IFTA 2026, India’s only people’s choice film and television awards — voting open

It took 4,458 of 7,813 verified votes. Colors shows got 77% of the vote between them.

A Colors sweep

Twelve shows were on the ballot for Most Popular Reality Show at IFTA 2026. One of them took more votes than all the others combined.

Laughter Chefs S3 (Colors) won with 4,458 of 7,813 verified votes, 57.1%. The runner-up, Bigg Boss 19 (Colors), got 17.2%. The winner’s share was 3.3 times the runner-up’s.

Colors had four shows on the ballot, including the top two, and together they took 77.0% of the vote. Sony TV had five shows, which shared 10.9%.

Laughter Chefs S3, winner of Most Popular Reality Show at IFTA 2026

Who decided it

Every IFTA vote is OTP-verified, one per WhatsApp number per category, and every voter’s age and gender is recorded at sign-up. So this is not a survey sample. It is the full count of who voted.

Women cast 6,840 of the 7,813 votes (88%). Laughter Chefs S3 won 58.0% of women’s votes and 49.7% of men’s.
Voters under 25 cast 80% of all votes. The biggest single group was voters aged 18–24 (4,219 votes).
Women aged 18–24 were Laughter Chefs S3’s strongest group: 60.7% of their 3,756 votes went to Laughter Chefs S3.
76% of Laughter Chefs S3’s votes came from women under 25 (3,363 of 4,458).

Women’s 87.6% share of the vote here was the highest of any IFTA 2026 category. Laughter Chefs S3 led in every age group.

Same winner, different second choices

Women and men both put Bigg Boss 19 second, but men liked it more: 23.9% of men’s votes, against 16.3% of women’s. Kaun Banega Crorepati 17 was twice as popular with men (8.1%) as with women (3.8%).

MTV Splitsvilla X6: 10.7% of women’s votes, 4.8% of men’s, 2.2 times as popular with women.

Across IFTA 2026

This was one of three Television categories not won by Rimjhim – Choti Umar Bada Safar. The other two went to Kanika Mann (Naagin 7) and Dilip Joshi (Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah).

In the voters’ own words

Voters could add a reason with their vote. A few of them:

“Full of games masti everything”
“This show is most interesting”
“This is very funny”

This is not a ratings chart or a critics’ list. It measures which audience turned up to vote, and how hard.

See the full results

IFTA 2026 voting has closed and the results are in. No jury, no award fixing: every winner was decided by India’s votes. See the full Most Popular Reality Show result, or all results: Bollywood · OTT · Television

All vote figures from the IFTA 2026 Most Popular Reality Show results on PolBol (7,813 verified votes, results final). Group figures are as published there; combined totals are added up from the published counts. Nominee images: IFTA 2026.