Top Model India season 1 explained
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 . 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
Contestants
| Contestant | Age | Height | Hometown | Finish | Place |
|---|
| Nupura Bhaskar | 26 | | Mumbai | Episode 2 | 13 |
| Lemuel Huffman | 25 | | New York, United States | Episode 3 | 12 |
| Marina Lang | 21 | | Manipur | Episode 4 | 11 |
| Pearl Almeida | 24 | | Mumbai | Episode 5 | 10 |
| Sidharth Neeraj Sharma | 27 | | Mumbai | Episode 6 | 9-8 |
| Ram Ramasamy | 22 | | Mumbai |
| Gurin Bal | 29 | | | Episode 8 | 7 |
| Rishitha Koruturu | 19 | | Hyderabad | Episode 9 | 6-5 |
| Joshua Chhabra | 22 | | Mumbai |
| Satabdi Dutta Banik | 22 | | Kolkata | Episode 10 | 4 |
| Aishwarya Suresh | 24 | | Mumbai | 3 |
| Shehzad Deol | 25 | | New Delhi | 2 |
| Mahir Pandhi | 21 | | New Delhi | 1 | |
Judges & Mentor
Episodes
Episode 1
Original airdate:
- Special guest: Dhruv Kapoor
Episode 2
Original airdate:
- First call-out: Gurin Bal
- Bottom two: Joshua Chhabra & Nupura Bhaskar
- Eliminated: Nupura Bhaskar
- Featured photographer: Atul Kasbekar
- Special guest: Ricky Chatterjee
Episode 3
Original airdate:
- First call-out: Joshua Chhabra
- Bottom two: Lemuel Huffman & Marina Lang
- Eliminated: Lemuel Huffman
- Featured photographer: Amit Khanna
- Special guest: Daniel Bauer
Episode 4
Original airdate:
- 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
Original airdate:
- 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
Original airdate:
- 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
Original airdate:
- First call-out: Shehzad Deol
- Bottom two: Joshua Chhabra & Mahir Pandhi
- Eliminated: None
- Special guest: Miss Malini
Episode 8
Original airdate:
- First call-out: Joshua Chhabra
- Bottom two: Gurin Bal & Rishitha Koruturu
- Eliminated: Gurin Bal
Episode 9
Original airdate:
- First call-out: Mahir Pandhi
- Bottom three: Aishwarya Suresh, Joshua Chhabra & Rishitha Koruturu
- Eliminated: Joshua Chhabra & Rishitha Koruturu
- Special guest: Dino Morea
Episode 10
Original airdate:
- 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
Results
| Order | Episodes |
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
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| 1 | Nupura | Gurin | Joshua | Joshua | Mahir | Aishwarya | Shehzad | Joshua | Mahir | Mahir |
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| 2 | Mahir | Aishwarya | Satabdi | Rishitha | Joshua | Satabdi | Aishwarya | Mahir | Shehzad | Shehzad |
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| 3 | Aishwarya | Mahir | Sidharth | Satabdi | Aishwarya | Gurin | Satabdi | Aishwarya | Satabdi | Aishwarya |
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| 4 | Shehzad | Lemuel | Rishitha | Gurin | Sidharth | Mahir | Rishitha | Satabdi | Aishwarya | Satabdi |
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| 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 |
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| 7 | Rishitha | Pearl | Pearl | Pearl | Ram | Joshua | Gurin | |
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| 8 | Lemuel | Sidharth | Mahir | Aishwarya | Gurin | Ram
Sidharth | |
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| 9 | Satabdi | Rishitha | Aishwarya | Sidharth | Satabdi |
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| 10 | Joshua | Marina | Marina | Marina | Pearl | |
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| 11 | Marina | Joshua | Lemuel | |
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| 12 | Gurin | Nupura | | |
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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
Photo shoot guide
- 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
