Top Model India season 1
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| Top Model India | |
|---|---|
| Season 1 | |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Colors Infinity |
| Original release | 4 February – 8 April 2018 |
Top Model India, season 1 was the first installment of Top Model India. The series premiered on Colors Infinity on 4 February 2018 at 8:00 pm IST (UTC+5:30). Sixteen finalists were chosen to compete for the show.
The winner of the competition was 21-year-old Mahir Pandhi from Delhi. As his prizes, he received a one-year modelling contract with Bling Entertainment Solution.
Cast
[edit]Contestants
[edit]| Contestant | Age | Height | Hometown | Finish | Place | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nupura Bhaskar | 26 | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | Mumbai | Episode 2 | 13 | |
| Lemuel Huffman | 25 | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | New York, United States | Episode 3 | 12 | |
| Marina Lang | 21 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Manipur | Episode 4 | 11 | |
| Pearl Almeida | 24 | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Mumbai | Episode 5 | 10 | |
| Sidharth Neeraj Sharma | 27 | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | Mumbai | Episode 6 | 9-8 | |
| Ram Ramasamy | 22 | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | Mumbai | |||
| Gurin Bal | 29 | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) | Toronto, Canada | Episode 8 | 7 | |
| Rishitha Koruturu | 19 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Hyderabad | Episode 9 | 6-5 | |
| Joshua Chhabra | 22 | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | Mumbai | |||
| Satabdi Dutta Banik | 22 | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | Kolkata | Episode 10 | 4 | |
| Aishwarya Suresh | 24 | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | Mumbai | 3 | ||
| Shehzad Deol | 25 | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | New Delhi | 2 | ||
| Mahir Pandhi | 21 | 1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in) | New Delhi | 1 | ||
Judges & Mentor
[edit]Episodes
[edit]Episode 1
[edit]Original airdate: 4 February 2018
- Special guest: Dhruv Kapoor
Episode 2
[edit]Original airdate: 11 February 2018
- First call-out: Gurin Bal
- Bottom two: Joshua Chhabra & Nupura Bhaskar
- Eliminated: Nupura Bhaskar
- Featured photographer: Atul Kasbekar
- Special guest: Ricky Chatterjee
Episode 3
[edit]Original airdate: 18 February 2018
- First call-out: Joshua Chhabra
- Bottom two: Lemuel Huffman & Marina Lang
- Eliminated: Lemuel Huffman
- Featured photographer: Amit Khanna
- Special guest: Daniel Bauer
Episode 4
[edit]Original airdate: 25 February 2018
- First call-out: Joshua Chhabra
- Bottom two: Marina Lang & Sidharth Neeraj Sharma
- Eliminated: Marina Lang
- Featured photographer: Toranj Kayvon
- Special guest: Nora Fatehi
Episode 5
[edit]Original airdate: 4 March 2018
- Entered: Ram Ramasamy
- First call-out: Mahir Pandhi
- Bottom two: Pearl Almeida & Satabdi Dutta Banik
- Eliminated: Pearl Almeida
- Featured photographer: Varun Mehta
- Special guest: Anshuka Parwani
Episode 6
[edit]Original airdate: 11 March 2018
- Immune: Gurin Bal
- First call-out: Aishwarya Suresh
- Bottom three: Joshua Chhabra, Ram Ramasamy & Sidharth Neeraj Sharma
- Eliminated: Ram Ramasamy & Sidharth Neeraj Sharma
Episode 7
[edit]Original airdate: 18 March 2018
- First call-out: Shehzad Deol
- Bottom two: Joshua Chhabra & Mahir Pandhi
- Eliminated: None
- Special guest: Miss Malini
Episode 8
[edit]Original airdate: 25 March 2018
- First call-out: Joshua Chhabra
- Bottom two: Gurin Bal & Rishitha Koruturu
- Eliminated: Gurin Bal
Episode 9
[edit]Original airdate: 1 April 2018
- First call-out: Mahir Pandhi
- Bottom three: Aishwarya Suresh, Joshua Chhabra & Rishitha Koruturu
- Eliminated: Joshua Chhabra & Rishitha Koruturu
- Special guest: Dino Morea
Episode 10
[edit]Original airdate: 8 April 2018
- Final four: Aishwarya Suresh, Mahir Pandhi, Satabdi Dutta Banik & Shehzad Deol
- Eliminated outside of judging panel: Satabdi Dutta Banik
- Final three: Aishwarya Suresh, Mahir Pandhi & Shehzad Deol
- Eliminated: Aishwarya Suresh
- Final two: Mahir Pandhi & Shehzad Deol
- Top Model India: Mahir Pandhi
- Special guest: Manish Malhotra, Akash Sharma
Summaries
[edit]Results
[edit]| Order | Episodes | |||||||||||||||||
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| 1[a] | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5[b] | 6[c][d] | 7[e] | 8 | 9[f] | 10[g] | |||||||||
| 1 | Nupura | Gurin | Joshua | Joshua | Mahir | Aishwarya | Shehzad | Joshua | Mahir | Mahir | ||||||||
| 2 | Mahir | Aishwarya | Satabdi | Rishitha | Joshua | Satabdi | Aishwarya | Mahir | Shehzad | Shehzad | ||||||||
| 3 | Aishwarya | Mahir | Sidharth | Satabdi | Aishwarya | Gurin | Satabdi | Aishwarya | Satabdi | Aishwarya | ||||||||
| 4 | Shehzad | Lemuel | Rishitha | Gurin | Sidharth | Mahir | Rishitha | Satabdi | Aishwarya | Satabdi | ||||||||
| 5 | Pearl | Satabdi | Gurin | Mahir | Shehzad | Shehzad | Gurin | Shehzad | Joshua Rishitha |
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| 6 | Sidharth | Shehzad | Shehzad | Shehzad | Rishitha | Rishitha | Joshua Mahir |
Rishitha | ||||||||||
| 7 | Rishitha | Pearl | Pearl | Pearl | Ram | Joshua | Gurin | |||||||||||
| 8 | Lemuel | Sidharth | Mahir | Aishwarya | Gurin | Ram Sidharth |
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| 9 | Satabdi | Rishitha | Aishwarya | Sidharth | Satabdi | |||||||||||||
| 10 | Joshua | Marina | Marina | Marina | Pearl | |||||||||||||
| 11 | Marina | Joshua | Lemuel | |||||||||||||||
| 12 | Gurin | Nupura | ||||||||||||||||
- The contestant was eliminated
- The contestant was immune from elimination
- The contestant was in a non-elimination bottom two
- The contestant was eliminated outside of judging panel
- The contestant won the competition
Notes
[edit]- ^ In episode 1, the pool of 16 semi-finalists was narrowed down to the top 12 contestants. The first official elimination took place in episode 2.
- ^ In episode 5, Ram was added to the cast as a wildcard contestant.
- ^ In episode 6, Gurin won immunity by winning the challenge.
- ^ In episode 6, Joshua, Ram and Sidharth landed in the bottom three. Ram and Sidharth were both eliminated.
- ^ In episode 7, Mahir and Joshua landed in the bottom two. After Mahir received his picture it was revealed it was a non-elimination.
- ^ In episode 9, Aishwarya, Joshua and Rishitha landed in the bottom three. Joshua and Rishitha were both eliminated.
- ^ In episode 10, Satabdi was eliminated outside of judging panel.
Photo shoot guide
[edit]- Episode 1 photo shoot: OPPO selfies (casting)
- Episode 2 photo shoot: Tribal beauty shots with a Tarantula
- Episode 3 photo shoot: Lingerie(By Amante) and Men's Innerwear - in Pairs
- Episode 4 photo shoot: Renault Captur campaign; Black and White Photo shoot with Lisa Haydon in Anaita Shroff Adajania's Styling
- Episode 5 photo shoot: Posing With a Horse in White Outfits
- Episode 6 photo shoot: "Raw and Rugged"- Posing and Runway in Desert
- Episode 7 photo shoot: 7 deadly sins - Location: Graveyard
- Episode 8 photo shoot: "SuperHeroes"- Posing in a Vertical Runway with Silk Fabric
- Episode 9 photo shoot: "Back Stage Life"- Wearing Ethnic Designs
- Episode 10 fashion show: Fashion show for Manish Malhotra