Celebrity MasterChef (Hindi TV series)

Celebrity MasterChef
Genre	Cooking Game show
Created by	Trevellyn Fynn
Directed by	Ashish Chauhan Dhurv Chauhan
Creative directors	Soumyajit Roy Ketan Mangaonkar
Presented by	Farah Khan
Judges	Ranveer Brar Vikas Khanna
Country of origin	India
Original language	Hindi
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Executive producers	Sherwin Fernandes Nimish Didwania
Producers	Deepak Dhar Rishi Negi
Production company	Endemol Shine India
Original release
Network	Sony Entertainment Television
Release	27 January 2025 (2025-01-27) – present (present)
Related
MasterChef India - Hindi

Celebrity MasterChef is an Indian Hindi-language competitive cooking game show. It is the spin-off of the series MasterChef India – Hindi, featuring celebrity contestants. Ranveer Brar and Vikas Khanna reprised their roles as judges from the original series while Farah Khan joined as the first ever host on the Indian installation of MasterChef.

Contestants

Contestant	Age	Notability	Status	Ref.
Abhijeet Sawant	43	Singer
Archana Gautam	29	Reality show alumuns
Ayesha Jhulka	52	Actress
Dipika Kakar	37	Actress
Faisal Shaikh	30	Social media personality
Gaurav Khanna	43	Actor
Kabita Singh	46	Social media personality
Nikki Tamboli	28	Actress
Rajiv Adatia	36	Social media personality
Tejasswi Prakash	31	Actress
Usha Nadkarni	78	Actress
Chandan Prabhakar	44	Comedian	Eliminated 7 February

Elimination table

Place	Contestant	Episodes
		Week 1							Week 2					Week 3					Week 4
		1	2		3	4	5		6	7	8-9	10		11	12-13	14	15		16	17-18	19	20
	Archana	IN	IN	LOW	HIGH	LOW	EXC		IN	IN	WIN	IMM		IN	WIN	IMM
	Dipika	IN	LOW	WIN	IN	IN	WIN		HIGH	IN	WIN	IMM		LOW	EXC		PT
	Faisal	IN	WIN	IN	IN	IN	IN		IN	IN	WIN	IMM		WIN	WIN	IMM
	Gaurav	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	HIGH		IN	IN	LOW	PT		HIGH	WIN	IMM
	Nikki	WIN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN		IN	IN	LOW	PT		HIGH	LOW	LOW	PT
	Rajiv	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN	IN		IN	IN	WIN	IMM		LOW	LOW	HIGH	PT
	Tejasswi	HIGH	IN	IN	IN	IN	HIGH		IN	WIN	LOW	PT		LOW	LOW	WIN	IMM
	Usha	HIGH	LOW	IN	HIGH	LOW	EXC		IN	IN	LOW	IMM		IN	WIN	IMM
	Ayesha													IN	WIN	IMM
	Abhijeet	IN	IN	IN	LOW	EXC			IN	IN	WIN	IMM		IN	LOW	LOW	PT
	Kabita	IN	IN	IN	LOW	EXC			HIGH	WIN	WIN	IMM		IN	LOW	LOW	PT
12	Chandan	IN	LOW	LOW	EXC				WIN	IN	LOW	ELIM

  (WINNER) This cook won the competition.

  (RUNNER-UP) This cook finished as a runner-up in the finals.

  (WIN) The cook won an individual challenge.

  (WIN) The cook was on the winning team in the team challenge.

  (HIGH) The cook was one of the top entries in an individual challenge.

  (HIGH) The cook was one of the top entries in the team challenge.

  (IN) The cook wasn't selected as a top or bottom entry in an individual challenge.

  (IN) The cook dish wasn’t tasted, but advanced.

  (LOW) The cook was one of the bottom entries in an individual challenge.

  (LOW) The cook was on the losing team in the team challenge.

  (EXC) The cook was excluded from the challenge.

  (IMM) The cook didn't participate in the challenge as he/she already advanced to the next week.

  (PIN) The cook used immunity pin to be exempted from the elimination challenge.

  (PT) The cook competed in the Pressure Test in elimination round, and advanced.

  (ELIM) The cook was eliminated from MasterChef Kitchen.

Notes

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original release date	Ratings 15-50
1	1	"Kitchen Is Set"	January 27, 2025 (2025-01-27)	0.6
Mystery Box Challenge: The contestants open a mystery box to find ingredients from the Harappan Civilization. Also, the contestants were not allowed to use electrical equipment as well. This was the first challenge for the immunity pin. Top 3 Dishes: Nikki Tamboli, Usha Nadkarni, Tejasswi Prakash Challenge winner: Nikki Tamboli
2	2	"Messy Egg Challenge"	January 28, 2025 (2025-01-28)	0.6
In the second challenge for immunity pin, The contestants get eggs as their core ingredients and have to use them in 2 rounds. Round 1: In the first round, the contestants have to make a perfect meringue. The last 3 who finish the challenge will get a disadvantage and the first contestant to finish will get an advantage. From the previous day's challenge, Since Nikki's dish was the top dish, She got the advantage that she could choose 2 contestants to delay their cooking for 2 minutes. Nikki chose Dipika and Rajiv Round 1 Winner: Faisal Sheikh Round 1 Bottom Dishes: Chandan Prabhakar, Usha Nadkarni, Dipika Kakar Ibrahim Advantage: Faisal wins an advantage in which during the second round, he can pause the cooking of any one of the bottom 3 contestants (Chandan, Dipika, and Usha) for 5 minutes Round 2: The contestants will have to make a dish with eggs within 45 minutes. The contestant whose dish will be the weakest will be eliminated from the immunity pin race. Faisal uses his advantage on Chandan and He had to pause his cooking. Round 2 Winner: Dipika Kakar Ibrahim Round 2 Bottom Dishes: Chandan Prabhakar, Archana Gautam Result: Chandan Prabhakar was eliminated from the immunity pin race
3	3	"State and Country Fusion Challenge"	January 29, 2025 (2025-01-29)	0.6
For the third challenge for the immunity pin, 5 pairs were made: Dipika and Tejasswi, Rajiv and Faisal, Nikki and Gaurav, Archana and Usha, Kabita and Abhijeet. Round 1: Each pair was given an Indian state and a foreign country and they had to make a welcome drink that combined both the ingredients from the above stated. The pair who makes the weakest drink will be eliminated from the immunity pin race. Round 1 Top Drink: Usha Nadkarni and Archana Gautam Result: Kabita Singh and Abhijeet Sawant made the weakest drink and were eliminated from the immunity race.
4	4	"State and Country Fusion Challenge - Part 2"	January 30, 2025 (2025-01-30)
Round 2: The pairs had to make 2 separate dishes combining both, the Indian state and the foreign country assigned to them. During the tasting, only one dish amongst the two can be brought to be judged. Result: Usha Nadkarni and Archana Gautam made the weakest dish and were eliminated from the immunity pin race.
5	5	"Vikas Khanna Replication Challenge"	January 31, 2025 (2025-01-31)	0.6
Chef Vikas Replication Challenge: Remaining six celebrities had to replicate the dish by Chef Vikas, called 'Brahmand' lit. Universe. Top Dishes: Dipika Kakkar Ibrahim, Tejasswi Prakash and Gaurav Khanna. Result: Dipika won the immunity pin challenge and was granted the same.
6	6	"Tribute to the Loved Ones"	February 3, 2025 (2025-02-03)
Celebrities had to prepare one dish in 70 minutes that depicts a precious memory of their life. Top Dishes: Chandan Prabhakar, Kabita Singh, Dipika Kakkar Ibrahim Challenge Winner: Chandan Prabhakar
7	7	"Winter on a Plate"	February 4, 2025 (2025-02-04)
Guest Chef Kunal Kapur introduces a challenge in which contestants must use seasonal winter ingredients to create a dish in 55 minutes, with 5 minutes of pantry time. A twist was introduced to incorporate liquid nitrogen in the dish and during tasting only 7 of the 11 dishes would be tasted. Also, Chandan being the previous episode's winner was allowed to call Kunal Kapur for help for 5 minutes. Dishes chosen to taste: Tejasswi Prakash, Kabita Singh, Chandan Prabhakar, Dipika Kakkar Ibrahim, Gaurav Khanna, Faisal Shaikh, Abhijeet Sawant, Challenge winners: Tejasswi Prakash, Kabita Singh
8	8	"First-Ever Team Service Challenge - Part 1"	February 5, 2025 (2025-02-05)
Celebrities had to work in teams in a restaurant to serve 15 notable guests, from news and previous seasons' winners and runners-up. The person who makes the best dish of the day will receive a power card. The last challenge's winners Kabita and Tejasswi were the captains of the pink and blue teams respectively. Pink Team- Kabita, Rajiv, Fasial, Abhijeet, Dipika, Archana Blue Team- Tejasswi, Usha, Gaurav, Nikki, Chandan
9	9	"First-Ever Team Service Challenge - Part 2"	February 6, 2025 (2025-02-06)
In continuation from the previous episode, the Pink Team won the challenge and became immune while the Blue Team had to compete in the Black Apron Challenge. The best dish belonged to Faisal and Abhijeet from the Pink Team and they won a Veeba power card.
10	10	"First Elimination Challenge"	February 7, 2025 (2025-02-07)
The power card holders, Faisal and Abhijeet got an advantage in that they could save one contestant from the losing team. They chose Usha and she became immune from the elimination challenge Elimination Challenge: The remaining 4 contestants, Gaurav, Tejasswi, Chandan, and Nikki had to make a dish with the types of chilies as the main ingredient. Bottom 2 Dishes: Tejasswi Prakash, Chandan Prabhakar Eliminated: Chandan Prabhakar
11	11	"Liquid to Solid Challenge"	February 10, 2025 (2025-02-10)
Each contestants was given a cloche which contained a liquid item that the contestants had to make a solid dish with. Entrees: Ayesha Jhulka as a wild-card. Top 3 Dishes: Gaurav, Nikki, Faisal Challenge Winner: Faisal Bottom 3 Dishes: Tejasswi, Rajiv, Dipika Since Dipika's dish was lowest of the bottom-three dishes, she was immediately given the black-apron for Friday's elimination pressure test and she could not participate in this week's challenges anymore.
12	12	"Double Trouble Team Challenge"	February 11, 2025 (2025-02-11)
As Faisal won the last challenge, he had the advantage to be and captain and pick the captain of the other team amongst Gaurav and Nikki, where he chose Nikki. Red Team: Faisal, Ayesha, Archana, Usha, Gaurav Green Team: Nikki, Abhijeet, Rajiv, Kabita, Tejasswi Each team had to cook a dish made of three star ingredients given by the judges and the host. Only 2 people could cook at a time, and in every fifteen minutes, they had to swap their places.

Ratings

Week	Dates	Ratings	Ratings	Reach %	SET India Weekly Rank	Overall Rank	Ref.
		15+	15–50
1	27 – 31 January 2025	0.6	0.6	1.7	#3	#37
2	3 – 7 February 2025		0.6	1.7	#3	#37

External links

• Celebrity MasterChef on SonyLIV