Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007 is a renowned singing reality competition show, which started airing on May 4, 2007 until October 13, 2007. This is the second part of the singing competition show, SA Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge and also the fourth public voting contest from the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Series. Sequentially, it is preceded by the children singing competition show, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L’il Champs but analytically, it is followed by the reality series, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005. Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007 show features the previous mentors including music director and TV producer,
Himesh Reshammiya
and music composer,
Ismail Darbar
. In Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007, two more mentors were added to the series including music director and performer,
Bappi Lahiri
and the music directing duo,
Vishal Dadlani
and
Shekhar Ravjiani
. The previous host, Shantanu Mukherjee or popularly known as Shaan was replaced by Bollywood actor,
Aditya Narayan
. The show was broadcasted on Zee TV. Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007 was directed by Gyan Sahay.
The new Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007 logo is substantially different from the logo of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2005. This time, the globe appears to be wearing a headphone to signify the show as an international competition, as a replacement to the previous logo that represents a duet singing. The July 21, 2007 episode received the highest television ratings in India, which features the appearance of the legendary actor,
Salman Khan
based on the Television Audience Measurement. The grand finale of the show also collected a total of 10,61,44,354 or 106 million voting records around the world.
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007 has the Gharana selection that is used similar to the House System that is used in schools. The participants were selected by the mentors. In the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005, the gharanas have been replaced. The contestants under Ismail Darbar include
Rimi Dhar
who got eliminated on July 13;
Jyoti Mishra
who got eliminated on June 16; Desh Gaurav Singh who got eliminated on May 19; Wasi Efandi who got eliminated on June 22; Brikesh Schandaliya who got eliminated on June 9;
Poonam Yadav
who got the 3rd runner-up place but eliminated on September 28 and
Amanat Ali
who placed second.Â
The contestants under Himesh Reshammiya include Joy Chakraborty who got eliminated on August 10; Amrita Chatterjee who got eliminated on May 19; Nirupama Dey who got eliminated on July 27; Shreshta Banerjee who got eliminated on June 22; Yogendra Pathak who got eliminated on May 12; Tushar Sinha who got eliminated on June 2;
Anita Bhatt
who got eliminated on June 9; Mussarat Abbas who got eliminated on September 14 and
Aneek Dhar
who was declared as the winner.
The contestants under Bappi Lahiri include Reecha Tripaathi who got eliminated on June 23;
Sunil Kumar
who got eliminated on June 23; Koyal Chaterjee who got eliminated on May 12; Sikandar Ali who got eliminated on June 16;
Abhijeet Kosambi
who got eliminated on August 3;
Mauli Dave
who stand out among the rest but got eliminated on September 7 and
Sumedha Karmahe
who got eliminated on September 21.
The contestants under the duo, Vishal-Shekhar include
Apurva Shah
who got eliminated on July 20; Saaberi Bhattacharya who got eliminated on June 23; Meghna Verma who got eliminated on June 2;
Sarika Singh
who got eliminated on May 26;
Imran Aslam
who got eliminated on May 26; Sumana Ganguly who got eliminated on June 22;
Junaid Sheikh
who was voted out on August 24;
Harpreet Deol
who got eliminated on June 22 but voted back in the Bramhastra week but eliminated again on August 31 and Raja Hassan who got eliminated on June 23 but voted back in the Bramhastra week and became the first runner-up.
In the second episode of the show, eight reserved force singers were introduced and called as the Eklavya Gharana. They are used to prevent the Gharana from being eliminated in the first rounds. Every week, two from the Eklavya Gharana were selected to join the mentor’s gharana and later, that mentor will have any of his contestants eliminated in the preceding week.