India's Best Cinestars Ki Khoj


India's Best Cinestar Ki Khoj is an Indian television series that premiered on Zee TV in 2004. 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 third season in 2014.

Season 1

The winners of the first season were Sarwar Ahuja and Aditi Sharma.
Aditi SharmaLucknow
Amruta KhanvilkarPune
Nivaan SenVaranasi
Abhinav KohliBangalore
Abhishek AvasthiKanpur
Ashok SaharanJaipur
Bhaumik SampatRajkot
Preeti AminHyderabad
Himanshu MalhotraVaranasi
Sudeepa SinghLudhiana
Vipul RoyBhopal
Sharad MalhotraKolkata
Manmeet JaggiBhopal
Ankita LokhandeNagpur
Manas SatpathyBangalore
Anjali PandeyDelhi
Vipul Kumar SharmaDelhi
Bharat ChawdaIndore
Deepika TiwariLucknow
Simran VaidMumbai
Sohan MasterAhmedabad
Pinky SarkarJamshedpur
Mohit ChaddaBhopal
Shreya AroraKanpur
Abbas KhanLucknow
Naziya KhanMumbai
Rishiraj SinghJaipur
Loveleen WaliaSingapore
Shareen PathakSingapore
Yuvika ChaudharyVaranasi
Naman ShawJamshedpur
Suraj JoshiBangalore
Gargi SharmaJaipur
Ravish SharmaLudhiana
Sarwar AhujaHyderabad
Shraddha AryaDelhi
Divyanka Tripathi DahiyaBhopal

Season 2

See Idea Zee Cinestars
Like season 1, season 2 also gave many stars to entertainment industry.
Winners of Zee Cinestars 2007
Runner-up Zee Cinestars 2007
; Group A
; Group B
The third season of India's Best Cinestars Ki Khoj is over and the winners are Okasana and Syed. The winners of the show will get an opportunity to make their acting debut in a film written and creatively mentored by Mahesh Bhatt.
The Top 12 contestants in the competition are:
Participant NameFromNotes
Abhimanyu KakChandigarhEliminated on August 10, 2014
Akshay NalawadeMumbai, MaharashtraStar Finalist
Aman JoshiDehradun, UttarakhandEliminated on August 3, 2014
Kartik VyasAllahabad, Uttar PradeshEliminated on August 24, 2014
Meenu PanchalJind, Haryana
Oksana Rasulova WINNERBaku, Azerbaijan
Prakruti MishraBhubaneswar, OrissaEliminated on August 10, 2014
Saurabh BharadwajJallandhar, Punjab
Sheetal ChauhanDehradun, UttarakhandEliminated on August 3, 2014
Sonam BishtDehradun, UttarakhandEliminated on August 24, 2014
Syed Mamoon WINNERlucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Vikram ChatterjeeKolkata, West Bengal