Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 13 - All You Need to Know: Start Date, Timings, Cast, and Contestants

Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 13 with host Rohit Shetty brings daring stunts, celebrity contestants, and adrenaline-pumping excitement.

Written by: Arjita Gupta

Edited by: Krutarth Ghosalkar

Last Updated: June 06, 2023

Remember the American series Fear Factor? It had a huge following for its weird and adventurous stunts and tasks. Soon, the Indian entertainment industry thought something similar could work for the nation’s audience as well, and we can have a show with celebrities and commoners participating in the reality television series and keep the audience hooked to it. This was the origin of Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi, which was initially showcased on Sony TV as Fear Factor India.

But the show was soon sold to Colors TV and relaunched as Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi and went on air on 21 July 2008. Then on 1 August 2020, Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi – Made in India was launched as a spin-off of the primary series in which several contestants participated. The show is all about celebrities performing mind-blowing stunts within a time limit sometimes. The adrenaline gush and anticipation as to what will happen caught the eyes of people.

Some of the stunts were beyond imagination such as eating gross things even insects and lying around different species of animals, or balancing oneself mid-air or at great heights while being asked to meet a goal. Those who fail a task or are unable to complete the same due to quitting, or lack of performance of the opponent can earn the participants Fear fanda, a cloth piece tied around the hand and taken off only if the contestant can make it through the next qualifying round.

The reality show also has tasks for elimination, and those who get through make it ahead in the competition. To save from elimination, the contestants need to anyhow emerge as the winner of the particular task. The ‘taking you on a trip’ tasks coupled with exotic and foreign locations where the series are filmed adds to the charm and appeal of Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi, and the recall of the American series all contribute to its popularity of it.

Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 13

With 12 seasons already down, now in July 2023, we will see season 13. And it will comprise the host, Rohit Shetty, and the show is reflected as Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi Iss Baar Har Level, Darr Next Level. The series is produced by Endemol India and filmed in South Africa. It will air on Colors TV. Khatron Ke Khiladi Season 13 includes two of the reality show alumni Soundous Moufakir and Shiv Thakare. If you want to watch the show on an OTT platform, then you can do so on Voot.

Model and politician Archana Gautam, along with singers Rashmeet Kaur and Dino James will also participate in this stunt-based reality show of India. There are several actresses and actors as contestants too such as Anjali Anand, Daisy Shah, Ruhi Chaturvedi, Aishwarya Sharma, Anjum Fakih, Nyra Banerjee, Arjit Taneja, Sheezan Khan, and Rohit Roy.

Rohit Shetty visited the Bigg Boss 16 house in February 2023, where he had opted for Shalin Bhanot as a contestant in season 13, but the latter declined. Other finalized contestants reportedly left for South Africa from the Mumbai airport on 11 May 2023, and Rohit Shetty was seen leaving on 16 May 2023 for the same destination. The initial photography started on 20 May 2023 and Shetty made an official announcement of it through his Instagram account.

Series 1-12 of Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi

The first two seasons of the reality television series were hosted by Akshay Kumar. Season 1 had 12 contestants with Nethra Raghuraman as the winner. The start and end date of the season was 21 July to 4 August 2008, respectively. Season 2 came with 13 contestants and Anushka Manchanda was the winner. Season 2 was showcased from 7 September to 1 October 2009. Akshay Kumar also hosted season 4 with 13 contestants, whose winner was Aarti Chhabria. It was aired from 3 June to 23 July 2011.

Season 3 was hosted by Priyanka Chopra, and had 13 contestants and Shabir Ahluwalia as the winner. The show was then live from 6 September to 30 September 2010. Season 5 (17 contestants) and 6 (15 contestants) was hosted by Rohit Shetty with winners as Rajneesh Duggal and Aashish Chaudhary, respectively. Seasons 5 and 6 start and end dates were from 22 March to 25 May 2014 and 7 February to 12 April 2015, respectively.

Then seasons 7 (15 contestants), 8 (12 contestants), and 9 (12 contestants) were hosted by Arjun Kapoor and had winners such as Sidharth Shukla, Shantanu Maheshwari, and Punit Pathak, respectively. Seasons 7, 8, and 9 aired from 30 January to 3 April 2016, 22 July to 30 September 2017, and 5 January to 10 March 2019, respectively. Seasons 10 to 13 are hosted by Rohit Shetty.

Season 10 with a total of 10 contestants was aired in parts from 22 February to 29 March 2020 and 27 June to 26 July 2020 because of the pandemic. It had Karishma Tanna as the winner. Season 11 winner was Arjun Bijlani. It had 13 contestants and was live from 17 July to 26 September 2021, while the season 12 winner was Tushar Kalia. Season 12 had 14 contestants and was watchable from 2 July to 25 September 2022.