Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi (season 4)
| Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi | |
|---|---|
| Presented by | Akshay Kumar, Jamie Srubis & Andrea Tus |
| Country of origin | India |
| No. of episodes | 16 |
| Production | |
| Production location | South Africa |
| Running time | 60 minutes (with commercials) |
| Original release | |
| Release | 3 June – 23 July 2011 |
Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi Torchaar 4 is the fourth season of India's reality series Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi. The fourth season premiered on 3 June 2011, on Colors, and is hosted by Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar who earlier hosted the first two season of the series. The season is introduced as 'Torchaar'. The Bollywood film actress and a former model Aarti Chabria won the fourth season.[1]
Season summary
13 Indian Divas, teamed up with 13 people to perform daring stunts. Each episode opens up with a new stunt which all teams have to perform. The worst performer in the stunts is eliminated on the spot.
Host
The fourth season is hosted by Akshay Kumar along with co-hosts Jamie Srubis as Munni and Andrea Tus as Sheila.
Contestants
- Aashka Goradia, television actress who gained popularity with the show Kkusum and Laagi Tujhse Lagan; Sunit Bhatia is her partner in the show.[2] Eliminated
- Alesia Raut, model and Actor, born in Moscow, Russia and a mother to four-year-old boy. She has acted in the movie Fashion; Shashwat Seth is her partner in the show.[3] Eliminated
- Anjum Chopra, Delhite who has represented India in many World Cup for Indian National Women’s cricket team. Sandeep Sachdev is her partner in the show.[1] Eliminated
- Aarti Chhabria, Bollywood actress. She has acted with Akshay Kumar in Awara Paagal Deewana and was favored to win the competition. Dhaval Thakur is her partner in the show.[4] Winner
- VJ Bani, Gurbani Judge has been a MTV Roadies’ participant and MTV VJ from Chandigarh. Amit Mehra is her partner in the show.[5] Eliminated
- Diandra Soares, Model and Actress, started her modeling career after winning Miss Mumbai in 1995. She has also worked in movies like Boom and Fashion (film). Ahran Chaudhary is her partner in the show.[6] Eliminated
- Dina Singh, Model of Russian origin and wife of Bollywood actor Vindu Dara Singh. Dina is a fashion designer and mother of 4 yr old daughter Amelia. Pramod Dahiya is her partner in the show.[4] Eliminated
- Kashmira Shah, model, actor, known for her bold and glamorous image, Kashmera has worked in movies and television shows. Last seen in Bigg Boss as a participant. Sumit Suri is her partner in the show.[7] Eliminated
- Mauli Dave, singer turned actress was born in Ahmedabad and brought up in US. She has won Miss Teen India Texas in 2007 and created sensation with her singing talent. Dhiraj Amonkar is her partner in the show.[8] Runner Up
- VJ Mia, 27-year-old Mia is an actress / model of Canadian origin. She has also been hosting a lot of shows on MTV and is a well known VJ. Sangram Singh is her partner in the show.[9] Eliminated
- Poonam Pandey, model based out of Mumbai. Praveen Jain is her partner in the show.[10] Eliminated
- Sambhavana Sheth, actress, dancer and TV personality, Sambhavana Kumar Seth is known for her bindaas attitude. Winner of Dancing Queen and an exBigg Boss participant. Khalid Chowdhary is her partner in the show. (Eliminated 1st day on 3 June 2011).[11]
- Smita Bansal, television actress last seen on the popular show Balika Vadhu. Saurabbh Roy is her partner in the show.[12] Eliminated
Stunts
Episode 1 - Stunt 1 - Mard Tange Wala
The stunt involves a horse-drawn carriage being pulled around a gravelled and muddy course. The male partner boy is holding on to the ropes attached to the carriage. The lady partner is tied to the boy’s feet. The boy has to hold the ropes attached to the carriage and pull the girl along with as he gets pulled by the horses. While they both are being pulled around the course the girl has to knock off marked road cones with a pole which are strategically placed around the course. The team with the highest number of cones knocked out will be the winner and the one with lowest number would be eliminated from the competition.
- Anjum Chopra became the winner in this task.
- Sambhavana Seth was eliminated[11]
Episode 2 - Stunt 2 - Khiladi Up, Tu Meter Down
The stunt 2 was a head on challenge, between two male contestants. Both men had to get on to a platform suspended in mid air over the sea and jump unto a bonnet of the car, which was 6 ft away from the platform. The sea below was formidable. Yellow and black flags were strategically placed all around the taxi. The men had to jump on the taxi and pull out one flag at a time and run back to the platform and stick it on the panel given there. After the last flag has been pulled out and stuck on panel the contestant had to go back till the boot of the car, take out Thums Up bottle placed there, run back to platform and place the bottle in a holder. After a bottle had been placed there, both the platform and the Taxi upended, dropping both the contestants in 8 °C sea water.
- Five teams got safety bands
- Bani and Amit Mehra
- Aarti Chhabria and Dhaval Thakur
- Anjum Chopra and Sandeep Sachdev
- Kashmeera Shah and Sumit Suri
- Aashka Goradia and Sunit Bhatia
Episode 2 - Stunt 3 - Kulfi Jamai
The stunt was on an old dilapidated ship. On the ship, an acrylic pipe was jutting out of a hole in the wall. The pipe was surrounded by a container filled with ice cold water where the girl had to stand with her head in the pipe and her hands tied outside the pipe. The pipe, intermittently kept gushing out large quantities of water onto girl’s face. At the same time the partner (guy), had to climb into the pipe and see a lock combination number which is hanging around the girl’s neck on a string. After that he had to get out of the pipe and on the outside of the pipe is a lock which he had to open with the help of the combination.
- Poonam Pandey and Pravin had the best time in this stunt
- Smita and Saurabh are eliminated
Episode 3 - Stunt 4 - Shatru- Murg
The stunt was the partners had to jump into an enclosure which had some ostriches and go over to other side of it and pick up one ostrich eggs each that had a number written on it. Those eggs then had to be placed on a rack given on the side the partners had jumped into the closure from. Under the wings of ostrich were the individual numbers as on the eggs. The contestants had to look for their numbers under the wings of the ostrich and after that push the same numbered ostrich in a smaller enclosure within the main enclosure. Finally when both the ostriches were in the small enclosure, one of the team members had to then ring the bell which was placed just at the edge of the small enclosure. On tolling of the bell stunt time got over.
- Safety Bands were given to the following team
- Mia and Sangram
- Aashka and Sunit
- Bani and Amit
- Dina and Pramod
Episode 3 - Stunt 5 - Khul ja swim swim
In the stunt, there was a water tumbler suspended in the air by the cables. After the male contestant went into the tumbler, it was lowered in very cold, chilly sea water. Once in water the tumbler started to rotate and slowly submerge in the sea, as it was rotating and submerging, the contestant opened 6 locks, and slid open the door, after that he swam to other end of the tumbler to pick up "Thums Up" bottle, swam back towards the door, got out of it and swam toward a platform where his partner was waiting. On reaching platform, he gave bottle to partner, she then jumped into the sea and swam towards a floatation device, which had on it a bottle stand. She on reaching the floatation device, she planted the bottle in the holder and that’s when the stunt got over.
- Sumit Suri gets Ring of Courage
- Aarti Chhabria and Dhaval Thakur was eliminated
Episode 4 - Stunt 6 - Dus Maar Khan
The stunt was called "Dus Maar Khan" since 10 teams would be participating in it. It was a head on challenge between the men. The girls were exempted from it. The rigged helicopter hovered over the water body, under which were 5 chains in row opposite each other, for each of the contestants to hang onto it and reach "Thums Up" bottle hanging at the end of the chains. Whichever contestant reached bottle first, grabbed it and jumped with it in water would be the winner.
- Diandra and Ahran were the only team to complete the task
- Arhan receives Ring of Courage
Safety Bands were given to
- Aashka and Sunit
- Bani and Amit
- Aliesha and Shahwat
- Kashmira and Sumit
Episode 4 - Stunt 7 - Razia Phasi Paani Mein
There were 3 containers. One glass container had Crayfish in murky water; other had eels and a barrel that has live croaking frogs. The lady member of the team was hung upside down and was immersed first in crayfish container where to start off she took out a crayfish and put it in a basket. She was dunked again, wherein she then picked out a ball, and placed it in a beaker next to the container. She then was submerged in a barrel filled with water and frogs and had to take out yet another ball, which again she placed in the beaker. Lastly she was submerged in a container full of eels, where she took out yet another ball and placed it in the same beaker. This process was repeated till there were 6 balls in the beaker. The process of dunking the girl and angling her over the containers was done by the male contestant. Hence his speed of doing the things also affected the time taken over the stunt.
- Dina and Pramod had the best time for the stunt
- Poonam Pandey and Praveen was eliminated
Elimination chart
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| Week | Contestants | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aarti | Diandra | Mauli | Dina | Mia | Smita | Aashka | Alesia | Anjum | Poonam | Bani | Kashmira | Sambhavana | ||||||
| 1 | Win | Low | Low | Win | Low | Safe | WC | WC | WC | WC | Safe | Safe | Low | Win | Win | Low | Win | |
| 2 | Win | Low | Safe | Win | Win | Safe | WC | WC | WC | WC | Safe | Low | Win | Win | Low | Low | Eliminated | |
| 3 | Win | Win | Low | Win | Safe | Safe | Low | Safe | WC | WC | Win | Win | Low | Win | Safe | Eliminated | ||
| 4 | Win | Win | Low | Win | Win | Safe | Safe | Safe | WC | WC | Low | Low | Low | Quit | Eliminated | |||
| 5 | Jacket | Win | Win | Win | Win | Low | Win | Win | Safe | Safe | Safe | Safe | Eliminated | |||||
| 6 | Safe | Safe | Safe | Win | Win | Safe | Win | Win | Safe | Low | Eliminated | Eliminated | ||||||
| 7 | Win | Low | Win | Safe | Safe | Win | Safe | Win | Low | Eliminated | ||||||||
| 8 | Safe | Win | Safe | Jacket | Safe | Low | Win | Win | Eliminated | Win | ||||||||
| 9 | Win | Win | Low | Win | Low | Win | Low | Low | Low | |||||||||
| Win | Safe | Low | Low | Low | Win | Low | Low | Win | ||||||||||
| 10 | Win | Win | Win | Eliminated | Eliminated | Win | Eliminated | Eliminated | Eliminated | |||||||||
| 11 | Winner | Eliminated | Runner Up | Runner Up | ||||||||||||||
- Win - Winner of Weekly Tasks
- Safe - Neither Top nor Bottom
- WC - Wild Card Entry
- Low - Elimination Round
- Jacket- Received Life Jacket. Qualified to next round, didn't perform this week
- Eliminated - Eliminated
- Winner / Runner Up
Summary
| Winner | Eliminated |
| Haseena | Khiladi | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Aarti Chhabria | Dhaval Thakur | Winner |
| Diandra Soares | Ahran Chaudhary | Eliminated |
| Mauli Dave | Dhiraj Amonkar | Eliminated |
| Dina Singh | Pramod Dahiya | Eliminated |
| Vj Mia | Sangram Singh | Eliminated |
| Smita Bansal | Saurabh Roy | Eliminated |
| Aashka Goradia | Sunit Bhatia | Eliminated |
| Alesia Raut | Shahwat Seth | Eliminated |
| Anjum Chopra | Sandeep Sachdev | Eliminated |
| Poonam Pandey | Praveen Jain | Eliminated |
| VJ Bani | Amit Mehra | Eliminated |
| Kashmira Shah | Sumit Suri | Eliminated |
| Sambhavana Sheth | Khalid chaudhary | Eliminated |
Reception
The opening episode of the fourth season of Khatron Ke Khiladi has garnered the maximum ratings than all its previous seasons. The show generated a Television Rating Point (TRP) of 3.7, according to data provided by rating agency Audience Measurement and Analytics Ltd (aMap)aMap.[13][14]
See also
- Fear Factor - the United States version of the show. Days before Season 4 of the Indian version was broadcast, Comcast and Endemol announced that the US version, which last aired in 2006, had been recommissioned for a new season of eight episodes.
References
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- ^ "Akshay helps Aashka Goradia to loosen up". Mid day. 6 January 2011.
- ^ "Akshay's live stunt for 'Khatron Ke Khiladi'". Times of India. 6 March 2011.
- ^ a b "Thums Up Fear Factor Khatron Ke Khiladi is beginning today". India Infoline. 6 March 2011.
- ^ "VJ Bani in another reality show". Times of India. 4 July 2011.
- ^ "Akshay Makes Diandra Inscribe KKK4 On Her Scalp". NDTV. 24 May 2011.
- ^ "I signed up four months ago: Akki". Hindustan Times. 22 May 2011.
- ^ "Akshay Kumar on 'Fear Factor Khatron Ke Khiladi Torchaar'". Dainik Bhaskar. 6 March 2011.
- ^ "VJ Mia hopes to work in Bollywood". Times of India. 29 May 2011.
- ^ "Akshay performs live stunt to promote KKK-4". Times of India. 6 March 2011.
- ^ a b "Sambhavna eliminated from 'Khatron Ke Khiladi' season 4". Sahara Samay. 6 March 2011.
- ^ "We all vied for Akshay's attention on 'Khatron': Smita Bansal". Indian Express. 27 May 2011.
- ^ "Khatron Ke Khiladi - Torchaar Gets Maximum Ratings Ever". NDTV. 6 July 2011.
- ^ "Khatron Ke Khiladi 4 opens with 3 TVR". afaqs. 6 September 2011.