rd place)
- Dina Singh (4th place)
- Mia Uyeda (5th place)[3]
- Anjum Chopra (6th place)[4]
- Aashka Goradia (7th place)[5]
- Alesia Raut (8th place)[6]
- Gurbani Judge (9th place)[7]
- Kashmera Shah (10th place)[8]
- Poonam Pandey (11th place)
- Smita Bansal (12th place)[9]
- Sambhavna Seth (13th place)[10]
Season 5
Khatron Ke Khiladi 5 was hosted by Rohit Shetty The tagline for this season was "Darr Ka Blockbuster". Rajneesh Duggal was declared the winner of the season.[11]
Contestants
- Rajneesh Duggal (winner)
- Gurmeet Choudhary (runner-up)[12]
- Nikitin Dheer (3rd place)[13]
- Debina Bonnerjee (4th place)[13]
- Salman Yusuff Khan (5th place)[14]
- Teejay Sidhu (6th place)[15]
- Karanvir Bohra (7th place)[16]
- Gauahar Khan (8th place)[17]
- Ranvir Shorey (9th place)
- Deana Uppal (10th place)[18]
- Ajaz Khan (11th place)[19]
- Geeta Tandon (12th place)[20]
- Dayanand Shetty (13th place)[21]
- Kushal Tandon (14th place)[22]
- Mugdha Godse (15th place)[23]
- Rochelle Rao (16th place)[24]
- Pooja Gor (17th place)[25]
Season 6
Khatron Ke Khiladi 6 was hosted by Rohit Shetty. The tagline for this season was "Darr Ka Blockbuster Returns". Aashish Chaudhary was declared the winner of the season.
Contestants
- Ashish Chaudhary (winner)
- Meiyang Chang (runner-up)
- Sagarika Ghatge (3rd place)
- Iqbal Khan (4th place)
- Hussain Kuwajerwala (5th place)
- Asha Negi (6th place)
- Rakesh Kumar (7th place)
- Nandish Sandhu (8th place)
- Sana Khan(9th place)
- Rashami Desai (10th place)
- Nathalia Kaur (11th place)
- Riddhi Dogra (12th place)
- Archana Vijaya (13th place)
- Sidharth Bhardwaj(14th place)
- Harshad Arora (15th place)
Season 7
Khatron Ke Khiladi 7 was hosted by Arjun Kapoor. The tagline for this season was "Kabhi पीड़ा Kabhi कीड़ा in Argentina". Sidharth Shukla was declared the winner of the season.
Contestants
- Sidharth Shukla (winner)
- Sana Saeed (runner-up)
- Mukti Mohan (3rd place)
- Tanishaa Mukerji (4th place)
- Vivian Dsena (5th place)
- Raghav Juyal (6th place)
- Vivan Bhatena (7th place)
- Parvathy Omanakuttan (8th place)
- Jay Bhanushali(Quit)
- Mahhi Vij (10th place)
- Aishwarya Sakhuja (11th place)
- Tina Datta (12th place)
- Faisal Khan (13th place)
- Yuvraj Walmiki (14th place)
- Himmanshoo A. Malhotra (15th place)
Season 8
Khatron Ke Khiladi 8 was hosted by Rohit Shetty. The tagline for this season was "Pain in Spain". Shantanu Maheshwari was declared the winner of the season.
Contestants
| Contestants | Position |
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| Shantanu Maheshwari | Winner |
| Hina Khan | Runner-up |
| Ravi Dubey | 3rd place |
| Monica Dogra | 4th place |
| Nia Sharma | 5th place |
| Lopamudra Raut | 6th place |
| Rithvik Dhanjani | 7th place |
| Karan Wahi | 8th place |
| Geeta Phogat | 9th place |
| Manveer Gurjar | 10th place |
| Shiny Doshi | 11th place |
| Shibani Dandekar | 12th place |
Season 9
Khatron Ke Khiladi 9 was hosted by Rohit Shetty.[26] The tagline for this season was "Jigar Pe Trigger". Punit Pathak was declared as winner of the season.
Contestants
| Contestants | Position |
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| Punit Pathak | Winner |
| Aditya Narayan | Runner-up |
| Ridhima Pandit | 3rd place |
| Shamita Shetty | 4th place |
| Aly Goni | 5th place |
| Bharti Singh | 6th place |
| Jasmin Bhasin | 7th place |
| Vikas Gupta | 8th place (Disqualified) |
| Haarsh Limbachiyaa | 9th place |
| Zain Imam | 10th place |
| Sreeshanth | 11th place |
| Avika Gor | 12th place |
Season 10
Khatron Ke Khiladi 10 was hosted by Rohit Shetty. The tagline for this season was "Jahaan Darr Lega Class Aur Dega Trass". The telecast was postponed for 3 months due to COVID-19 pandemic. Week 7 episodes started from 27 June. Karishma Tanna was declared as the winner of the season 10.
Contestants
| Contestants | Position |
|---|---|
| Karishma Tanna | Winner |
| Karan Patel | Runner-up |
| Dharmesh Yelande | 3rd place |
| Balraj Syal | 4th place |
| Shivin Narang | 5th place |
| Tejasswi Prakash | 6th place (Quit) |
| Adaa Khan | 7th place |
| Amruta Khanvilkar | 8th place |
| RJ Malishka | 9th place |
| Rani Chatterjee | 10th place |
Season 11
Khatron Ke Khiladi 11 was hosted by Rohit Shetty. The tagline for this season was "Darr VS Dare". Arjun Bijlani was declared as winner of the season.
Contestants
| Contestants | Position |
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| Arjun Bijlani | Winner |
| Divyanka Tripathi | Runner-up |
| Vishal Aditya Singh | 3rd place |
| Varun Sood | 4th place |
| Shweta Tiwari | 5th place |
| Rahul Vaidya | 6th place |
| Sana Makbul | 7th place |
| Abhinav Shukla | 8th place |
| Anushka Sen | 9th place |
| Nikki Tamboli | 10th place |
| Mahek Chahal | 11th place |
| Aastha Gill | 12th place |
| Sourabh Raaj Jain | 13th place |
Season 12
Khatron Ke Khiladi 12 is hosted by Rohit Shetty. The tagline for this season was "Bach Ke Kahan Jayega? Khatra Kahin Se Bhi Aayega!". The show premiered on 2 July 2022, on Colors TV. Spanning over 26 episodes, it is the longest season of the series since its inception. Tushar Kalia was declared as winner of the season.[27]
Contestants
| Contestants | Position |
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| Tushar Kalia[28][29] | Winner |
| Faisal Shaikh | Runner Up |
| Mohit Malik[30] | 3rd Place |
| Jannat Zubair | 4th Place |
| Rubina Dilaik[31] | 5th Place |
| Kanika Mann[32] | 6th Place |
| Rajiv Adatia[33] | 7th Place |
| Nishant Bhat | 8th Place |
| Pratik Sehajpal[34] | 9th Place |
| Sriti Jha[28] | 10th Place |
| Chetna Pande[33] | 11th Place |
| Shivangi Joshi[35] | 12th Place |
| Aneri Vajani[36] | 13th Place |
| Erika Packard[37] | 14th Place |
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