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 JioCinema. The series is filmed in Cape Town, South Africa and is hosted by Rohit Shetty. Spanning over 27 episodes, this season became the longest season since the inception of the series. Dino James emerged as the winner of the season, while Arjit Taneja became the 1st runner-up.
Contestants
Elimination chart
Red Fear Funda contestant will perform the stunts until he/she got rid of it. In the end whoever have the Red Fear Funda will be eliminated. Anjali nominate 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 got opportunity 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 give chance to unsafe contestants to save two contestants among them by mutual decision. The Undercover Agent is safe from elimination until his/her identity gets 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 elimination stunt. Anjum and Nyra was nominated as Target. They received Fear Funda and directly performed 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 challenger. Faisal and Divyanka will set a challenge against contestant who received Fear Funda while Hina will set challenge against contestant for the Ticket to Finale. Aishwarya received power to choose two players who will not perform ahead in Ticket to Finale race. She choose Dino and Rashmeet. Arjit and Archana performed better than their co-contestants and were given chance to compete ahead in Ticket to Finale race. In Semi-Finale, All the contestants will do the stunts together, First Best Performer will get 30 Points, Second Best Performer will get 20 Points, Third Best Performer will get 10 points. At the end of the week the top 3 contestants with the maximum number of points will go to the Finale and bottom 3 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 pre-elimination stunt / Red Funda by performing better than his/her co-contestants. The contestant was placed in the bottom and performed elimination stunt. The contestant was safe from elimination by winning 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.
Stunt matrix
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.