MasterChef India – Hindi season 5


Season 5 of the Indian Hindi-language competitive reality TV series MasterChef India – Hindi premiered on Star Plus on 1 October 2016.
Vikas Khanna returned to judge this season while Sanjeev Kapoor and Ranveer Brar were replaced by Kunal Kapur and Zorawar Kalra respectively.
The winner was Kirti Bhoutika, a 20-year-old Nutrition graduate, with Ashima Arora being the runner-up.

Format

Top 30 contestants were chosen from India and even from the other parts of the world like San Francisco, London, etc. From the Top 30, Best 10 were chosen by a cook-off between 3 each and in the second-chance cook, 6 other were chosen.

Top 16

ContestantAgeHometownOccupationStatusWinnings
Kirti Bhoutika20Kolkata, West BengalBakery Owner7
Ashima Arora23Amritsar, PunjabCake Artist6
Dinesh Patel21London, United KingdomLawyer6
Mirvaan Vinayak19Faridabad, HaryanaActor7
Samantha Barrett27Dehradun, UttarakhandCafe Owner7
Anagha Godbole44San Francisco, CaliforniaSenior Product Manager6
Siddharth Talwar46Noida, Uttar PradeshMNC Vice President1
Jatin Khurana24Ludhiana, PunjabTelecommunication Manager2
Syed Sadaf Hussain27Ranchi, JharkhandSocial Sector Manager3
Ajay Kumar Siotra24JammuTourism Student2
Pradip Bhawalkar69Pune, MaharashtraEngineer2
Rohini Chawla36Gurugram, HaryanaHousewife2
Sreelakshmi N. Prabhu37Kochi, KeralaHousewife0
Abhilasha Chandak29Purulia, West BengalHomemaker0
Shipra Chenji35Meerut, Uttar PradeshInterior Designer0
Ashwin Iyer37Bangalore, KarnatakaFood Blogger0