document_title: Filmfare Award for Best Actor

question_text: who got the best actor award in 2016

question_tokens: who got the best actor award in 2016

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text: Filmfare Award for Best Actor

text: Superlatives[edit]

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Superlative
Actor
Record

Actor with most awards
Dilip Kumar
Shah Rukh Khan
8

Actor with most nominations
Amitabh Bachchan
32

Actor with most consecutive nominations
Aamir Khan (1989-1997)
9

Actor with most nominations in a single year
Amitabh Bachchan (1979,1983)
Shah Rukh Khan (2005)
3

Oldest winner
Amitabh Bachchan
67

Oldest nominee
Amitabh Bachchan
74

Youngest winner
Rishi Kapoor
21

Youngest nominee
Darsheel Safary
11

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text: Dilip Kumar and Shah Rukh Khan, with eight wins, have more Best Actor awards than any other actor. Amitabh Bachchan has five wins, Hrithik Roshan has four wins, and Rajesh Khanna, Naseeruddin Shah and Aamir Khan have three wins each. Seven actors have won the award twice in chronological order they are Raj Kapoor, Sunil Dutt, Dev Anand, Ashok Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Anil Kapoor and Ranbir Kapoor. Dilip Kumar also holds the record for most consecutive wins, having won the award for three years in a row from 1956 to 1958. Six other actors have won the award in consecutive years; in chronological order, they are Rajesh Khanna (1971–72), Sanjeev Kumar (1976–77), Amitabh Bachchan (1978–79), Naseeruddin Shah (1981–82), Shah Rukh Khan (1998–99), and Ranbir Kapoor (2012–13).

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text: Actors who have won both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor awards include Ashok Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Shammi Kapoor, Anil Kapoor, Anupam Kher, Sunny Deol, Jackie Shroff, Nana Patekar, Farhan Akhtar and Rishi Kapoor.

text: Three actors were nominated for both these awards, Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, for the same performance: Raaj Kumar for Kaajal (1967), Ashok Kumar for Aashirwad (1970) and Kamal Haasan for Saagar (1986). On both occasions, Ashok Kumar and Kamal Haasan won the Best Actor award and Raaj Kumar won the Best Supporting Actor award.

text: Nine actors have won the Best Actor award in both the Popular and Critics categories; in chronological order they are; Anupam Kher, Shah Rukh Khan, Anil Kapoor, Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Aamir Khan, Ranbir Kapoor, Rishi Kapoor and Shahid Kapoor.

text: Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan, Amitabh Bachchan and Ranbir Kapoor are the actors who won both these Best Actor awards (Popular and Critics) in the same year. Shah Rukh Khan (1994), Hrithik Roshan (2004), Amitabh Bachchan (2006) and Ranbir Kapoor (2012).

text: Three actors have won the award for their debut performances: Rishi Kapoor for Bobby (1974), Anupam Kher for Saaransh (1985) and Hrithik Roshan for Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai (2001). Other actors who got nominated in this category for their debut performances are Sunny Deol for Betaab (1984) and Darsheel Safary for Taare Zameen Par (2008), who, at the age of 11, became the youngest Best Actor nominee in the history of Filmfare.

text: Aamir Khan has the highest number of consecutive nominations, having been nominated for the Award every year from 1989 till 1997, eventually winning 9th time for Raja Hindustani in 1997. Followed by Amitabh Bachchan being nominated consecutive eight times from 1976 to 1983 having total 15 nominations and winning the award twice in 1978 and 1979.

text: Dilip Kumar achieved supremacy in 1950s with four wins and continued domination in 1960s with three wins. Rajesh Khanna took over in the 1970s with three wins. Naseeruddin Shah emerged successful in the 1980s with three wins. Shah Rukh Khan garnered triumph with four wins in the 1990s. Hrithik Roshan had four wins in 2000s which were the highest. Ranbir Kapoor is leading the 2010s with two wins to his credit.

text: Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan hold the record for the highest number of Best Actor nominations in a single year. Amitabh Bachchan has been nominated thrice in 1979 and 1983 and Shah Rukh Khan in 2005. Moreover, Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan and Shah Rukh Khan are the most awarded actors in the overall acting categories, with eight awards each: Dilip Kumar and Shah Rukh Khan are the winners of eight Best Actor awards, and Amitabh Bachchan is the winner of five Best Actor awards and three Best Supporting Actor awards. Amitabh Bachchan is the most nominated performer in any major acting category at Filmfare, with 41 nominations overall.

text: Hrithik Roshan, Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan are the only actors to be nominated twice for the same role. Hrithik Roshan achieved this feat twice; he was nominated for his role as Krishna Mehra in 2007 and 2014, and for his role as Rohit Mehra in 2004 and 2014 (he won in 2004). Shah Rukh Khan was nominated in 2007 and 2012 for his portrayal of the titular character in Don and Salman Khan was nominated in 2011 and 2013 for his role as Chulbul Pandey in Dabangg and Dabangg 2 respectively.

text: Multiple nominees[edit]

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32 Nominations: Amitabh Bachchan
23 Nominations: Shah Rukh Khan
19 Nominations: Dilip Kumar, Aamir Khan
13 Nominations: Rajesh Khanna, Hrithik Roshan
11 Nominations: Sanjeev Kumar, Salman Khan
8 Nominations: Ranbir Kapoor
7 Nominations: Anil Kapoor, Ajay Devgan
6 Nominations: Raj Kapoor, Dev Anand, Naseeruddin Shah
5 Nominations: Sunny Deol, Govinda, Rishi Kapoor
4 Nominations: Dharmendra, Manoj Kumar, Kamal Haasan, Sanjay Dutt, Akshay Kumar, Shahid Kapoor
3 Nominations: Ashok Kumar, Rajendra Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Nana Patekar, Abhishek Bachchan
2 Nominations: Bharat Bhushan, Shammi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna, Amol Palekar, Raj Babbar, Jackie Shroff, Manoj Bajpai, Saif Ali Khan, Ranveer Singh

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text: Multiple winners[edit]

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8 Wins: Dilip Kumar, Shah Rukh Khan
5 Wins: Amitabh Bachchan
4 Wins: Hrithik Roshan
3 Wins: Rajesh Khanna, Naseeruddin Shah, Aamir Khan
2 Wins: Raj Kapoor, Sunil Dutt, Dev Anand, Ashok Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar, Anil Kapoor, Ranbir Kapoor

text: List of winners and nominees[edit]

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1954 Dilip Kumar – Daag as Shankar
1955 Bharat Bhushan – Chaitanya Mahaprabhu as Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
1956 Dilip Kumar – Azaad as Abdul Rahim Khan

Bharat Bhushan – Mirza Ghalib as Mirza Ghalib
Dev Anand – Munimji as Kala Ghodaa

1957 Dilip Kumar – Devdas as Devdas Mukherjee

Raj Kapoor – Jagte Raho as Peasant

1958 Dilip Kumar – Naya Daur as Shankar
1959 Dev Anand – Kala Pani as Karan Mehra

Dilip Kumar – Madhumati as Anand/Deven
Raj Kapoor – [] as Raam Babu

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1960 Raj Kapoor – Anari as Raj Kumar

Dev Anand – Love Marriage as Sunil Kumar
Dilip Kumar – Paigham as Ratan Lal

1961 Dilip Kumar – Kohinoor as Rajkumar Dhivendra Pratap Bahadur Chandrabhan

Dev Anand – Kala Bazar as Raghuvir
Raj Kapoor – Chhalia as Chhalia

1962 Raj Kapoor – Jis Desh Men Ganga Behti Hai as Raju

Dev Anand – Hum Dono as Capt. Anand/Major. Manohar Lal Verma
Dilip Kumar – Gunga Jumna as Gungaram

1963 Ashok Kumar – Rakhi as Raj Kumar

Guru Dutt – Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam as Atulya "Bhootnath" Chakraborty
Shammi Kapoor – Professor as Pritam Khanna

1964 Sunil Dutt – Mujhe Jeene Do as Thakhur Jernail Singh

Ashok Kumar – Gumrah as Barrister Ashok
Rajendra Kumar – Dil Ek Mandir as Dr. Dharmesh

1965 Dilip Kumar – Leader as Vijay Khanna

Rajendra Kumar – Ayee Milan Ki Bela as Shyam
Raj Kapoor – Sangam as Lt. Sunder Khanna

1966 Sunil Dutt – Khandan as Govind S. Lal

Raaj Kumar – Kaajal as Moti
Rajendra Kumar – Arzoo as Gopal/Sarju

1967 Dev Anand – Guide as Raju

Dharmendra – Phool Aur Patthar as Shakti "Shaaka" Singh
Dilip Kumar – Dil Diya Dard Liya as Shankar/Rajasahab

1968 Dilip Kumar – Ram Aur Shyam as Ram / Shyam

Manoj Kumar – Upkar as Bharat
Sunil Dutt – Milan as Gopikishan 'Gopi'

1969 Shammi Kapoor – Brahmachari as Brahmachari

Dilip Kumar – Aadmi as Rajesh Saab
Dilip Kumar – Sunghursh as Kundan S. Prasad

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1970 Ashok Kumar – Aashirwad as Shivnath 'Joggi Thakur' Choudhary

Rajesh Khanna – Aradhana as Arun / Suraj Prasad Saxena
Rajesh Khanna – Ittefaq as Dilip Roy

1971 Rajesh Khanna – Sachaa Jhutha as Bhola/Ranjit Kumar

Dilip Kumar – Gopi as Gopiram 'Gopi'
Sanjeev Kumar – Khilona as Vijay Kamal Singh

1972 Rajesh Khanna – Anand as Anand Saigal

Dharmendra – Mera Gaon Mera Desh as Ajit
Rajesh Khanna – Kati Patang as Kamal Sinha

1973 Manoj Kumar – Be-Imaan as Mohan

Rajesh Khanna – Amar Prem as Anand Babu
Rajesh Khanna – Dushmun as Surjit Singh

1974 Rishi Kapoor – Bobby as Raj Nath

Amitabh Bachchan – Zanjeer as Insp. Vijay Khanna
Dharmendra – Yaadon Ki Baaraat as Shankar
Rajesh Khanna – Daag: A Poem of Love as Sunil Kohli
Sanjeev Kumar – Koshish as Hari Charan Mathur

1975 Rajesh Khanna – Avishkaar as Amar

Dharmendra – Resham Ki Dori as Ajit Singh
Dilip Kumar – Sagina as Sagina
Manoj Kumar – Roti Kapda Aur Makaan as Bharat
Rajesh Khanna – Prem Nagar as Chhotey Kunver Karan U. Singh

1976 Sanjeev Kumar – Aandhi as J.K

Amitabh Bachchan – Deewaar as Vijay Verma
Manoj Kumar – Sanyasi as Ram Rai
Sanjeev Kumar – Sholay as Thakur Baldev Singh
Uttam Kumar – Amanush as Madhusudan Roy Chaudhary

1977 Sanjeev Kumar – Arjun Pandit as Arjun Pandit

Amitabh Bachchan – Kabhi Kabhie as Amitabh Malhotra
Amol Palekar – Chhoti Si Baat as Arun Pradeep
Dilip Kumar – Bairaag as Kailash / Bholenath
Sanjeev Kumar – Mausam as Dr. Amarnath Gill

1978 Amitabh Bachchan – Amar Akbar Anthony as Anthony Gonzalves

Amitabh Bachchan – Adalat as Thakur Dharam Chand / Raju
Sanjeev Kumar – Yehi Hai Zindagi as Anand Narayan
Sanjeev Kumar – Zindagi as Raghu Shukla
Vinod Khanna – Shaque as Vinod Joshi

1979 Amitabh Bachchan – Don as Don / Vijay

Amitabh Bachchan – Muqaddar Ka Sikandar as Sikandar
Amitabh Bachchan – Trishul as Vijay Kumar
Sanjeev Kumar – Devata as Tony/Tarun Kumar Gupta
Sanjeev Kumar – Pati Patni Aur Woh as Ranjeet Chhadha

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1980 Amol Palekar – Gol Maal as Ram/Laxman Prasad Dasharath Prasad Sharma

Amitabh Bachchan – Kaala Patthar as Vijay Pal Singh
Amitabh Bachchan – Mr. Natwarlal as Natwarlal
Rajesh Khanna – Amar Deep as Raja / Sonu
Rishi Kapoor – Sargam as Raju

1981 Naseeruddin Shah – Aakrosh as Bhaskar Kulkarni

Amitabh Bachchan – Dostana as Vijay Varma
Raj Babbar – Insaaf Ka Tarazu as Ramesh R. Gupta
Rajesh Khanna – Thodisi Bewafaii as Arun Kumar Choudhary
Shatrughan Sinha – Dostana as Ravi Kapoor
Vinod Khanna – Qurbani as Amar

1982 Naseeruddin Shah – Chakra as Looka

Amitabh Bachchan – Lawaaris as Heera
Amitabh Bachchan – Silsila as Amit Malhotra
Kamal Haasan – Ek Duuje Ke Liye as S. Vasudevan 'Vasu'
Rajesh Khanna – Dard as Deepak Srivastav / Vikas

1983 Dilip Kumar – Shakti as DCP Ashwini Kumar

Amitabh Bachchan – Bemisal as Dr. Sudhir Roy / Adhir Roy
Amitabh Bachchan - Namak Halaal as Arjun Singh
Amitabh Bachchan - Shakti as Vijay Kumar
Naseeruddin Shah – Bazaar as Salim
Rishi Kapoor – Prem Rog as Devdhar 'Dev'
Sanjeev Kumar – Angoor as Ashok R. Tilak

1984 Naseeruddin Shah – Masoom as D. K. Malhotra

Kamal Haasan – Sadma as K. Somprakash 'Somu'
Om Puri – Ardh Satya as Sub-inspector Anant Velankar
Rajesh Khanna – Avtaar as Avtaar Krishen
Sunny Deol – Betaab as Sunny Kapoor

1985 Anupam Kher – Saaransh as B. V. Pradhan

Amitabh Bachchan – Sharaabi as Vicky Kapoor
Dilip Kumar – Mashaal as Vinod Kumar
Naseeruddin Shah – Sparsh as Anirudh Parmar
Raj Babbar – Aaj Ki Awaaz as Prof. Prabhat Kumar Varma

1986 Kamal Haasan – Saagar as Raja

Amitabh Bachchan – Mard as Raju Singh
Anil Kapoor – Meri Jung as Arun Verma
Kumar Gaurav – Janam as Rahul
Rishi Kapoor – Tawaif as Dawood Mohammed Ali Khan Yusuf Zahi

1987 No Award
1988 No Award
1989 Anil Kapoor – Tezaab as Mahesh "Munna" Deshmukh

Aamir Khan – Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak as Raj
Amitabh Bachchan – Shahenshah as Vijay Kumar Srivastava / Shahenshah

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1990 Jackie Shroff – Parinda as Kishen

Aamir Khan – Raakh as Amir Hussein
Anil Kapoor – Eeshwar as Eeshwar Chand Vishnunath Brahmanand
Rishi Kapoor – Chandni as Rohit Gupta
Salman Khan – Maine Pyar Kiya as Prem Choudhary

1991 Sunny Deol – Ghayal as Ajay Mehra

Aamir Khan – Dil as Raja
Amitabh Bachchan – Agneepath as Vijay Deenanath Chauhan
Chiranjeevi – Pratibandh as Siddhanth

1992 Amitabh Bachchan – Hum as Tiger / Shekhar Malhotra

Aamir Khan – Dil Hai Ke Manta Nahin as Raghu Jetley
Anil Kapoor – Lamhe as Virendra Pratap Singh
Dilip Kumar – Saudagar as Veeru Singh
Sanjay Dutt – Saajan as Aman Verma

1993 Anil Kapoor – Beta as Raju

Aamir Khan – Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar as Sanjaylal Sharma
Amitabh Bachchan – Khuda Gawah as Baadshah Khan

1994 Shah Rukh Khan – Baazigar as Ajay Sharma / Vicky Malhotra

Aamir Khan – Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke as Rahul Malhotra
Govinda – Aankhen as Bunnu / Gulshan / Gaurishankar (triple role)
Jackie Shroff – Gardish as Shiva P. Sathe
Sanjay Dutt - Khalnayak as Ballu Balram

1995 Nana Patekar - Krantiveer as Pratap Narayan Tilak

Aamir Khan – Andaz Apna Apna as Amar Manohar
Akshay Kumar - Yeh Dillagi as Vijay Saigal
Anil Kapoor – 1942: A Love Story as Narendra Singh
Salman Khan - Hum Aapke Hain Koun as Prem

1996 Shah Rukh Khan – Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge as Raj Malhotra

Aamir Khan – Rangeela as Munna
Ajay Devgan – Naajayaz as Jay Bakshi
Govinda – Coolie No. 1 as Raju
Salman Khan – Karan Arjun as Karan Singh

1997 Aamir Khan – Raja Hindustani as Raja Hindustani

Govinda – Saajan Chale Sasural as Shyamsunder
Nana Patekar – Agni Sakshi as Vishwanath
Nana Patekar – Khamoshi: The Musical as Joseph Braganza
Sunny Deol – Ghatak: Lethal as Kashi Nath

1998 Shah Rukh Khan – Dil To Pagal Hai as Rahul

Anil Kapoor – Virasat as Shakti Thakur
Govinda – Deewana Mastana as Bunnu
Kamal Haasan – Chachi 420 as Jaiprakash Paswan / Laxmi Godbhole
Sunny Deol – Border as Kuldip Singh Chandpuri
Shah Rukh Khan – Yes Boss as Rahul Joshi

1999 Shah Rukh Khan – Kuch Kuch Hota Hai as Rahul Khanna

Aamir Khan – Ghulam as Siddharth Marathe
Ajay Devgan – Zakhm as Ajay R. Desai
Govinda – Bade Miyan Chote Miyan as Pyare Mohan / Chotey Miyan
Salman Khan – Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya as Suraj Khanna

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2000 Sanjay Dutt – Vaastav: The Reality as Raghunath "Raghu" Namdev Shivalkar

Aamir Khan – Sarfarosh as Ajay Singh Rathod
Ajay Devgan – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam as Vanraj
Manoj Bajpai – Shool as Samar Pratap Singh
Salman Khan – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam as Sameer Rossellini

2001 Hrithik Roshan – Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai as Rohit / Raj Chopra

Anil Kapoor – Pukar as Major Jaidev Rajvansh
Hrithik Roshan - Fiza as Amaan Ikramullah
Sanjay Dutt - Mission Kashmir as SSP Inayat Khan
Shah Rukh Khan – Mohabbatein as Raj Aryan Malhotra

2002 Aamir Khan – Lagaan as Bhuvan

Aamir Khan – Dil Chahta Hai as Akash Malhotra
Amitabh Bachchan – Aks as Manu Verma
Shah Rukh Khan – Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... as Rahul Y. Raichand
Sunny Deol – Gadar: Ek Prem Katha as Tara Singh

2003 Shah Rukh Khan – Devdas as Devdas Mukherjee

Ajay Devgan – Company as Mallik
Amitabh Bachchan – Kaante as Yashvardhan 'Major' Rampal
Bobby Deol – Humraaz as Raj Singhania
Vivek Oberoi – Saathiya as Aditya Sehgal

2004 Hrithik Roshan – Koi... Mil Gaya as Rohit Mehra

Ajay Devgan – Gangaajal as Amit Kumar
Amitabh Bachchan – Baghban as Raj Malhotra
Salman Khan – Tere Naam as Radhe Mohan
Shah Rukh Khan – Kal Ho Naa Ho as Aman Mathur

2005 Shah Rukh Khan – Swades as Mohan Bhargav

Amitabh Bachchan - Khakee as DCP Anant Kumar Shrivastav
Hrithik Roshan – Lakshya as Karan Shergill
Shah Rukh Khan – Main Hoon Na as Major Ram Prasad Sharma
Shah Rukh Khan – Veer-Zaara as Veer Pratap Singh

2006 Amitabh Bachchan – Black as Debraj Sahai

Aamir Khan – Mangal Pandey: The Rising as Mangal Pandey
Abhishek Bachchan – Bunty Aur Babli as Rakesh Trivedi / Bunty
Amitabh Bachchan – Sarkar as Subhash Nagre 'Sarkar'
Saif Ali Khan – Parineeta as Shekhar Roy

2007 Hrithik Roshan – Dhoom 2 as Mr. A / Aryan

Aamir Khan – Rang De Basanti as Daljeet 'DJ' / Chandra Shekhar Azad
Hrithik Roshan – Krrish as Krishna 'Krrish' Mehra
Sanjay Dutt – Lage Raho Munna Bhai as Murli Prasad Sharma
Shah Rukh Khan– Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna as Dev Saran
Shah Rukh Khan – Don as Don / Vijay

2008 Shah Rukh Khan – Chak De! India as Coach Kabir Khan

Abhishek Bachchan – Guru as Gurukant 'Guru' Desai
Akshay Kumar – Namastey London as Arjun Singh
Darsheel Safary – Taare Zameen Par as Ishaan Awasthi
Shahid Kapoor – Jab We Met as Aditya Kashyap
Shah Rukh Khan – Om Shanti Om as Om Prakash Makhija / Om Kapoor

2009 Hrithik Roshan – Jodhaa Akbar as Jalaluddin Muhammad Akbar

Aamir Khan – Ghajini as Sanjay Singhania
Abhishek Bachchan – Dostana as Sameer "Sam" Kapoor
Akshay Kumar – Singh Is Kinng as Happy Singh
Naseeruddin Shah – A Wednesday! as The Common Man
Shah Rukh Khan – Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi as Surinder 'Suri' Sahni

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2010 Amitabh Bachchan – Paa as Auro

Aamir Khan – 3 Idiots as Ranchoddas 'Rancho' Shamaldas Chanchad / Phunsukh Wangdu
Ranbir Kapoor – Ajab Prem Ki Ghazab Kahani as Prem Shankar Sharma
Ranbir Kapoor – Wake Up Sid as Siddharth Mehra
Saif Ali Khan – Love Aaj Kal as Jai Vardhan Singh/Young Veer Singh
Shahid Kapoor – Kaminey as Charlie / Guddu

2011 Shah Rukh Khan – My Name Is Khan as Rizwan Khan

Ajay Devgan – Once Upon a Time in Mumbaai as Sultan Mirza
Hrithik Roshan – Guzaarish as Ethan Mascarenhas
Ranbir Kapoor – Raajneeti as Samar Pratap Singh
Salman Khan – Dabangg as Chulbul Pandey

2012 Ranbir Kapoor - Rockstar as Janardhan "Jordan" Jakhar

Ajay Devgan – Singham as Bajirao Singham
Amitabh Bachchan – Aarakshan as Prabhakar Anand
Hrithik Roshan – Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara as Arjun Narula
Salman Khan – Bodyguard as Lovely Singh
Shah Rukh Khan – Don 2 as Don

2013 Ranbir Kapoor – Barfi! as Barfi

Hrithik Roshan – Agneepath as Vijay Deenanath Chauhan
Irrfan Khan - Paan Singh Tomar as Paan Singh Tomar
Manoj Bajpai – Gangs of Wasseypur as Sardar Khan
Salman Khan – Dabangg 2 as Chulbul Pandey
Shah Rukh Khan – Jab Tak Hai Jaan as Major Samar Anand

2014 Farhan Akhtar – Bhaag Milkha Bhaag as Milkha Singh

Dhanush – Raanjhanaa as Kundan Shankar
Hrithik Roshan – Krrish 3 as Rohit Mehra/Krishna Mehra
Ranbir Kapoor – Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani as Kabir "Bunny" Thapar
Ranveer Singh – Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela as Ram Rajari
Shah Rukh Khan – Chennai Express as Rahul Mithaiwala

2015 Shahid Kapoor – Haider as Haider Meer

Aamir Khan - PK as PK
Akshay Kumar – Holiday: A Soldier Is Never Off Duty as Virat Bakshi
Hrithik Roshan – Bang Bang! as Jai Nanda/ Rajveer
Randeep Hooda – Rang Rasiya as Raja Ravi Varma

2016 Ranveer Singh – Bajirao Mastani as Peshwa Bajirao

Amitabh Bachchan - Piku as Bhaskor Banerjee
Varun Dhawan – Badlapur as Raghav 'Raghu' Pratap Singh
Ranbir Kapoor – Tamasha as Ved Vardhan Sahni
Salman Khan – Bajrangi Bhaijaan as Bajrangi Chaturvedi
Shah Rukh Khan – Dilwale as Raj Randhir Bakshi / Kaali

2017 Aamir Khan – Dangal as Mahavir Singh Phogat[3]

Amitabh Bachchan - Pink as Deepak Sehgal
Ranbir Kapoor – Ae Dil Hai Mushkil as Ayan Sanger
Salman Khan – Sultan as Sultan Ali Khan
Shahid Kapoor – Udta Punjab as Tejinder "Tommy" Singh / Gabru
Shah Rukh Khan – Fan as Gaurav Chandna / Aryan Khanna
Sushant Singh Rajput – M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story as Mahendra Singh Dhoni


document_title: Surat Split

question_text: the president of surat session of congress 1907 was

text: Surat Split

text: The Indian National Congress(INC) which was established in 1885 was divided into two groups(in the year 1907) mainly by extremists and moderates at the Surat Session of the Congress.The period 1885-1905 was known as the period of the moderates as moderates dominated the INC. These Moderates used petition, prayers, and protest to influence the (British) colonial government. Moderates were not able to achieve their goals. This created dis-satisfaction among the people. In 1907 the INC meeting was to be held in Nagpur and the extremists wanted Lala Lajpat Rai or Bal Gangadhar Tilak as president. But moderates wanted Rash Behari Ghosh to be president. Gopal Krishna Gokhale changed the meeting place from Nagpur to Surat fearing that if Nagpur was to be held as meeting place then tilak would become President. As Surat was hometown of tilak he could not preside the meeting. Hence it was decided that Ghosh would be president. Extremists protested in the INC meeting as tilak was not given permission even to speak by pandit Madanmohan Malviya extremists then reacted by throwing eggs, chappals etc and wanted the meeting to be cancelled. Moderates then held a secret meeting and decided to abdicate extremists.

text: Background[edit]

text: Moderates believed in the policy of settlement of minor issues with the government by deliberations. But the extremists believed in agitation, strikes and boycotts to force their demands. Some nationalists led by Lokmanya Tilak agitated against the moderate behaviour of congress against British rule. The split between these two sections became outward at the end of Banaras Session of congress (1905). Lokmanya Tilak and his followers held a separate conference and declared the formation of the Extremist Party.[1] However they decided to work as a part of the Indian National Congress. Difference between moderates and extremists further widened in Calcutta Session of congress (1906) and there were attempts between them to elect one of them as the president of congress. The moderates opposed the resolutions on Swaraj, Swadeshi, Boycott of foreign goods and National Education and requested to withdraw from the policy laid down in the Calcutta session. But the extremists were not ready to do so.[2]

text: In Surat Session (1907), extremists wanted Lala Lajpat Rai or Tilak as a President candidate of congress and Moderates supported Dr. Rashbihari Ghosh to be the President.[3] But Lala Lajpat Rai stepped down and Dr. Rashbihari Ghosh became the President. The British Government immediately launched a massive attack on the extremists and Extremist newspaper were suppressed. Lokmanya Tilak, their main leader, was sent to Mandalay jail for six years[4]


document_title: Sara Lance

question_text: when does laurel's sister come back in arrow

question_tokens: when does laurel 's sister come back in arrow

text: Sara Lance

text: Appearances[edit]

text: Arrow[edit]

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text: Sara Lance first appears in the pilot episode of Arrow as the younger sister of Laurel Lance. It's shown that five years prior to the beginning of the series, she was having a secret affair with her sister's boyfriend Oliver Queen and was with him on his family yacht when it shipwrecked.[1] Everyone on board was presumed dead but flashbacks in season two reveal that, like Oliver, Sara actually survived the experience. She was rescued by a research boat, the Amazo, and when Oliver was captured by the ship's crew, Sara helped him escape. Together, along with Oliver's friend Slade Wilson, they attacked the ship. Due to Slade's love for Shado, an ally who was killed indirectly because of Oliver's feelings for Sara, Slade betrayed Oliver and took over both the ship and Oliver as his prisoner. Oliver and Sara confronted him on the freighter and Sara was swept away in the current, causing Oliver to believe that she died once again. However, Sara was found by Nyssa al Ghul who took her to Nanda Parbat. She and Nyssa became lovers, and Sara became a deadly fighter with the League of Assassins under the name Ta-er al-Sahfer, roughly translated to "Yellow Bird" or "Canary" from Arabic.

text: In season two, Sara returns to Starling City after a six year absence as "The Canary" to protect her family. In keeping with a promise, she also befriends wayward teenager Sin and watches over her. Oliver manages to capture and unmask The Canary, revealing Sara to be alive. She eventually informs her father, SCPD Detective Quentin Lance, and looks after him and Laurel (who also later discovers she’s alive as is a vigilante). Sara joins Team Arrow and revisits a brief relationship with Oliver. She aids him and his colleagues Felicity Smoak, John Diggle, and Roy Harper in taking down a drug-enhanced Slade Wilson, with help from the League of Assassins, which requires Sara to return to Nanda Parbat.

text: In season three, Sara is killed on a rooftop with three arrows to the chest. Some time later, it was revealed that Thea Queen killed Sara after being drugged by her father Malcolm Merlyn/Dark Archer as part of a plot to pit Oliver against Ra's al Ghul. Meanwhile, Laurel takes up Sara's mantle to fight crime as the Black Canary.

text: In season four, Laurel resurrects Sara using the League's mystical Lazarus Pit. The process is successful, but Sara is brought back to life without a soul, making her feral and dangerous. Oliver calls his old friend John Constantine to assist them in restoring Sara's soul. Days later, Sara aids in rescuing Ray Palmer/The Atom from the hands of Damien Darhk, before leaving town to find herself, eventually joining the Legends along with Ray. During her time away with the Legends, Laurel is killed by Darhk and she is later made aware of it by Quentin when she briefly returns to present-day Star City at the end of season one of Legends of Tomorrow, where she and Quentin mourn her together.

text: Sara, along with Ray and the rest of the Legends, return for the season five crossover “Invasion!” when Barry Allen/The Flash and his team contact her, informing her and the Legends that them and the rest of the heroes in the present day need help fighting an invasion from an alien race known as the Dominators. The Legends arrive and meet up with Team Flash and Team Arrow, then introduce themselves to Barry’s friend from Earth-38 Kara Danvers/Supergirl, whom he had brought over to help combat the Dominators. After Oliver appoints Barry leader of the group, they all spar with Kara to practice fighting aliens, and are repeatedly defeated, while Sara develops an attraction to Kara. When Barry is forced to reveal that he had went back in time to save his mother then reversed the decision which now altered some of the group’s lives a bit, Sara scolds him and everyone except Oliver and a few others lose faith in him. Kara leads Sara and the others while Barry and Oliver stay behind to rescue the president from the Dominators, which ends up with the president being killed and the Dominators using a device to mind control the entire group. She returns with the rest of the mind-controlled heroes and attack Barry and Oliver, until Barry tricks Kara into destroying the device, freeing them. They regroup and after they reaffirm their faith in Barry, five of them (Sara, Oliver, Ray, Thea, and Diggle) are abducted by the Dominators and placed in pods which puts them in a shared dream world, where Sara, Oliver, and his father never got on the Queen’s Gambit and all of Oliver fallen friends including Laurel are still alive. Oliver and Laurel are engaged and Sara helps Laurel get ready for their wedding, and begins having memory flashes of her actual life. She later saves Oliver and Diggle from a manifestation of Deathstroke, and the three realize that the world they’re in isn’t real. They later rally Ray and Thea and attempt to leave, but are forced to fight manifestations of Malcolm, Slade, Darhk, and their mercenaries before killing all of them and Sara and Oliver share a heartbreaking goodbye with Laurel. They wake up on the Dominator ship in the real world and escape in a pod before being rescued by the Legends’ timeship Waverider. They conclude the dream world was a distraction meant to keep them busy while the Dominators probe their minds for information on metahumans. They return to earth and as some of the Legends along with Felicity and Cisco Ramon head to the past and attempt to abduct a dominator, Sara, Barry, Oliver, and Ray confront a group of secret service agents who attempt to kill them, but are defeated. Their leader informs them that the Dominators are after metahumas due to being aware Barry’s changing of the timeline and perceive them as a threat. After Barry attempts to surrender himself to the Dominators in exchange for them leaving earth, Sara and the rest of the heroes persuade him not to, and she pilots the Waverider with Cisco to hold the Dominator’s freefalling metabomb in place using a tractor beam while Jefferson Jackson/Firestorm transforms it into harmless water and the heroes on the ground use a pain-inflicting device to force the Dominators to flee. Sara and the other heroes are honored by the new President later that night and celebrate, before sharing a hug with Oliver and returning to the Waverider with the rest of the Legends.

text: She briefly returns in season six when she receives a call from her sister’s doppelgänger, the recently reformed criminal from Earth-2 Laurel Lance/Black Siren, who informs her that Quentin had been seriously injured in the battle against Ricardo Diaz and is in the hospital. Sara arrives and meets her deceased sister’s doppleganger (whom had developed a genuine father-daughter relationship with Quentin and they refer to each other as such), and she thanks Earth-2 Laurel for calling her after Laurel thanks her for coming. Laurel tells her that the doctors are optimistic he’ll make it and asks Sara if it’s weird seeing her which she replies that it is a little. Sara asks if she’s like her Laurel, which Laurel replies she hardly is at all, visually disappointed with herself. The two witness Oliver being arrested for being the Green Arrow per the condition of his agreement with the FBI in exchange that they help fight Diaz and his allies. The doctor comes and informs everyone present that Quentin had died from lack of oxygen in his head during surgery, leaving Sara, Laurel, Oliver, and the rest of Team Arrow devastated. Later as Oliver (under the direction of the FBI) announces to the world he is the Green Arrow on live TV before being taken to prison, Sara and Laurel mourn together over Quentin’s body.[2]

text: Legends of Tomorrow[edit]

text: In the spin-off series, DC's Legends of Tomorrow, Sara is recruited by Rip Hunter (Arthur Darvill) to a time travelling team of rejects aimed at defeating the immortal villain Vandal Savage (Casper Crump). Before she departs, Laurel gives Sara the White Canary name and outfit to signify her new start. Over the course of the first season, Sara continues her battle with blood-lust; sets in motion the events that will lead to her own rescue by Nyssa; romances many women throughout history; and develops a flirtatious relationship with Leonard Snart (Wentworth Miller), with the two sharing a kiss in the penultimate episode of the season before Snart sacrifices himself for the team. The Legends return to 2016 a few months after they left and Sara is devastated to learn of Laurel's murder. Sara wants to go back and save her sister but Rip tells her that would only get herself and her father killed.

text: In season two, Sara becomes captain of the Waverider and leader of the Legends following Rip's disappearance. She mercilessly hunts her sister's killer, Damien Darhk, throughout history before accepting that she cannot bring Laurel back due to the delicacy of time. In the "Invasion!" crossover event, Sara and the Legends return to 2016 to aid Team Arrow, Team Flash, and Earth-38's Supergirl (Melissa Benoist) in repelling the Dominators' alien invasion. In the second season finale, Sara is forced to use the Spear of Destiny to save reality from the Legion of Doom. While tempted to rewrite her own tragic history, the Spear briefly reunites Sara with a projection of Laurel, who encourages Sara to do what's right and make peace with her death. Sara then chooses to render the Spear itself inert, foiling the evil plans of Eobard Thawne (Matt Letscher) and allowing him to be killed by the Black Flash, who has been hunting him all season.

text: In season three of Legends, Sara continues to lead the Waverider crew as they track down and repair anachronisms throughout time, working in an antagonistic partnership with Rip Hunter's new bureaucratic organization, the Time Bureau. In the four-part crossover "Crisis on Earth-X," Sara travels to 2017 to attend the wedding of Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) and Iris West (Candice Patton), where she has a one-night stand with Supergirl's adoptive sister Alex Danvers (Chyler Leigh). The assembled heroes work together to repel an invading Nazi army from the alternate world of Earth-X. While confronting the demonic entity Mallus (John Noble) alongside her old friend John Constantine, Sara and Constantine hook up, despite her ongoing romantic tension with Time Bureau agent Ava Sharpe (Jes Macallan). Ava and Sara become girlfriends in subsequent episodes, but break up after Sara is temporarily possessed by Mallus through the death totem and reasons that, given her history with death and destruction, she poses a danger to Ava.

text: Creation and development[edit]

text: Jacqueline MacInnes Wood was cast as Sara Lance in March 2012.[3] Caity Lotz was announced to be playing Arrow's version of Black Canary during July 2013. During the same month it was revealed that her character is Sara, who had survived the Queen's Gambit shipwreck.[4][5]

text: According to Arrow producer Andrew Kreisberg, Sara was originally meant to be Ravager but they decided to give that role to Summer Glau's character Isabel Rochev instead. After the switch was made, Sara was made into the Canary.[6]

text: After the character's death during the shows third season, it was announced in February 2015 that Caity Lotz would become a cast member on Legends of Tomorrow,[7] though it was not until May that they revealed she would continue to play Sara instead of a new character.[8]

text: Reception[edit]

text: The revelation in the season two episode, "Heir to the Demon", that Sara is bisexual and has been in a relationship with Nyssa al Ghul was positively received by critics as it made her the first character from either Marvel or DC to be explicitly shown as queer in either the movies or TV shows.[9][10] IGN's Jesse Schedeen praised the relationship between Sara and Wentworth Miller's character Leonard Snart, as well as the chemistry between Lotz and Miller, calling their "faint romantic tension that existed between [them] since the first episode" containing more weight than many of the other relationships on the show.[11]

text: In other media[edit]

text:
Sara Lance also features in the tie-in novel Arrow: Fatal Legacies which was released in January 2018. The novel focuses on events between the fifth season finale and sixth season premiere of Arrow[12] and is co-authored by Arrow executive producer Marc Guggenheim and author James R. Tuck.[13]
White Canary is a playable character in the mobile-exclusive edition of Injustice 2, with her Legends of Tomorrow attire available as an alternate skin for Black Canary.[citation needed]


document_title: MasterChef (U.S. season 8)

question_text: who went home on masterchef season 8 episode 12

text: MasterChef (U.S. season 8)

text: Top 20

text: Source for names, hometowns and occupations:[3] Ages and nicknames as given on air.

text:
Contestant
Age
Hometown
Occupation
Status
Winnings

Dino Angelo Luciano
28
Bensonhurst, New York
Dancer
Winner September 20
7

Eboni Henry
33
Chicago, Illinois
Addiction Counselor
Runners-Up September 20
7

Jason Wang
34
Newton, Massachusetts
High School Music Teacher
9

Caitlin "Cate" Meade
25
Chicago, Illinois
Nutritionist
Eliminated September 13
11

Jeff Philbin
29
Tampa, Florida
Marketing Director
0

Yachecia Holston
43
Detroit, Michigan
Minister
4

Gabriel Lewis
19
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Fast Food Server
Eliminated September 6
3

Daniel Pontes-Macedo
31
Medford, Massachusetts
Substitute Teacher
Eliminated August 30
3

Caitlin Jones
24
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Dancer
1

Adam Wong
21
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard Student
Eliminated August 23
3

Jenny Cavellier
25
Cincinnati, Ohio
Special Needs Therapist
2

Mike "Newton" Newton
53
Lipan, Texas
Ranch Owner
Eliminated August 161
3

Reba Billingsley
48
Carthage, Texas
Stay-at-home Mom
Eliminated August 9
1

Brien O'Brien
32
Redding, California
Magazine Ad Sales
Eliminated August 2
3

Necco Ceresani
26
Newberry, South Carolina
Marketing Manager
Eliminated July 26
2

Jennifer Williams
25
Chalmette, Louisiana
Debt Collector
Eliminated July 19
0

Sam Reiff-Pasarew
37
Washington, D.C.
Creative Writing Teacher
Eliminated July 12
1

Heather Dombrosky
37
Miami, Florida
Registered Nurse
Eliminated June 28
1

Paige Jimenez
18
Honolulu, Hawaii
Swimsuit Model
Eliminated June 21
0

Mark Togni
43
Portland, Oregon
Stay-at-home Dad
Eliminated June 14
0

text: ^Note 1 While Mike Newton's elimination occurred from the events on Episode 11 (August 16), his elimination was not revealed until Episode 12 (August 23).

text: Elimination table

text:
Place
Contestant
Episode

3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20/21

1
Dino
IN
IMM
PT
IN
LOW
IN
IN
IMM
NPT
IN
IMM
PT
IN
WIN
WIN
IN
IMM
IN
IMM
IN
WIN
PT
WIN
IMM
WIN
IN
IN
IN
IN
WIN
WINNER

2
Eboni
IN
IMM
WIN
IN
IN
IMM
LOW
IN
WIN
IN
IN
PT
IN
IN
WIN
LOW
IN
WIN
IMM
IN
IN
WIN
IN
WIN
PT
HIGH
IN
IN
WIN
IMM
RUNNER-UP

Jason
IN
IMM
WIN
WIN
IMM
IMM
IN
IMM
NPT
IN
LOW
WIN
IN
IN
WIN
IN
IMM
IN
IMM
WIN
IMM
WIN
HIGH
WIN
WIN
IN
IN
WIN
IMM
IMM
RUNNER-UP

4
Cate
IN
IMM
WIN
IN
IN
IMM
WIN
IMM
WIN
IN
WIN
WIN
WIN
IMM
WIN
IN
IMM
WIN
IMM
HIGH
WIN
WIN
IN
IN
PT
WIN
IMM
IN
IN
ELIM

5
Jeff
IN
IMM
NPT
HIGH
LOW
IN
IN
IMM
NPT
HIGH
IN
LOW
IN
LOW
NPT
LOW
IN
IN
IMM
IN
LOW
LOW
HIGH
IN
PT
IN
ELIM

Yachecia
HIGH
IMM
WIN
IN
LOW
IN
WIN
IMM
PT
IN
WIN
NPT
HIGH
IN
PT
IN
IMM
LOW
IMM
IN
IN
LOW
IN
LOW
WIN
HIGH
ELIM

7
Gabriel
IN
IMM
PT
IN
IN
IMM
IN
IMM
WIN
IN
LOW
WIN
IN
IN
NPT
LOW
IN
LOW
IMM
HIGH
IN
WIN
IN
ELIM

8
Daniel
IN
IMM
NPT
IN
IN
IMM
IN
IMM
WIN
IN
IMM
WIN
IN
WIN
NPT
IN
IMM
IN
IMM
IN
IN
ELIM

9
Caitlin
IN
IMM
PT
IN
LOW
IN
LOW
IN
NPT
IN
IMM
WIN
HIGH
LOW
NPT
LOW
IN
LOW
PT
IN
ELIM

10
Adam
IN
IMM
WIN
IN
IN
IMM
IN
IMM
WIN
IN
IMM
LOW
IN
IN
WIN
LOW
LOW
LOW
ELIM

11
Jenny
IN
IMM
PT
IN
IN
IMM
LOW
IN
NPT
IN
IMM
WIN
IN
IN
WIN
LOW
ELIM

12
Newton
IN
IMM
WIN
IN
IN
IMM
LOW
LOW
WIN
WIN
IMM
PT
IN
LOW
ELIM

13
Reba
IN
IMM
NPT
IN
IN
IMM
IN
IMM
NPT
IN
IMM
WIN
IN
ELIM

14
Brien
WIN
IMM
WIN
IN
IN
IMM
IN
IMM
WIN
HIGH
IMM
ELIM

15
Necco
IN
IMM
WIN
HIGH
IN
IMM
IN
IMM
WIN
IN
ELIM

16
Jennifer
HIGH
IMM
LOW
IN
IN
IMM
LOW
IN
ELIM

17
Sam
LOW
IN
WIN
IN
LOW
LOW
LOW
ELIM

18
Heather
LOW
IN
WIN
IN
LOW
ELIM

19
Paige
IN
IMM
ELIM

20
Mark
LOW
ELIM

text: Main guest appearances

text:
Shaun O'Neale — Episode 10
Joe Bastianich — Episodes 20 & 21

text: Episodes

text:
No. in
season
Title
Original air date
U.S. viewers
(millions)

1
"Battle for a White Apron, Part 1"
May 31, 2017 (2017-05-31)
3.67[4]

Auditions Round 1: The amateur cooks will be competing for a white apron and to be a contestant in this year's MasterChef, and the judges will be selecting their themes. Yachecia wins over Shawn in fried chicken, and Jason wins over Ty in a scallop battle. In a compilation video, Caitlin, Paige, Jenny, Sam, Necco, and Mark all receive white aprons. Julia, Adam, Gabriel, and David compete with tacos with Gabriel and Adam winning aprons. Paola and Reba compete with duck dishes and Reba wins.

2
"Battle for a White Apron, Part 2"
June 7, 2017 (2017-06-07)
3.19[5]

Auditions Round 2: The first battle in this episode is between Josh and Dino in veal parmigiana. Dino is the winner. The next battle features Taylor and Cate, who auditioned last season but lost to their respective opponents, in salmon. Cate is the winner. Michael, Brien, Daniel, and Aakash battle in steak. Brien and Daniel win aprons. In a montage, Jeff, Eboni, Heather, and Jennifer receive aprons. Newton and Tom battle in cupcakes. Newton wins, earning him the last white apron.

3
"America's Grocery Bag"
June 14, 2017 (2017-06-14)
3.73[6]

Mystery Box Challenge 1: The 20 contestants are given a brown grocery bag filled with 12 of the most common grocery items, and must create a dish based on them in one hour. Sam, Heather, and Mark are called out first but are told they are the bottom three. Yachecia, Jennifer, and Brien are called out as the top three, and Brien wins the challenge.
Challenge Winner/Immune: Brien O'Brien
Bottom three: Heather Dombrosky, Mark Togni, Sam Reiff-Pasarew
Elimination Challenge 1: The judges announce that all other contestants except the bottom three are immune from the next challenge. Heather, Mark, and Sam are given the exact same bag of ingredients and may either improve on their previous dish or attempt to make a new one in 45 minutes.
Immune: Adam Wong, Caitlin Jones, Caitlin Meade, Daniel Pontes-Macedo, Dino Luciano, Eboni Henry, Gabriel Lewis, Jason Wang, Jeff Philbin, Jennifer Williams, Jenny Cavellier, Mike Newton, Necco Ceresani, Paige Jimenez, Reba Billingsley, Yachecia Holston
Sam and Heather are both saved, sending Mark home.
Eliminated: Mark Togni

4
"Feeding the Lifeguards"
June 21, 2017 (2017-06-21)
3.34[7]

Team Challenge 1: The 19 contestants are brought to a beach to cook a fish lunch for 101 lifeguards. They split into two teams; the Red Team (Adam, team captain Brien, Cate, Eboni, Heather, Jason, Necco, Newton, Sam, and Yachecia); and the Blue Team (Caitlin, Daniel, Dino, Gabriel, Jeff, team captain Jennifer, Jenny, Paige, and Reba). The Red Team wins with the majority of the votes, sending the Blue Team to the Pressure Test.
Team Challenge Winners/Immune: Adam Wong, Brien O'Brien, Cate Meade, Eboni Henry, Heather Dombrosky, Jason Wang, Necco Ceresani, Mike Newton, Sam Reiff-Parasew, Yachecia Holston
Pressure Test 1: The judges exempt Jeff, Daniel, and Reba from the Pressure Test. The other six Blue Team members must recreate Aarón Sanchez's grilled pork chop dish in 45 minutes. Dino has the best dish. Gabriel, Caitlin, and Jenny also advance.
Immune: Jeff Philbin, Daniel Pontes-Macedo, Reba Billingsley
Bottom two: Jennifer Williams and Paige Jimenez
Jennifer is saved, eliminating Paige.
Eliminated: Paige Jimenez

5
"Shell-Shocked & Scrambled"
June 28, 2017 (2017-06-28)
3.55[8]

Mystery Box Challenge 2: The contestants must cook a dish featuring various types of shellfish. Jeff, Necco, and Jason are called out as the top three. Jason is the winner and earns immunity.
Challenge Winner/Immune: Jason Wang
Elimination Challenge 2: The remaining contestants must prepare a scrambled egg dish by Gordon and must prepare it using Gordon's cooking style. Jeff, Sam, Heather, Yachecia, Dino, and Caitlin all fail to impress the judges while all other contestants are sent to safety. The six remaining contestants then get one last chance to repeat the dish. The judges send Yachecia and Dino to safety, then Caitlin and Jeff are safe. Sam and Heather are the last two remaining.
Bottom two: Heather Dombrosky and Sam Reiff-Pasarew
Sam is saved and Heather is sent home.
Eliminated: Heather Dombrosky

6
"Silenced by the Lambs"
July 12, 2017 (2017-07-12)
3.50[9]

Skills Test 1: The contestants were given a demonstration of how to French a rack of lamb properly in 20 minutes. Cate and Yachecia were the best performers and pronounced safe, while Caitlin, Eboni, Jennifer, Jenny, Newton and Sam all fail to impress the judges. The other contestants are all good enough to be sent to safety.
Challenge Winners/Immune: Cate Meade and Yachecia Holston
Immune: Adam Wong, Brien O'Brien, Daniel Pontes-Macedo, Dino Luciano, Gabriel Lewis, Jason Wang, Jeff Philbin, Necco Ceresani, and Reba Billingsley
Elimination Challenge 3: Caitlin, Eboni, Jennifer, Jenny, Newton and Sam must cook a dish as demonstrated by Gordon with their previously butchered lamb. The women were all safe, with Caitlin and Eboni being declared to have replicated Gordon's dish the best, while both Sam and Newton were named the bottom two.
Bottom two: Mike Newton and Sam Reiff-Pasarew
The judges eliminate Sam.
Eliminated: Sam Reiff-Pasarew

7
"Breakfast, Lunch & Winner"
July 19, 2017 (2017-07-19)
3.45[10]

Team Challenge 2: Cate and Yachecia were assigned as captains to lead their teams to make five breakfast dishes in 60 minutes for customers at the Belvedere Restaurant of the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills. The judges allowed the remaining contestants to choose their captain as part of the team. Cate's Red Team were voted by the judges as the winners.
Team Challenge Winners/Immune: Adam Wong, Brien O'Brien, Cate Meade, Daniel Pontes-Macedo, Eboni Henry, Gabriel Lewis, Mike Newton and Necco Ceresani
Pressure Test 2: As the captain, Yachecia was given the choice to save herself or six of the team members to avoid elimination. She chose to save her team members except for Jennifer. They will compete in a Pressure Test to recreate Gordon's British fish and chips in 45 minutes.
Immune: Caitlin Jones, Dino Luciano, Jason Wang, Jeff Philbin, Jenny Cavellier and Reba Billingsley
Bottom two: Jennifer Williams and Yachecia Holston
Yachecia's dish beat Jennifer's, eliminating her.
Eliminated: Jennifer Williams

8
"Whole-y Cow!"
July 26, 2017 (2017-07-26)
3.47[11]

Mystery Box Challenge 3: The contestants must create a dish involving an ingredient that comes from a cow within 60 minutes. Newton, Jeff, and Brien are called out as the top three; with Newton winning the challenge, earning immunity and the advantage.
Challenge Winner/Immune: Mike Newton
Elimination Challenge 4: For winning the mystery box challenge, Newton was able to separate the contestants into two groups of seven — one weak group and one strong group. After this, Newton was given the choice to send one group into the elimination challenge. He chose the strong team, which meant the weak team was immune from the elimination challenge. Cate and Yachecia cook the best dishes and are safe. Gabriel, Jason, and Necco were named the bottom three.
Immune: Adam Wong, Brien O'Brien, Caitlin Jones, Daniel Pontes-Macedo, Dino Luciano, Jenny Cavellier and Reba Billingsley
Challenge Winners Cate Meade and Yachecia Holston
Bottom three: Gabriel Lewis, Jason Wang, and Necco Ceresani
The judges eliminate Necco.
Eliminated: Necco Ceresani

9
"Holy Cannoli"
August 2, 2017 (2017-08-02)
3.75[12]

Team Challenge 3: The judges select Adam and Caitlin as team captains to lead their teams in creating a meal for food providers based on the ingredients they sent to the MasterChef kitchen. Caitlin picked Daniel, Cate, Jenny, Gabriel, Reba and Jason for her Blue Team while Adam picked Brien, Eboni, Newton, Yachecia, Dino and Jeff for his Red Team. The Blue Team won by a score of 19-11.
Team Challenge Winners/Immune: Caitlin Jones, Cate Meade, Daniel Pontes-Macedo, Gabriel Lewis, Jason Wang, Jenny Cavellier and Reba Billingsley
Pressure Test 3: The judges exempt Yachecia from this pressure test. The remaining chefs competed in a pressure test to make six cannoli with two different flavors. Dino and Eboni made the best cannoli of the six. Newton's were also deemed good enough to make it to safety.
Immune: Yachecia Holston
Bottom three: Adam Wong, Brien O'Brien and Jeff Philbin
Adam and Jeff are saved, eliminating Brien.
Eliminated: Brien O'Brien

10
"The MasterChef Returns"
August 9, 2017 (2017-08-09)
3.32[13]

Mystery Box Challenge 4: Season 7 champion Shaun O'Neale provides the mystery box of ingredients he has chosen, and he cooks alongside the contestants. Caitlin, Yachecia and Cate have the three best dishes, and Cate wins the challenge.
Challenge Winner/Immune: Cate Meade
Elimination Challenge 5: The judges announce the theme of this challenge will be coconut, and Cate gets to choose for each contestant if they must cook a sweet or a savory dish. She assigns a sweet dish to Jeff, Yachecia, Adam, Dino, Jenny, and Jason. She assigns a savory dish to Newton, Caitlin, Daniel, Eboni, Reba, and Gabriel. Daniel and Dino have the two best dishes, while Caitlin, Jeff, Reba and Newton are all called out for the bottom.
Challenge Winners: Daniel Pontes-Macedo and Dino Angelo Luciano
Bottom four: Caitlin Jones, Jeff Philbin, Reba Billingsley, Mike "Newton" Newton
Caitlin and Newton are saved first, then Reba is sent home.
Eliminated: Reba Billingsley

11
"Vegas Deluxe & Oyster Shucks"
August 16, 2017 (2017-08-16)
3.11[14]

Team Challenge 4: The contestants are flown to Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas where they will be split into two teams to feed 50 VIP guests. Daniel and Dino are made the team captains since they won the last challenge, and Dino is given the choice of either selecting his team or selecting the protein and he elects to choose his team. Daniel chooses sea bass leaving Dino with rib cap. Dino's Red Team is Jason, Eboni, Adam, Jenny and Cate, while Daniel's Blue Team is Caitlin, Yachecia, Jeff, Gabriel and Newton. Each diner will taste both plates and choose a favorite dish, and the winning team will be safe. The Red Team wins with 68% of the total vote.
Challenge Winners/Immune: Adam Wong, Cate Meade, Dino Angelo Luciano, Eboni Henry, Jason Wang and Jenny Cavellier.
Pressure Test 4: The judges announce that the pressure test will be held then and there and that only two members will compete. Daniel gets to choose the two and he chooses Yachecia and Newton. They must replicate a dish of champagne poached oysters in 45 minutes. No winner is announced as the episode ends on a cliffhanger.
Immune: Caitlin Jones, Daniel Pontes-Macedo, Gabriel Lewis and Jeff Philbin
Bottom two: Mike Newton and Yachecia Holston
Eliminated: None yet, will be announced next episode

12
"In a Pinch"
August 23, 2017 (2017-08-23)
3.47[15]

Yachecia returns from the last episode, meaning that Newton was eliminated.
Eliminated: Mike Newton
Skills Test 2: The contestants have 20 minutes to clean the most crawfish perfectly. The five who do the best will be safe from the next challenge. Yachecia, Jason, Daniel, Cate, and Dino are the top five.
Challenge Winners/Immune: Cate Meade, Daniel Pontes-Macedo, Dino Angelo Luciano, Jason Wang and Yachecia Holston.
Pressure Test 5: The remaining contestants must use the crawfish meat to replicate a crawfish dumpling dish as demonstrated by Gordon in 20 minutes. Eboni, Jeff, Caitlin and Gabriel are saved, leaving Adam and Jenny in the bottom.
Bottom two: Adam Wong and Jenny Cavellier
Jenny is eliminated.
Eliminated: Jenny Cavellier

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"Gordon's Game of Chicken"
August 23, 2017 (2017-08-23)
3.47[15]

Team Challenge 5: The judges allow the contestants to pair up with a partner of their choice. The teams are Eboni and Cate, Dino and Jeff, Jason and Daniel, Adam and Caitlin, and Gabriel and Yachecia. They must make a dish featuring chicken and potatoes in 60 minutes. The winning dish will be featured in Family Circle magazine and the team will be safe as well as win a five-year subscription to the magazine. Also, Aarón and Christina will team up and cook alongside the contestants but with 30 minutes to cook. Eboni and Cate are the winning team, while the teams of Dino and Jeff and Jason and Daniel are also safe. Gabriel and Yachecia are the last team saved.
Challenge Winners/Immune: Cate Meade and Eboni Henry
Immune: Daniel Pontes-Macedo, Dino Angelo Luciano, Gabriel Lewis, Jason Wang, Jeff Philbin and Yachecia Holston
Bottom two: Adam Wong and Caitlin Jones
Pressure Test 6: Adam and Caitlin must replicate Gordon's dish of chicken and potatoes in 45 minutes and they are allowed to taste it and ask a few questions first. Caitlin wins and Adam is eliminated.
Eliminated: Adam Wong

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"A Mexican Tag Team Challenge"
August 30, 2017 (2017-08-30)
3.65[16]

Mystery Box Challenge 5: The contestants must make a breakfast dish featuring Nutella in one hour. Gabriel, Jason, and Cate are called out as the top three, and Jason wins the challenge.
Challenge Winner/Immune: Jason Wang
Team Challenge 6: Jason gets to pair up the remaining contestants for the next challenge. He teams Cate with Dino, Yachecia with Eboni, Jeff with Caitlin, and Daniel with Gabriel. The teams must replicate a platter of Mexican food in one hour but must switch out cooks every ten minutes as this is a tag-team challenge. Cate and Dino are the winners, while the teams of Daniel and Gabriel and Yachecia and Eboni are also safe.
Challenge Winners: Cate Meade and Dino Angelo Luciano
Bottom two: Caitlin Jones and Jeff Philbin
Caitlin is eliminated.
Eliminated: Caitlin Jones

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"The Great Outdoors"
August 30, 2017 (2017-08-30)
3.65[16]

Team Challenge 7: The contestants travel to Big Bear Lake where they are split into teams. Cate captains the Red Team with Jason, Eboni, and Gabriel, while Dino captains the Blue Team with Daniel, Yachecia, and Jeff. Both teams must cook two separate rainbow trout dishes in a campground kitchen for the judges in one hour. Once they are finished, Gordon announces that the judges will only taste one of the dishes and that the teams must choose their best dish. The Red Team wins the challenge.
Challenge Winners/Immune: Cate Meade, Eboni Henry, Gabriel Lewis and Jason Wang
Pressure Test 7: Back in the MasterChef kitchen, the Blue Team must now recreate a box of nine chocolate truffles with three different flavors in one hour. Dino is saved first.
Bottom three: Daniel Pontes-Macedo, Jeff Philbin and Yachecia Holston
Jeff and Yachecia are told to say goodbye to Daniel as he is eliminated.
Eliminated: Daniel Pontes-Macedo

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"Chopsticks & Pasta"
September 6, 2017 (2017-09-06)
3.80[17]

Mystery Box Challenge 6: The mystery box contains chopsticks, as the contestants must make an Asian-inspired dish in 60 minutes. The top three dishes belong to Dino, Jason and Jeff, and Dino is the winner.
Challenge Winner/Immune: Dino Angelo Luciano
Pressure Test 8: The remaining contestants must make a homemade pasta dish, and Dino gets to choose which contestant cooks which style of pasta. He assigns pappardelle to Jason, farfalle to Eboni, cannelloni to Gabriel, cavatelli to Cate, tortellini to Yachecia, and egg yolk ravioli to Jeff. Eboni wins the challenge while Jason is also a top dish. Yachecia and Gabriel are called out as the bottom two.
Challenge Winner: Eboni Henry
Bottom two: Gabriel Lewis and Yachecia Holston
Gabriel is eliminated, but Gordon offers to send him to culinary school for training and Aarón offers him a job in New Orleans once his training is done.
Eliminated: Gabriel Lewis

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"Pop-Up Restaurant"
September 6, 2017 (2017-09-06)
3.80[17]

Team Challenge 8: The contestants are taken to Triunfo Creek Vineyard where they are split into two teams. Eboni and Jason are the team captains for having the best dishes in the last challenge. Eboni's Blue Team includes Cate and Jeff; while Jason's Red Team includes Dino and Yachecia. They will cook two appetizers and two entrées in a pop-up restaurant and the judges will determine the winning team based on guest feedback. The Red Team wins the challenge.
Challenge Winners/Immune: Dino Angelo Luciano, Jason Wang and Yachecia Holston
Pressure Test 9: Back at the MasterChef kitchen, the Blue Team members must make a chocolate soufflé in 35 minutes.
Bottom three: Cate Meade, Eboni Henry and Jeff Philbin
The judges decide not to eliminate anyone, as all three contestants served perfect soufflés.
Eliminated: None

18
"Something Fishy"
September 13, 2017 (2017-09-13)
4.10[18]

Mystery Box Challenge 7: The six finalists faced a Mystery Box Challenge to cook a dish inspired by their family members. Eboni, Cate, and Yachecia delivered the top dishes with Cate winning.
Challenge Winner/Immune: Cate Meade
Elimination Challenge 6: As the winner of the Mystery Box Challenge, Cate assigned different time limits to the other contestants to cook dishes with salmon to join her in the semifinals: Jason got 60 minutes, Eboni had 50 minutes, Yachecia had 40 minutes, Dino had 30 minutes and Jeff had 20 minutes. Yachecia and Jeff were called out as the bottom.
Bottom two: Yachecia Holston and Jeff Philbin
The judges eliminated both Yachecia and Jeff.
Eliminated: Yachecia Holston and Jeff Philbin

19
"The Semi-Finals"
September 13, 2017 (2017-09-13)
4.10[18]

Semi-Finals Skills Test 1: The contestants compete in a three-round Skills Test from each of the judges. The winner of each challenge will advance to the Finale. For the first round, Christina gave them a task to bake profiteroles in 45 minutes. Jason was the first contestant to advance in the Finals.
Winner: Jason Wang
Semi-Finals Skills Test 2: Aarón challenged the remaining contestants in the 25-minute second round to bake a Latin-inspired molten lava cake and it was Eboni who won.
Winner: Eboni Henry
Bottom two: Dino Angelo Luciano and Cate Meade
Semi-Finals Skills Test 3: The last round tasked Dino and Cate to bake a cheese soufflé by Gordon to secure the last place in the Finals. Dino won the round over Cate.
Winner: Dino Angelo Luciano
Eliminated: Cate Meade

20
"The Finale, Pt. 1"
September 20, 2017 (2017-09-20)
3.95[19]

The judges are joined by former MasterChef judge Joe Bastianich for the judging of the finals. The three finalists will have one hour for each course to prepare four portions of their best appetizer, entrée, and dessert.
Appetizer: Jason serves an uni custard with prawns, clams, and a miso vinaigrette. Eboni serves pan-seared scallops with charred romanesco, rainbow chard, and a pea purée. Dino serves squid ink capellini with calamari, clams, and cherry tomatoes.
The entrées begin cooking as the first hour ends.

21
"The Finale, Pt. 2"
September 20, 2017 (2017-09-20)
3.95[19]

Entrée: Jason serves a tofu-skin wrapped black cod with bay scallops, maitake mushrooms, and a cucumber-pea tendril sauce. Dino serves rack of lamb on a lamb belly and sunchoke caponata with a balsamic glaze. Eboni serves a honey-glazed duck breast with sweet potato mash, collard greens and crispy heirloom carrots.
Dessert: Dino serves a roasted pistachio tiramisu with orange mascarpone cream, espresso caviar, and a pistachio tuile. Eboni serves a chocolate orbit cake with a macadamia crumble and a passion fruit coulis. Jason serves a black sesame japonaise with chocolate-yuzu mousse and berry-shiso coulis.
Final Three: Dino Angelo Luciano, Eboni Henry and Jason Wang
Winner Revealed: After reviewing all of the meals from the contestants, the judges name Dino the winner of this year's MasterChef, winning him the $250,000, the trophy, and the cookbook deal.
MasterChef Winner: Dino Angelo Luciano


document_title: Alex Vause

question_text: where did alex vause go in season 2

question_tokens: where did alex vause go in season 2

text: Alex Vause

text: Inspiration[edit]

text: The character of Alex Vause is loosely based on Catherine Cleary Wolters, ex-girlfriend of Piper Kerman, the author of Orange Is the New Black: My Year in a Women's Prison and an executive consultant on the series.[1][2] In Kerman's memoir, Wolters is given the pseudonym Nora Jansen, who is a marginal character in the book.[3] In actuality, Kerman and Wolters did not serve their prison sentences together as depicted in the series, however they were reunited in a flight to Chicago, where they were detained for several weeks in a detention facility to testify in the drug trafficking case.[1][4] Their stint in Chicago is portrayed in the series' second season, however, the defendant they were to testify against was changed to the cartel's kingpin, as was the fact that Wolters and Kerman were cell-mates in the prison.[5][6]

text: Wolters met Kerman in 1991 in Northampton, Massachusetts, becoming friends around the time Kerman graduated from Smith College. Kerman wrote in her memoir that Wolters was part of a "clique of impossibly stylish and cool lesbians in their mid-30s".[7] Wolters said both of them ran in "the same little Noho lesbian social circle", and spent time together when she returned from her travels.[1]   Wolters had told Kerman she worked for an African drug lord, moving heroin around internationally, while Kerman was fascinated by her globe-trotting, adventurous lifestyle.[8][9] Wolters asked Kerman if she wanted to take part in the operation.[7] According to Wolters, she and Kerman became romantically involved after Kerman had gotten involved in the drug ring. In her interview with Vanity Fair, Wolters said that they were not girlfriends but friends with benefits, a notion with which Kerman disagreed, stating that they may have different perspectives about their time together and their relationship was complicated.[1]

text: Kerman traveled with Wolters to exotic places, and made several trips carrying drug-funds for the cartel. Kerman realized she needed to walk away when Wolters asked her to transport heroin instead of money, after which she flew home and started a new life.[10][8] Years later, Kerman was indicted and plead guilty to a money laundering charge, serving 13 months in a minimum-security prison in Danbury, Connecticut. Wolters was charged with conspiracy to import heroin, serving nearly six years in a Dublin, California prison, and nearly 14 years on parole.[1][10] In the series, the issue of whether Vause implicated Chapman and the effect on their personal relationship is a major plot line of the first season. When Wolters and others involved in the drug ring were arrested by federal law enforcement, Wolters said that she, like the others, named everyone involved, including Kerman.[1] Wolters also stated that, contrary to Kerman's implication in her memoir, she was not "singularly responsible for [her] downfall", as she was honest about what she did and getting involved was Kerman's decision.[11] Although Kerman aimed to take responsibility for her actions, she said she still carried some resentment toward Wolters [for naming her], later making peace with her when they were held together in a Chicago facility.[1] Unlike in the series, Wolters and Kerman did not get back together when they were reunited in prison.[1][10]

text: According to Wolters, "the only [physical] similarity between myself and [Vause] is my black glasses."[11] In her memoir, Kerman described Wolters as a "droll" woman, with a "drawling, wisecracking husky voice" and a "playful, watchful way of drawing a person out"; "when she paid you attention, it felt as if she were about to let you in on a private joke."[9] Wolters' interview to Vanity Fair in April 2014 led to a book deal for her memoir.[7][12] In 2015, HarperOne released Out of Orange, Wolters' memoir covering from the circumstances of her involvement in the drug trafficking ring and her relationship with Kerman, to her arrest, prison experience, and the present.[13][14]

text: Storylines[edit]

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text: Season 1[edit]

text: Vause is introduced in the first episode through flashbacks; she and Chapman were both involved in crimes involving drug money. At the end of the first episode, the audience sees that Vause and Chapman are both serving their sentences in the same prison, Litchfield Penitentiary.[15] The two begin a romantic and sexual relationship in episode six; they are also both involved in a dispute with another inmate, Tiffany "Pennsatucky" Doggett (Taryn Manning), who locks Vause in a dryer and then attempts to kill Chapman in the season finale. Vause was raised solely by her mother and, in the ninth episode 'Fucksgiving', Vause's father is seen to be an influence on her being involved in the drug cartel.[16] When Chapman realises that Vause was the one who told authorities about her illegal drug activities, they break off their relationship. Vause then becomes sexually involved with another inmate, Nicky Nichols (Natasha Lyonne).[16][17][18]

text: Season 2[edit]

text: In the first episode, Vause promises Chapman that she will lie to protect her in the upcoming trial of her former boss Kubra Balik. She breaks this promise, however, and, after testifying against Balik, Vause manages to secure release from prison while Chapman remains incarcerated.[19] After discovering that Balik was not imprisoned for his crimes, Vause fears for her life; she is also unable to leave her apartment due to the terms of her parole.[20][21] She visits Chapman in prison and confides in her that she is scared; Chapman then gets Bloom to tell Vause's parole officer that Vause is breaking her parole, which lands her back in prison, where she is safe from Balik's retribution.

text: Season 3[edit]

text: Vause appears in every episode of the third season. Chapman reports Vause to a parole officer and she is sent back to Litchfield prison; Chapman does eventually admit to doing this and the two begin frequently having hate sex.[22][23] Chapman and Vause reconcile and officially resume their relationship, but become more distant again as the season progresses; Chapman becomes romantically involved with a new inmate, Stella Carlin (Ruby Rose), and this upsets Vause.[24][25] Vause becomes increasingly concerned that Balik has sent someone into the prison to spy on her and bring her harm; she suspects that this person is Lolly Whitehill (Lori Petty) and attacks her in the toilet. It turns out that Whitehill is completely delusional and thinks that Vause is from the National Security Agency.[26][27] In the season finale, Vause is confronted by Balik's henchman Aydin Bayat and her fate is left ambiguous.[28]

text: Season 4[edit]

text: In the first episode, Vause is seen being strangled by Aydin Bayat in the greenhouse, struggling for her life. She is saved by Lolly Whitehill who kicks him seemingly to death. However, Vause discovers in the night that he is just barely alive and is forced to suffocate him[29]. Vause and Whitehill, planning on burying Aydin under the floorboards, discover Frieda Berlin, who has found the body in its temporary hiding place. Together Vause, Whitehill, and Berlin dismember and bury the body in the garden[30][31]. As the season progresses, Whitehill becomes increasingly at risk of blowing their cover [32]. Meanwhile Vause is suffering from guilt and lives in constant fear of being caught[33]. When Berlin suggests poisoning Whitehill, Vause confides in Galina "Red" Reznikov, hoping she will convince Berlin otherwise. In episode 8, Vause and Chapman bond again while getting high with Nichols in the garden, and their relationship once again progresses. Aydin's body is found in an unwarranted investigation by Desi Piscatella [34], resulting in Whitehill being sent to psych. Vause is never questioned about his murder. Vause's guilt manifests itself in notes left around the prison, revealing Aydin's name. Chapman convinces Vause to find them all, and prepares to burn them.

text: Critical commentary[edit]

text: Matthew Wolfson of Slant Magazine described Vause as intelligent, "with the instincts of a pragmatist, but without a strategy—a striking and emotionally direct person who may have closed off too many options for a workable future”.[35] Dana Poccoli of AfterEllen said that Vause could be considered a villain in the first season as she is the reason Chapman is in prison, but she is also a "fascinating character that we want to understand and spend time with."[36] Writing in The Daily Beast, Victoria Kezra similarly suggested that before the audience meets her, Vause is already a villain, for she is "responsible for Chapman’s illegal activities" and named her ex-lover to receive less prison time. What is "wonderful" about the character, Kezra added, is that the audience’s "perception of her changes throughout the show", from a villainous figure to a sympathetic individual. She observed that Vause has "a great sense of humor about the whole situation" and is "pretty caring and insightful".[37] TV Guide's Liz Raftery considered Vause a polarizing character, asking "is she a master manipulator or just misunderstood?". She proposed that Vause "seems to think of herself as a bad person but maybe she isn't, whereas [Chapman] is so convinced that she's a good person and is totally taken aback whenever anyone challenges that."[38] Gerri Mahn of Den of Geek wrote that unlike Chapman, Vause "doesn’t harbor any illusions about who she is or what playing by the rules will get her". Vause had named Chapman in her trial both to receive a lighter sentence and out of resentment from Chapman breaking her heart years earlier; she sincerely loves Chapman, Mahn considered, and "continually came to her defense throughout season one", turning her down when she realized Chapman was using her as "someone to fall back on when Larry doesn’t come through".[39]

text: Tim Surette of TV.com said that Vause's season one flashbacks fit the character well, and "instantly gave us a story to be interested in", as they provided a more rounded view of the character than Chapman's purview allowed.[40] J.M Suarez wrote in PopMatters that the character of Vause is "fearless and intimidating" as well as street-smart, contrary to Chapman who is "sheltered" and "often afraid and deferential", and it is "in highlighting these differences in prison, that their eventual backstories have even more impact."[41] Greco Patti of Vulture complimented Prepon’s "nuanced" portrayal, and noted that, notwithstanding Vause’s illicit occupation and her role in Chapman’s imprisonment, she is a woman who "came from nothing, who loved and lost, and who maybe got used", and she seems more loyal and genuine in her love for Chapman.[42] The A.V. Club's Myles McNutt considered Vause's relationship with her crimes to be "complicated"; he appreciates when the show does not filter character development solely through Chapman, deeming it "productive" when Vause had "a chance to open up to Nicky [Nichols]”.[43] McNutt also said that Vause’s conflict with Doggett, who saw her as "coming from privilege", is meaningful for Vause as it is a trigger for her "past struggles with class hierarchies". According to McNutt, Vause’s despondency regarding her absent father "could either gain [her] new perspective and put her life on the right track or [she could] try to fill the absence as quickly as possible", the latter of which she chose.[44] Mahn deliberated that, growing up poor, a free ride wasn’t a possibility in Vause's world. Vause "left her scruples at the door" when she built her worldly life on an alliance through her father’s drug dealer, Mahn assessed. "She worked hard, gambled big, and lost everything".[39] Autostraddle posited that Vause hates and fears vulnerability, and the scene where she is locked in a dryer and pleads Chapman to stay echoes the past, when Vause pleaded with Chapman before Chapman left following news of Vause's mother's death. Additionally, Vause is a complicated character for the writer, primarily because she found her sexual threat to Doggett "troubling", while seeing Vause as a young girl "who would do anything for the life she was cheated out of" was something with which she empathized.[45]

text: In Den of Geek, Chris Longo wrote that, as the first season played out, Vause "was vilified, then the tables turned when she won Piper’s friendship, then they turned upside down during their inevitable hookup. Alex, for all the bad she’s done, seems like a woman who stays true to her word. And now after breaking Alex’s (and Larry’s) heart, Piper is the one who’s vilified." Longo praised Prepon’s performance, and hoped the series progressed Vause’s storylines.[46] The Guardian's Tom Meltzer wrote that Prepon plays Chapman's "jilted" former lover "with subtlety and unabashed smoulder".[47] In his review of the first season, Matthew Gilbert of The Boston Globe described pre-prison Vause as "icy cool", and called Prepon a "revelation" in the role.[48] David Hiltbrand wrote in The Philadelphia Inquirer that Prepon plays the character with "real vigor".[49] Maureen Ryan of HuffPost also praised Prepon’s portrayal, commenting that "underneath the cool-girl exterior is a whole lot of pain and loneliness, and Prepon has done a wonderful job of subtly bringing those notes forward."[50]  Chris Jancelewicz of The Huffington Post Canada deemed Vause "charismatic", adding that Prepon "excels as the bad girl influence".[51]

text: Kristi Turnquist of The Oregonian stated that although Vause would only be present in a few episodes of the second season, she "turns up to devastating effect early on".[52] In a review of the first episode of season two, Horatia Harrod of The Daily Telegraph commented that Vause is dedicated to self-preservation and thought that "another betrayal" of Chapman "reached new depths", thus she found it "puzzling" that Vause's bad-girl routine "seems to have won her a fan following, while [Chapman] is reviled."[53] Kevin Fallon of The Daily Beast noted that there is something about Vause that "convinces [Chapman] to throw her lifelong caution to the wind."[54] Kate Zernike of The New York Times said that Vause is "calculating" and that "there’s something black cat-like about [her] – she slips into the frame and you know things are about to go bad, or at least, get interesting."[55] Chris Harvey of The Daily Telegraph described Prepon's turn as "unforgettable" and explained that Vause’s wicked attitude and bespectacled look have made the character a "cult favourite".[56] In her review of the season two premiere, The Wall Street Journal's Candace Jackson wrote that "much like in Piper Kerman’s real-life experience, [the Chicago facility] is where [Chapman] runs into Vause". Prepon is "excellent in this role as ever", Jackson commended, walking a "believable line between flirtation and manipulation".[57] Spencer Kornhaber of The Atlantic observed that Vause was "correct earlier in [the second season's premiere] when she diagnosed how inconsistent Chapman's worldview is: "it is so hard to keep up with what is black and white for you"." According to Kornhaber, Vause’s "return, in letter and in flashback, offers another lesson in moral relativity and personal transformation. We finally see how [Chapman's] cultivated naivety and [Vause's] cultivated knowingness created a passionate, dangerous pairing early on."[58] Danielle Henderson remarked in Vulture that Vause "has balls" for sending Chapman letters after the incident in the season two premiere.[59]  In her review of the second season's finale, Zernike wrote that although Vause may not be the "typical re-entering felon", her speech to Chapman about needing to violate her probation, flee, and possibly go back to her former felonious life, "does raise some good points" regarding issues with the prison system.[60]

text: The Advocate's Nico Lang described Vause as a notably popular femme fatale character, whom the show brought back after the second season "despite the fact that the real-life character was barely in [Kerman's memoir] at all".[61] Charlotte Richardson Andrews wrote in Sight & Sound that Vause is one of the show's "believable and investment-worthy" queer characters, adding that the "tangled, romantic dance that [Vause and Chapman] do is compelling, nuanced and sexy where, in other hands, it might have felt exploitative".[62] In Digital Spy, Emma Dibdin described a "power shift" in the third season between Vause and Chapman and how this positively impacts both characters; "the power dynamic of [Chapman] and [Vause's] relationship is so dramatically shifted that everything about them feels fresh. [Vause] is more vulnerable than we've ever seen her, utterly shattered to find herself back in jail."[22] The Observer's Orly Greenberg said Vause returns to Litchfield "completely absent of her flashing eyes and snarky confidence, instead relying on [Chapman] as an almost maternal figure" as Chapman leads Vause to believe her return to prison is a product of "the system", rather than Chapman's own doing.[63] Emily Ambash of CutPrintFilm wrote that Vause is "emotionally broken" when she reenters prison; "embarrassed and ashamed of her own choices" and her failure in handling her brief freedom. Vause and Chapman's dynamic in the third season feels "fresh", different from the first season, as they confront their issues in the present without passive aggressiveness and without a focus on the past, Ambash noted; "the characters [are forced to] question their faith not just in each other but also in themselves when dealing with each other."[64] Michael Hindle of Comingsoon.net observed of Vause and Chapman's relationship, while "one has always had power over the other in some form or another now [Vause and Chapman] are more or less on an even playing field".[65] Joshua Alston of The A.V. Club said that Vause's return to prison "lands with a surprisingly soft impact". The character Stella "appears right on time to drive a wedge between [Chapman] and [Vause] just as a functional relationship becomes possible", and the show "manages to make [the looming love triangle] feel consequential."[66]

text: In her review of the third season, Jessica Kiang of Indiewire wrote that Vause and Chapman "come spectacularly together but find, again with some insight, that they’re a couple whose fire can burn on hate much easier than on routine."[67] Libby Hill argued in her The New York Times review of the season's second episode, that the Vause and Chapman relationship has become "toxic". The on-off lovers have "little meaningful interaction" with other characters while they are entangled in their tempestuous relationship, making them "emotionally unavailable" to other characters and to the audience. Hill hopes Vause is more integrated into "Litchfield's culture" and has more humanizing interactions with other characters as she did with Nichols in the first season.[68] In reviewing the season's second episode, The A.V. Club's Myles McNutt said that although he understands the attraction of Chapman and Vause and the significance of their intertwined story playing out in prison, their present storyline compels them to exist "independently of anything around them", removing them from ordinary life in the prison community of Litchfield.[69] Perri Nemiroff of Collider felt that it was "an unexpected and unearned twist" that Vause would reconnect with Chapman (through "hate sex") soon after finding out Chapman was responsible for her being back in prison. Their role play in the prison's drama class, however, "balances the palpable hostility with humor and heart, making the scene wildly entertaining, but also ensuring that the moment really means something, too."[70] In Entertainment Weekly, Jonathan Dornbush wrote that Vause and Chapman engaging in angry sex after the latter's hand in taking away her freedom is "another shift in their power dynamic". According to Dornbush, this occurs because Vause is "taking control after Piper took it away from her"; "She’s still in jail, she’s still lost her life on the outside, and she may be in more danger now than ever", Dornbush explained, "but at least she can control something."[71] Ambash said that the drama class improv exercise is necessary as it compels Vause and Chapman "to consider their real-life situation" and "find a sort of reconciliation".[72] Keith Nelson Jr. of Digital Trends found Vause's speech to correctional officer Rogers, on the malleable and interpretive nature of morality, to be frank "societal commentary".[73] Sarah Bredeman of FanSided opined that the commentary Vause made to Rogers is "one of the best 'we are not your salvation, you can’t save us, and this ain’t no Dead Poet’s Society kinda situation' speeches", and "it really hits home a good point."[74]

text: Kelly Lawler  in USA Today suggested that, as opposed to how Chapman painted her, Vause's legitimate concerns over the danger she is in makes her one of the most rational individuals on the show.[75] Perri Nemiroff of Collider said that Vause's season three flashbacks on her witnessing what her drug cartel boss is capable of made her present situation "far more dynamic and tense", giving her anxiety full credibility.[76] Alan Sepinwall of Uproxx felt that Vause's flashback, like Nichols' in an earlier episode, was "covering familiar territory solely to support prominent stories each was getting in the present", but at least both flashbacks were "somber" enough to make them an "interesting contrast" to the concurrent comedic moments at Litchfield.[77] In his review of the eleventh episode of the season, McNutt wrote that Vause's "isolation is turned around, and what once felt like a failure of the show’s writing becomes a logical character choice." Vause wants no part in what Chapman's prison business has turned into, knowing first-hand the dangers and the damage such an operation can cause. "I find myself respecting [Vause's] struggle to embrace her situation—it may not have served the season to this point," McNutt observed, "but it serves here as a productive counterpoint to [Chapman]".[78] According to Ambash, Vause [and Chapman's] notable absence from the third season's final group scenes – as Vause is trapped with the man who has been sent to kill her, and Chapman is off tattooing herself in the chapel – symbolizes their heightened distrust in others and the prison system itself. "For [Vause], unlike [Chapman], this wasn’t her choice. With safety stripped from her, and ties of trust cut by others, it’s no surprise [Vause] is kept away now from the freedom of the lake."[79]

text:
Ambash noted that Vause's season three storyline "highlights real issues regarding prisoners’ safety, especially when no real background checks are performed on new, untrained officers, who end up with easy access to inmates". Moreover, "it serves as a reminder that [Vause and Chapman] have basically switched roles" as Chapman embarked on "the smuggling business [and] showed little regard for [Vause]", finding a new sense of power and thrill in her illicit enterprise, while Vause wisely avoided it.[80] Lauren Chval of Chicago Tribune remarked that what is great about Vause is "she knows who she is and what she wants", trusts her instincts and has "never flipped on her feelings for Chapman".[81] Chval praised Prepon in the role, and remarked that Vause is "always more interesting in her scenes without Chapman".[82]
Perri Nemiroff of Collider said Prepon has been successful "taking Alex from a strong inmate you don’t want to mess with to someone super vulnerable who’s fearing for her life."[83]
Rick Porter of The Hollywood Reporter praised Prepon's performance as Vause, in the season finale, encounters the hitman sent to kill her, writing, "Prepon sells the heck of out Alex's disbelief and fear in the scene."[28]

text: The aftermath of Vause's storyline has a sweeping effect throughout the fourth season according to critics.[84][85][86][87] In Harper's Bazaar, Emma Dibdin wrote that Vause having to kill, dismember, and bury her would-be murderer was "the beginning of a season that saw almost every one of our beloved inmates go through her darkest hour yet."[88] According to Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya of Autostraddle, Vause and Lolly's "greenhouse murder" became one of the "most suspenseful through lines" of the season.[89] Isabel Mohan wrote in The Daily Telegraph that Vause's confidence from previous seasons is gone as she has become "a nervous wreck" and "her scenes are among the most macabre" of the season.[90] The Atlantic's Spencer Kornhaber considered Vause's "saga" to be some of series' "darkest scenes yet."[91] Several themes explored in the season are evoked in Vause's storyline. Jen Chaney of Vulture noted that the "murky issues surrounding blame" are prompted from the outset of the season, as both Vause and Lolly become responsible for the homicide of the hit man, "yet neither of them are true 'murderers' in that both were motivated by self-defense. It’s a case of both women doing wrong and neither of them doing wrong."[92] Kornhaber of The Atlantic said that Vause's acknowledgement that her attacker "was a person", echoed "a mantra that’s surfaced in various forms across the season".[93] Myles McNutt of The A.V. Club wrote, "the season has been consumed by the idea of guilt" and it manifests on Vause and Chapman's attitudes and behavior; in a latter episode, they decide "they aren’t willing to do anything that would add to their sense of guilt".[94] Vulture's Kathryn VanArendonk observed the notion that "regret is real, but time only moves in one direction" reflected on Vause and Chapman's conversation about changing the past, and the need to claim selfhood in Vause wanting to acknowledge the humanity of her attacker.[95]

text: Myles McNutt wrote that Vause being compelled to finish killing the man, instead of letting him die by Lolly's deed, "makes it more visceral, and creates an internalized event to frame her understanding of her status as a 'criminal' in the season to follow."[96] Hannah Shaw-Williams of Screen Rant regarded Vause taking the life of her attacker as "one of the premiere’s most emotionally powerful scenes, which reveals that despite her background as a hard-as-nails heroin dealer, Vause has never actually had to kill anyone before."[97] In Paste magazine, Matt Brennan commended "the quiet, tearful moment in which [Vause] ... decides to end his life." "Her remorse", Brennan noted, "for this choice, and for all the choices that led to it, is palpable, even if his death amounts to self-defense."[98] Emma Dibdin wrote in Digital Spy that while Vause's on-off lover Chapman "[insists] she's a force to be reckoned with", Vause "goes through the real moral transformation, pushed to brutal extremes by the hitman sent to kill her."[99] Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya of Autostraddle considered the scenes of Vause helping Lolly reconcile her thoughts and emotions "a cutting and intimate look at self-care and coping mechanisms."[89] The Atlantic's Spencer Kornhaber similarly reviewed Vause's "counseling" of Lolly, finding it a "succinct and touching glimpse at post-traumatic coping".[100] McNutt opined in The A.V. Club that the circumstances of Lolly's paranoia, the lack of evidence that the correctional officer was a hit man, the lack of trust in a broken system, and the difficulty in explaining away Vause and Lolly's actions in the homicide, meant that Lolly being taken away was "tragic" but ultimately "probably the best case scenario" when someone would have to be held responsible.[87]

text: Autostraddle's Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya considered Vause's decision to not tell Chapman what she has gone through an "emotionally significant" moment for the character. Vause is not on good terms with Chapman, but she also does not want Chapman to be implicated by it, Upadhyaya observed. According to Upadhyaya, apart from it being an overarching plot, the homicide has also had "long-term emotional significance" for Vause.[89] Ed Power of The Telegraph found it "wrenching" to see Vause "haunted by doubt and guilt", praising the show for "peeling back the layers, showing a new side to a person we thought we already knew" and the "disquiet and disbelief that flashed across [Vause's] face" in response to Chapman in the crack scene.[101] Alan Sepinwall of Uproxx wrote that Vause and Chapman needing to be under the influence of drugs "to finally be honest with each other about all their recent tragedies seemed about right for a relationship that's always thrived on a high level of drama."[102] In her review of the season's ninth episode, Pilot Viruet of Decider remarked that it is "good to see [Vause and Chapman] getting along and not plagued by relationship dramatics."[103] In his review of the season's finale, McNutt wrote that he found Vause "reacting to death by thinking about the hitman’s humanity rang true to her arc".[104] Prepon received praise for her performance in the fourth season.[105][106][107][101] Dana Schwartzof of The Observer lauded Prepon in the premiere episode writing that her performance should be up for Emmy consideration.[108] Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya of Autostraddle wrote that Prepon is "giving her best performance to date on the show, effectively capturing the turmoil of Alex’s mind and the psychological toll of this secret."[89]

text: Prepon won the Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film at the 18th Satellite Awards for her performance as Vause.[109]