SRGMP c2009 29th August 2008 Episode 17 Update

Today’s episode featured the actor Farhan Akhtar and colleagues, from the movie Rock On. They performed the title track. The theme for today’s episode was Rock Songs.

The first gharana to perform was Pritamji’s:

DHOOM GHARANA

*Shujat sang Zara si Dil Mein de Jaga tu from Jannat. All appreciated his performance. Ghulam Ali said that his sur was very strong throughout the song and he proved that a classical singer can sing rock songs as well.

*Yashita sang Meter Down from Taxi 9211. Everyone warned her not to be over confident in her singing and Aadeshji promised her a song in one of his forthcoming movies.

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SRGMP c2009 24th August 2008 Episode 16 Update

This episode was based around the R n B genre which has recently appeared in the last few years in the Bollywood music industry.

The first gharana to perform was Himesh Reshammiya’s

ROCK GHARANA:
*Sunvinder sang Bas ek King from Singh is Kinng. The audience asked Sunvinder for a once more and Pritamji performed the song with him.
*Manisha sang Zara Zara Touch Me from Race. Everyone appreciated her performance alot.
*Zaheer sang Move Your Body from Jonny Gaddar. All mentors and mahaguru’s appreciated his performance and the audience learnt that Zaheer is a big fan of Suresh Wadekar.

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SRGMP c2009 23rd August 2008 Episode 17 Update

The 2 new mahaguru’s for this episode were Ghulam Ali & Suresh Wadekar.
The theme for this week’s episodes was Pop songs.

The first gharana to perform was Shankarji’s LAKSHYA GHARANA:

*Pratibha sang Rangeela Maaro Dholna – Shuba Mugdal. All the mentors appreciated her performance.
*Tarun sang Piya Re. He was nervous while singing the mukhda of the song but then he performed really well.

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During the Rakhi special episode last week, there was a huge rift witnessed between the mentors of Zee TV’s reality show SaReGaMaPa regarding the elimination of contestants from the show. The four mentors were divided on whom to bring back via Sanjivani bhooti. Himesh and Aadesh were unable to decide on whom to eliminate and kept their mouth zipped while Shankar and Pritam questioned them for changing the format according to their will and wish. This heated argument, led to an ugly spat between the four and as a foregone conclusion they just left the shoot.

This week the mentors have taken a conscious decision of not talking to each other. They realized that their arguments on the sets don’t go down well with the audience and hence this decision.

Shankar Mahadevan, the mentor of Lakshya Gharana to throw some light on this issue. “We all four mentors have a good bonding with each other. Unlike other reality shows where the judges fight, we gel very well. But now that we have disagreements, we have decided not to talk with each and will not get into arguments. Whatever we interact on the show will directly be with the contestants and via the host. This will help us maintain decorum in the sets and this will also not affect our personality in front of the audience. None of us wish to spread a negative vibe which will affect the relationship with the audience as well as the contestants and thus, we have taken this decision”.

When quizzed if this incident has affected their personal relationship, he declined the statement saying, “We all are friends and you can see all this in the coming week. It will be very interesting for the audience seeing the way we comment. It is rather very cute and a sweet interaction between us. Audience will definitely enjoy this change”.

After the major tiff between the mentors last week, maybe this particular decision was much needed.

Though everything seems calm and quiet, the show insiders are just waiting for the volcano to erupt any moment now. So, is this a silence before a big storm? Only time can answer to this!!

Hello Friends,

There will be 2 new mahaguru’s on this week’s show:

*Suresh Wadekar

*Ghulam Ali

I am sure it will be another rocking episode!!!

SOURCE: ZEE TV

SRGMP c2009 16th August 2008 Episode 14

Today’s episode was a Shankar Mahadevanji Special.

Shankarji opened the show by performing on Jhoom Barabaar Jhoom.
The special guests on the show were Ekta Kapoor & Tushaar Kapoor. They were there to promote their film C-KKompany.
All the contestants welcomed Ekta on the show by singing the song Suna Suna from her film Krishna Cottage. Ekta said that her favourite song however was a song which had been composed by Himeshji for her earlier film Koi Aap Sa, and she asked Himeshji to sing a few lines of the song.
The contestants were also celebrating “Rakshabandan” and Tushaar asked Sara from LAKSHYA GHARANA if she would tie him a rakhi as she was missing her brother’s alot.

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SRGMP c2009 15th August 2008 Episode 13

Today’s episode was an Independence Day special.

The contestants opened the show by singing “Meri Desh ki Dharti” with Aditya.
The new Mahaguru for this week along with Kavita Didi was Anandji. Himeshji had to take his leave and couldn’t be there for the rest of the episode.

The first gharana to perform in this episode was Pritamji’s:

DHOOM GHARANA

*Mithika – Gulista Hamara. All the mentors appreciated her performance, and the way that she can sing in falsetto so easily.

*Shujat – Tere bina dil Na lage by Faakhir. The mentors felt that his sur was not correct in this song.

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On the eve of Independence Day this year, Zee Sa Re Ga Ma Pa makes an effort to relive the era of Undivided India. An era where the whole nation, forgetting all the discripancies stood together for a common cause – Set India Free against the British Rule.In an effort to curb the disparities between the two nations, both the Indian as well as Pakistani contestants paid tribute to this concept of Undivided India.

As a mark of respect on such an occasion Saregamapa took the pleasure of inviting Indian Armed Forces to be a part of this show.

The most jubilant amongst all were the NRI participants. For them it was a different high to be celebrating Independence Day in this fashion. These kids who have been born and brought up abroad have never known the true essence of Independence. For them this episode was almost like celebrating a festival. The zeal, vigour and enthusiasm was there to be seen.

Some wonderful performances were put up by the participants. “Pakistan Ki Beti”, Sara Raza Khan of Lahore, sang “Aisa desh hai mera” from the movie Veer Zara, which depicted the concept of Undivided India beautifully. Mitika from Chandigarh performed on the number “Bharat humko Jaan se pyaara hai” and Shujat from Pakistan performed “Tere bina dil na lage”. Anupama performed “ Vaande Mataram” (lataji’s version) and Sayon from Kolkata performed on “ Vaande Mataram “ (A.R Rahman’s version). Fareed from Rajasthan performs Desh mere.

Though Himesh Reshammiya was missing from the show, his void was filled by none other than Shankar Mahadevan. His superb mimicry of Himesh put everybody into peals of laughter.