''Indian Idol'' is an Indian

music competition A music competition is a public event designed to identify and award outstanding musical ensembles, solo (music), soloists, composers, conducting, conductors, musicologists or compositions. Pop music competitions are music competitions which are h ...

television franchise based on the ''

Pop Idol ''Pop Idol'' is a British music competition television series created by Simon Fuller which ran on ITV from 2001 to 2003. The aim of the show was to decide the best new young pop singer (or "pop idol") in the UK based on viewer voting and pa ...

'' format. Several iterations of the series have been produced by different companies. The first series premiered in 2004. There have been 18 seasons to date.

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{{Idol series Television series by Fremantle (company) Indian television series based on British television series