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Gajendra Singh (producer)
Gajendra Singh is an Indian television producer and director. His most popular shows include Close-Up Antakshari, SaReGaMa and the recent Amul Music ka Maha Muqqabla and Sur Kshetra. He grew with Zee TV and took Indian Television to an international level. He appeared in "Limca book of Records" for making the longest running musical reality show "Antakshari" on Indian Television diaspora for 10 continuous years. This was followed by 'Sa Re Ga Ma' another longest running show along with the programs like India's Best Cinestar's ki Khoj and Lil' Champs. Professional career He is known for pioneering and popularizing game shows, and musical talent shows on Indian Television. He had a long and successful association with Zee TV till 2006. Due to some reasons he left Zee TV and commenced with Saaibaba Telefilms and created various projects with Star TV, Sony Entertainment Television Asia, SAB TV, Doordarshan, Sun TV Network and various other regional channels. He is from Azamgarh, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Television In India
The television industry in India is very diverse and produces thousands of programs in many of the Indian languages. More than half of all Indian households own a television. As of 2016, the country had over 857 channels of which 184 were pay channels. The Hindi, Telugu and Tamil language television industries are by far the largest television industries in India. History In January 1950, ''The Indian Express'' reported that a television was put up for demonstration at an exhibition in the Teynampet locality of Madras (now Chennai) by B. Sivakumaran, a student of electrical engineering. A letter was scanned and its image displayed on a cathode ray tube screen. The report said that "It may be this is not the whole of television but it is certainly the most significant link in the system" and added that the demonstration of the sort could be the "first in India". The first TV transmitter of India was installed in the Electronics and Telecommunications engineering department of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doordarshan
Doordarshan (abbreviated as DD; Hindi: , ) is an Indian public service broadcaster founded by the Government of India, owned by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and one of Prasar Bharati's two divisions. One of India's largest broadcasting organisations in studio and transmitter infrastructure, it was established on 15 September 1959. Doordarshan, which also broadcasts on digital terrestrial transmitters, provides television, radio, online and mobile service throughout metropolitan and regional India and overseas. History Beginnings The channel began modestly as an experimental broadcaster in Delhi on 15 September 1959, with a small transmitter and a makeshift studio. Regular daily transmission started in 1965 as part of All India Radio, with a five-minute news bulletin read by Pratima Puri. Salma Sultan joined Doordarshan in 1967, and became a news anchor. '' Krishi Darshan'' debuted on Doordarshan on 26 January 1967, and is Indian television's longest ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Jeeta Wohi Super Star
''Jo Jeeta Wohi Super Star'' is an Indian reality television series which aims to bring the winners of 'all' singing reality shows completed previously and the runners-up together competed for the 'Superstar' title under 'one roof'. The series' grand-finale took place on 12 July 2008, Rahul Vaidya emerged as the winner Cast Host * Mandira Bedi Judges * Farah Khan * Vishal–Shekhar Participants * In this show, one player from Challenger team will cross over to champions team every Saturday on the basis Of Judges's score of Friday episode. Guest appearances * Shaan *Mika Singh *Mahalakshmi Iyer *Udit Narayan * Harman Baweja * Sukhwinder Singh * Richa Sharma Grand Finale *Neeraj Shridhar *Sonu Nigam *Bipasha Basu *Vidya Balan *Shahid Kapoor Guest from Star Parivaar * Hussain Kuwajerwala ... Kumkum (a.k.a. Sumit Wadhawa) * Juhi Parmar ... Kumkum (a.k.a. Kumkum Wadhawa) * Parul Chauhan ... Sapna Babul Ka...Bidaai (a.k.a. Ragini Khanna) * Ishita Dhawan ... Sapna Babul Ka. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge USA 2008
''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge USA 2008'' is an Indian television singing competition show that premiered on 20 June 2008 on Zee TV channel. It is the first instalment of the ''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge'' series in US and the 6th public voting competition in the ''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa'' series. Chronologically, the show is preceded by ''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs International'', however systematically it is followed by ''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2009''. Concept Like other singing competitions, the concept of this season of ''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa'' is to discover singing talent from the US. Auditions will be held in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas / Fort Worth and the finals will be recorded in Dallas, Texas. Host * Aishwarya Nigam Judges * Suresh Wadkar * Aadesh Srivastav Contestants Top 20 finalists Male # Jeffrey Iqbal – 1st runner-up (27 July 2008) # Farhan Zaidi – 2nd runner-up (27 July 2008) # Krushanu Majmundar – eliminated (27 July 2008) - semi-finalist # Rahul Lakh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs, is a sub-series of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, it is a singing competition television series, which airs on Zee TV. Young children participate in this show and are judged on the basis of their voice quality, singing talent and versatility in their performance. In 2021, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li’l Champs Nepal was organized. Series history The first season was first aired on 8 July 2006. It was hosted by playback singer Shaan and judged by Abhijeet Bhattacharya, Alka Yagnik and Bappi Lahiri. Sanchita Bhattacharya became the winner of the first season. See also * Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi L'il Champs * 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 ... References External links Official website {{DEFAULTSORT:Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs 2006 India ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Ek Main Aur Ek Tu
''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Ek Main Aur Ek Tu'' is a duet singing competition and was the 2nd public voting singing competition in the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa series on Zee TV. It featured some new contestants and some old contestants from Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005 that were paired up in duets. The winners of the show were Ujjaini Mukherjee and Aishwarya Nigam, and the runners up were Sharib and Bonjyotsna. Like all the other shows in the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa series, Ek Main Aur Ek Tu was hosted by Shaan. The judges for the show were Lesle Lewis and Hariharan. The Grand Finale was held at the Airport Expo in Dubai, U.A.E Contestants There were 18 final contestants that were paired up into 9 duets: * Vineeta Punn & Niladri Debnath * Raktima Mukherjee & Vishwanath Batunge * Joyeeta Sen & Saptak Bhattacharjee * Sinchan Dixit & Mohammed Irfan * Prajakta Ranade & Hrishikesh Ranade * Twinkle Bajpai & Vishwas Rai * Sanchali Chatterjee & Rajeev Chamba * Banjyotsna Borgohain & Sharib Sabri (runners-up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005
''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005'' is a reality series, an extension of the ''Sa Re Ga Ma Pa'' programme that was first aired in 1995 on Zee TV. With the new "Challenge" series, Zee TV brought 48 potential singers that are living in India. Elimination table Mahayudh Chakravyuh Brahmastra Voters were supposed to SMS their votes for the Gharana, and the mentor with the most votes would be able to call back 3 boys and 3 girls, out of which the top boy and girl would be voted back in. The Jai Mata Di Rock Gharana got the most votes, and so Himesh chose who would be called back to join his Gharana. Agnipariksha Synopsis Elimination rounds The process had started with elimination rounds by the four mentors: Aadesh Shrivastava, Himesh Reshammiya, Jatin–Lalit and Ismail Darbar. The mentors picked one girl and one boy amidst 4 boys and 4 girls who took part during the course of six weeks. Through this, 16 contestants out of the 48 were eliminated. The 32 remaining conte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Voice Hunt
Golden means made of, or relating to gold. Golden may also refer to: Places United Kingdom *Golden, in the parish of Probus, Cornwall *Golden Cap, Dorset * Golden Square, Soho, London *Golden Valley, a valley on the River Frome in Gloucestershire *Golden Valley, Herefordshire United States * Golden, Colorado, a town West of Denver, county seat of Jefferson County *Golden, Idaho, an unincorporated community *Golden, Illinois, a village *Golden Township, Michigan *Golden, Mississippi, a village * Golden City, Missouri, a city * Golden, Missouri, an unincorporated community *Golden, Nebraska, ghost town in Burt County *Golden Township, Holt County, Nebraska *Golden, New Mexico, a sparsely populated ghost town *Golden, Oregon, an abandoned mining town * Golden, Texas, an unincorporated community *Golden, Utah, a ghost town *Golden, Marshall County, West Virginia, an unincorporated community Elsewhere * Golden, County Tipperary, Ireland, a village on the River Suir *Golden Vale, Mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titan Antakshari
''Titan Antakshari'', also known ''Antakshari'', ''Close-Up Antakshari'', ''Sansui Antakshari'', ''Fair-Deal Antakshari'' and ''Titan Antakshari - World Champions'' is an Indian musical game show that aired on Zee TV every Friday. The show was formerly called ''Sansui Antakshari'' and that programme was hosted by Pallavi Joshi and Annu Kapoor from 1994 to 2005. Titan Antakshari is now hosted by Himani Kapoor and Sunil Pal and is in a completely different format from ''Sansui Antakshari''. During the second season, it featured the three finalists from Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs, Sameer, Sanchita and Diwakar as the show's "idols". The previous idols for the "Elaan-e-Jung" were Bani ke Parwaane, Vidya ke Mastane and Saloni ke Deewane. Currently, the show is in its third season and they are having an "Intercollegiate Championship" competition. Cast ''Sansui Antakshari'' * Annu Kapoor- Host (1994-2005) * Rajeshwari Sachdev- Co-host (1994-2001) * Pallavi Joshi- Co-host (2001-2005 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antakshari Intercollegiate Championship
''Titan Antakshari – Intercollegiate Championship'' is an Indian musical game show that aired on Zee TV every Friday. The show is a replacement of the Titan Antakshari -L'il Champs. Concept Antakshari...Inter college special is hosted by Karan Oberoi and Himani Kapoor. The show is featuring the best and intelligent students of several colleges of India, who will form the three teams: DEEWANE, PARWANE and MASTANE. The contestants of these three teams will criticize each other's teams, and create moments of fun n hungama. Three rounds followed by "Grand Finale". The season-2 finale teams were from Kanpur, Kolkata and Ahemdabad in which Yami & Yashi won. Winners ''Intercollegiate Championship'' * Yami Kulshrestha (2007) *Yashi Kulshrestha (2007) Cast ''Sansui Antakshari'' * Annu Kapoor- Host (1994–2006) * Rajeshwari Sachdev- Co-host (1994–2001) * Pallavi Joshi- Co-host (2001–2005) ''Titan Antakshari'' * Sunil Pal- Host (season 1) * Himani Kapoor- Host * Karan Ober ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
STAR Plus
StarPlus is an Indian Hindi language general entertainment pay television channel owned by Disney Star (formerly ''Star India''), a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company India. The network's programming consists of family dramas, comedies, youth-oriented reality shows, shows on crime and television films. History When it was first launched on 21 February 1992, StarPlus was an English language entertainment television channel, broadcasting international television shows from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, with Zee TV being the Hindi-language counterpart. After Star ended its relationship with Zee TV on 31 March 1996, StarPlus was transformed completely into a Hindi-language channel (from April 1996 to June 2000, StarPlus was a bilingual TV channel consisting of Hindi and English programmes), with Star World becoming the network's English-language counterpart channel and the company's CEO Sameer Nair and programming chief Tarun Katial int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonu Nigam
Sonu Nigam (born 30 July 1973) is an Indian singer, music director and actor. He has been described in the media as one of the most popular and successful playback singers of Hindi Cinema and Kannada Cinema. He has been honoured by the Government of India with Padma Shri, the country's fourth-highest civilian honour for his contribution in the field of arts. Nigam sings predominantly in Hindi and Kannada language films but has also sung in Bengali, Marathi, Telugu, Tamil, Odia, Bhojpuri, Gujarati, Malayalam, Nepali, Tulu, Chhattisgarhi and other Indian languages. Nigam has released a number of non-film albums and acted in some Hindi films. He is known as the "Modern Rafi", a title given to him after his musical idol Mohammad Rafi. Life and background Sonu Nigam was born on 30 July 1973 to Agam Kumar Nigam and Shobha Nigam in the city of Faridabad, Haryana. His father was from Agra and his mother was from Garhwal. His sister Teesha Nigam is also a professional singer. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
