Sa Re Ga Ma Pa

Sa Re Ga Ma Pa is an Indian musical reality TV show. It started airing on Zee TV in 1995 as Sa Re Ga Ma. It is the oldest running singing reality show in India.
Series history
The first episode aired on 1 May 1995 and was hosted by Sonu Nigam. In the year 1999, the show was hosted by the Bangash brothers, Amaan Ali Bangash and Ayaan Ali Bangash, sons of legendary 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 & Afsha Musani. The most prominent names to host the show in later seasons were Javed Ali and the current host Aditya Narayan.

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 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 a total of 4 semifinals. In the finals, there was one male winner and another female winner.
 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.

There have also been multiple regional versions in languages like Gujarati, Marathi, Bengali, Kannada, Punjabi, Tamil, and Telugu.

#SeasonYearWinnerHostJudges1Sa Re Ga Ma1995Sanjeevani Bhelande & Mukund Phansakar (adult), 
Prashant Chauhan (children's special)Sonu NigamAnu Malik, Udit Narayan, Kumar Sanu, Aadesh Shrivastava, Raamlaxman, Khayyam2Sa Re Ga Ma1996Nobina MirjankarSonu Nigam3Sa Re Ga Ma1997Ravi Shanker SinghSonu NigamO. P. Nayyar4Sa Re Ga Ma1997Mohammed VakilSonu Nigam5Sa Re Ga Ma1998Bela ShendeSonu Nigam6Sa Re Ga Ma1999Archana UdupaSonu Nigam7Sa Re Ga Ma2000Shreya GhoshalSonu Nigam8Sa Re Ga Ma2001Anita PunditAmaan Ali Khan & Ayaan Ali Khan9Sa Re Ga Ma Pa: Golden Voice Hunt2003Arpita Mukherjee (singer) & Rahul SaxenaShaan10Sa Re Ga Ma Pa World Series2004Hrishikesh Ranade & Ronkini GuptaShaan11Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Campus Special2005Twinkle Bajpai, Manish BhattShaan12Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 20052005Debojit SahaShaanHimesh Reshammiya, Jatin-Lalit, Aadesh Shrivastava, Ismail Darbar13Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Ek Main Aur Ek Tu2006Aishwarya Nigam & Ujjaini MukherjeeShaan, Ishita ArunHariharan, Lesle Lewis14Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs2006Sanchita BhattacharyaShaanAbhijeet Bhattacharya, Alka Yagnik, Bappi Lahiri15Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 20072007Aneek DharAditya NarayanHimesh Reshammiya, Ismail Darbar, Bappi Lahiri, Vishal-Shekhar16Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs International2007Anamika ChoudhariAditya NarayanSuresh Wadkar, Sonu Nigam17Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge USA 20082008Darshana MenonAishwarya NigamSuresh Wadkar, Aadesh Shrivastava18Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 20092009Vaishali MhadeAditya NarayanHimesh Reshammiya, Aadesh Shrivastava, Shankar Mahadevan, Pritam19Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs 20092009Hemant BrijwasiDhairya Sorecha, Afsha MusaniAbhijeet Bhattacharya, Alka Yagnik20Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Mega Challenge2009Team Maharashtra - Vaishali Mhade, Kaushik Deshpande and Rohit RautKaran Singh Rathore and Archana Jani (first episode)
Vipul Roy and Manish PaulSonu Nigam, Pyarelal and Suresh Wadkar (finale)21Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Singing Superstar2010Kamal KhanPurab Kohli, Manish PaulDaler Mehndi, Vishal-Shekhar, Sajid-Wajid22Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs 20112011Azmat HussainJay SoniAdnan Sami, Kailash Kher, Javed Ali23Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 20122012Jasraj Jayant JoshiJaved AliShankar Mahadevan, Rahul Ram, Sajid-Wajid24Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs 20142014Gagan Gopalkrishna GaonkarAditya NarayanAlka Yagnik (Mahaguru), Shaan, Monali Thakur25Sa Re Ga Ma Pa2016Kushal PaulAditya NarayanPritam, Sajid-Wajid, Mika26Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs 20172017Shreyan Bhattacharya and Anjali GaikwadAditya NarayanHimesh Reshammiya, Javed Ali, Neha Kakkar27Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 20182018-2019Ishita VishvakarmaAditya NarayanWajid Khan, Shekhar Ravjiani, Sona Mohapatra (Replaced), Richa Sharma (Replacement of Sona Mohapatra)28Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l Champs 20192019Sugandha DateRavi DubeyShaan, Richa Sharma, Amaal Malik

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