# Sa Re Ga Ma Pa

Sa Re Ga Ma Pa is an Indian Hindi-language reality singing television show. It started airing on Zee TV in 1995 as Sa Re Ga Ma. It is the oldest running game show in India as well as the oldest show on private television in India. The name of the show is derived from the first five notes in the octave of classical Indian music.

## History

The first episode aired on 1 May 1995 and was hosted by Sonu Nigam. In the year 2000, the show was hosted by the Bangash brothers, Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash, sons of sarod-player Amjad Ali Khan. From 2002, Shaan started hosting the show. Till 2005, the show used to follow a format wherein experts in the field of music would judge the contestants and score them. The format changed with the advent of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005 which introduced the judges as mentors of different teams and scoring was primarily dependent on public voting. After Shaan quit hosting the show, the show was hosted by many others like Purab Kohli, Manish Paul, Karan Singh Rathore, Archana Jani, Vipul Roy, Jay Soni and even kids Dhairya Sorecha and Afsha Musani. The most prominent names to host the show in later seasons were Javed Ali and the current host Aditya Narayan.

## Overview

The show has seen multiple variations over the years :
* Sa Re Ga Ma: Contestants were scored only by the expert judges. There were 8 prelim (quarter-final) rounds, each consisting of 2 male singers and 2 female singers. One male winner and one female winner from each show competed in the semifinal rounds. There were 4 semifinal rounds where the 8 male and 8 female prelim winners participated. Each semifinal round had either 4 male or 4 female quarterfinal winners, so there were a total of 4 semifinals (2 semifinals with 4 males and 2 semifinals with 4 female singers). Each semifinal had only 1 winner. In the finals, the four semifinal winners, 2 male and 2 female competed against each other. Finally one male winner and one female winner became the winners of that season (also called a schedule).
* Sa Re Ga Ma Pa: 2 male singers, 2 female singers. The male and female winner would return the following episode and compete against a new challenger. At the start of this "roll-over" series, they had initially announced that anyone with over 10 wins would get an album; however, that never materialized.
* Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge: Teams were formed, each Gharana (team) had a judge who mentored them. Elimination was decided by public voting.
* Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Ek Main Aur Ek Tu: A duet singing competition which featured some new contestants as well as old contestants from earlier seasons. Weekly elimination decided by public voting.
* Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs: A singing competition for young children, which judges the prodigious kids on the basis of their voice quality, singing talent and versatility in performance.
* Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge USA: The first instalment of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge series in USA.
* Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Mega Challenge: A special season in which eight teams representing eight different states and consisting of total 24 talented contestants from past seasons of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa participated. The show was made to celebrate the 1000th episode of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa. Notable Indian singers and musicians were roped in to judge each of the episodes.

## Other Indian versions

Due to its success and popularity, it has been remade in languages including Marathi, Bengali, Kannada, Punjabi, Tamil, Odia, Telugu, Bhojpuri and Malayalam.

## Seasons

| # | Season | Year | Winner | Host | Judges |
| 1 | Sa Re Ga Ma - Schedule 1 | 1995 | Sanjeevani Bhelande and Mukund Phansalkar Runner Ups - Tyagraj Khadilkar, Hamsika Iyer | Sonu Nigam | Kumar Sanu, Aadesh Shrivastava, Ravi, Raam Laxman, Suresh Wadkar, Anu Malik, Ravindra Jain, Nikhil-Vinay Semi-finals - Sameer & Dilip Sen, Jatin–Lalit, Nadeem Shravan, Hariharan Final - Khayyam |
| 2 | Sa Re Ga Ma - Schedule 2 | 1995 | Nobina Mirjankar, Shivprasad Mallya Runner ups - Mehboob Ali, Chetna Umarji | Sonu Nigam | Anup Jalota, Peenaz Masani, Mahendra Kapoor, Sapna Mukherjee, Anil Mohile, Anupama Deshpande, Chandan Das, Shailendra Singh Semi-finals - Jagjit Kaur, Viju Shah, Javed Akhtar, Usha Khanna Finals - Kalyanji-Anandji |
| | Sa Re Ga Ma 29th episode children's special | 1995 | Prashant Chauhan, Sneha Pant | Sonu Nigam | Ranu Mukherjee |
| 3 | Sa Re Ga Ma - Schedule 3 | 1995-96 | Shaoni Mitra, Junaid Akhtar Runner ups - Ameya Date, Sampa Das | Sonu Nigam | Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Ranjit Barot, Vani Jairam, Uttam Singh, Sachin Pilgaonkar, Vinod Rathod, Manhar Udhas Semi-finals - Roop Kumar Rathod, Kuldip Singh, Kavita Krishnamurthy, Ustad Ghulam Mustafa Khan Finals - Pt. Shivkumar Sharma |
| 4 | Sa Re Ga Ma - Schedule 4 | 1996 | Mridula Chatterjee, Ravishankar Singh Runner ups - Naresh, Deepali Somaiya | Sonu Nigam | Narendra Chanchal Finals - O.P. Nayyar |
| | Sa Re Ga Ma 50th episode celebration | 1996 | Sanjeevani Bhelande, Anagha, Lata Naidu, Soma Banerjee, Mukund Phalsankar, Jaswinder Singh, Sajjad Ali, Shailesh | Sonu Nigam | Asha Parekh |
| 5 | Sa Re Ga Ma | 1996 | Amrita Khadilkar, Swapnil Bandodkar | Sonu Nigam | Rajendra Rizvi Semi-finals - Pankaj Udhas Finals - Naushad |
| 6 | Sa Re Ga Ma | 1996-97 | Kajal Chandiramani, Ninad Mehta Runner ups - Vijay Prakash, Smita Joshi | Sonu Nigam | Indivar, Sonik Omi, Arun Date Semi-finals - Begum Parveen Sultana Finals - Jagjit Singh |
| | Sa Re Ga Ma 75th episode children's special | 1996 | Shreya Ghoshal, Saagar Kendurkar | Sonu Nigam | Kalyanji-Anandji |
| 7 | Sa Re Ga Ma | 1997 | Rinku Kalia, Sanjeev Rambhadran Runner ups - Dharna Pahwa, Devesh Chaturvedi | Sonu Nigam | Ustad Muhammad Hussain-Ahmed Hussain, Shobha Mudgal, Madhurani, Meena Kapoor Semi-finals - Pandit Rajan Mishra- Sajan Mishra, Dilshad Khan-Begum Parveen Sultana Finals - Anil Biswas |
| | Sa Re Ga Ma 100th episode celebration | 1997 | | Sonu Nigam | |
| 8 | Sa Re Ga Ma | 1997 | Bela Shende, Parthiv Gohil Runner ups - Dhananjay Bhatt, Devyani | Sonu Nigam | Ronu Majumdar, Rajkumari, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Daman Sood-Y.S. Mulky Semi-finals - Anuradha Paudwal Finals - Pt. Jasraj |
| 9 | Sa Re Ga Ma | 1998 | Sudeshna Ganguli, Mohammed Wakil Runner ups - Abhijeet Ghoshal, Shalini | Sonu Nigam | Tejpal Singh-Surinder Singh, Vishal Bhardwaj Finals - Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia |
| 10 | Sa Re Ga Ma 150th episode celebration Mega Finals | 1998 | Bela Shende, Mohammed Wakil Runner ups - Mukund Phalsankar, Parthiv Gohil, Sanjeevani Bhelande, Sudeshna Ganguli | Sonu Nigam | Anil Biswas, Naushad, Kalyanji-Anandji, Pt. Jasraj, Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasia Jagjit Singh, Khayyam, Begum Parveen Sultana, Rajkumari, O.P. Nayyar |
| | Sa Re Ga Ma Mega Finals (Children's Special) | 1998 | Sneha Pant (Runner up - Shreya Ghoshal) | Sonu Nigam | Usha Mangeshkar, Meena Tai |
| 11 | Sa Re Ga Ma UK | 1998-99 | Siza Roy, Debashish Sengupta Runner ups - Malini Awasthi, Asif | Sonu Nigam | Pandit Dinesh, Stephen Luscombe, Biddu Semi-finals - Suresh Wadkar Finals - Jagjit Singh, Ghulam Ali, Mehdi Hassan, Runa Laila, Farida Khanum |
| 12 | Sa Re Ga Ma | 1998 | Archana Udupa, Avadhoot Gupte Runner Ups - Gaurav Bangya, Poorva | Sonu Nigam | Chitra Semi-finals - Kishan Prasad Maharaj Finals - Pyarelal |
| | Sa Re Ga Ma Christmas New Year Celebration | 1999 | | Sonu Nigam | Jagjit Singh, Ghulam Ali, Mehdi Hassan, Runa Laila, Farida Khanum, Kiki Dee |
| 13 | Sa Re Ga Ma 200th episode celebration Mega Finals | 1999 | Shreya Ghoshal, Jaswinder Singh Runner Ups - Archana Udupa, Sampa Kundu, Vijay Prakash, Ameya Date | Sonu Nigam | Zakir Hussain, Girja Devi, Anil Biswas, Vilayat Khan, Ram Narayan, Pandit Shivkumar Sharma |
| 14 | Sa Re Ga Ma USA | 1999 | Sangeeta Nerurkar, Nazakat Ali Runner ups - Sharafat Ali, Maithili Panse, Divya Sampat | Sonu Nigam | Nitin Mukesh, Lakshmi Shankar, Alamelu Mani, Ustad Tari Khan Finals - Zakir Hussain, Manna Dey, Hariharan, Ustad Amjad Ali, Parvez Mehdi |
| | Sa Re Ga Ma Taj Mahal Millennium celebration | 2000 | | Sonu Nigam | |
| 15 | Talent of the Millenium | 2000 | Sumant, Prajakta Joshi Runners Up - Suraj Singh, Ritu Chatterjee, Amrita | Sonu Nigam | Sanjeev Darshan, Sukhwinder Singh, Sajid-Wajid, Jaspinder Narula, Ayaan Ali Bangash, Amaan Ali Bangash, Arati Ankalikar Semi-finals - Poornima, Lalit Sen, Sandeep Chowta, Taufiq Qureshi, Sanjeev Abhyankar, Anoushka Shankar Finals - Pandit Ravi Shankar |
| 16 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2001 | 2001 | Anita Pundit | Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan | |
| 17 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2002 | 2002 | Hricha Mukherjee (Hricha Debraj) | Shaan | Khayyam, Begum Parveen Sultana, Sitara Devi, Ranjit Barot, Shobha Gurtu, Anandji, Gulshan Bawra, Ghulam Mustafa |
| 18 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa World Series | 2004 | Hrishikesh Ranade and Ronkini Gupta | Shaan | |
| 19 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Campus Special | 2005 | Twinkle Bajpai, Manish Bhatt | Shaan | |
| 20 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005 | 2005 | Debojit Saha | Shaan | Himesh Reshammiya, Jatin–Lalit, Aadesh Shrivastava, Ismail Darbar |
| 21 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Ek Main Aur Ek Tu | 2006 | Aishwarya Nigam and Ujjaini Mukherjee | Shaan, Ishita Arun | Hariharan, Lesle Lewis |
| 22 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs | 2006 | Sanchita Bhattacharya | Shaan | Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Alka Yagnik, Bappi Lahiri |
| 23 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007 | 2007 | Aneek Dhar | Aditya Narayan | Himesh Reshammiya, Ismail Darbar, Bappi Lahiri, Vishal–Shekhar |
| 24 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l Champs International | 2007 | Anamika Choudhari | Aditya Narayan | Suresh Wadkar, Sonu Nigam |
| 25 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge USA 2008 | 2008 | Darshana Menon | Aishwarya Nigam | Suresh Wadkar, Aadesh Shrivastava |
| 26 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2009 | 2009 | Vaishali Mhade | Aditya Narayan | Himesh Reshammiya, Aadesh Shrivastava, Shankar Mahadevan, Pritam |
| 27 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l Champs 2009 | 2009 | Hemant Brijwasi | Dhairya Sorecha, Afsha Musani | Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Alka Yagnik |
| 28 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Mega Challenge | 2009 | Team Maharashtra - Vaishali Mhade, Kaushik Deshpande and Rohit Shyam Raut | Karan Singh Rathore and Archana Jani (first episode) Vipul Roy and Manish Paul | Sonu Nigam, Pyarelal and Suresh Wadkar (finale) |
| 29 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Singing Superstar | 2010 | Kamal Khan | Purab Kohli, Manish Paul | Daler Mehndi, Vishal–Shekhar, Sajid-Wajid |
| 30 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l Champs 2011 | 2011 | Azmat Hussain | Jay Soni | Adnan Sami, Kailash Kher, Javed Ali |
| 31 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2012 | 2012 | Jasraj Jayant Joshi | Javed Ali | Shankar Mahadevan, Rahul Ram, Sajid-Wajid |
| 32 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l Champs 2014 | 2014 | Gagan Gopalkrishna Gaonkar | Aditya Narayan | Alka Yagnik (Mahaguru), Shaan, Monali Thakur |
| 33 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2016 | 2016 | Kushal Paul Runner up -Sachin Kumar Valmiki | Aditya Narayan | Pritam, Sajid-Wajid, Mika |
| 34 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l Champs 2017 | 2017 | Shreyan Bhattacharya and Anjali Gaikwad | Aditya Narayan | Himesh Reshammiya, Javed Ali, Neha Kakkar |
| 35 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2018 | 2018-2019 | Ishita Vishwakarma | Aditya Narayan | Wajid Khan, Shekhar Ravjiani, Sona Mohapatra, Richa Sharma (Replaced Mohapatra) |
| 36 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l Champs 2019 | 2019 | Sugandha Date | Ravi Dubey | Shaan, Richa Sharma, Amaal Malik |
| 37 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l Champs 2020 | 2020 | Aryananda R Babu | Manish Paul | Alka Yagnik, Udit Narayan, Kumar Sanu, Himesh Reshammiya, Javed Ali (Replaced Narayan and Sanu) |
| 38 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2021 | 2021-2022 | Neelanjana Ray | Aditya Narayan | Himesh Reshammiya, Vishal Dadlani, Shankar Mahadevan |
| 39 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l Champs 2022 | 2022-2023 | Jetshen Dohna Lama | Bharti Singh | Shankar Mahadevan, Anu Malik, Neeti Mohan |
| 40 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2023 | 2023 | Albert Kabo Lepcha | Aditya Narayan | Himesh Reshammiya, Anu Malik, Neeti Mohan |
| 41 | Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2024 | 2024-2025 | Shradha Mishra(TeamSachinJigar) Runner ups : - 1st - Subhashree Debnath 2nd - Ujwal Gujbhar 3rd - Bidisha Hatimuria 4th - Maharshi Pandya 5th - Parvathi Meenakshi | Vipul Roy, Salman Ali | Sachet–Parampara, Guru Randhawa, Sachin–Jigar |