India's Got Talent (season 9)

Auditions
The format of the show had changed, unlike the previous seasons. This year due to pandemic, 'Producer's Auditions' were cancelled and instead of that, 'Online Auditions' took place via Sony LIV app. A participant selected in online auditions perform infront of the judges.

Each participant that reaches this stage of auditions is held offstage from the main performing area in a waiting room, and given a number that denotes when they will perform. Upon being called before the judges, the participant is given 90 seconds to demonstrate their act, with a live audience present for all performances. Each judge is given a buzzer, and may use it during a performance if they are unimpressed, hate what is being performed, or feel the act is a waste of their time; if a participant is buzzed by all judges, their performance is automatically over. At the end of a performance, the judges give constructive criticism and feedback about what they saw, whereupon they each give a vote - a participant requires a majority vote approving their performance to proceed to the next stage, otherwise they are eliminated from the program at that stage. Many acts that move on may be cut by producers and may be forced to forfeit their place due to the limited slots available. Filming for each season always begins when the Judges' Auditions are taking place, with the show's presenter standing in the wings of each venue's stage to interview and give personal commentary on a participant's performance.

The Golden Buzzer returned for the fifth time. A judge can use golden buzzer in auditions twice, sending the acts directly to Top 14, escaping Judge Cuts.

Finals
After auditions and judge cuts, six acts along with 8 golden buzzer acts compete in a weekly competition with act(s) eliminating each week till finale. There were wild cards also, Public gets to choose 1 wildcard out of judges cuts eliminated acts; where as judges choose 1 act from eliminated top 14 acts to compete in preliminary rounds.
In Finals, "Golden Buzzer" was used as an appreciation key.

Of the participants that took part, only fourteen made it past this stage and into the eight quarter finals, with all contestants appearing in each one, eliminating 1 or 2 weekly in each; the wildcard act chosen by the judges was dance group 'Euphony', after they lost judges' vote in second quarter final; another wildcard act was chosen by the public using SonyLIV application on their phones. The following below lists the results of each participant's overall performance in this series:

  Winner |   Runner-up |   Third Place |   Finalist

  Semi-Finalist | Judges' Wildcard Quarter-Finalist | Public Wildcard Quarter-Finalist
Golden Buzzer (Auditions)

Contestant(s)	Genre	Act	Hometown	Result
Sathi Dey	Dance	Hair Aerial Act	Kolkata, West Bengal	Eliminated (Quarter Final 2)
Demolition Crew	Dance	Acrobatics Dance Group	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Finalist
Euphony	Singing	Instrumental Band	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Eliminated (Quarter Final 6)
Bomb Fire Crew	Dance	Acrobatics Dance Group	Delhi	2nd Runner-up
Crazy Hoppers Crew	Dance	Acrobatics Dance Group	Agra, Uttar Pradesh	Eliminated (Quarter Final 9)
Warrior Squad	Dance	Acrobatics Dance Group	Gurugram, Haryana	Finalist
Divyansh & Manuraj	Musicians	Beat Boxing & Bansuri	Rajasthan	Winner
B.S. Reddy	Magician	Magician	Andhra Pradesh	Finalist
Ishita Vishwakarma	Musicians	Singer	Madhya Pradesh	1st Runner-up
Bad Salsa 2.0	Dance	Salsa	Kolkata, West Bengal	Eliminated (Quarter Final 5)
Workout Warriors	Acrobatics	Acrobatic Balance Act	Jahangirpuri, New Delhi	Eliminated (Quarter Final 3)
Sufi Nizami Brothers	Musicians	Qawwali	New Delhi	Eliminated (Quarter Final 2)
Nitish Bharti	Artist	Sand Art	Mumbai, Maharashtra	Quitted (Quarter Final 7)
Shalini & Krish	Dance	Fire Aerial Act	Rohtak, Haryana	Eliminated (Quarter Final 7)
Rishabh Chaturvedi	Singer	Singing	Amritsar, Punjab	Finalist

Grand Premiere (Ep. 9 - 10)

Along with 8 Golden Buzzer Acts, 6 other Acts advanced to the Top 14.

Guests: Symphony Legends Band (Lata Mangeshkar world tour team)
Suresh Mukund (Choreographer of Kings United India & Winner of Season 3).

Appreciation Golden Buzzer
Buzzed

Order	Act	Performance type	Buzzers
			Kirron	Badshah	Shilpa	Manoj
1	Euphony	Instrumental Band
2	Bomb Fire	Acrobatics Dance Crew
3	Workout Warriors	Acrobatics Group
4	Crazy Hoppers	Acrobatics Dance Crew
5	Ishita Vishwakarma	Singing
6	B.S. Reddy	Magic Act
7	Bad Salsa 2.0	Salsa Duo
8	Sathi Dey	Hair Aerial Dance
9	Demolition Crew	Acrobatics Dance Crew
10	Divyansh & Manuraj	Beat Boxing & Bansuri
11	Warrior Squad	Acrobatics Group
12	Rishabh	Singing
13	Nitish Bharti	Sand Art
14	Sufi Nizami	Qawwali Group

Quarter Final 1 (12-13 February)

Guest: Dharmendra

This episode featured 'The HE Man', Dharmendra, and so, was called, 'Dharmendra Ji Special'. All the Top 14 Quarter Finalists performed on his songs and requested the audience to vote for them at the end of their performances.

Order	Act	Performance type	Buzzers
			Kirron	Dharmendra	Badshah	Shilpa	Manoj
1	Bad Salsa 2.0	Salsa Duo
2	Demolition Crew	Acrobatics Dance Crew
3	Nitish Bharti	Sand Art
4	Workout Warriors	Acrobatics Group
5	Ishita Vishwakarma	Singing
6	Euphony	Instrumental Band
7	Sufi Nizami	Qawwali Group
8	Sathi Dey	Hair Aerial Dance
9	Warrior Squad	Acrobatics Crew
10	Rishabh Chaturvedi	Singing
11	Bomd Fire	Dance Crew
12	B.S. Reddy	Magician
13	Divyansh and Manuraj	Beatboxing and Flute
14	Crazy Hopper	Acrobatics Dance Crew

Quarter Final 2 (19 & 20 February)

Guest: Jackie ShroffThis episode featured 'Jackie Shroff ', and hence was called 'Jackie Shroff Special' The Top 14 quarter finalists performed and requested to vote. On 20th February, after all performed elimination took place in which 3 contestants with lowest votes were called and with an anonymous vote, judges chose to save one of them.

Order	Act	Buzzers				Result
		Kirron	Badshah	Shilpa	Manoj
1	Bad Salsa 2.0					Safe
2	Euphony					Safe (Won Judge's Vote)
3	Bomb Fire					Safe
4	Ishita Vishwakarma					Safe
5	Workout Warriors					Safe
6	Nitish Bharti					Safe
7	B.S. Reddy					Safe
8	Crazy Hoppers					Safe
9	Rishabh Chaturvedi1					Safe
10	Demolition Crew2					Safe
11	Divyansh & Manuraj3					Safe
12	Warrior Squad					Safe
13	Sufi Nizami					Eliminated
14	Sathi Dey	Didn't perform due to health issues				Eliminated

• ^1 Received from Jackie Shroff.
• ^2 Received from Jackie Shroff.
• ^3 Received from Kirron Kher & Jackie Shroff.

Quarter Final 3 (26-27 February)

Guests: Rohit Shetty (26 February) & The Fame Game Cast. (27 February)

Day	Order	Act	Buzzers				Result
			Kirron	Badshah	Shilpa	Manoj
1	1	Crazy Hoppers					Safe
	2	Rishabh Chaturvedi					Safe
	3	Warrior Squad4					Safe
	4	Divyansh & Manuraj5					Safe
	5	Bomb Fire6					Safe
	6	Nitish Bharti					Safe
	7	Krish and Shalini7					Safe
2	8	Workout Warriors					Eliminated
	9	Euphony					Eliminated
	10	Demolition Crew					Safe
	11	Ishita Vishwakarma8					Safe
	12	B.S. Reddy					Safe
	13	Bad Salsa 2.0					Safe (Won Judge's Vote)

• ^4 Received from Shilpa Shetty.
• ^5 Received from Kirron Kher.
• ^6 Received from Badshah & Shilpa Shetty.
• ^7 Krish & Shalini were the Public Wildcard.
• ^8 Received from Madhuri Dixit.

Holi Special (Ep. 17 & 18)

Guests: Govinda, Karishma Kapoor & Devi Sri Prasad

Order	Act	Performance type	Buzzers						Result
			Kirron	Badshah	Karishma	Govinda	Shilpa	Manoj
1	Bad Salsa 2.0	Salsa Duo							Safe
2	Demolition Crew	Acrobatics Dance Crew							Safe
3	Ishita Vishwakarma	Singing							Safe
4	Crazy Hoppers	Acrobatics Dance Crew							Safe
5	Krish and Shalini	Duo Aerial Act							Safe
6	B.S. Reddy	Magician							Safe
7	Bomb Fire	Dance Crew							Safe
8	Divyansh & Manuraj	Beatboxing and Flute							Safe
9	Warrior Squad	Acrobatic Dance Crew							Safe
10	Rishabh Chaturvedi	Singing							Safe
11	Nitish Bharti	Sand Art							Safe

Rishtey Special (Ep. 19)

Guest Judge: Malaika Arora Khan (Replaced Shilpa)
Guests: Sikandar Kher (Kirron's Son), Prema Shukla (Manoj's Mother) & Tamanna Bhatia

Order	Act	Performance type	Buzzers				Result
			Kirron	Badshah	Malaika	Manoj
1	Euphony	Instrumental Band					Safe
2	Crazy Hoppers	Acrobatics Dance Crew					Safe
3	Ishita Vishwakarma	Singing					Safe
4	Demolition Crew	Acrobatics Dance Crew					Safe (Won Judge's Vote)
5	Krish and Shalini	Duo Aerial Act					Safe
6	Nitish Bharti	Sand Art					Safe

Bappi Da Special (Ep. 20)

Guest Judge: Malaika Arora Khan (Replaced Shilpa)
Guests: Bappi Lahiri's Family

Order	Act	Performance type	Buzzers				Result
			Kirron	Badshah	Malaika	Manoj
7	Bad Salsa 2.0	Salsa Duo Act					Eliminated
8	Rishabh Chaturvedi	Singing					Safe
9	Bomb Fire	Dance Act					Safe
10	Warrior Squad	Acrobatic Dance Act					Safe
11	Divyansh and Manuraj	Beatboxing and Flute					Safe
12	B.S. Reddy	Magic Act					Safe

Attack Challenge (Ep. 21)

Guests: Attack Cast (John Abraham, Jacqueline Fernandez & Rakul Preet Singh)

Order	Act	Performance type	Buzzers				Result
			Kirron	Badshah	Shilpa	Manoj
1	Krish and Shalini	Fire Aerial Act					Safe
2	Rishabh Chaturvedi	Singing					Safe
3	Warrior Squad	Acrobatic Dance Act					Safe
4	Crazy Hoppers	Acrobatic Dance Act					Safe
5	B.S. Reddy	Magic Act					Safe
6	Euphony	Instrumental Singing Act					Eliminated

India Special (Ep. 22)

Guests: Terence Lewis & Miss Universe 2021 Harnaaz Sandhu

Order	Act	Performance type	Buzzers				Result
			Kirron	Badshah	Shilpa	Manoj
7	Ishita Vishwakarma	Singing					Safe
8	Bomb Fire	Dance Act					Safe
9	Divyansh & Manuraj	Beatboxing & Flute					Safe
10	Demolition Crew	Acrobatic Dance Act					Safe
11	Nitish Bharti	Sand Art					Safe (Won Judge's Vote)

Dasvi Special (Ep. 23)

Guests: Dasvi Cast (Abhishek Bachchan, Nimrat Kaur and Yami Gautam)

Order	Act	Performance type	Buzzers				Result
			Kirron	Badshah	Shilpa	Manoj
1	Crazy Hoppers	Acrobatic Dance Act					Safe
2	Divyansh & Manuraj	Beatboxing & Bansuri					Safe
3	Warrior Squad	Acrobatic Dance Act					Safe
4	Ishita Vishwakarma	Singing					Safe

Jersey Special (Ep. 24)

Guests: Jersey Cast (Shahid Kapoor & Mrunal Thakur)

Order	Act	Performance type	Buzzers				Result
			Manoj	Shilpa	Badshah	Kirron
5	Demolition Crew	Acrobatic Dance Act					Safe
6	Rishabh Chaturvedi	Singing					Safe
7	Bomb Fire	Dance Act					Safe
8	B.S. Reddy	Magic Act					Safe (Won Judge's Vote)
9	Krish & Shalini	Aerial Balancing Act					Eliminated
10	Nitish Bharti	Sand Art	Didn't perform due to health issues				Quit

Judges Special (Ep. 25)

Order	Act	Performance type	Buzzers				Result
			Kirron	Badshah	Shilpa	Manoj
1	Crazy Hoppers	Acrobatic Dance Act					Eliminated
2	Demolition Crew	Acrobatic Dance Act					Safe (Won More Votes)
3	Divyansh & Manuraj	Beatboxing & Bansuri					Safe
4	Warrior Squad	Acrobatic Dance Act					Safe
5	Bomb Fire	Dance Act					Safe (Won More Votes)
6	Ishita Vishwakarma	Singing					Safe
7	Rishabh Chturvedi	Singing					Safe
8	B.S. Reddy	Magic Act					Safe

Semi Final Summary

Appreciation Golden Buzzer

Guest: Jubin Nautiyal

Pre-Finalist	Order	Buzzers				Result
		Kirron	Badshah	Shilpa	Manoj
Rishabh Chtaurvedi	1
Divyansh & Manuraj	2
Bomb Fire	3
Warrior Squad	4
Ishita Vishwakarma	5
B.S. Reddy	6
Demolition Crew	7