India's Best Cinestars Ki Khoj

India's Best Cinestar Ki Khoj
Title card of India's Best Cinestars Ki Khoj.
Created by	Zee Network
Presented by	Season 1: Roshan Abbas Malaika Arora Season 2: Aman Verma Season 3: Hussain Kuwajerwala Vishal Malhotra
Judges	Season 1: Mahesh Manjrekar Satish Kaushik Ken Ghosh Season 2: Anupam Kher Pooja Bhatt Madhur Bhandarkar Season 3: Vijay Krishna Acharya Anurag Basu Sonali Bendre
Country of origin	India
Production
Running time	Approx. 70 Minutes
Release
Original network	Zee TV
Picture format	480i (SDTV)

India's Best Cinestar Ki Khoj is an Indian television series that premiered on Zee TV in 2004. It is a talent show for aspiring actors, and the first prize is the lead role in a film.^[1] Two winners, one male and one female, are crowned at the finale. The show returned for its second season in 2006 and is now currently in its third season in 2014.

Season 1

The winners of the first season were Sarwar Ahuja and Aditi Sharma.

Season 2

See Idea Zee Cinestars Like season 1, season 2 also gave many stars to entertainment industry. Winners of Zee Cinestars 2007

• Piyush Chopra --- Group B
• Sabina Sheema --- Group B(acted in many films) (http://www.missmalini.com/2013/12/11/exclusive-sabina-sheema-on-acting-with-dimple-kapadia-in-what-the-fish/)

Runner-up Zee Cinestars 2007

• Gaurav Bajpai --- Group B
• Chandani Desai --- Group B

Contestants

Group A

• Aadil Sharma
• Mamta Dutta
• Manav Sharma
• Pallavi Dutt
• Mrityunjay Nigam
• Piku Sharma
• Rahul Manchanda
• Rakhi Verma
• Rizwan Sikander
• Ritwika Ghoshal
• Sahil Arora
• Varsha Lodh
• Rati Pandey
• Varun Jaiswal

Group B

• Aalesha Syed
• Ajay Chabria
• Ankita Lokhande
• Ashif
• Chandani Desai
• Gaurav Bajpai
• Kanchan More
• Hardik Soni
• Minal Gorpade
• Kartik Shetty
• Rachel Gurjar
• Prabhjot Dhillon
• Surod Rizvi
• Rohit Raghav
• Piyush Chopra
• Raj Saluja
• Ruchika Babbar
• Sabina Sheema
• Vinay Kamble

Season 3

The third season of India's Best Cinestars Ki Khoj is over and the winners are Okasana and Syed . The winners of the show will get an opportunity to make their acting debut in a film written and creatively mentored by Mahesh Bhatt.^[2]

The Top 12 contestants in the competition are:

References