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  • Zee’s Sa Re Ga Ma Pa travels to Dubai

    Zee’s Sa Re Ga Ma Pa travels to Dubai

    MUMBAI: Encouraged by the success of the Hero Honda Sa Re Ga Ma Pa – Golden Voice Hunt, Zee is taking its popular music programme Sa Re Ga Ma Pa to Dubai.

    According to a Zee press release, the cameras will start rolling in Dubai from 10 to 16 January 2004 for the next round of shooting.

    The rounds to be played in this special schedule have been conceived keeping international taste in mind, states the release. The prelim round will start with Song of your Choice (film/non-film song), Sing with Shaan (superhit songs of the last five years), Judges’ Choice and Duet round. The semi finals will have raga based songs (film songs from the last five-ten years based on classical ragas), folk songs, judges’ choice, and sur and taal rounds. The finals will have semi- classical theme rounds (happy- romantic), duet songs, pop songs, non-orchestra, and new compositions by judges.

    The series will showcase the talents of 32 participants from countries like India, Nepal, UK, USA, UAE, South Africa, Mauritius, Singapore, Australia, Pakistan and Canada. The judges include celebrities like Gulam Ali, Zakir Hussain, Abida Parveen, M M Kreem, Jagjit Singh, Trilok Gurtu, O P Nayyar and Runa Laila.

    Sa Re Ga Ma Pa won the Music Programme of the Year award at The Indian Telly Awards 2003 in November.

    Zee Telefilms’ creative director Gajendra Singh has been quoted in a release saying, “We are glad that Sa Re Ga Ma Pa will is being shot in Dubai. The venue is appropriate as it proves to be central for participants from all over the world. Dubai Media City, the heart of Dubai, is the location for the shoot. This place has a state of art architecture and is an important center for media in Dubai”.

    “The auditions for this special schedule were done in countries spanning across the globe and we received a good response from each country. Auditions of more than 500 contestants were done all over the world out of which 32 have been selected for the final show,” he added.

  • Rohit Bal, Trilok Gurtu to open Lycra MTV Style Awards

    MUMBAI: One of MTV’s big ground events for the year is less than a week away. The Lycra MTV Style Awards will be held at the Jamshed Bhabha Auditorium in Mumbai on 17 October, 2003. The broadcaster has announced that a collection by Rohit Bal and music created by Trilok Gurtu will open the evening.
    The show will be hosted by MTV VJs Malaika Arora and Cyrus Broacha. The show is being brought in association with Hyundai, Yamaha, No Marks and LG CDMA.
    An official release informs that Bal will be joined by big ticket designers, Malini Ramani, Manish Malhotra and Sabyasachi. They will showcase their creations assembled to ‘Desi Cool’ themes. Each designer’s collection will be sashayed by the models, who will walk the runaway to live music composed by Medieval Punditz, Salim Suleman and DJ Aqueel.
    Attendees can gyrate to the sounds of Danish band C21. Their act will consist of songs from their self-titled album. Also lined-up is a performance by the popular trio, Shankar-Ehsan-Loy.
    As reported earlier by indiantelevision.com 35 nominees are competing for 18 awards. One of these stylish people will be saluted as the ‘Maha Style Icon’ of the year. The judges include film director Karan Johar, ex cricketer Navjot Singh Siddhu. The jury is chaired by novelist Shobhaa De.
    The nominees of the popular categories are being aired on MTV. Viewers can vote for their most stylish person in each category by logging onto mtvindia.com or dropping their votes in ballot boxes placed at ‘MTV Hangouts’ across the country and Lycra Preferred Partner outlets.