Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005

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A montage of the Final 2 Contestants and Mentors.
Genre	Interactive reality Musical game show
Creator(s)	Zee TV, Gajendra Singh
Starring	see below
Opening theme	"Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005"
Country of origin	India
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	approx.
Production
Running time	approx. 52 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Zee TV
Picture format	480i (SDTV),
Original run	July 2005 – February 2006
Links
Official website

Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005 was a reality series, an extension of the famous Sa Re Ga Ma programmed aired on TV ten years back on Zee TV. With the Challenge series, Zee brought 48 great singers across India.

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[edit] Synopsis

[edit] Elimination rounds

The process started with elimination rounds by the four mentors: Aadesh Shrivastav (Baghban fame), Himesh Reshamiya (Tere Naam fame), Jatin-Lalit (Pehla Nasha fame) and Ismail Darbar (HDDCS fame). The mentors picked one girl and one boy amidst 4 boys and 4 girls who took part during the course of a month. Hence, 16 contestants out of the 48 were eliminated. The 32 remaining contestants consists of 16 boys and 16 girls.

There was only one contestant that was proven to be too good for this competition in the elimination round and that was Nihira. Her Challka Challka Re song was tremendous and won her the title of 'best singer of Challenge 2005'.

[edit] Gharanas

The 32 remaining contestants were later put into different Gharanas (or Groups). Each Gharana had to pick 8 contestants in total from the contestants selected through the auditions, elimination rounds and wildcard entries.

Aadesh Shrivastav's group was the Jai Ho Gharana, Himesh Reshimiyaa's group was the Lets Rock Gharana, Jatin Lalit's group was the Hum Mein Hain Dum Gharana and Ismail Durbar's group was the Yalgaar Ho Gharana.

[edit] Final 32

From the final 32 round onwards, guest judges like Shiv, Hari, Pt. Jasraj, Alka Yagnik, Jagjit Singh etc. were invited to comment and judge all the remaining contestants. Each week features a different judge.

Also, from this round onwards, the public was able to vote via SMS or by phone for their favourite singer. Each week, two contestants will be eliminated until the final round.

The only three contestants to have gone through the perfect green card on first day pattern were Vinit, Hemachandra, and Nihira. Nihira was the only girl out of all to have been perfect when being chosen by judges.

[edit] Final 12

From the final 12 onwards, week after week, after entertaining audiences from around the world with some fantastic music, singer by singer got eliminated due to lack of votes from the public.

The final 12 in order of elimination with their gharana are: