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Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi L'il Champs

Idea Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi L'il Champs
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Created by Zee Marathi Creative Team
Directed by Rajan Dange
Presented by Pallavi Joshi
Judges Avdhoot Gupte
Vaishali Samant
Theme music composer Ajay−Atul
Opening theme Written by: Shrirang Godbole
Performed by: Swapnil Bandodkar and Bela Shende
Country of origin India
No. of episodes 63
Production
Executive producer(s) Nikhil Sane
Location(s) Mumbai, India
Running time Variesage
Release
Original network Zee Marathi
Picture format 480i (SDTV)
Original release July 7, 2008 – February 8, 2009
External links
Website

Idea Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi L'il Champs was an Indian reality TV show that aired on Zee Marathi. The show premiered on July 7, 2008 and continued till February 8, 2009. The winner of this show was Kartiki Gaikwad.

The show aimed to discover the best singing talent in the age range of 8 – 14 years from the Indian state of Maharashtra. The show was judged by singer and composer, Avdhoot Gupte and singer Vaishali Samant in addition to prominent individuals from the Indian music industry who served as guest judges. The show was hosted by actress, Pallavi Joshi. The progress of the contestants through the rounds was also dependent on the votes of the audience.

The show usually aired on Monday and Tuesday nights.

Auditions for the show were held in Pune, Nashik, Aurangabad, Nagpur, Solapur, Kolhapur and Mumbai.

The contest was held in five stages viz. Preliminary, Quarter-Final, Semi-Final, Final and Mega-Final. One contestant was declared the "Little Champ" from these five stages.

A total of 50 contestants were divided across two groups. The first group, "Juniors", had 20 contestants in the age range of 8 to 11 years while the second group had 30 contestants in the age range of 12 to 14 years. The contestants in the 8 to 11 years age group performed on the episodes broadcast on Mondays while the contestants from the 12 to 14 years age group performed on the episodes broadcast on Tuesdays.

In this contest the notes Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni was used for scoring. After every performance of every contestant, every judge independently scored the performance.

The scores increased linearly from 'Sa' to 'Ni' and will have values from 'Sa' = 1 to 'Ni' = 7. The result was declared based on the total score from the judges.

In the Final round, the same scoring system will be used to make decisions. The values for the notes will change to 'Sa' = 14, 'Re' = 28, 'Ga' = 42, 'Ma' = 56, 'Pa'= 70, 'Dha' = 85 and 'Ni' = 100.

In the Final round, while making a decision the votes of the viewers was taken into account along with the scores given by the judges. Till the middle of the Final round the weighting given to the votes of the viewers increased while that given to the scores of the judges decreased.


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