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. 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. 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.
Contestants Contestant Occupation Status Place Ref. Dino James Rapper (Week 14) 1st Arjit Taneja Actor (Week 14) 2nd Aishwarya Sharma Actress 2nd runner-up(Week 14) 3rd Rashmeet kaur Singer 3rd runner-up(Week 14) 4th Shiv thakare Reality show alumni 4th Runner-Up(Week 14) 5th Archana Gautam Model, actress (Week 13) 6th Nyrraa M Banerji Actress (Week 13) 7th Soundous Moufakir Model, dancer (Week 11) 8th Sheezan Khan Actor (Week 10) 9th Daisy Shah Actress (Week 6) 10th (Week 8) Anjum Fakih Actress (Week 3) 11th (Week 7) Anjali Anand Actress (Week 4) 12th Rohit Roy Actor (Week 2) 13th Ruhi Chaturvedi Model, actress (Week 1) 14th Indicates original entrants Indicates re-entered entrants
Elimination chart Weeks1234567891011121314Grand PremiereRed Funda WeekPartners WeekRelay WeekRohit Shetty vs KhiladisUndercover Agent WeekTarget WeekTeam WeekAbdu Rozik WeekChallenger WeekSemi Finale WeekHina Khan15-16 July22-23 July29 July30 July5-6 August12-13 August19-20 August26-27 August2-3 September9-10 September16-17 September23-24 September30 September1 October7-8 October Dino LOSTSAFEWINSHIVWIN WIN SAFEWINWINLOSTSAFE10100020TIESAFEWINLOSTSAFEWINFAILBLOCKED30103000WIN (70 Pts)FinalistWINWINNER Arjit WINWINSHEEZANLOSTSOUNDOUSSAFE LOST ARCHANASAFEWINLOSTSAFEWIN00100SAFELOSTSAFELOSTBTM2SAFELOSTSAFEWINFAILFAILFAIL20020020WIN (60 Pts)FinalistWIN1st RUNNER-UP Aishwarya LOSTSAFE LOST LOST SAFEANJUMLOSTANJUMLOSTBTM2SAFESAFEFAILBTM2 SAFEWINLOSTSAFE100020SAVEDLOSTBTM2SAFEWINWINWINWINSAFEWINWIN Rashmeet LOSTSAFEWINNYRAWIN LOST SHEEZANSAFEWINWINLOSTLOSTSAFE00100020SAVEDLOSTSAFEWINWINFAILBLOCKED0002010LOST (30)BTM3SAFEFinalistLOSTELIMINATED Shiv WINWINDINOWIN LOST BTM2SAFEFAILBTM2 SAFELOSTSAFEWIN101000200SAVEDWINLOSTSAFELOSTSAFEFAILFAIL0003030WIN (60 Pts)FinalistLOSTELIMINATED Archana LOSTSAFEWINSOUNDOUSLOSTSHEEZANLOSTSAFEWINSAFEWINLOSTBTM3SAFEWIN001000BTM2SAFELOSTSAFEWINWINFAILFAILFAIL10200100LOST (40)BTM3ELIMINATED Nyra LOSTSAFE LOST LOST SAFERASHMEETWINLOSTSAFEWINLOSTBTM3SAFETARGETBTM2SAFE010020SAVEDWINLOSTSAFELOSTBTM2SAFEWINFAILFAIL0301000LOST (40)BTM3ELIMINATED Soundous WINWINARCHANALOSTARJITSAFELOST SAFE FAILSAFEWINWIN000100SAVEDLOSTBTM2SAFEWINLOSTBTM2ELIMINATED Sheezan LOSTLOSTSAFEWINARJITLOSTARCHANALOSTSAFE WIN SOUNDOUSSAFEFAILSAFELOSTSAFELOSTLOSTSAFE00010020SAVEDWINLOSTBTM2ELIMINATED Daisy LOSTSAFE CODE RED SAFEANJALIWIN WIN ARJITSAFEFAILSAFELOSTBTM3ELIMINATED200BTM2ELIMINATED Anjum LOSTLOSTBTM2SAFEWIN LOST AISHWARYALOSTAISHWARYALOSTBTM2ELIMINATEDFAILSAFEWINTARGETBTM2ELIMINATED Anjali LOSTSAFE LOST LOST BTMSAFEDAISYWINLOST BTM2ELIMINATED RohitLOSTLOSTSAFE WINQUIT Ruhi LOSTLOSTBTM2ELIMINATED
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. Anjali nominated Anjum to compete in the elimination stunt with herself. Rohit had to quit the journey due to medical injury. Pairs during Partner Week. By winning the Code Red mini stunt, Soundous was allowed to switch her partner. 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. Aishwarya was in no team but was exempt from performing the elimination stunt by doing a correct prediction in Code Red. 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. Rohit Shetty allowed unsafe contestants to save two contestants among them by mutual decision. 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. Stunt performed with an additional disadvantage. Dino proxies Anjum due to health halt. Undercover Agent nominated Nyra directly among unsafe contestants for the elimination stunt. Anjum and Nyra were nominated as Target. They received Fear Funda and directly performed the second pre-elimination stunt. 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. Nyra was transferred from Team Yellow to Team Blue by Captain Arjit. Abdu Rozik entered as a guest entrant. 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. Aishwarya was allowed to choose two players who will not perform in the Ticket to Finale race. She chose Dino and Rashmeet. Arjit and Archana performed better than their peers and were allowed to compete in the Ticket to Finale race. 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 1ShivGive up immunity of Week 1 to get a superpower in Week 2.Rejected the offerSoundousArjitWeek 2AishwaryaName one contestant who won the tasks in Week 1 by fluke. Contestants named Daisy Shah.Daisy got 'Red Funda' AnjaliAnjum Archana Arjit Daisy Dino Nyra Rashmeet Rohit Sheezan Shiv soundousWeek 3SoundousOffered to change her partner for Week 3.Accepted the offerChoose a partner from the four contestants who got 'Fear Funda.'She chose ArjitWeek 4SoundousPredict 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.ArchanaAishwaryaWeek 5ArchanaChoose 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 3NyraRashmeetArjitDinoWeek 6ArchanaPredict 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 NyraShivArjitSheezanDaisyWeek 7NyraChoose 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 2AnjumWeek 8DinoMerge 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.RashmeetArjitTransfer any Contestant from Team Arjit to Team Dino.Nyra was transferred from Team Arjit to Team Dino.
Stunt matrix ContestantGrand PremiereRed Fear Funda WeekPartner WeekRelay WeekRohit Shetty vs Khiladis WeekUndercover Agent WeekTarget WeekTeam WeekAbdu Rozik WeekChallenger WeeksFaisal SheikhDivyanka TripathiHina Khan15-16 July22-23 July 29 July30 July5-6 August12-13 August19-20 August26-27 August2-3 September7-8 October14 October Immunity Elimination Elimination Immunity Elimination Immunity Elimination Immunity Elimination Immunity Elimination Immunity EliminationImmunity Elimination Immunity Elimination Elimination Elimination Ticket to Finale Aishwarya Height Height Height WaterCODE RED Animal Vehicle Animal Water AnimalFire HeightTicket To Finale Archana Height Animal Animal Height Height Height HeightWater Height Height Height Arjit Height Height Vehicle Height Height Height Vehicle Height Height Vehicle Height Vehicle Dino Height HeightWater Animal Animal Height Height Height WaterWaterWater Vehicle Nyra Height Animal Animal HeightWater AnimalWaterCODE REDWaterTARGET Animal AnimalWaterFireAnimal Vehicle Rashmeet Height Animal Height Height Animal Height Height Height Animal Height Height Height Vehicle Shiv Height Water Vehicle Shock Height Vehicle Height Height Height Height Vehicle Height Height Soundous Height Height Height HeightWaterWater Height Height HeightWaterWaterWaterAnimal ELIMINATED Sheezan Height Animal Vehicle Animal Animal Height VehicleWater Height Height WaterWater ELIMINATED Daisy Height Animal Height Animal Height VehicleWaterELIMINATED ELIMINATED Anjum Height Height Vehicle Animal AnimalWater WaterELIMINATEDWater Vehicle TARGET AnimalELIMINATED Anjali Height Animal AnimalWater Water ShockELIMINATED Rohit Height Animal Vehicle AnimalQUIT Ruhi Height Height Vehicle AnimalELIMINATED
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
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.
In May 2023, it was reported that Abdu Rozik would join the series as Guest.
In June 2023, Divyanka Tripathi, Hina Khan and Faisal Shaikh were approached to be a part of the series as Challengers.
Development
The contestants were spotted at the Mumbai Airport before leaving for South Africa on 11 May 2023. Shetty was spotted leaving for South Africa on 16 May 2023.
The series was announced by Colors TV on 23 May 2023.
Divyanka Tripathi was spotted at Mumbai Airport before leaving for Cape Town on 20 June 2023.
The contestants were spotted at the Mumbai Airport after returning from Cape Town, South Africa on 5 July 2023.
Filming The principal photography of the series began on 20 May 2023 in South Africa. Rohit Shetty took to his Instagram to officially announce the same.
On 3 July 2023, Rohit Shetty announced the wrap up of "Khatron Ke Khiladi 13" in Cape Town after 50 days schedule.
The contestants reunited for the finale episode shooting held on 2 October 2023 in Film City, Mumbai.
Reception Times Now wrote, "As expected, the episode started with a bang. But, later it turned annoying and boring."
See also List of programmes broadcast by Colors TV
References
External links
Khatron Ke Khiladi 13 on Colors TV