Indian Idol 12 Winner: Pawandeep Rajan Bags The Trophy

The much-awaited grand finale of Indian Idol 12 is being held today (August 15). The top 6 contestants- Pawandeep Rajan, Arunita Kanjilal, MD Danish, Nihal Tauro, Shanmukhapriya and Sayli Kamble, who underwent a major make over, will be performing for one last time. The finale of the popular singing reality show began with National Anthem. Apart from finale celebration, there was Independence Day celebration as fauji guests graced the show and the contestants gave tribute to faujis.

Apart from ex-contestants, Shershaah actors Sidharth Malhotra and Kiara Advani, Javed Ali, Mohammad Irfan, Amit Mishra, Vaishali Mhade, Raghav Sachar and others graced and performed with the finalists. Md Danish was seen showing off his acting and hosting skills. Host Aditya Narayan performed with Shanmukhapriya, and Mika Singh and Sukhwinder Singh entertained everyone by singing a few Bollywood hits. Also, Antakshari host Annu Kapoor played Antakshari with the contestants, judges and host of the show.

Pawandeep Rajan

The top 6 finalists performed along with legendary singers: Pawandeep performed with Alka Yagnik, Sayli performed with Udit Narayan, Arunita sang with Kumar Sanu, Shanmukhapriya sang with Suzanne D'Mello, and Nihal and Danish sang along with Himesh Reshammiya and Sukhwinder Singh, respectively.

# Top 6 finalists reveal what they will do if they win the car (Maruti Suzuki 2021 Swift) in the show. Jay Bhanushali andAditya Narayan remind people to vote for their favourite finalist.

Indian Idol 12 Grand Finale First Half Highlights!Indian Idol 12 Grand Finale First Half Highlights!

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# Anu Malik's journey in the Indian Idol is shown. How, from Rahul Vaidya, Neha Kakkar, Meiyang Chang to Abhijeet Sawant, he encouraged all contestants to perform in the show, is shown. The Indian Idol contestants give tribute to the music composer by performing to his hit numbers.

Anu Malik thanks Sony TV, Indian Idol and contestants, who sang the song amazingly. He calls Indian Idol and Sony TV as his family.

# Pawandeep performs with Sonu Kakkar. Anu Malik is impressed with duo's performance and praises them.

#Aditya Narayan welcomes Alka Yagnik, who gives tribute to 'Queen of Melody' Lata Mangeshkar by singing some of her evergreen songs.

# Shanmukhapriya performs with Ashish Kulkarni along with Indian musician Stephen Devassy.

# Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnik have some fun banter. He decides to make Alka tell him 'I love you' and tries to impress her by singing songs. Finally, Alka tells, 'I Love you', but not to Udit, but to Aditya. Later, Udit sings with Arunita, Sayli and other contestants.

# Udit Narayan welcomes Kumar Sanu and the duo perform together to 90s iconic hit songs. Later, Kumar Sanu takes over the stage.

#Aditya Narayan welcomes an auto-driver, who is Udit Narayan and Alka Yagnik's fan. The singers perform to 'Kaho Na Pyaar Hai.'

# Aditya and Udit later welcome Sadhana Sargam on stage, who performs to 'Pehla Nasha', 'Jab Se Tumko Dekha' and 'Saath Samandar' along with Indian Idol contestants Ashish, Nihal and Sayli respectively.

# Aditya and Udit perform to their hits.

# All the six finalists give dhamakedaar performances to 'Jai Jai Shivshankar', 'Koi Kahe', 'Indiawale' and other Bollywood hits.

# Kaun Banega Crorepati 12's Amitabh Bachchan sends video to the contestants. He tells the contestants that he watches the show and is impressed with their talent. He wishes them good luck.

# Sonu Kakkar, one of the judges of the show, performs to a few hit numbers.

# One of the top finalists, Nihal Tauro's fans, especially female fans praise him. His father talks about him. Nihal gives some fantastic performances to romantic songs like 'Julie' 'Kaate Nahi Kat Te', 'Dil Ka Yeh' and 'Gerua'. His female fans surround him on stage and he dances with the girls.

# The father-son duo, Udit and Aditya Narayan perform.

# Before Sayli's performance, her family is shown, who are all praise for her. They along with judges of the show cheer Sayli Kamble as they perform to hit numbers. Post performance, Aditya calls her parents on stage, who reveal that they won't forget Indian Idol platform as it has given everything to them.

# Himesh Reshammiya gives some electrifying performances.

# Aditya introduces Bharti Singh on stage as Meerut ki maharani and welcomes her on stage for some fun moments. Aditya announces competition between Sayli's mom and Bharti to win him. Bharti's husband Haarsh interferes and tells why she is ruining other's marriage.

# Mohammad Danish's parents are confident that he will win the show. They cheer him as he gives some amazing performance.

# Aditya welcomes The Great Khali on stage and he gives Danish a task to make Khali ji cross the line. Jay and Aditya cheer for him as Danish tries to back out. The trio have some fun moments on stage with The Great Khali. Later, Danish is seen showing off his acting skills and sings 'Khalibali' and gets him cross the line.

# Arunita Kanjilal's hometown Kolkata is shown and her family and supporters cheers her. She gives some beautiful performance to songs like 'Silsila Yeh Chahat Ka', 'Main Deewani Hogayi' and others. Seeing her perform, Sonu gets emotional and teary-eyed.

# Bharti and Haarsh take over the stage and they announce some awards. 'Ek minute' award goes to Anu Malik (as he kept on saying ek minute while judging). Himesh gets 'chashmah saaf karne ka mehenga kapda' as he was almost always seen wearing glasses.

Bharti and Haarsh reveal that The Kapil Sharma Show will begin from August 21.

# Top 6 finalists perform to songs from golden era.

# Pawandeep Rajan's father praises him and reveals that the whole village has come to cheer him. Pawandeep gives some amazing performance with his instruments.

Vishal Dadlani, Sonu Kakkar, Himesh Reshammiya and The Great Khali are all praise for Pawandeep. Fans also shower love on him and a road is also named after him.

# The last finalist Shanmukhapriya gave some powerful performances to a few Bollywood hits. Jay, Aditya and Udit praise SMP. South superstar Vijay Deverakonda wishes SMP, who and her parents are super happy about the same. Vijay Deverakonda tells her to meet him in Hyderbad and offers SMP a song in his film. SMP also thanks the actor for the same.

#Vishal Dadlani praises the top 6 contestants and reveals that everyone has performed really well and he is proud. All six finalists perform give energetic performance.

#Sahil and Salil Bansal of Raj Super White present the finalists Rs 75,000 cheque.

# Bade Acche Lagte Hai 2 actors Nakuul Mehta and Disha Parmar grace the show and talk about their show. The duo reveal the new poster of their show.

# Before revealing the results, Aditya announces final performance is here! All the top 6 finalists along with celebrities like Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan, Kumar Sanu, Sukhwinder Singh, Suzanne D'Mello, Himesh Reshammiya and give high octane performances!

# All the Top 6 finalists receives a cheque of Rs 75,000 from Raj Superwhite Soap followed by gift hampers from Colgate and Denver.

# The winner, Pawandeep was awarded with a cheque of Rs 25 lakh, a Maruti Suzuki Swift car and the trophy. Arunita and Sayli were declared as the first and second runners-up, respectively and were awarded with a cheque of Rs 5 lakh respectively. The third and the fourth runners-up Danish and Nihal were awarded with a cheque of Rs 3 lakh, respectively.

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