Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2016

Sa Re Ga Ma Pa
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa logo Concept = Zee Tv, Atul Date
Creative director(s)	Zee TV, Neeraj Sharma
Presented by	Sonu Nigam (1995-2000) Amaan Ali Khan and Ayaan Ali Khan (2000-01) Shaan (2001-06) Aditya Narayan (2007-09, 2014-present) Purab Kohli (2010) Manish Paul (2010) Javed Ali (2012-2013)
Opening theme	"Sa Re Ga Ma" by Sonu Nigam and Sadhana Sargam (1995-2000) "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa" by Shaan and Sadhana Sargam (2000-06) "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa" by Aditya Narayan and Shriram Iyer (2007-09) "Sa Re Ga Ma Pa" by Javed Ali (2010-present)
Country of origin	India
No. of seasons	26
Production
Running time	approx. 52 minutes
Release
Original network	Zee TV
Picture format	480i (SDTV),
Original release	1 May 1995 – present
External links
Website

Sonu Nigam (1995-2000)

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.

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:

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

Vipul Roy and Manish Paul