New Delhi, June 19: 19th June 2025, Celebrating India’s unparalleled love with the country’s most debated dish, Biryani, Versuni India, home to Philips Domestic Appliances, in association with celebrity chef Ranveer Brar, today announced the launch of the ‘OneChef Biryani Premier League’, a first-of-its-kind celebration of India‘s rich biryani heritage that invites food lovers across the country to vote for their favourite style of biryani.
The OneChef Biryani Premier League will ignite culinary rivalries and regional pride across Pune, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kolkata, bringing together food communities, creators and biryani enthusiasts to champion their city’s favourite and decide which biryani deserves to be crowned India‘s ultimate favourite.
At the heart of the initiative lies a simple but powerful insight: India doesn’t have one biryani. It has many. From the slow-cooked Dum Biryani of Hyderabad and Kolkata’s iconic potato-laden biryani to Chennai’s spice-forward preparations and the distinctive styles celebrated across Bangalore and Pune, every biryani follows a unique cooking grammar, shaped by local ingredients, traditions and techniques. Some require slow dum cooking, some rely on sautéing and layering, some are prepared through steaming, while others adopt a pulao-style approach.
Interestingly, this extraordinary diversity of biryanis also became one of the inspirations behind OneChef by Philips, Versuni‘s all-in-one cooking innovation designed for the way India truly cooks.
Indian kitchens are dynamic and deeply layered. A single dish often requires multiple cooking techniques, moving seamlessly from sautéing and steaming to pressure cooking, slow cooking, layering and resting. Biryani perhaps captures this complexity better than any other dish.
Recognising this diversity, Versuni developed OneChef by Philips as a versatile kitchen companion that brings together multiple cooking possibilities in one appliance. Designed for modern Indian homes, OneChef enables consumers to prepare a wide range of dishes and cooking styles in a single appliance, making it easier to recreate everything from slow-cooked biryanis and curries to steamed preparations, one-pot meals and everyday recipes.
Speaking on the launch, Pooja Baid, Chief Marketing Officer, Versuni India, said: “Biryani is far more than a meal in India, it is an emotion, identity and pride. Every city has its own version, and every family has its own story around it. Through the OneChef Biryani Premier League campaign, we want to celebrate this incredible diversity and the conversations that food inspires. At Versuni, we have always believed that meaningful innovation begins with understanding people and their everyday habits. The many styles of biryani across India beautifully reflect the richness and complexity of Indian cooking, and OneChef was designed keeping this versatility in mind. It is our attempt to create an innovation that adapts to the way India cooks, rather than asking India to adapt to technology.”
On this occasion, Chef Ranveer Brar expressed, Every biryani has its own personality, technique and story. That’s what makes it India‘s most loved and debated dish. The OneChef Biryani Premier League is a celebration of this diversity and an invitation for every Indian to proudly stand behind the biryani they love.”
With this initiative, over the coming weeks, food lovers from across the country will be encouraged to cast their votes, champion their regional favourites and join one of India‘s biggest food conversations.
Who’s voting for what
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The campaign will also see participation from creators, food communities and city pages across Pune, Chennai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kolkata, fuelling regional pride and friendly rivalries as India decides which biryani (out of Hyderabadi Biryani, Awadhi Biryani, Kolkata’s Biryani, Bombay Biryani, Sindhi Biryani, Kashmiri Biryani, Kanpuri Biryani, Bangalore and Goan Fish Biryani) deserves to be crowned the nation’s favourite.