Khatron Ke Khiladi 13

Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi, Iss Baar Har Level, Darr Next Level is the thirteenth season of Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi, an Indian reality and stunt television series produced by Endemol Shine India.^[1] The show premiered from 15 July 2023 to 14 October 2023 on Colors TV and streams digitally on JioHotstar. The series is filmed in Cape Town, South Africa and is hosted by Rohit Shetty.^[2][3] The 27-episodes season was the longest since the inception of the series. Dino James emerged as the winner of the season, while Arjit Taneja became the 1st runner-up.^[4][5]

Fear Factor: Khatron Ke Khiladi
Season 13
Native name	Iss Baar Har Level, Darr Next Level
Starring	See Below
Presented by	Rohit Shetty
No. of contestants	14
Winner	Dino James
Runner-up	Arjit Taneja
No. of episodes	27
Release
Original network	Colors TV
Original release	15 July (2023-07-15) – 14 October 2023 (2023-10-14)
Season chronology

Contestants

Contestant		Occupation	Status	Place	Ref.
	Dino James	Rapper	Winner	1st	[6]
	Arjit Taneja	Actor	1st runner-up	2nd	[7]
	Aishwarya Sharma	Actress	2nd runner-up	3rd	[8]
	Rashmeet Kaur	Singer	Eliminated	4th	[9]
	Shiv Thakare	Reality show alumnus	Eliminated	5th	[10]
	Archana Gautam	Model, actress, politician	Eliminated	6th	[11]
	Nyra Banerjee	Actress	Eliminated	7th	[12]
	Soundous Moufakir	Model, dancer	Eliminated	8th	[13]
	Sheezan Khan	Actor	Eliminated	9th	[14]
	Daisy Shah	Actress	Eliminated	10th	[15]
			Eliminated
	Anjum Fakih	Actress	Eliminated	11th	[16]
			Eliminated
	Anjali Anand	Actress	Eliminated	12th	[17]
	Rohit Roy	Actor	Quit	13th	[18]
	Ruhi Chaturvedi	Model, actress	Eliminated	14th	[19]

  Indicates original entrants

  Indicates re-entered entrants

Elimination chart

	Weeks
	1				2											3							4										5			6			7				8											9				10			11			12					13									14
	Grand Premiere				Red Funda Week1											Partners Week4							Relay Week6										Rohit Shetty vs Khiladis8			Undercover Agent Week10			Target Week				Team Week											Abdu Rozik Week17				Challenger Week18						Ticket to Finale Week18					Semi Finale Week21									GRAND FINALE
																																																										Faisal Sheikh			Divyanka Tripathi			Hina Khan
	15-16 July				22-23 July											29 July		30 July					5-6 August										12-13 August			19-20 August			26-27 August				2-3 September											9-10 September				16-17 September			23-24 September			30 September		1 October			7-8 October									14 October
Dino	LOST	SAFE					WIN									SHIV	WIN							WIN NYRA & DAISY							SAFE		WIN			WIN			LOST	SAFE			15	10	10	0	0	15	20		TIE	SAFE		WIN				LOST	SAFE		WIN			FAIL		BLOCKED19			30	10	30	0	0	WIN (70 Pts)		Finalist		WIN	WINNER
Arjit	WIN					WIN										SHEEZAN	LOST	SOUNDOUS5	SAFE									LOST ARCHANA			SAFE		WIN			LOST11	SAFE		WIN				15		0	0	10	15	0			SAFE		LOST		SAFE		LOST	BTM2	SAFE	LOST	SAFE		WIN	FAIL	FAIL20	FAIL		20	0	20	0	20	WIN (60 Pts)		Finalist		WIN	1st RUNNER-UP
Aishwarya	LOST	SAFE				LOST RED FUNDA	LOST RED FUNDA	SAFE								ANJUM	LOST	ANJUM	LOST	BTM2	SAFE										SAFE7		FAIL	BTM2	SAFE	WIN			LOST	SAFE					10	0	0		20			SAVED		LOST		BTM2	SAFE	WIN			WIN			WIN	WIN19	SAFE	WIN		Ticket To Finale									WIN	2nd RUNNER-UP
Rashmeet	LOST	SAFE											WIN			NYRA	WIN									LOST SHEEZAN					SAFE		WIN			WIN11			LOST	LOST	SAFE		15	0	0	10	0		0	20		SAVED		LOST		SAFE		WIN			WIN			FAIL		BLOCKED19			0	0	0	20	10	LOST (30)	BTM3	SAFE	Finalist	LOST	ELIMINATED
Shiv	WIN						WIN									DINO	WIN							LOST ANJALI & RASHMEET							BTM2	SAFE	FAIL	BTM2	SAFE	LOST11	SAFE11		WIN					10	10	0	0		20	0		SAVED		WIN				LOST	SAFE		LOST	SAFE		FAIL		FAIL			0	0	0	30	30	WIN (60 Pts)		Finalist		LOST	ELIMINATED
Archana	LOST	SAFE								WIN						SOUNDOUS	LOST	SHEEZAN	LOST	SAFE									WIN		SAFE		WIN			LOST11	BTM3	SAFE	WIN					0	0	10	0		0			BTM2	SAFE	LOST		SAFE		WIN			WIN			FAIL		FAIL20	FAIL		10	20	0	10	0	LOST (40)	BTM3	ELIMINATED
Nyra	LOST	SAFE							LOST RED FUNDA	LOST RED FUNDA	SAFE					RASHMEET	WIN						LOST								SAFE		WIN			LOST11	BTM313	SAFE	TARGET14		BTM2	SAFE			0	10	0	16	20			SAVED		WIN				LOST	SAFE		LOST	BTM2	SAFE	WIN	FAIL	FAIL			0	30	10	0	0	LOST (40)	BTM3	ELIMINATED
Soundous	WIN												WIN			ARCHANA	LOST	ARJIT5	SAFE										LOST		SAFE CODE RED		FAIL	SAFE9		WIN			WIN					0	0	0	10		0			SAVED		LOST		BTM2	SAFE	WIN			LOST	BTM2	ELIMINATED
Sheezan	LOST	LOST	SAFE							WIN						ARJIT	LOST	ARCHANA	LOST	SAFE								WIN SOUNDOUS			SAFE		FAIL	SAFE		LOST	SAFE		LOST	LOST	SAFE			0	0	0	10		0	20		SAVED		WIN				LOST	BTM2	ELIMINATED
Daisy	LOST	SAFE			CODE RED RED FUNDA	SAFE										ANJALI	WIN									WIN ARJIT					SAFE		FAIL	SAFE9		LOST	BTM311	ELIMINATED											20	0		BTM2	ELIMINATED
Anjum	LOST	LOST	BTM2	SAFE								WIN			LOST RED FUNDA	AISHWARYA	LOST	AISHWARYA	LOST	BTM2	ELIMINATED												FAIL	SAFE		WIN12			TARGET14		BTM2	ELIMINATED
Anjali	LOST	SAFE										LOST RED FUNDA	LOST RED FUNDA	BTM	SAFE	DAISY	WIN						LOST								BTM2	ELIMINATED
Rohit	LOST	LOST	SAFE						WIN							QUIT3
Ruhi	LOST	LOST	BTM2	ELIMINATED

1. ^ Red Fear Funda contestant will perform the stunts until he/she got rid of it. In the end whoever has the Red Fear Funda will be eliminated.
2. ^ Anjali nominated Anjum to compete in the elimination stunt with herself.
3. ^ Rohit had to quit the journey due to medical injury.
4. ^   Pairs during Partner Week.
5. ^ By winning the Code Red mini stunt, Soundous was allowed to switch her partner.
6. ^ In Relay Week, Contestants will form a team by nominating a contestant for the next stunt. In the end, two contestants from team with most Fear Funda will perform the elimination stunt.
7. ^ Aishwarya was in no team but was exempt from performing the elimination stunt by doing a correct prediction in Code Red.
8. ^ If contestants win their stunts and manage to collect 10× before Rohit Shetty then there will be no elimination. If any contestant fails in their stunt then Rohit Shetty will earn a star.
9. ^ Rohit Shetty allowed unsafe contestants to save two contestants among them by mutual decision.
10. ^ The Undercover Agent is safe from elimination until his/her identity is discovered. He/she can give disadvantage to contestant during any stunt. Later, Shiv was revealed to be the Undercover Agent.
11. ^ Stunt performed with an additional disadvantage.
12. ^ Dino proxies Anjum due to health halt.
13. ^ Undercover Agent nominated Nyra directly among unsafe contestants for the elimination stunt.
14. ^ Anjum and Nyra were nominated as Target. They received Fear Funda and directly performed the second pre-elimination stunt.
15. ^ Captains of respective teams: Blue Team, Red Team and Yellow Team.
    After the merger of Team Yellow & Team Red, Dino and Arjit remained the Captains of Team Blue and Team Yellow respectively.
16. ^ Nyra was transferred from Team Yellow to Team Blue by Captain Arjit.
17. ^ Abdu Rozik entered as a guest entrant.
18. ^ Faisal Sheikh, Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya and Hina Khan entered as challengers. Faisal and Divyanka will set a challenge against the contestant who received Fear Funda while Hina will set a challenge against the contestant for the Ticket to Finale.
19. ^ Aishwarya was allowed to choose two players who will not perform in the Ticket to Finale race. She chose Dino and Rashmeet.
20. ^ Arjit and Archana performed better than their peers and were allowed to compete in the Ticket to Finale race.
21. ^ In the semi-finale, all contestants will do the stunts together, First Best Performer will win 30 points, Second Best Performer will win 20 points, Third Best Performer will win 10 points. At the end of the week the three top contestants with the most points will go to the Finale and last three will perform the elimination stunt.

  Winner

  1st runner-up

  2nd runner-up

  Finalists

  Ticket to finale

  The contestant won the stunt.

  The contestant lost the stunt and received Fear Funda.

  The contestant got rid of Fear Funda by winning the pre-elimination stunt / Red Funda by performing better than his/her co-contestants.

  The contestant was placed in the bottom and performed the elimination stunt.

  The contestant was safe from elimination by winning the elimination stunt.

  The contestant was eliminated.

  The contestant did not perform the stunt.

  The contestant was saved/exempt from performing the stunt.

  The contestant failed to earn a vs Rohit Shetty / Failed in the Ticket to Finale Race.

  Injury

Code Red

Rohit Shetty introduced "Code Red" to the contestants revealing that it can change the dynamics of the game.

Week	Contestants Entered	Offer/Task	Result
Week 1	Shiv	Give up immunity of Week 1 to get a superpower in Week 2.	Rejected the offer
	Soundous
	Arjit
Week 2	Aishwarya	Name one contestant who won the tasks in Week 1 by fluke. Contestants named Daisy Shah.	Daisy got 'Red Funda'
	Anjali
	Anjum
	Archana
	Arjit
	Daisy
	Dino
	Nyra
	Rashmeet
	Rohit
	Sheezan
	Shiv
	soundous
Week 3	Soundous	Offered to change her partner for Week 3.	Accepted the offer
		Choose a partner from the four contestants who got 'Fear Funda.'	She chose Arjit
Week 4	Soundous	Predict if Arjit or Sheezan will choose them in next stunt. If predictions would be correct then they will be saved from the Elimination Stunt. Archana and Soundous predicted that they both will be chosen while Aishwarya predicted she will not be chosen.	All three, Aishwarya, Archana and Soundous made correct predictions.
	Archana
	Aishwarya
Week 5	Archana	Choose any one option from the following three options- Option 1: If they won, they can save everyone from elimination. Option 2: If they lost, one from them will do elimination stunt. Option 3: If they denies to do Bonus stunt, then they all five are safe.	Chosen Option 3
	Nyra
	Rashmeet
	Arjit
	Dino
Week 6	Archana	Predict who is the undercover agent. If they predict correctly, the Undercover agent will perform the elimination stunt. If they predict wrong, any one of them will perform elimination stunt. They predicted Daisy Shah.	Prediction was incorrect
	Nyra
	Shiv
	Arjit
	Sheezan
	Daisy
Week 7	Nyra	Choose any one option from the following two options- Option 1: Compete with each other. The winner will become safe. Option 2: Compete in team with Sheezan and Rashmeet. If they win, they are both safe and Sheezan and Rashmeet will go to the elimination stunt.	Chosen Option 2
	Anjum
Week 8	Dino	Merge any two teams to compete against one team, scores of those two teams will also be merged.	Team Arjit & Team Rashmeet were merged. Arjit remains the captain.
	Rashmeet
	Arjit
		Transfer any Contestant from Team Arjit to Team Dino.	Nyra was transferred from Team Arjit to Team Dino.

Stunt matrix

Contestant	Grand Premiere				Red Fear Funda Week		Partner Week			Relay Week		Rohit Shetty vs Khiladis Week			Undercover Agent Week			Target Week			Team Week		Abdu Rozik Week			Challenger Weeks							Semi-Final Week	Grand Finale Week
																										Faisal Sheikh			Divyanka Tripathi			Hina Khan
	15-16 July				22-23 July		29 July	30 July		5-6 August		12-13 August			19-20 August			26-27 August			2-3 September		9-10 September			16-17 September			23-24 September			30 September-1 October	7-8 October	14 October
	Premiere Stunt	Immunity	Pre-elimination	Elimination	Red Funda	Elimination	Immunity	Pre-elimination	Elimination	Immunity	Elimination	Immunity	Pre-elimination	Elimination	Immunity	Pre-elimination	Elimination	Immunity	Pre-elimination	Elimination	Immunity	Elimination	Immunity	Pre-elimination	Elimination	Star Player	Pre-elimination	Elimination	Star Player	Pre-elimination	Elimination	Ticket to Finale
Aishwarya	Height	Height			Height		Animal & Shock	Height & Water	Water	CODE RED		Animal	Vehicle	Shock & Animal	Water & Animal			Height & Shock	Animal				Height & Vehicle	Water & Animal	Water	Animal			Fire			Height	Ticket To Finale
Archana	Height	Animal			Animal		Height	Height & Water		Height		Height			Water & Animal	Height	Water	Height & Shock			Height	Dark & Animal	Dark & Animal	Water & Animal		Height			Vehicle & Height			Height
Arjit	Height				Height		Vehicle	Height & Water		Height		Height			Height	Vehicle		Height & Shock					Water & Animal	Height		Height	Vehicle	Height & Shock	Vehicle & Height	Height		Vehicle
Dino	Height	Height			Water		Animal			Vehicle & Height		Animal			Height			Height	Shock & Ice		Height		Height & Vehicle			Water	Water		Water			Vehicle
Nyra	Height	Animal			Animal		Height			Water		Animal			Water	CODE RED	Water	TARGET		Animal			Dark & Animal			Animal	Water		Fire	Animal	Height & Shock	Vehicle
Rashmeet	Height	Animal			Height		Height			Animal		Height			Height			Height	Animal		Height		Height & Vehicle	Height		Height			Vehicle & Height			Vehicle
Shiv	Height				Water		Vehicle			Vehicle & Height	Shock	Height	Vehicle	Shock & Animal	Water & Animal	Height		Height			Height		Water & Animal			Height	Vehicle		Vehicle & Height	Height		Height
Soundous	Height				Height		Height	Height & Water		Height		Water			Water			Height			Height		Dark & Animal	Height	Water	Water			Water	Animal	Height & Shock	ELIMINATED
Sheezan	Height	Animal	Vehicle		Animal		Animal	Height & Water		Height		Vehicle & Height	Vehicle		Water	Height		Height & Shock	Shock & Ice		Height		Dark & Animal			Water	Water	Height & Shock	ELIMINATED
Daisy	Height	Animal			Height		Animal & Shock			Animal		Vehicle & Height			Height	Vehicle	Water	ELIMINATED				Dark & Animal	ELIMINATED
Anjum	Height	Height	Vehicle	Animal	Animal	Water	Animal & Shock	Height & Water	Water	ELIMINATED		Water	Vehicle		Water & Animal			TARGET		Animal	ELIMINATED
Anjali	Height	Animal			Animal	Water	Animal & Shock			Water	Shock	ELIMINATED
Rohit	Height	Animal	Vehicle		Animal		QUIT
Ruhi	Height	Height	Vehicle	Animal	ELIMINATED

  indicates contestant won their immunity / pre-elimination / Red 'Fear Funda' stunt / in winning team / Failed in Ticket to Finale and did not perform in the following stunt.

Episodes

No.	Title	Original release date [20]
1	"Mega Premiere: Darr Next Level"	15 July 2023 (2023-07-15)[21]
2	"Code Red and a shock for Khiladis"	16 July 2023 (2023-07-16)[22]
3	"What's The Red Fanda?"	22 July 2023 (2023-07-22)[23]
4	"Unexpected Khatra in the Wild"	23 July 2023 (2023-07-23)[24]
5	"Daisy faces terror"	29 July 2023 (2023-07-29)[25]
6	"The water puzzle!"	30 July 2023 (2023-07-30)[26]
7	"Nyra goes underwater"	5 August 2023 (2023-08-05)[27]
8	"Arjit faces the Tarzan stunt"	6 August 2023 (2023-08-06)[28]
9	"Khiladi Boss vs Bigg Boss!"	12 August 2023 (2023-08-12)[29]
10	"Rohit's hazardous challenge!"	13 August 2023 (2023-08-13)[30]
11	"An underwater stunt!"	19 August 2023 (2023-08-19)[31]
12	"The Khiladis get into an argument"	20 August 2023 (2023-08-20)[32]
13	"Rohit stuns the Khiladis"	26 August 2023 (2023-08-26)[33]
14	"Sheezan experiences claustrophobia"	27 August 2023 (2023-08-27)[34]
15	"Khiladis elect their captain"	2 September 2023 (2023-09-02)[35]
16	"Code Red is back!"	3 September 2023 (2023-09-03)[36]
17	"Abdu Rozik joins the show!"	9 September 2023 (2023-09-09)[37]
18	"Arjit-Soundous' risky stunt"	10 September 2023 (2023-09-10)[38]
19	"Stars vs Khiladis"	16 September 2023 (2023-09-16)[39]
20	"Shiv competes against Faisal"	17 September 2023 (2023-09-17)[40]
21	"A dynamic fire stunt!"	23 September 2023 (2023-09-23)[41]
22	"Nyra vs Soundous"	24 September 2023 (2023-09-24)[42]
23	"A battle on a moving truck!"	30 September 2023 (2023-09-30)[43]
24	"Aishwarya acquires a power!"	1 October 2023 (2023-10-01)[44]
25	"Hang in there, Archana!"	7 October 2023 (2023-10-07)

Production

Casting

In February 2023, Rohit Shetty entered the Bigg Boss 16 house and selected Shalin Bhanot as the first contestant for the upcoming season, but he declined.^[45]

In May 2023, it was reported that Abdu Rozik would join the series as Guest.^[46]

In June 2023, Divyanka Tripathi, Hina Khan and Faisal Shaikh were approached to be a part of the series as Challengers.^[47][48]

Development

Shetty during Launch

The contestants were spotted at the Mumbai Airport before leaving for South Africa on 11 May 2023.^[49] Shetty was spotted leaving for South Africa on 16 May 2023.^[50]

The series was announced by Colors TV on 23 May 2023.^[51]

Divyanka Tripathi was spotted at Mumbai Airport before leaving for Cape Town on 20 June 2023.^[52]

Shetty snapped with the contestants during Grand Finale

The contestants were spotted at the Mumbai Airport after returning from Cape Town, South Africa on 5 July 2023.^[53]

Filming

The principal photography of the series began on 20 May 2023 in South Africa.^[54] Rohit Shetty took to his Instagram to officially announce the same.^[55]

On 3 July 2023, Rohit Shetty announced the wrap up of "Khatron Ke Khiladi 13" in Cape Town after 50 days schedule.^[56][57]

The contestants^[58] reunited for the finale episode shooting held on 2 October 2023 in Film City, Mumbai.^[59][60]

Reception

Times Now wrote, "As expected, the episode started with a bang. But, later it turned annoying and boring."^[61]

See also

• List of programmes broadcast by Colors TV