<P> Season 5 of the Indian competitive reality TV series MasterChef premiered on Star Plus on 1 October 2016 . </P> <P> Vikas Khanna returned to judge this season while Sanjeev Kapoor and Ranveer Brar were replaced by Kunal Kapur and Zorawar Kalra respectively . </P> <P> The winner was Kirti Bhoutika, a 20 - year - old Nutrition graduate from Kolkata, West Bengal, Ashima Arora from Amritsar, Punjab being the runner - up . </P> <P> Top 30 contestants were chosen from India and even from the other parts of the world like San Francisco, Dubai, etc . From the Top 30, Best 10 were chosen by a cook - off between 3 each and in the second - chance cook, 6 other were chosen . </P>

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