''Taare Zameen Par'' is an Indian kids singing reality show on StarPlus. It premiered on 2 November 2020 and ended on 30 January 2021. The series was hosted by the child actress Aakriti Sharma and singer Sugandha Mishra with

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and

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as the mentors.

Format

The singing show was initially designed for 20 children who are mentored throughout their progress without elimination process till finale. However, after few weeks, the show had a change its format and follows the elimination process where each day one low scorer is selected and every Saturday all low scorers compete to make their place. On that day, the lowest scorer is eliminated.

Audition

The auditions were held digitally in the month of March 2020 where first 500 participants were recognised.

Mentors

The show had composer and singer

, playback singer

and composer, lyricist, singer and producer

for mentorship.

Production

The title of the series was taken from

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's 2007 film ''

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'' after getting rights from them. In conversation with

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, Sugandha said, "I share a strong connection with kids and really enjoy being around them. I decided to be part of the show because of its unique concept. I thoroughly enjoy hosting as much as I love acting and over the years, I have developed a certain penchant for hosting television shows. I am happy to be a part of a prestigious show and looking forward to witnessing some of the finest performances in this show by a set of equally dynamic kids.”

Season 1

*Judges

*Host Sugandha Mishra
Aakriti Sharma

Top 20 Contestants

Guests

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as Anupamaa *

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* Devoleena Bhattacharjee as Gopi Modi *

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as Kokila Modi * Bhoomi Trivedi *Gurdeep Singh * Shaan *Siddharth Mahadevan *Shivam Mahadevan *

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* Richa Sharma * Badshah *

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* Terence Lewis * Hemant Brijwasi *Sonakshi Kar * L. V. Revanth *

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*Anjana Padmanabhan * Sukhwinder Singh

References

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