MUMBAI: Indian Idol is one of the most popular shows. The singing-based reality show has returned with Its 12th season and has struck a chord with the audience. In fact, the show is garnering a lot of attention, all thanks to the team.

Vishal Dadlani, Himesh Reshammiya, and singer Neha Kakkar judge the show. The popularity of Indian Idol is soaring with each season.

These days Vishal has been replaced by Anu Malik, whereas in the place of Neha Kakkar is her sister Sonu Kakkar.

We know that the platform is open to everyone. Different people from different fields come and perform on this stage.

As we know, during the weekend some celebrities grace the show and encourage the contestants to perform even better.

We reported earlier of Dharmendra, Anita Raj, and Farhan Akhtar who will be gracing the show.

TellyChakkar has exclusively got to know that senior film journalist Bhawana Somaaya will be soon gracing the show.

She will be seen in one of the upcoming episodes.

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Bhawana is a very famous and veteran film journalist, critic, author and historian.

She has been honored with the Padma Shri in the year 2017 by the President of India Pranab Mukherjee.

Bhawana was a film reporter since 1978 and she worked with several film magazines and then became the editor of Screen, a leading film magazine from 2000 to 2007.

She has written over 13 books on history of Hindi cinema and biographies of Bollywood stars.

The ace journalist will be coming on the show and encouraging the participants to perform well and will be giving her blessings.

Earlier we have seen Hema Malini, Neetu Kapoor, Rekha, Jaya Prada, Amit Kumar, Sukhwinder Singh, Javed Akthar, Shatrughan Sinha, A.R. Rahman gracing the show and giving the audiences an exciting episode to watch.

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