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{{short description|Indian television series}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2018}}
{{Infobox television
| image = IBCKK.jpg
| caption =
| runtime = 70 Minutes
| creator =
| director =
| presenter = Season 1: [[Roshan Abbas]] [[Malaika Arora]] Season 2: [[Aman Verma (actor)|Aman Verma]] Season 3: [[Hussain Kuwajerwala]] [[Vishal Malhotra]] Season 4: [[Asha Negi]]
| judges = Season 1: [[Mahesh Manjrekar]] [[Satish Kaushik]] [[Ken Ghosh]] Season 2: [[Anupam Kher]] [[Pooja Bhatt]] [[Madhur Bhandarkar]] Season 3: [[Vijay Krishna Acharya]] [[Anurag Basu]] [[Sonali Bendre]]
| opentheme =
| country = India
| network = [[Zee TV]]
}}

'''''India's Best Cinestar Ki Khoj''''' is an Indian television series that premiered on [[Zee TV]] in 2004. The first season of the stage show was directed by [[Gajendra Singh (producer)|Gajendra Singh]]{{Cn|date=May 2024}} while the reality episodes were directed by [[Ramon Chibb]] and [[Siddharth Bahuguna]].{{Cn|date=May 2024}} The show in its first season had [[Sudhir Mishra]] and [[Vivek Vaswani]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://indiantelevision.com/television/tv-channels/gecs/zee-announces-film-race-with-cinestar-ki-khoj-winners-041129 | title=Zee announces film 'Race' with 'Cinestar Ki Khoj' winners | date=29 November 2004 }}</ref> as mentors to the budding talent. It is a talent show for aspiring actors, and the first prize is the lead role in a film.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k4/apr/apr170.htm|title=Zee launches star hunt 'India's Best Cinestars Ki Khoj'|work=Indiantelevision.com|date=21 April 2004|access-date=13 June 2011|archive-date=25 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181225143520/http://www.indiantelevision.com/headlines/y2k4/apr/apr170.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Two winners, one male and one female, are crowned at the finale. The show returned for its second season in 2006 and a third one in 2014.

==Season 2==
The winners of the first season were [[Sarwar Ahuja]] and [[Aditi Sharma (actress, born 1983)|Aditi Sharma]].

{| class="wikitable"
|-
|align="center" {{yes| [[Aditi Sharma (actress, born 1983)|Aditi Sharma]]}}
|align="center"| Lucknow
|-
|align="center" {{yes| [[Sarwar Ahuja]]}}
|align="center"|Hyderabad
|-
|align="center"| [[Amruta Khanvilkar]]
|align="center"| Pune
|-
|align="center"| [[Yuvika Chaudhary]]
|align="center"| Delhi
|-
|align="center"| [[Nivaan Sen]]
|align="center"| Varanasi
|-
|align="center"| Abhinav Kohli
|align="center"| Bangalore
|-
|align="center"| [[Abhishek Avasthi]]
|align="center"| Kanpur
|-
|align="center"| Ashok Saharan
|align="center"| Jaipur
|-
|align="center"| Bhaumik Sampat
|align="center"| Rajkot
|-
|align="center"| [[Preeti Amin]]
|align="center"| Hyderabad
|-
|align="center"| [[Himanshu Malhotra]]
|align="center"| Varanasi
|-
|align="center"| [[Peyush Dixit]]
|align="center"| Jodhpur
|-
|align="center"| Sudeepa Singh
|align="center"| Ludhiana
|-
|align="center"| [[Vipul Roy]]
|align="center"| Bhopal
|-
|align="center"| [[Sharad Malhotra]]
|align="center"| Kolkata
|-
|align="center"| Manmeet Jaggi
|align="center"| Bhopal
|-
|align="center"| [[Ankita Lokhande]]
|align="center"| Indore
|-
|align="center"| Manas Satpathy
|align="center"| Bangalore
|-
|align="center"| Anjali Pandey
|align="center"| Delhi
|-
|align="center"| Vipul Kumar Sharma
|align="center"| Delhi
|-
|align="center"| Bharat Chawda
|align="center"| Indore
|-
|align="center"| Deepika Tiwari
|align="center"| Lucknow
|-
|align="center"| Simran Vaid
|align="center"| Jammu
|-
|align="center"| Sohan Master
|align="center"| Ahmedabad
|-
|align="center"| Pinky Sarkar
|align="center"| Jamshedpur
|-
|align="center"| [[Mohit Chadda]]
|align="center"| New Delhi
|-
|align="center"| Shreya Arora
|align="center"| Kanpur
|-
|align="center"| [[Abbas Khan (actor)|Abbas Khan]]
|align="center"| Lucknow
|-
|align="center"| Naziya Khan
|align="center"| Mumbai
|-
|align="center"| Rishiraj Singh
|align="center"| Jaipur
|-
|align="center"| Loveleen Walia
|align="center"| Singapore
|-
|align="center"| Shareen Pathak
|align="center"| Singapore
|-
|align="center"| [[Naman Shaw]]
|align="center"| Jamshedpur
|-
|align="center"| Suraj Joshi
|align="center"| Bangalore
|-
|align="center"| Gargi Sharma
|align="center"| Jaipur
|-
|align="center"| Ravish Sharma
|align="center"| Ludhiana
|-
|align="center"| [[Shraddha Arya]]
|align="center"| New Delhi
|-
|align="center" | [[Divyanka Tripathi|Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya]]
|align="center" | Bhopal
|}

==Season 3==
See [[Idea Zee Cinestars]]
Like season 1 & 2, season 3 also gave many stars to entertainment industry.
Winners of Zee Cinestars 2007
*Piyush Chopra --- Group B
*Sabina Sheema --- Group B
Runner-up Zee Cinestars 2007
*Gaurav Bajpai --- Group B
*Chandani Desai --- Group B

===Contestants===
; Group A
*Aadil Sharma
*Mamta Dutta
*Manav Sharma
*Pallavi Dutt
*Mrityunjay Nigam
*Piku Sharma
*Rahul Manchanda
*Rakhi Verma
*Rizwan Sikander
*Ritwika Ghoshal
*Sahil Arora
*Varsha Lodh
*[[Rati Pandey]]
*Varun Jaiswal

; Group B
*Aalesha Syed
*Ajay Chabria
*[[Ankita Lokhande]]
*Ashif
*Chandani Desai
*Gaurav Bajpai
*Kanchan More
*Hardik Soni
*Minal Gorpade
*Kartik Shetty
*Rachel Gurjar
*Prabhjot Dhillon
*Surod Rizvi
*Rohit Raghav
*Piyush Chopra
*Raj Saluja
*Ruchika Babbar
*Sabina Sheema
*Vinay Kamble

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:2004 Indian television series debuts]]
[[Category:Zee TV original programming]]
[[Category:Indian reality television series]]
[[Category:Television series by Optimystix Entertainment]]

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Sunil Tani at 19:49, 22 March 2026