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Indian Idol Junior

television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ17042374 ↗
Source-derived summary

Indian Idol Junior is an Indian Hindi-language reality television singing competition and is a spin-off of Indian Idol. It began broadcasting on Sony Entertainment Television from 1 June 2013. Karan Wahi and Mandira Bedi hosted the show, which was judged by music duo Vishal–Shekhar along with playback singer Shreya Ghoshal. Anjana Padmanabhan won the first edition of Indian Idol Junior. [1]

A second season started on 30 May 2015. The new judges were Salim Merchant and Sonakshi Sinha, while Vishal Dadlani reprised his role as the judge. The show was hosted by Hussain Kuwajerwala and co-hosted by Asha Negi. Ananya Sritam Nanda was the winner for the second season.

A third season started in August. The judges of this season were Anu Malik and Sonakshi Sinha, while Vishal Dadlani reprised his role as the judge.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Indian Idol Junior” as television series. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Indian, Idol and Junior can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as television series. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17042374. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2013 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Indian Idol Junior” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.