| The Traitors India | |
|---|---|
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| Also known as | The Traitors India |
| Genre | |
| Based on | |
| Presented by | Karan Johar |
| Country of origin | India |
| Original languages | Hindi English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Production | |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Running time | 75+ minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | Amazon Prime Video |
| Release | 12 June – 3 July 2025 |
The Traitors (also known as The Traitors India) is an Indian reality series streams on Prime Video, based on the Dutch series De Verraders.[1] It premiered on 12 June 2025 and concluded on 03 July 2025. The show was hosted by Karan Johar.[2]
Following the premise of De Verraders, the show features a group of contestants participating in a game similar to Mafia or Werewolf, where an informed minority (known as the "Traitors") must eliminate an uninformed majority (known as the "Innocents") to win. Meanwhile, the "Innocents" are tasked to discover the "Traitors" and vote them out of the game in order to win. The series is filmed in and around Suryagarh Palace.
Format
[edit]A group of contestants arrive at the palace in Jaisalmer, Rajasthan with hopes of winning a large cash prize of ₹1 crore that is built up through missions. The players are referred to as the "Innocents", but among them are the "Traitors" — a group of contestants secretly selected by the host. If the Innocents eliminate all the Traitors, they will share the prize fund. However, if any Traitors manage to make it to the end, eliminating the Innocents, they win the entire prize money.
The contestants participate in missions to build up their cash prize. In some missions, any contestant may also win a ‘shield’ that grants them immunity from the subsequent murder.
On most nights, The Traitors meet in a secret tower to decide on an Innocent contestant to ‘murder,’ who is then immediately eliminated from the game. The remaining Innocents are unaware of who has been eliminated until the following morning, when that person fails to appear at the breakfast table in the castle.
At the end of each day, the players gather at the ‘Circle of Shaq,’ where they discuss whom to vote out before individually casting their votes. Players vote privately, then reveal their choices one by one, often giving a brief rationale for their decision. The player who receives the most votes is banished from the game and reveals their affiliation. If during the game the number of ‘Traitors’ drops to two, they are given the choice to recruit an Innocent to join them instead of murdering.
After the final Circle of Shaq, the remaining players participate in the End Game. The group are given an opportunity to end the game by unanimous vote. Any vote to continue will lead to another immediate banishment vote. When a unanimous decision is reached to end the game — or when there are only two players left — the remaining players reveal their affiliation. If all remaining players are Innocents, then the prize money is divided evenly among them. However, if any Traitors remain, they win the entire prize money.
Production
[edit]The first official teaser was posted on Prime Video's social media on 17 September 2024, announcing that filming had begun. Later on 30 May 2025, the official trailer of season 1 was released with the premiere date of June 12, 2025.[3]
On 25 June 2025, the show was renewed for a second season.[4]
Contestants
[edit]20 contestants competed on the first series of The Traitors India. In a minor twist, Anshula and Maheep have a pre-existing relationship, as Maheep is Anshula’s paternal aunt.[5]
Elnaaz was chosen by the rest of the players as the least trustworthy and she chose Nikita to be eliminated from the game on arrival at the castle in Episode 1. However, Nikita re-entered to the show in Episode 3.
| Contestant | Notability | Affiliation | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sahil Salathia | Actor | Innocent | Murdered (Episode 2) |
| Raj Kundra | Actor and entrepreneur | Traitor | Banished (Episode 2) |
| Lakshmi Manchu | Actress and producer | Innocent | Murdered (Episode 3) |
| Karan Kundrra | Actor | Innocent | Banished (Episode 3) |
| Mukesh Chhabra | Casting director | Innocent | Murdered (Episode 4) |
| Maheep Kapoor | Reality show alumni | Innocent | Banished (Episode 4) |
| Ashish Vidyarthi | Actor | Innocent | Banished (Episode 5) |
| Raftaar | Musician | Innocent | Banished (Episode 6) |
| Janvi Gaur | Astrologer | Innocent | Murdered (Episode 7) |
| Elnaaz Norouzi | Actress | Traitor | Banished (Episode 7) |
| Sufi Motiwala | Content creator | Innocent | Murdered (Episode 8) |
| Anshula Kapoor | Content creator | Innocent | Banished (Episode 8) |
| Jannat Zubair Rahmani | Actress | Innocent | Murdered (Episode 9) |
| Apoorva Mukhija | Content creator | Innocent | Banished (Episode 9) |
| Jasmin Bhasin | Actress | Innocent | Murdered (Episode 10) |
| Purav Jha | Content creator | Traitor | Banished (Episode 10) |
| Sudhanshu Pandey | Actor and singer | Innocent | Banished (Episode 10) |
| Harsh Gujral | Stand-up comedian | Innocent | Banished (Episode 10) |
| Traitor (from ep. 8) | |||
| Nikita Luther | Poker player | Innocent | Winner (Episode 10) |
| Uorfi Javed | Reality show alumni | Innocent | Winner (Episode 10) |
Elimination history
[edit]Key
The contestant was a Innocent. The contestant was a Traitor. The contestant was murdered by the Traitors. The contestant was banished at the round table. The contestant was immune for the banishment and subsequent murder.| Episode | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Traitor's decision |
Sahil | Lakshmi | Mukesh | Nikita |
|
Janvi | Sufi [a] | Harsh | Jannat | Jasmin | |
| Murder | Recruit[b] | On Trial[c] | Murder | Blackmail[d] | Murder | ||||||
| Shield | Not Introduced |
Harsh | Sufi | None | Jannat | None | |||||
| Banishment | Raj | Karan | Maheep | Ashish | Raftaar | Elnaaz | Anshula | Apoorva | Purav | ||
| Vote | 15–2–1 | 11–3–2 | 7–5– 2–1 |
9–1–1–1–1–1 | 8–4–1 | 5–3–1–1–1 | 5–2–1–1 | 5–3 | 4–1 | ||
| Nikita | Exiled[e] (Episode 1) |
Not Eligible |
Janvi | Anshula | Sufi | Anshula | Uorfi | Apoorva | Purav | ||
| Uorfi | Raj | Karan | Maheep | Ashish | Sufi | Elnaaz | Anshula | Apoorva | Purav | ||
| Harsh | Raj | Karan | Raftaar | Ashish | Raftaar | Elnaaz | Anshula | Apoorva | Purav | ||
| Sudhanshu | Raj | Karan | Raftaar | Ashish | Raftaar | Purav | Harsh | Apoorva | Purav | ||
| Purav | Raj | Jasmin | Maheep | Ashish | Sufi | Elnaaz | Anshula | Harsh Harsh† |
Sudhanshu | ||
| Jasmin | Raj | Maheep | Maheep | Apoorva | Raftaar | Elnaaz | Apoorva | Apoorva | Murdered (Episode 10) | ||
| Apoorva | Raj | Karan | Maheep | Ashish | Raftaar | Sufi | Anshula | Harsh | Banished (Episode 9) | ||
| Jannat | Raj | Karan | Maheep | Ashish | Raftaar | Elnaaz | Anshula | Murdered (Episode 9) | |||
| Anshula | Raj | Karan | Raftaar | Ashish | Apoorva | Purav | Harsh | Banished (Episode 8) | |||
| Sufi | Raj | Karan | Raftaar | Raftaar | Raftaar | Purav | Murdered (Episode 8) | ||||
| Elnaaz | Raj | Jasmin | Janvi | Ashish | Raftaar | Uorfi | Banished (Episode 7) | ||||
| Janvi | Raj | Maheep | Raftaar | Ashish | Raftaar | Murdered (Episode 7) | |||||
| Raftaar | Raj | Karan | Maheep | Sufi | Sufi | Banished (Episode 6) | |||||
| Ashish | Raj | Karan | Maheep | Elnaaz | Banished (Episode 5) | ||||||
| Maheep | Janvi | Karan | Ashish | Banished (Episode 4) | |||||||
| Mukesh | Raj | Karan | Murdered (Episode 4) | ||||||||
| Karan | Raj | Maheep | Banished (Episode 3) | ||||||||
| Lakshmi | Ashish | Murdered (Episode 3) | |||||||||
| Raj | Ashish | Banished (Episode 2) | |||||||||
| Sahil | Murdered (Episode 2) | ||||||||||
End game
[edit]| Decision | Banish | Sudhanshu | Banish | Harsh | Game Over Faithful Win | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vote | 2–2 | 3–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nikita | Shaq | Sudhanshu | Shaq | Harsh | Winners | |||||||||||||||||
| Uorfi | Shaq | Sudhanshu | Shaq | Harsh | ||||||||||||||||||
| Harsh | Trust | Sudhanshu | Trust | Nikita | Banished | |||||||||||||||||
| Sudhanshu | Trust | Uorfi | Banished | |||||||||||||||||||
| Purav | Banished | |||||||||||||||||||||
Notes
- ^ The Traitor, Purav, was tasked to murder someone in plain sight, by poisoning the fountain water and then placing their victim’s picture in the poisoned fountain. The following morning, the players were told that the victim's identity would be revealed at the end of the funeral procession challenge.
- ^ The Traitors attempted to recruit Nikita, however, she rejected the offer.
- ^ Instead of selecting one Innocent to be murdered, the Traitors, Elnaaz and Purav, were asked to put four players on trial. The next night, only those four players would be up to be murdered. However, Uorfi was saved through a mission.
- ^ Following Elnaaz’s banishment, Purav was offered the chance to meet an Innocent face-to-face and blackmail them into becoming a Traitor or be Murdered. Harsh was chosen and accepted the Blackmail.
- ^ Elnaaz was chosen by the rest of the players as the least trustworthy and she chose Nikita to be eliminated from the game on arrival at the castle.
Missions
[edit]| Episode | Money available |
Money earned |
Total pot |
Shield |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ₹18,00,000 | ₹0 | ₹0 | Not Introduced |
| Nineteen players boarded a train with three compartments — two compartments had six players each, and the third had seven players. Each group of players was tasked with solving three clues. For every correct answer, ₹2,00,000 would be added to their total prize pot. However, all three groups had to complete their guesses before the train reached its final destination. If any group failed to do so, the entire prize would be forfeited. | ||||
| 2 | ₹15,00,000 | ₹5,10,000 | ₹5,10,000 | Not Introduced |
| Five players had to nominate themselves to be strapped to a revolving wheel, while the remaining contestants answered superlative style questions. Each player on the wheel also had to answer the same questions. For every answer that matched the majority choice of the group, money was added to the prize pot. Apoorva, Elnaaz, Jannat, Jasmin, and Sufi were selected to ride the wheel. | ||||
| 3 | ₹15,00,000 | ₹8,55,000 | ₹13,65,000 | Harsh |
The players were asked to select two team captains. They chose Anshula and Ashish.
Each team had to dig through a mud pile to find gold nuggets, each worth ₹30,000. The nuggets then had to be transported across a body of water to a weighing scale within a 10-minute time limit. The total value collected by both teams was added to the prize pot. The winning team also earned a shield, which they could award to one member of their own team. They mutually decided to give the shield to Harsh. | ||||
| 4 | ₹7,50,000 | ₹15,00,000 | ₹28,65,000 | Sufi |
| The Traitors were given a secret mission, To double the prize money of the challenge by secretly placing axes bearing the Traitors’ seal hidden throughout the palace walls into a chest located in the lounge area. | ||||
| Players were tasked with digging up hidden gold bars and delivering them to Karan Johar, all while avoiding moving spotlights. If anyone was caught in the spotlight, they were immediately eliminated from the task, and any money they were carrying was forfeited. Adding an extra layer of strategy, three graves contained shields that could protect contestants from a murder, but only one shield was successfully retrieved, by Sufi.
Elnaaz completed the secret mission successfully, securing the reward and doubling the earnings ₹7,50,000 in the following mission. | ||||
| 5 | ₹10,00,000 | ₹0 | ₹28,65,000 | None |
The players were asked to divide into two groups.
Each group had to spend 30-minutes in their respective room with a Red Button and a phone connecting the two rooms.
Both groups pressed the red button; neither the shields nor the money were earned. | ||||
| 6 | ₹15,00,000 | ₹14,40,000 | ₹43,05,000 | None |
Split into two groups, the players embarked on separate hikes to find gold bars. Alongside this task, they were given an opportunity to save a player ‘on trial’ from being murdered that night.
During the hike, both groups had to answer a series of questions. These same questions had been asked earlier to the Traitors. Each question offered two possible answers, represented by scarecrows. If the key attached to a chosen scarecrow unlocked a box, it meant the group’s answer matched that of the Traitors. After correctly answering all the questions, the groups reached a field of scarecrows—some of which contained gold bars, and some nothing at all. The players then had to place the collected gold bars in front of one of the players on trial: Anshula, Harsh, Janvi, or Uorfi, to determine who would be saved from murder. ₹14,40,000 was added to the prize pot from this mission. Uorfi received the most gold bars and was ultimately saved from murder that night. | ||||
| 7 | ₹25,00,000 | ₹5,00,000 | ₹48,05,000 | Jannat |
| For this mission, players were randomly paired up. Due to an uneven number of participants, Nikita sat out.
Each pair had seven steps between them, and the objective was to drop a bag on one of the steps of their choice within 10 seconds on a step.
Step 1–3 were mirrored for each individual, but Step 4 was a shared reward. Prior to the attempt, each pair was given just 1 minute to discuss and strategize among themselves.
In the end, ₹5,00,000 was added to the prize pot from this mission. | ||||
| 8 | ₹7,00,000 | ₹5,00,000 | ₹53,05,000 | None |
| Prior to this day, the Traitor had secretly poisoned one of the Innocents during the previous night’s party. Over the course of this mission, the players uncover who among them had been murdered.
In the first stage, six out of ten players were instructed to drop a clay pot into a well. If green smoke emerged, the player was deemed safe; if red smoke emerged, the player was considered unsafe.
In the next stage, the unsafe players and the remaining players (those who hadn’t participated in the pot test) had to walk through a group of "Rudaalis" (professional mourners). If a lady stopped a player, it confirmed their unsafe status.
In the final stage, the confirmed safe players had to guess which of the three unsafe players, Apoorva, Sufi, and Uorfi had been murdered by poison. For every correct guess, ₹1,00,000 would be added to the prize pot.
₹5,00,000 was added to the prize pot from this mission for 5 out of 7 correct guesses. | ||||
| 9 | ₹3,50,000 | ₹2,00,000 | ₹55,05,000 | None |
Each player had three lit torches placed behind them. Once blindfolded, players were called one by one to extinguish the torch of the player they trusted the least.
Players whose torches were extinguished had to guess who had done so. For every correct guess, ₹50,000 was added to the prize pot.
Apoorva's torches were extinguished first, marking her as the least trusted player. As a result, she was given the responsibility of handing out the Dagger — an advantage that allows its recipient to have their vote counted twice at the 'Circle of Shaq'. ₹2,00,000 was added to the prize pot from this mission for 4 out of 7 correct guesses. | ||||
| 10 | ₹15,00,000 | ₹15,00,000 | ₹70,05,000 | None |
| Players had to collect puzzle pieces scattered across a desert and complete the puzzle within 15 minutes. One player acted as the guide, while the other four searched for the pieces. Two ATVs were provided for use during the search. Once the puzzle was completed, the team had to push the lever to light it up.
For successfully completing the mission, ₹15,00,000 was added to the prize pot. | ||||
Reception
[edit]A review in India Today praised the show’s glamorous setting and Karan Johar’s hosting style.[6]
International broadcast
[edit]In Australia, the series was made available to stream on 10 Play in October 2025, as a companion to the Australian version aired by the network. The series aired with English subtitles. [7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Prime Video unveils the trailer of its biggest reality show, 'The Traitors', premiering June 12". About Amazon India. May 23, 2025. Retrieved May 30, 2025.
- ^ "Karan Johar to Host Indian Adaptation of 'The Traitors' for Prime Video". Variety. September 16, 2024. Retrieved May 30, 2025.
- ^ "Prime Video sparks intrigue with cryptic billboard campaign for 'The Traitors' launch". Mediabrief. May 16, 2025. Retrieved May 30, 2025.
- ^ "'The Traitors' set to return for season 2 following a phenomenal debut". Times Entertainment. June 25, 2024. Retrieved June 25, 2025.
- ^ "Meet The Traitors Of Karan Johar's Bold Show: All 20 Celeb Players FACE REVEAL; Controversy Queen Uorfi Javed, Raj Kundra To Rebel Kid Apoorva Mukhija". Zee News. June 2, 2025. Retrieved June 2, 2025.
- ^ "The Traitors review: Bigg Boss meets Roadies in Karan Johar's luxe reality show". India Today. June 13, 2025. Retrieved June 13, 2025.
- ^ https://10.com.au/the-traitors-india