Non-stop tears at Li'l Champs

Non-stop tears at Li'l Champs
Thursday, August 24, 2006 12:49 IST
By Subhash K Jha, Santa Banta News Network
/> Monday's recording of Zee's Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Little Champs will go down in television history.

Never before on an Indian reality- show has so much time and tears been devoted to bringing out the real emotions of the contestants.

Exhausted but triumphant Sa Re Ga Ma producer-director Gajendra Singh recollects the experience.

"It was the parents' special on Little Champs where the parents of the six finalists Pawani, Diwakar, Shraddha, Sanchita, Abhrokanti and Samir were supposed to select the song that they first put on their respective child's lips after they decided their children could sing.

We all expected it to be an emotionally charged experience. But we never expected the emotions would be so high. The recording went on for eight hours—an all-time record on Sa Re Ga Ma Pa. We had never in the decade-long history of the show recorded an episode for so long."

After every child sang the recording had to break because of the emotional outbursts on the set.

Says Singh, "By the end of the show everyone from the kids to their parents, to three judges Alka Yagnik, Bappi Lahiri and Abhijeet, to the crew on the sets....everyone was sobbing. The tears just wouldn't stop, so beautiful was the rendering by every child. These kids are phenomenally blessed and the parents' episode (to be telecast on Friday) proves it."
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