Rising Star is an Indian version of the international franchise series Rising Star, a reality television singing competition.
The program format lets the viewers vote for contestants live via the television channel's mobile app. The show premiered on 4 February 2015 on Colors TV.
Playback singer and music director Shankar Mahadevan, playback singer and actor Monali Thakur and actor-singer Diljit Dosanjh are the experts in the show. This show marks as Diljit Dosanjh's television debut. The show is hosted by singer-actor Meiyang Chang and dancer-choreographer Raghav Juyal.
Bannet Dosanjh became India's first Rising Star, won Rs. 20 lakhs and also an opportunity to sing a song in an upcoming Vishesh Films movie. Maithili Thakur was declared the first runner-up.
The live auditions began on 4 February 2017 and lasted for 8 episodes.
The top 30 scorers from the auditions moved on to the second round named 'Duels Ki Takkar' which began on 4 March 2017. The contestants who qualify from this round move on to the quarterfinals.
Episode 9: 4 March 2017
Episode 10: 5 March 2017
Episode 11: 11 March 2017
Episode 12: 12 March 2017
The top 16 contestants compete in this round. As the round progresses, the contestant who receives fewer votes at that point of the competition moves to the Red Sofa. At the end of the episode, the contestant who sits on the Red Sofa gets eliminated.
Episode 13: 18 March 2017
Episode 14: 19 March 2017
The top 14 contestants compete in this round. On day one, four teams of two perform in duets. The first two teams perform with the wall up and set the target percentage. The next two teams perform with the wall down and attempt to beat the target score. The duos with the two least scores move to the Red Sofa (unsafe zone). These two teams compete in a face off. The team which loses in the face off gets eliminated.
Episode 15: 25 March 2017
Duets Face Off round
The bottom two teams perform in the face off round. The team to perform first will set a target percentage. The second team has a challenge to perform better, raise the wall and save themselves.
Episode 16: 26 March 2017
Duets Face Off round
The bottom two teams perform in the face off round. The team to perform first will set a target percentage. The second team has a challenge to perform better, raise the wall and save themselves.
The top 10 contestants compete in this round where they sing live to the tunes played by DJ Chetas.
Episode 17: 1 April 2017
The top 9 contestants sing a dedication to their loved ones.
Episode 18: 2 April 2017
The top 8 contestants sing a devotional song or a song in their regional language.
Episode 19: 8 April 2017
The top 7 contestants sang Hindi songs from the 1970s popularly known as the Retro era.
Episode 20: 9 April 2017
The contestants compete to earn a direct entry to the finale week.
Episode 21: 15 April 2017
Episode 22: 16 April 2017
Face-off for the Ticket to Finale
The two top scorers of Saturday and Sunday episode participate in a face-off round. In this round, the judges score of 21% will be given in whole to only one contestant who, according to them, performed better.
Episode 23: 22 April 2017
The top 4 contestants sing duets along with playback singers Master Saleem, Neha Bhasin, Akriti Kakar and Jubin Nautiyal.
Finalist Maithili Thakur gave a guest performance along with Jubin Nautiyal and sang the song Bawra Mann.
Takkar
The two bottom scorers of the episode participate in a face-off round. In this round, the collective judges score of 21% will be given to only one contestant who, according to them, performed better.
Episode 24: 23 April 2017
The top 3 finalists Maithili Thakur, Bannet Dosanjh and Ankita Kundu compete in the first round. Each expert has 1% vote each as opposed to 7%. The top 2 contestants proceed to the Face-off round.
Face-off
The top 2 scorers of the episode participate in a face-off round. In this round, the experts have no voting power and the votes accumulated are only from the audience.