Top Cooku Dupe Cooku season 1

Top Cooku Dupe Cooku is the first season of the Tamil reality comedy cooking TV show Top Cooku Dupe Cooku. The season premiered on 19 May 2024 on Sun TV and digitally on Sun NXT.^[1] This season is produced and judged by Chef Venkatesh Bhat,^[2] along with Judge Chef Rammohan supported by Binny Krishnakumar and hosted by Rakesh.^[3][4]

Top Cooku Dupe Cooku
Season 1
Poster of the season
Starring	see below
Hosted by	VJ Rakesh
Judges	Venkatesh Bhat Binny Krishnakumar Chef Rammohan Mentors Chef Cheruba Chef Sai Chef Saravanan Chef Yuvasri
No. of contestants	11
Winner	TBD
Runner-up	TBD
No. of episodes	17
Release
Original network	Sun TV Sun NXT
Original release	19 May 2024 (2024-05-19) – present

Production

The show is produced by Media Masons and broadcast by Sun TV Network.^[5] A pre-recorded episode airs every Sunday at 12:30 UTC+5:30 and is re-telecasted on the following Saturday at 09:30 UTC+5:30 both on Sun TV and Shakthi TV. It is available for free streaming in the OTT platform Sun NXT and will be made available on YouTube as well.^[6][7]

Participants

Top Cooku's

Sonia Agarwal (L) was the first Top Cooku to be eliminated, followed by Shali Nivekas (R).

Alphabetical order of initial cooks name followed by later joined cooks:^[8][9][10]

1. Aishwarya Dutta, an actress who appeared in the films Tamizhuku En Ondrai Azhuthavum (2015) and Paayum Puli (2015). She is also the runner-up of the reality television show Bigg Boss season 2.^[11]
2. Chaitra Reddy, a television actress who mainly works in the Kannada and Tamil languages. She is mainly known for her titular role of Kayal in the Kayal.^[12]
3. Narendra Prasath (NP), a Tamil actor and comedian.
4. Sai Dheena, an actor. He played the antagonist in Attu (2017), Thimiru Pudichavan (2018) and Vaandu (2019).^[13]
5. Shali Nivekas, a television actress. She is best known for her role, Naachiyar in the television series Sengalam.
6. Singampuli, an actor and director known for making films Red (2002) and Maayavi (2005).^[14]
7. Sonia Agarwal, an actress who works predominantly in Tamil cinema and a few Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. She is best known for her performances in films such as Kaadhal Kondein (2003), 7G Rainbow Colony (2004) and Pudhupettai (2006).^[15][16]
8. Sujatha Sivakumar, an actress, who rose to fame with her performance in Ameer's Paruthiveeran (2007), before appearing in several supporting roles as a mother in Tamil cinema.
9. FEFSI Vijayan, an action choreographer, stunt coordinator and actor who works in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi language films. He is the youngest stunt master in the Indian film industry at the age of 22.^[17][18]
10. Maneesha Mahesh,^{[lower-alpha 1]} a television actress, who is best known for her roles in the television series Padatha Painkili and Singapennae.^[19]
11. Subash Selvam,^{[lower-alpha 1]} an actor. He is known for his roles as Arjun in Thittam Irandu (2021) and Vetri in Hot Spot (2024).

Top Cooku's status

  Chef Cheruba Team

  Chef Sai Team

  Chef Saravanan Team

  Chef Yuvasri Team

No.	Name	Entry episode	Episode exited	Rapid fire rounds won	Golden table challenges won	Top cook of the week	Nominations for elimination	Status
01	Narendra (NP)	Episode 1		3	2	4	1	1st Finalist
02	FEFSI Vijayan	Episode 1		-	3	6	-	2nd Finalist
03	Sujatha	Episode 1		1	3	6	2	3rd Finalist
04	Chaitra	Episode 1		2	5	2	-
05	Maneesha	Episode 12		-	-	-	-
06	Subash	Episode 12		-	-	-	-
07	Aishwarya	Episode 1	Episode 16	1	2	2	1	Eliminated[20]
08	S Dheena	Episode 1	Episode 15	—		1	1	Eliminated[21]
09	Singampuli	Episode 1	Episode 10	2	1	—	1	Eliminated[22]
10	Shali	Episode 1	Episode 8	1	—	1	2	Eliminated[23]
11	Sonia	Episode 1	Episode 5	—			1	Eliminated[24]

Chef teams

Chef	Top Cooku's			Ref.
Chef Cheruba	Shali	Sujatha	Vijayan	[25]
Chef Sai	Aishwarya	Chaitra	Singampuli
Chef Saravanan	S Dheena	Narendra	Sonia
Chef Yuvasri	Maneesha	Subash	—	[10]

Dupe Cooku's

Alphabetical order of Dupe cooks names:^[26]

1. Adhirchi Arun^[27]
2. Deepa Shankar^[28]
3. Bharat K Rajesh
4. Dheena
5. Monisha Blessy^[29][30]
6. GP Muthu
7. Vijay
8. Mukund^[31]
9. Soundarya
10. Kathir

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Original air date
1	1	"Episode 1: The Grand Launch"	19 May 2024 (2024-05-19)
The show was launched with the introduction of Host, Judges, Mentors, Top Cooku's, Dupe Cooku's and the show's format. As the first week it didn't contain any guest judge, elimination box and golden table. Aishwarya & Shali won the Rapid fire and chose Bharath & GP Muthu as their desired Dupe cooku's respectively. Aishwarya paired with Bharath finished as the Top cook of the week.[32]
2	2	"Episode 2"	26 May 2024 (2024-05-26)
Actor Vadivelu joined as a guest judge.[33] No elimination box this week either. Chaitra & Singampuli won the Rapid fire and chose Soundarya & Dheena as their desired Dupe Cooku's respectively. Vijayan won the golden table challenge along with an extra Dupe Cooku. Vijayan paired with GP Muthu & Vijay finished as the Top cook of the week.
3	3	"Episode 3"	2 June 2024 (2024-06-02)
Actor Vadivelu stayed as the guest judge for the first half and Chef Rammohan took over for the rest of the episode.[34] Top Cookus' elimination box choice was no elimination. S Dheena was hospitalized during the Rapid fire but returned for the Main challenge. Singampuli won the Rapid fire for the second consecutive week and chose GP Muthu as his desired Dupe Cooku. Singampuli also won the golden table challenge. Sujatha paired with Mukund finished as the Top cook of the week.[35][36]
4	4	"Episode 4"	9 June 2024 (2024-06-09)
Chef Rammohan became a permanent judge. Top Cookus' elimination box choice was no elimination. Narendra won the Rapid fire and chose Arun as his desired Dupe Cooku while Sujatha won the golden table challenge. Shali paired with Monisha finished as the Top cook of the week.
5	5	"Episode 5: Elimination 1"	16 June 2024 (2024-06-16)
Given last 2 weeks didn't have an elimination, this week was a compulsory elimination round. Narendra won the Rapid fire for the second consecutive week and chose Arun as his desired Dupe Cooku while Aishwarya won the golden table challenge. Narendra paired with Arun finished as the Top cook of the week. Shali paired with Mukund and Sonia paired with Kathir finished at the bottom places. As a result Shali and Sonia were nominated for elimination and Sonia was eliminated from the competition.[24][37]
6	6	"Episode 6"	23 June 2024 (2024-06-23)
Top Cookus' elimination box choice was no elimination. Chaitra won the Rapid fire for the second time and chose Arun as her desired Dupe Cooku while Aishwarya won the golden table challenge for the second consecutive week. Vijayan paired with Kathir finished as the Top cook of the week.
7	7	"Episode 7"	30 June 2024 (2024-06-30)
Top Cookus' elimination box choice was no elimination. Narendra and Sujatha won the Rapid fire and chose Monisha and GP Muthu as their desired Dupe Cooku's respectively while Sujatha won the golden table challenge for the second time. Sai Dheena paired with Arun finished as the Top cook of the week.
8	8	"Episode 8: Elimination 2"	7 July 2024 (2024-07-07)
Given last 2 weeks didn't have an elimination, this week was a compulsory elimination round. Narendra won the golden table challenge. Aishwarya paired with Monisha finished as the Top cook of the week for the second time. Shali paired with Dheena and Sujatha paired with Kathir finished at the bottom places. As a result Shali and Sujatha were nominated for elimination and Shali was eliminated from the competition.[23][38][29]
9	9	"Episode 9: Celebration week[39]"	14 July 2024 (2024-07-14)
Seven actors from Sun TV serials – Alagappan, Nikitha Rajesh, Maneesha Mahesh, Gabriella Charlton, Ashwanth Karthi, Sruthi Raj, Alya Manasa were paired with each Top Cooku–Dupe Cooku pair for the episode.[lower-alpha 2] As it's a celebration week it did not contain elimination. Chaitra won the golden table challenge for the second time. Sujatha paired with Deepa &Alya and Vijayan paired with Kathir & Nikitha finished as the Top cooks of the week for the second and third times respectively.[40]
10	10	"Episode 10: Elimination 3"	21 July 2024 (2024-07-21)
Top Cookus' elimination box choice was elimination. Sujatha won the golden table challenge for the third time. Sujatha paired with Bharath finished as the Top cook of the week for the third time. Singhampuli paired with Kathir and Narendra paired with GP Muthu finished at the bottom places. As a result Singhampuli and Narendra were nominated for elimination and Singhampuli was eliminated from the competition.[22][41]
11	11	"Episode 11: Raayan Special[42]"	28 July 2024 (2024-07-28)
Kalidas Jayaram and Dushara Vijayan joined as the guests for this episode to promote their movie Raayan.[lower-alpha 3] Top Cookus' elimination box choice was no elimination. Chaitra won the Golden table challenge. Chaitra paired with GP Muthu finished as the Top Cook of the week.[27][42]
12	12	"Episode 12: Wildcard entry week"	4 August 2024 (2024-08-04)
Maneesha Mahesh and Subash Selvam joined the competition as wildcard entries.[lower-alpha 1] As it's the wildcard entry week it did not contain elimination. Chaitra won the Golden table challenge for the consecutive second week. Chaitra paired with Kathir finished as the Top Cook of the week.
13	13	"Episode 13"	11 August 2024 (2024-08-11)
Top Cookus' elimination box choice was no elimination. Chaitra won the Golden table challenge for the consecutive third week. Sujatha paired with GP Muthu finished as the Top Cook of the week.
14	14	"Episode 14: Friendship week[43]"	18 August 2024 (2024-08-18)
Each Top Cooku brought one of their friends such as Muthukaalai, Kiruthika, Sendrayan, Yashika, Vigneshkanth, Aswath, Santosh Pratap, Kalyani[lower-alpha 4] and they were paired with their respective Top Cooku–Dupe Cooku pair. As it's a celebration week it did not contain elimination. Vijayan won the golden table challenge for the second time. Vijayan paired with Arun & Muthukaalai and NP paired with Dheena & Vigneshkanth finished as the Top cooks of the week for the fourth and second times respectively.[43][44][45]
15	15	"Episode 15: Elimination 4"	25 August 2024 (2024-08-25)
The show enters the final stage from this episode onwards.[lower-alpha 5] Chef Koushik Shankar joined as the judge chef.[lower-alpha 6] Vijayan won the golden table challenge for the third time. Vijayan paired with Vijay and Sujatha paired with Arun finished as the Top cooks of the week for the fifth time each. Sai Dheena paired with Dheena finished at the bottom place and as a result Sai Dheena was eliminated from the competition.[21][28][46]
16	16	"Episode 16: Elimination 5"	1 September 2024 (2024-09-01)
Chef Koushik Shankar stayed as the judge chef.[lower-alpha 6] Narendra won the golden table challenge for the second time. Narendra paired with GP Muthu finished as the Top cook of the week for the third time. Aishwarya paired with Mukund and Sujatha paired with Soundarya finished at the bottom places. As a result, Aishwarya and Sujatha were nominated for elimination and Aishwarya was eliminated from the competition.[20][31]
17	17	"Episode 17: Ticket to Finale"	8 September 2024 (2024-09-08)
Chef Rammohan returned as one of the main judge chefs. Chaitra won the golden table challenge for the fifth time. Narendra paired with Deepa, and Vijayan paired with Monisha finished as the Top cooks of the week for the 4th and 6th times respectively. Narendra and Vijayan were both awarded the Ticket to Finale power which as a result made them the 1st and 2nd Finalists respectively.[30][47]
18	18	"Episode 18: Semi Finals Round"	15 September 2024 (2024-09-15)
19	19	"Episode 19: Elimination 7"	22 September 2024 (2024-09-22)
20	20	"Episode 20: The Grand Finale"	TBA

Competition history

Guests

Episodes	Guests	Ref.
1	—
2 & 3	Vadivelu	[33]
3	Chef Rammohan	[34]
4–8	—
9	Alagappan, Nikitha Rajesh, Maneesha Mahesh, Gabriella Charlton, Ashwanth Karthi, Sruthi Raj, Alya Manasa	[lower-alpha 2]
10	—
11	Kalidas Jayaram, Dushara Vijayan	[lower-alpha 3]
12 & 13	—
14	Muthukaalai, Kiruthika, Sendrayan, Yashika, Vigneshkanth, Aswath, Santosh Pratap, Kalyani	[lower-alpha 4]
15 & 16	Chef Koushik Shankar	[lower-alpha 6]
18	Dr. Palaniappan Manickam

Elimination box selection

Episode	Elimination box		Result
	Yes	No
1	The Grand Launch
2	—
3		Y	No elimination
4		Y	No elimination
5	—		Elimination round
6		Y	No elimination
7		Y	No elimination
8	—		Elimination round
9	—
10	Y		Elimination round

Episode	Elimination box		Result
	Yes	No
11		Y	No elimination
12	—
13		Y	No elimination
14	—
15	—		Elimination round
16	—		Elimination round
17	Ticket to Finale
18	Semi Finals Round
19
20	The Grand Finale

Pairings

  Chef Cheruba team

  Chef Sai team

  Chef Saravanan team

  Chef Yuvasri team

# Rapid fire winner

→ Golden table challenge winner

† Top cook of the week

↓ Nominated for elimination

  Eliminated

Cooks	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Narendra Prasath (NP)	Soundarya	Kathir	Vijay	Arun #	Arun #†	Bharath	Monisha #	Arun →	Arun & Maneesha	GP Muthu ↓
FEFSI Vijayan	Deepa	GP Muthu & Vijay →†	Dheena	Soundarya	Monisha	Kathir †	Bharath	GP Muthu	Kathir & Nikitha †	Arun
Sujatha Sivakumar	Kathir	Arun	Mukund †	Dheena →	Deepa	Monisha	GP Muthu #→	Kathir ↓	Deepa & Alya †	Bharath →†
Chaitra Reddy	Vijay	Soundarya #	Soundarya	Deepa	Dheena	Arun #	Deepa	Mukund	Soundarya & Ashwanth →	Viji
Aishwarya Dutta	Bharath #†	Monisha	Kathir	Vijay	Vijay →	GP Muthu →	Kathir	Monisha †	Dheena & Alagappan	Deepa
Sai Dheena	Monisha	Bharath	Deepa	GP Muthu		Dheena	Arun †	Bharath	Monisha & Gabriella	Monisha
Singham Puli	Dheena	Dheena #	GP Muthu #→	Kathir	Soundarya	Deepa	Mukund	Deepa	Bharath & Sruthi	Kathir ↓
Shali Nivekas	GP Muthu #	Deepa	Arun	Monisha †	Mukund ↓	Soundarya	Dheena	Dheena ↓	Eliminated (Episode 8)
Sonia Agarwal	Arun	Mukund	Monisha	Mukund	Kathir ↓	Eliminated (Episode 5)

Cooks	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Narendra Prasath (NP)	Arun	Mukund	Soundarya	Vigneshkanth & Dheena †	GP Muthu	GP Muthu →†	Deepa †	1st Finalist
FEFSI Vijayan	Monisha	Arun	Mukund	Muthukaalai & Arun →†	Vijay →†	Monisha	Monisha †	2nd Finalist
Sujatha Sivakumar	Deepa	Monisha	GP Muthu †	Sendrayan & Deepa	Arun †	Soundarya ↓	Mukund	GP Muthu †	3rd Finalist
Chaitra Reddy	GP Muthu →†	Kathir →†	Dheena →	Aswath & Bharath	Deepa / Soundarya	Dheena	Arun →	Monisha
Maneesha Mahesh	—	GP Muthu	Deepa	Kalyani & GP Muthu	Kathir	Arun	Bharath	Arun
Subash Selvam	—	Vijay	Arun	Santosh Pratap & Mukund	Bharath / Monisha	Kathir		Bharath
Aishwarya Dutta	Kathir	Bharath		Yashika & Soundarya	Mukund	Mukund ↓	Eliminated (Episode 16)
Sai Dheena	Dheena	Deepa	Kathir	Kiruthika & Kathir	Dheena ↓	Eliminated (Episode 15)
Singham Puli	Eliminated (Episode 10)
Shali Nivekas	Eliminated (Episode 8)
Sonia Agarwal	Eliminated (Episode 5)

Weekly overview

  Chef Cheruba team

  Chef Sai team

  Chef Saravanan team

  Chef Yuvasri team

  Rapid fire winner

  Golden table challenge winner

  Cook left show due to injury sustained while cooking

  Top cook of the week

  Nominated for elimination

  Eliminated

  Re-entered the kitchen

  Finalist

  Runner-up

  Winner

Episodes	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Guests	—	Vadivelu	Vadivelu & Chef Rammohan	—					Alagappan, Nikitha Rajesh, Maneesha Mahesh, Gabriella Charlton, Ashwin Karthik, Sruthi Raj, Alya Manasa[lower-alpha 2]	—
Rapid fire winner	Aishwarya & Shali	Chaitra & Singampuli	Singampuli	Narendra		Chaitra	Narendra & Sujatha	—
Golden table challenge winner	—	Vijayan	Singampuli	Sujatha	Aishwarya		Sujatha	Narendra	Chaitra	Sujatha
Top cook	Aishwarya	Vijayan	Sujatha	Shali	Narendra	Vijayan	S Dheena	Aishwarya	Sujatha & Vijayan	Sujatha
Narendra	—			Rapid fire winner		—	Rapid fire winner	Golden table challenge winner	—	Nominated for elimination
				—	Top cook
Vijayan	—	Golden table challenge winner	—			Top cook	—		Top cook	—
		Top cook
Sujatha	—		Top cook	Golden table challenge winner	—		Rapid fire winner	Nominated for elimination	Top cook
							Golden table challenge winner		—	Golden table challenge winner
Chaitra	—	Rapid fire winner	—			Rapid fire winner	—		Golden table challenge winner	—
Aishwarya	Rapid fire winner	—			Golden table challenge winner		—	Top cook	—
	Top cook
S Dheena	—		Hospitalized	—			Top cook	—
			Re-entered in Main challenge
Singampuli	—	Rapid fire winner		—						Nominated for elimination
		—	Golden table challenge winner
Shali	Rapid fire winner	—		Top cook	Nominated for elimination	—		Nominated for elimination	Eliminated (Episode 8)
Sonia	—				Nominated for elimination	Eliminated (Episode 5)
Left show due to injury	—		S Dheena	—
Entered	—		S Dheena	—
Nominated for elimination	—				Shali & Sonia	—		Shali & Sujatha	—	Singampuli & Narendra
Eliminated	—				Sonia	—		Shali	—	Singampuli

Episodes	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Guests	Kalidas Jayaram, Dushara Vijayan[lower-alpha 3]	—		Muthukaalai, Kiruthika, Sendrayan, Yashika, Vigneshkanth, Aswath, Santosh Pratap, Kalyani[lower-alpha 4]	Chef Koushik Shankar[lower-alpha 6]		—	Dr. Palaniappan Manickam
Rapid fire winner	—
Golden table challenge winner	Chaitra			Vijayan		Narendra	Chaitra
Top cook	Chaitra		Sujatha	Vijayan & Narendra	Vijayan & Sujatha	Narendra	Narendra & Vijayan	Sujatha
Narendra	—			Top Cook	—	Golden table challenge winner	Top Cook	Advanced to Finale
						Top cook
Vijayan	—			Golden table challenge winner		—	Top Cook	Advanced to Finale
				Top Cook
Sujatha	—		Top Cook	—	Top Cook	Nominated for elimination	—	Top Cook	Advanced to Finale
Chaitra	Golden table challenge winner			—			Golden table challenge winner
	Top cook		—
Maneesha	—	Wildcard entry	—
Subash	—	Wildcard entry	—
Aishwarya	—					Nominated for elimination	Eliminated (Episode 16)
S Dheena	—				Nominated for elimination	Eliminated (Episode 15)
Singampuli	Eliminated (Episode 10)
Shali	Eliminated (Episode 8)
Sonia	Eliminated (Episode 5)
Left show due to injury	—
Entered	—	Maneesha & Subash	—
Nominated for elimination	—				S Dheena	Sujatha & Aishwarya	—
Eliminated	—				S Dheena	Aishwarya	—

References

Explanatory notes

1. Joined as Wild card entry.^[10]
2. Seven actors from Sun TV serials were paired with each Top Cooku–Dupe Cooku pair for the episode 9: Celebration week.^[39]
3. Kalidas Jayaram and Dushara Vijayan joined as the guests for episode 11 to promote their movie Raayan.^[42]
4. Each Top Cooku brought one of their friends for the episode 14: Friendship week.^[43][44][45]
5. In the final stage of the show all episodes would be either elimination or ticket to Finale rounds.^[46][47]
6. Chef Koushik joined as the Judge Chef for episodes 15 & 16 at Chef Rammohan's position.^[48]

Citations

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External links

• Top Cooku Dupe Cooku on Sun NXT
• Top Cooku Dupe Cooku - Full episodes on YouTube