Gym trainer Ripudaman wins MasterChef – Kitchen Ke Superstar

Delhi-based Ripudaman Handa’s passion and love for cooking helped him win the MasterChef title in the third season of MasterChef – Kitchen Ke Superstar at the finale of the reality show here Friday.The youngest contestant won the big battle by defeating Doyel Saragi and Navneet Rastogi

The youngest contestant on the show, Handa, 23, was awarded Rs 1 crore and a chance to publish his own cookery book, a desire he has been harbouring for long.

Handa won the kitchen battle by defeating Doyel Saragi, a homemaker from Kolkata and Varanasi-based Navneet Rastogi, who comes from a family of caterers.

For Handa, his biggest threat on the Star Plus show was Nisha Verma, who had got eliminated a week before the finale. But now that he has won, his desire is to go abroad and widen his understanding of food and cookery. A Punjabi boy with a flair for Italian cooking, Handa also hopes to open his own restaurant someday.

On a recent visit to the Ajmer Sharif dargah before the finale, Handa told IANS how the MasterChef experience was life-changing for him, and how it has disciplined him as well as given him self-confidence.