''India's Best Cinestar Ki Khoj'' is an Indian television series that premiered on

Zee TV ZEE TV also known as Z TV is an Indian Hindi language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. It was launched on 1 October 1992 as the oldest privately owned television channel in India. History ...

in 2004. The first season of the stage show was directed by Gajendra Singh while the reality episodes were directed by Ramon Chibb and Siddharth Bahuguna. The show in its first season had

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and

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as mentors to the budding talent. It is a talent show for aspiring actors, and the first prize is the lead role in a film. Two winners, one male and one female, are crowned at the finale. The show returned for its second season in 2006 and a third one in 2014.

Season 1

The winners of the first season were

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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 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 *

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*Varun Jaiswal ; Group B *Aalesha Syed *Ajay Chabria *

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*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

References

2004 Indian television series debuts Zee TV original programming Indian reality television series Television series by Optimystix Entertainment {{India-tv-prog-stub