Cookku with Kirikku

Cookku with Kirikku is a Kannada-language comedy-based cooking competition show aired on Star Suvarna and streams on Disney+ Hotstar where the contestants are paired each week with comedians (Kirikkus) who are amateur cooks. It premiered on 10 April 2021.^[1] The contestants along with their kirikkus are challenged every week and judged by Sihi Kahi Chandru, Chef Venkatesh Bhat and Chef Adarsh.^[2][3] The show is a remake of Tamil reality show Cooku with Comali.^[4]

Cookku with Kirikku
Genre	Cookery Comedy
Based on	Cooku with Comali
Directed by	Media Masons
Presented by	Akul Balaji
Judges	Sihi Kahi Chandru Venkatesh Bhat Chef Adarsh.
Theme music composer	Karthik Sharma
Country of origin	India
Original language	Kannada
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	32
Production
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	approx.60-62 minutes
Production company	Media Masons
Original release
Network	Star Suvarna
Release	10 April (2021-04-10) – 15 August 2021 (2021-08-15)

Production

Game format

Every week, the show starts with celebrity chefs getting paired with their Kirikkus. Then the teams compete in Advantage Task 1 and Task 2. The teams then compete in Main Task and Immunity/Elimination Task. The Advantage task involves a minimal task in which a team does a small task and the winner of the Advantage task is given an advantage during the main task where the team can choose a time frame to work without any obstacles. During the Main task, every team is a given a challenge or an obstacle that will make the cooking harder. The teams are given a specific time limit where they must cook with that time frame. Most of the cooking tasks are to be done by Kirikkus. The cook that gets Immunity is safe from next week's elimination and does not participate in that week. Some weeks are celebration rounds with no elimination.^[5]

Series overview

Series	Host	Judges	Winner	Runner up	Episodes		Originally released
							First released	Last released	Network
1	Akul Balaji	Sihi Kahi Chandru Chef Venkatesh Bhat Chef Adarash	Chandan Kumar	Ishitha Varsha	32		10 April 2021 (2021-04-10)	15 August 2021 (2021-08-15)	Star Suvarna

Season 1

Contestants

Contestants	Status	Notes
Chandan Kumar	Winner
Ishitha Varsha	1st Runner-Up	Wild Card
Kirik Keerthi	2nd Runner-Up
Kavitha Gowda	Eliminated
Lasya Nagraj	Eliminated
Remo	Eliminated
Vanitha Vasu	Eliminated
Arun Hraiharan	Eliminated	Wild Card
Sunethra Pandit	Eliminated	Wild Card
Apoorva	Walked
Sundar	Walked

Kirikku's

Pratham[6]

Arun Sagar

Chaitra Vasudevan

Karunya Ram

Nayana

Abhighna Bhat

Jagappa

Vishwa

Pairings

Cooks (based on Rank in the Show)

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

Week 4

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12 (Ticket to Finale)

Week 13

Week 14

Chandan Kumar

Abhijana Bhat

Lokesh

Abhijana Bhat

Jagappa

Immunity

Vishwa

Abhijana Bhat

Arun Sagar

Abhijana Bhat

Jagappa

Vishwa

Pratham

Direct Finalist

Vishwa

Abhijna Bhat & Chaitra Vasudevan

Ishitha Varsha

Karunya Ram

Nayana

Arun Sagar

Immunity

Karunya Ram

Immunity

Vishwa

Nayana

Arun Sagar

Vishwa

Jagappa

Nayana & Pratham

Kirik Keerthi

Arun Sagar

Abhijana Bhat

Arun Sagar

Chaitra Vasudevan

Karunya Ram

Nayana

Pratham

Nayana

Jagappa

Arun Sagar

Abhijana Bhat

Nayana

Pratham

Abhijna Bhat

Jagappa & Arun Sagar

Kavitha Gowda

Vishwa

Jagappa

Nayana

Vishwa

Abhijana Bhat

Chaitra Vasudevan

Arun Sagar

Jagappa

Karunya Ram

Karunya Ram

Arun Sagar

Abhijna Bhat

Arun Sagar

Nayana

Vishwa & Lokesh

Lasya Nagraj

Pratham

Arun Sagar

Vishwa

Nayana

Vishwa

Abhijana Bhat

Jagappa

Pratham

Vishwa

Pratham

Pratham

Jagappa

Jagappa

Evicted (Episode 30)

Remo

Karunya Ram

Pratham

Nayana

Abhijana Bhat

Nayana

Abhijana Bhat

Jagappa

Evicted (Episode 24)

Vanitha Vasu

Lokesh

Karunya Ram

Vishwa

Vishwa

Pratham

Evicted (Episode 20)

Arun Hariharan

Pratham

Pratham

Pratham

Lokesh

Evicted (Episode 16)

Sunethra Pandit

Abhijana Bhat

Chaitra Vasudevan

Evicted (Episode 14)

Apoorva

Nayana

Vishwa

Karunya Ram

Arun Sagar

Arun Sagar

Karunya Ram

Walked (Episode 14)

Sundar

Chaitra Vasudevan

Nayana

Bala

Walked (Episode 4)

Weekly activities

Advantage Tasks

Week	Task	Winner
1	Cone Dosa Making	Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat Vanitha Vasu - Lokesh
2	Half Boil Making	Chandan Kumar - Lokesh Vanitha Vasu - Karunya Ram Kirik Keerthi - Abhijhna Bhat
3	Cola Making	Lasya Nagraj - Vishwa
4	Find the Ingredients	Chandan Kumar - Jagappa
5	Samosa Making	Sunethra Pandit - Chaitra Vasudevan
6	Onion Slicing	Apoorva - Karunya Ram
7	Panipuri Eating	Kavitha Gowda - Arun Sagar
8	Taking Coconut Slices	Kavitha Gowda - Jagappa
9	Murukku Making	Kirik Keerthi - Jagappa
10	Making Star Chapatis	Chandan Kumar - Jagappa
11	Moosambi Juice Making	Lasya Nagraj - Pratham
12	Cooking Mini Dosas and Omelettes	Chandan Kumar - Pratham
13	Icing the cake	Ishita Varsha - Vishwa
Finale	Chapathi Making using Iron Box	Kirik Keerthi - Abhijna Bhat Ishita Varsha - Jagappa
	Peeling the Pumpkin using Knife	Ishita Varsha - Jagappa

Main Tasks

Week	Task	Ingredient Selection	High Scored Contestant	Immunity Task Participants	Immunity Task Winner	Elimination Task Participants	Evicted Person
1	Contenstants are Hand-cuffed	Any Ingredient	Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat Vanitha Vasu - Lokesh	Not Conducted	None	Not Conducted	None
2	Contenstants are Blind folded	Banana	Sundar - Nayana	Sundar - Nyana Vanitha Vasu - Karunya Ram Lasya Nagraj - Arun Sagar Kirik Keerthi - Abhijna Bhat	Vanitha Vasu - Karunya Ram	Not Conducted	None
3	Contestants and Kirikkus are provided with high sound Headphones	Ingredient selected by respective Comalis	Keerthi - Arun Sagar	Kirik Keerthi - Arun Sagar Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat Apoorva - Karunya Ram	Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat	Not Conducted	None
4	Contestant and Kirikkus in Back-to-Back postures alternate cooking in 10 minutes	Milk Products	Chandan Kumar - Jagappa	Chandan Kumar - Jagappa Apoorva - Arun Sagar Kavitha Gowda - Vishwa Sunethra Pandit - Abhijna Bhat	Chandan Kumar - Jagappa	Not Conducted	None
5	Contestants should wear boxing gloves and Kirikkus should cook	States Special	Lasya Nagraj - Vishwa	Not Conducted	None	Sunethra Pandit - Chaitra Vasudevan Arun Hariharan - Pratham	Sunethra Pandit
6	Contestants should balance the egg plate and Kirikkus should cook	Colour of Dish and the ball must be same	Arun - Pratham	Keerthi - Nayana Chandan - Vishwa Arun Sagar - Ishitha Varsha Arun - Pratham	Ishitha Varsha - Arun Sagar	Not Conducted	None
7	Contestants are locked and blindfolded, comalis cook the dish	Sea Food	Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat	Not Conducted	None	Vanitha Vasu - Vishwa Remo - Nayana Arun Hariharan - Lokesh	Arun Hariharan
8	Traditional Cooking	Traditional Vegetables	Chandan Kumar - Arun Sagar	Vanitha Vasu - Vishwa Chandan Kumar - Arun Sagar Keerthi - Nayana Ishitha Varsha - Karunya Ram	Ishitha Varsha - Karunya Ram	Not Conducted	None
9	30 Minutes Back-to Back Postures	Ingredients given by Judges	Remo - Nayana	Not Conducted	None	Vanitha Vasu - Pratham Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat Kavitha Gowda - Karunya Ram	Vanitha Vasu
10	Face-off Challenge	Indian, Continental and Chinese Food	Ishitha Varsha - Vishwa	Not Conducted	None	Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat Kirik Keerthi - Arun Sagar	None
11	45 Minutes Alternate Cooking by Cook and Kirikku	4 Main Courses	Kavitha Gowda - Arun Sagar	Not Conducted	None	Remo - Jagappa Kirik Keerthi - Abhijna Bhat	Remo
12	45 Minutes Cooks and Kirikkus should Cylce alternatley and cook	Biriyani and Curd	Lasya Nagraj - Jagappa	(Ticket to Finale) Lasya Nagraj - Jagappa Chandan Kumar - Pratham Kirik Keerthi - Nayana	Chandan Kumar - Pratham	Not Conducted	None
13	Semi-Finals (45 Minutes Cooks and Kirikkus should balance shot glasses on scale)	Wrong Combination Vegetables	Not Applicable	Not Applicable	Ishita Varsha - Vishwa	Ishita Varsha - Vishwa Kirik Keerthi - Pratham Kavitha Gowda - Arun Sagar Lasya Nagraj - Jagappa	Lasya Nagraj
14	Grand Finale (15 Minutes Earphone challenge 15 Minutes Egg Balancing 15 Minutes back to back posture)	4 Dish Platter	Chandan Kumar - Abhijna Bhat - Chaitra Vasudevan	Not Applicable	Not Applicable	Not Applicable	Not Applicable

Guests

Sudeep[7]

Inagratuation Episode

Reception

The series gained popularity among viewers and was appreciated mainly on hotstar app.^[8]

Adaptations

Language	Title	Original release	Network(s)	Last aired	Notes
Tamil	Cooku with Comali கோமாலியுடன் குக்கு	16 November 2019	Star Vijay	24 July 2022	Original
Kannada	Cookku with Kirikku ಕಿರಿಕ್ಕು ಜೊತೆ ಕುಕ್ಕು	10 April 2021	Star Suvarna	15 August 2021	Remake
Bengali	Gole Male Gol গোলে পুরুষ গোল	25 September 2021	Star Jalsha	14 November 2021
Malayalam	Cook with Comedy കോമഡിക്കൊപ്പം പാചകം ചെയ്യുക	6 May 2023	Asianet	8 July 2023