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Ladies vs Gentlemen

Ladies vs Gentlemen (also styled Ladies v/s Gentlemen) is an Indian interactive opinion-poll game show in which celebrity panelists and viewers guess what percentage of India agrees with debated questions about men and women. It was hosted by the married Bollywood couple Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia Deshmukh and streamed free on Flipkart Video, the in-app video service of the e-commerce company Flipkart.¹^•² The first season launched on 18 November 2020 and a second season followed on 16 October 2021.¹^•³

Key fact	Detail
Format	Interactive opinion-poll game show on gender-debate questions; viewers play along on the Flipkart app²
Hosts	Riteish Deshmukh and Genelia Deshmukh, a married couple in real life¹
Season 1 launch	18 November 2020, on Flipkart Video¹
Season 2 launch	16 October 2021, free on the Flipkart app³
Episode structure	Three opinion-based questions per episode; 15 seconds to lock a percentage answer⁴
Episode length	Season 1: 10–18 minutes; Season 2: 15–18 minutes (Gadgets360 catalog)⁵
Prizes	Flipkart Gift Vouchers and Flipkart SuperCoins for viewers whose answers come closest to India's¹
IMDb rating	8.0/10 from 73 user votes; listed as a Hindi game show of about 20 minutes⁶

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Seasons and episode counts

Gadgets360's catalog of Indian streaming originals lists season 1 as 30 episodes of 10 to 18 minutes, and season 2, released 16 October 2021, as 30 episodes of 15 to 18 minutes, both in Hindi and categorized as interactive non-fiction.⁵ IMDb lists the series as running from 2020 across two seasons with 25 episodes cataloged and a runtime of about 20 minutes.⁶ The show is credited to Banijay Asia, whose catalog describes it as an opinion-poll show in which India's favorite opinion makers go head to head on the most debated questions about men versus women.²

Format and gameplay

Each episode is built around three opinion-based questions of the kind that fuel everyday arguments between men and women, such as who are better drivers, who should propose first, who is more scared of commitment, and who has a better sense of humor.¹ Viewers and panelists both get 15 seconds to lock in a percentage answer for each question. After time is up, the panelists share their views and their answers, and then India's opinion, determined through surveys, is revealed.⁴

The goal for a viewer is to choose the percentage closest to India's most popular choice. Viewers whose answers come closest win rewards in the form of Flipkart Gift Vouchers and Flipkart SuperCoins, the platform's loyalty currency.¹ A scoreboard described in the show's production notes adds 10 points after every question to the panelist whose answer is closest to India's, and the audience with the closest answers wins rewards the next morning at 9 am on the Flipkart app.⁷

Hosts and panelists

The show is anchored by Riteish and Genelia Deshmukh, who appear as team captains on opposite sides of the gender debate. Genelia described the show as a way of giving everyday discussions a unique twist and said the couple cited many instances from their own lives while recording; Riteish said co-hosting with his wife made the experience special and that the two discovered new things about each other on day-to-day topics.⁴ In a later interview about season 2, Genelia said hosting with her husband was "no doubt a joy ride but it can also lead to a lot of meaningful debates," since neither knows what questions will come up.⁸

Season 1 panel. Team Ladies and team Gentlemen were aided by panelists including Karan Wahi, Karan Kundrra, Vikas Gupta, Nia Sharma, Tejasswi Prakash, Bani J, Rashami Desai, Paras Chhabra, and Rithvik Dhanjani.⁴ Episodes drew on familiar couple and gender topics; in one, Nia Sharma argued that men are commitment-phobic, which Rithvik Dhanjani and Karan Wahi contested.⁹

Season 2 panel. The second season kept the hosts and refreshed the panel. The ladies' side featured Nia Sharma, Jasmin Bhasin, Kamya Punjabi, Karishma Tanna, Devoleena Bhattacharjee, and Asha Negi; the gentlemen's side featured Karan Kundrra, Prince Narula, Terence Lewis, Jay Bhanushali, and Vishal Aditya Singh.³ Promoted exchanges were often heated: Jasmin Bhasin called men's confidence in decision-making an "ego massage" and traded sharp words with Jay Bhanushali, and Nia Sharma and Prince Narula argued over whether men boast more about their achievements.¹⁰^•¹¹

Promotion and audience play

The show was designed as a watch-and-play experience rather than passive viewing. Users access it through the Video icon on the Flipkart app's homepage, answer along with each question, and can win daily.⁴ In January 2021 the agency DViO Digital extended the format to Instagram with a couple-themed augmented reality filter tied to the show, in which couples answered relationship questions and received a "couple score" to share. The campaign drew over 2.1 million organic impressions, 54.3 thousand opens, and 346 thousand shares within a month, with celebrities and influencers such as Rashami Desai and Kusha Kapila trying it.¹²

Platform context

Flipkart Video launched in 2019 as a free, in-app streaming section built around short, mobile-first, interactive content, a strategy the company explicitly distinguished from entering the paid OTT market.¹³^•¹⁴ Ladies vs Gentlemen fit that model alongside other interactive game shows such as Kya Bolti Public and Fake or Not.¹⁵ The Flipkart Video service was discontinued in July 2023, which ended the platform on which both seasons streamed.¹⁶

The title is unrelated to Ladies & Gentlemen (2021), a Bengali-language ZEE5 crime drama web series directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki about workplace abuse in Bangladesh, despite the similar name.¹⁷

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Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026