Fear Factor is one of the popular shows in India, but we are not talking about the original version. The Indian television producers created Khatron Ke Khiladi in 2008, and the show aired on Colors channel.
Quick answer: Fourteen seasons of Khatron Ke Khiladi have finished, and a fifteenth is airing now. Nethra Raghuraman won the first in 2008 and Karan Veer Mehra won season 14 in 2024, the most recent completed season. Rohit Shetty has hosted since 2014.
Khatron Ke Khiladi winners at a glance
- Seasons: 14 completed between 2008 and 2024, with season 15 on air since August 2026
- First winner: Nethra Raghuraman, season 1, 2008
- Latest champion: Karan Veer Mehra, season 14, 2024
- Longest-serving host: Rohit Shetty, ten seasons and counting
- Years with no season: 2012, 2013, 2018 and 2025
- Original format: the Indian version of Fear Factor, built around stunts rather than talent
Khatron Ke Khiladi winners list: every season
Each season with the contestant who beat them in the final and who was hosting. The host column tells its own story – four different people fronted the first seven seasons before Rohit Shetty settled into the job.
| Season | Year | Winner | Runner-up | Host |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2008 | Nethra Raghuraman | Urvashi Sharma | Akshay Kumar |
| 2 | 2009 | Anushka Manchanda | Jesse Randhawa | Akshay Kumar |
| 3 | 2010 | Shabir Ahluwalia | Ritwik Bhattacharya | Priyanka Chopra |
| 4 | 2011 | Aarti Chhabria | Mauli Dave | Akshay Kumar |
| 5 | 2014 | Rajneesh Duggal | Gurmeet Choudhary | Rohit Shetty |
| 6 | 2015 | Aashish Chaudhary | Meiyang Chang | Rohit Shetty |
| 7 | 2016 | Sidharth Shukla | Sana Saeed | Arjun Kapoor |
| 8 | 2017 | Shantanu Maheshwari | Hina Khan | Rohit Shetty |
| 9 | 2019 | Punit Pathak | Aditya Narayan | Rohit Shetty |
| 10 | 2020 | Karishma Tanna | Karan Patel | Rohit Shetty |
| 11 | 2021 | Arjun Bijlani | Divyanka Tripathi | Rohit Shetty |
| 12 | 2022 | Tushar Kalia | Faisal Shaikh | Rohit Shetty |
| 13 | 2023 | Dino James | Arjit Taneja | Rohit Shetty |
| 14 | 2024 | Karan Veer Mehra | Krishna Shroff | Rohit Shetty |
| 15 | 2026 | Currently airing | — | Rohit Shetty |
Season 15 is left open deliberately. It premiered on 1 August 2026 and is still running, so there is no winner to record yet.
Winners List of Khatron Ke Khiladi From All Seasons
Season one success, and the people connected with the show because it involved celebrities and television personalities. The Khatron Ke Khiladi hosted by Akshay Kumar, Priyanka Chopra, Arjun Kapoor, and Rohit Shetty. The Fear Factor India shooting takes place somewhere outside of India.
Currently, Fear Factor India scheduled to shoot season 9 in 2019. We are going to list all Khatron Ke Khiladi winners since 2008, and we will also provide information on what they are doing today.
1] Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 1: Nethra Raghuraman
Nethra is an Indian model and actor. In 1997, she was the “Look of the Year” contest winner for Femina magazine. Raghuraman debuted in television drama Captain Vyom in 1998 as Naina.
She appeared in several music videos, movies, TV shows, and more. The actress continued to appear in movies, and she was the full-time model. In 2011, Nethra got married to Singapore based businessman Kunal Guha. According to many sources, it was love marriage, and her family accepted the groom graciously.
Nethra speaks Tamil, Hindi, and English, and she is currently living in Singapore with her husband.
2] Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 2: Anushka Manchanda
Manchanda (age 35) is an Indian singer, model, and actor. She is a successful singer voiced over fifty songs from 2004 to till date and Anushka is growing in the music industry. She started as a VJ, but she dropped the idea after the initial success in the music industry.
Manchanda is getting offers from Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, and more languages songs in the music industry. She participated in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (2010 – 2011), but she could win the dancing contest. On 14 May 2016, she participated in Comedy Nights Bachao as a guest appearance with other prominent singers Manmeet Singh, Harmeet Singh (Meet Bros), Jasmine Sandlas, and Kanika Kapoor.
3] Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 3: Shabir Ahluwalia
Shabir (age 39) is an Indian television actor working in the industry since 1999. He started out playing small roles in major shows like Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, Sanjivani (TV series), and more.
Currently, Ahluwalia is working in popular series as the lead role in Kumkum Bhagya spin-off show Kundali Bhagya. He bagged two roles in Hindi films and played cameo roles in Mission Istaanbul and Shootout at Lokhandwala.
Shabir loves to play Cricket, and he participated in Box Cricket League & Celebrity Cricket League from 2015 to 2017. 2018 is probably the best for Ahluwalia because he won two awards in the best actor for leading role.
4] Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 4: Aarti Chabria
Chabria (age 35) is an Indian actor and model. She is an active model, who have signed hundreds of brand deal endorsements during modeling career. While making big in the modeling industry, she was able to bag several films. Aarti never connected with the Indian audience, and she could not make it big as a female lead role in Indian cinema history.
After she won the title of Fear Factor India, she participated in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (season 6). She paired up with Cornel Rodrigues, but the duo did not last long in the show. The duo got eliminated in the 7th week of Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa (season 6). The last film Chabria signed was Vyah 70 km (2013), and she is working as a model.
5] Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 5: Rajneesh Duggal
Duggal (age 38) is a former supermodel in India. He starred in Aarambh based on the story of Devasena of Bahubali movie. Rajneesh played the lead role of Varundev, who is a loyal warrior. He also signed several movies in the past, and he was able to bag lead roles in Saansein (2016), and Udanchhoo (2018). The former supermodel doesn’t seem to be interested in the modeling gigs.
He signed many brand endorsement deals before his modeling experience. Raj debuted in the music video “Bombay Vikings – Chhod Do Aanchal Zamaana Kya Kahega .” He bagged a leading role in the horror film 1920, and it was a box office hit movie. Duggal proposed his longtime girlfriend years back, and they got married, and they have a three-year-old daughter.
He signed a new film tentatively titled Time Nahi Hai, and it is starring Krushna Abhishek, Yuvika Chaudhary, Rajpal Yadav, Shakti Kapoor, and more.
6] Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 6: Aashish Chaudhary
Aashish (age 40) is an Indian actor, model, and host. He is a popular actor worked in several films in the past. The Indian actor debuted in 1995 with Dil Ka Doctor, and it was a flop on the box office. In 2011, he played the role of Boman in Double Dhamaal, and it did extremely well on the box office.
He starred in many television shows like Apne Jaise Types and several shows. He played the lead role in Ek Mutthi Aasmaan (TV series), and it’s a popular show that many audiences appreciated.
Chaudhary made an impression in Ek Mutthi Aasmaan (TV series), and Fear Factor gave him an opportunity very next year. Chaudhary left the game with the title, and he participated in Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa 8.
Aashish failed to capture the title after getting eliminated in the sixth week. Aashish signed another television show as a lead actor in Dev (TV series). The Television industry is watching him very closely, and he is a successful actor.
7] Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 7: Sidharth Shukla
Shukla (age 37) debuted in the television industry in 2008 with Babul Ka Aangann Chootey Na as Shubh Ranawat. After the show completed, he signed another leading role in Jaane Pehchaane Se Ye Ajnabbi as Veer Vardhan Singh.
In 2013, he participated in the popular reality dancing show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa. After moderate success, he signed to play leading role in Colors TV drama series Balika Vadhu.
In 2014 Shukla made his big-screen debut in a supporting role with Shashank Khaitan’s romantic comedy Humpty Sharma Ki Dulhania [2] In 2016, he was a contestant in the show ‘Khatron Ke Khiladi,’ he won the contest on 3 April 2016.
The last TV drama series ended in June 2018. He has not signed any new show yet.
8] Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 8: Shantanu Maheshwari
Maheshwari (age 27) is an Indian television actor. He is aiming to become a lead actor in cinemas. It won’t come as a surprise that he started his career with a dancing reality shows Boogie Woogie in 2002.
Shantanu is part of several reality shows like Big Boss 10, World of Dance TV, Box Cricket League, Kya Masti Kya Dhoom, and more. To get more exposure in the television, he participated in several stage performance. Maheshwari featured in music video Super Girl From China opposite Sunny Leone.
Maheshwari signed a deal with HP for commercials for three years. Shantanu featured in HP Pavilion x360 and HP Sprocket Photo Printer. Big Bazaar signed him for “FBB Denim Dance” advertisement featuring Terence Lewis.
Shantanu is young and growing in the industry a little by little. No one would deny that the dance & sports have worked for him. Maheshwari dancing skills always came in handy, when you are trying to make it big in the television industry.
9] Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 9 Winner: Punit Pathak
Punit Pathak (age 32) is an Indian choreographer and film actor. He made his career as a dancer in the dance reality TV show Dance India Dance (season 2). Later he started his acting career with the 2013 Hindi film Any Body Can Dance (ABCD). He has worked in the dance reality show Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa as choreographer.
He has judged Dance India Dance Season 5 on Zee TV. Also He is the mentor of the dance reality show Dance Plus (season 2 onwards).
He was also a choreographer in Dance Champions. In 2019, he participated in Colors TV’s stunt reality show Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi 9 and emerged as the winner.
10] Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 10 Winner: Karishma Tanna (2020)
Karishma Tanna won season 10 in 2020, with Karan Patel as runner-up and Rohit Shetty hosting. She had already been a runner-up on Bigg Boss Halla Bol in 2015, making the stunt format the one she finally took outright.
11] Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 11 Winner: Arjun Bijlani (2021)
Arjun Bijlani won season 11 in 2021, beating Divyanka Tripathi in the final. Both went on to other things in the same television world – Bijlani later co-hosted Splitsvilla X4, and Divyanka Tripathi had won Nach Baliye 8 with Vivek Dahiya in 2017.
12] Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 12 Winner: Tushar Kalia (2022)
Tushar Kalia, a choreographer by trade, won season 12 in 2022 with social media personality Faisal Shaikh as runner-up.
13] Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 13 Winner: Dino James (2023)
Rapper Dino James took season 13 in 2023, ahead of Arjit Taneja. It was one of the few seasons won by someone who came from music rather than television drama.
14] Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 14 Winner: Karan Veer Mehra (2024)
Karan Veer Mehra won season 14 in 2024, with Krishna Shroff finishing second. He followed it almost immediately by winning Bigg Boss 18, whose final aired in January 2025 – two of Indian television’s biggest reality titles inside a year.
15] Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 15 (2026): still airing
Season 15 premiered on 1 August 2026 and is on air as this is written, so there is no winner yet. Rohit Shetty hosts again, the season was shot in Cape Town, and it carries the theme Darr Ka Naya Daur.
The cast is a good illustration of what this show has become: it includes Gaurav Khanna, who won Bigg Boss 19, Rubina Dilaik, who won Bigg Boss 14, Rithvik Dhanjani, who won Nach Baliye 6, and Farrhana Bhatt, the Bigg Boss 19 runner-up. This page will be updated with the winner once the finale airs.
Why the same faces keep appearing: the reality TV crossroads
Khatron Ke Khiladi casts established television personalities rather than unknowns, which makes it the point where most Indian reality careers intersect. Set its winners against the other big shows and the overlap is striking.
- Sidharth Shukla won season 7 in 2016 and later won Bigg Boss 13.
- Karan Veer Mehra won season 14 in 2024 and Bigg Boss 18 months later.
- Karishma Tanna won season 10 after finishing runner-up on Bigg Boss Halla Bol.
- Punit Pathak won season 9 in 2019, and was the winning captain on Dance Plus seasons 3 and 4.
- Shabir Ahluwalia won season 3 in 2010, having hosted the first two seasons of Nach Baliye.
- Aditya Narayan, runner-up in season 9, has hosted three seasons of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L’il Champs.
- Hina Khan was runner-up in season 8 and runner-up on Bigg Boss 11; Karan Patel, runner-up in season 10, hosted Nach Baliye 7.
That is the honest explanation for something viewers notice constantly: these are not separate talent pools. A relatively small group of television performers circulates through stunts, dancing, the Bigg Boss house and hosting duties, often within the same few years.
Who has hosted Khatron Ke Khiladi
The show took a while to settle. Four people fronted the first seven seasons before it found the host it kept.
- Akshay Kumar hosted seasons 1, 2 and 4 – the show’s early years as a straight Fear Factor adaptation.
- Priyanka Chopra hosted season 3 in 2010, the only season she fronted.
- Arjun Kapoor hosted season 7 in 2016.
- Rohit Shetty took over for season 5 in 2014, returned for season 6, and has hosted every season since season 8 – ten in total, and now inseparable from the show.
Is Khatron Ke Khiladi still running?
Yes. Season 15 began on 1 August 2026 on Colors and JioHotstar, with Rohit Shetty hosting and the season shot in Cape Town. It is the first season since 2024 – there was no edition in 2025.
Until that finale airs, Karan Veer Mehra remains the reigning champion from season 14. This page is updated as each season confirms its winner rather than when one is reported, which is why season 15 shows no name yet.
Khatron Ke Khiladi winners: frequently asked questions
Who won Khatron Ke Khiladi 14?
Karan Veer Mehra won season 14 in 2024, with Krishna Shroff as runner-up and Rohit Shetty hosting. He is the most recent champion, because season 15 is still airing.
Who won Khatron Ke Khiladi season 10?
Karishma Tanna won season 10 in 2020, beating Karan Patel in the final. She had previously been a runner-up on Bigg Boss Halla Bol.
Has Khatron Ke Khiladi 15 finished?
No. Season 15 premiered on 1 August 2026 and is still airing at the time of writing, so no winner has been decided. It is hosted by Rohit Shetty, shot in Cape Town, and carries the theme Darr Ka Naya Daur. This page will be updated when the finale airs.
How many seasons of Khatron Ke Khiladi are there?
Fifteen, counting the season currently on air. Fourteen have finished, between 2008 and 2024. The show has not run every year – there was no season in 2012, 2013, 2018 or 2025.
Who hosts Khatron Ke Khiladi?
Rohit Shetty, who has hosted more seasons than anyone else – season 5 in 2014, season 6, and then every season from season 8 onwards. Before him, Akshay Kumar hosted seasons 1, 2 and 4, Priyanka Chopra hosted season 3 and Arjun Kapoor season 7.
Which Khatron Ke Khiladi winners also won Bigg Boss?
Two. Sidharth Shukla won Khatron Ke Khiladi 7 in 2016 and Bigg Boss 13 in 2020. Karan Veer Mehra won Khatron Ke Khiladi 14 in 2024 and Bigg Boss 18, which finished in January 2025.
Why do the same faces appear on Khatron Ke Khiladi and other reality shows?
Because it casts established television personalities rather than unknowns, so its line-ups overlap heavily with Bigg Boss, Nach Baliye, Dance Plus and Splitsvilla. Several Khatron Ke Khiladi winners and runners-up have won or hosted those shows too.
Conclusion
Fear Factor India, also known as Khatron Ke Khiladi season nine is going to happen in 2019. Let us know which winner has inspired you in the comment section below.
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Season 10 mai karishma winner hogi.