Saregamapa Challenge 2005
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005:
Hero Honda Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005 was an extension of the famous Sa Re Ga Ma Pa programme that was first aired in 1995 on Zee TV.
32 contestants out of 48 were selected by 4 mentors - Himesh Reshammiya, Aadesh Srivastav, Ismail Darbar and Jatin-Lalit, and later they put into different gharanas. 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 Darbar’s group was the Yalgaar Ho Gharana.
Process:
From the final 32, each week two contestants ware eliminated until the final round. And finally, Debojit was the winner, Vinit Singh was the 1st runner up, and Hemachandra got 3rd place.
Height Controversy?
Though the winner may have been Debojit, many of the public still believe that Vinit had more votes and had won the competition due to his consistency. Many people still believe that Zee had purposely named Debojit as the winner due to Vinit’s height not being suitable for music videos and choose Debojit as a better image.
Gharana: Lets Rock
Guru: Himesh Reshammiya
Dilshad Ali - Jaipur
Bonjoytsana Bor Gohain - Assam
Joyeeta Sen - Guwahati
Vineet Singh - Lucknow U.P.
Priyani Vani - Indore
Aishwarya Nigam - Bihar (Muzaffarpur)
Supriya Joshi - Aligarh (U.P.)
Nandu Eurjar - Bhopal
Gharana: Jai Ho
Guru: Aadesh Shrivastav
Rajeev Kumar - Champa (H.P)
Himani Kapoor - Faridabad
Hemachandra - Hyderabad
Keka
Raktima Mukherjee - Kolkatta
Vishwas Rai - Allahabad
V. Hima Bindu - Hyderabad
Vishwanath Batunee – Ahamadabad
Gharana: Hum Mein Hain Dum
Guru: Jatin-Lalit
Swananda Karmarkar - London
Ujjani Mukherjee - Kolkata
Sharib Sabri - Jaipur
Sanchali Chatterjee - Jamshedpur
Abhijeet Ghoshal - Allahabad
Bhumik C. Shah – Ahamadabad
Gharana: Yalgaar Ho
Guru: Ismail Darbar
Twinkle Bajpai - Lucknow U.P.
Niladri Debnath - Location : Mumbai
Irfan Ali - Hyderabad
Nihira - Mumbai
Debojit Saha - Silchar (Assam)
Anindita Sarkar - Kolkata
Vinita Punn - New Delhi
Paresh Madhapara - Location : London (U.K.)