The shoot of the recently launched reality show is likely to face a problem since three judges and one of the jury members have tested positive. Mika and Akriti are also under home quarantine.Īlso read: Doctors visit puja pandals in Kolkata to check safety compliance Both Srikanta and Monomoy are in home isolation. Later, Monomoy Bhattacharya also developed symptoms of COVID-19. His family members also underwent the test. Host Abir Chatterjee, judge Joy sarkar, jury members Iman Chakraborty and Raghav Chatterjee have tested negative though.Īt first, Srikanta Acharya showed mild symptoms and underwent the necessary tests. Now, two other judges, Mika Singh and Akriti Kakar have reportedly tested positive for the virus too.Īlso read: WB Minster Siddiqullah Chowdhury demands immediate release of suspected al-Qaeda operatives So we are leaving for Darjeeling on Ashtami.Kolkata: Four judges of the reality show ‘Sa Re Ga Ma Pa’ tested positive for COVID-19.Įarlier, singer-judge Srikanta Acharya and jury member Monomoy Bhattacharya had tested positive for COVID-19. In fact, we could have been going for a concert tour abroad. This year, I would have got even greater reception. Every year, I am away in Delhi or Mumbai for shows. People are recognising me even with mask on when we go shopping. In normal circumstances, this Puja would have been very busy for you with concert bookings. He joined there the year after I became champion. He is a voice trainer on Zee Bangla Sa Re Ga Ma Pa. I took a break after Indian Idol Junior as my father wanted me to prepare well before the next show. (Smiles) My first show was Singing Star on Rupasi Bangla channel. How many more reality shows have you been on? I had seen Salman Khan and Sonakshi Sinha when I went to Indian Idol Junior in 2015 (reaching top six).
Even Gurkirat (Singh) loved coming as there was a steady supply of chips and chocolate in my room as also Ludo and a ball to play with. After some weeks, of course, Ananya (Sharma), Zaid, Tanishka (Sarkar, another finalist from Calcutta) used to come to my room in masks in the bungalow to chat. Even for our adda in the corridor, we had to stand at a distance. Temperature check, mask, make-up men in PPE kit…. How much did things change after the lockdown?Ī lot. But that part got edited out in the telecast. After Aryananda and I sang Radha kaise na jwale, Himeshji offered us a song on the spot in a Rajkumar Santoshi film he is scoring for. He said he could see a future Lataji (Mangeshkar) in me. What compliment can be bigger than that! In the episode where Randhir Kapoor came, I sang Ram teri Ganga maili. She said I had sung the song better than her. I sang O humsafar in presence of Neha and Tony Kakkar. Govinda sir gave me a standing ovation for Chaturnar badi hoshiyar. Padma Wadkar (wife of Suresh Wadkar, who had sung the Pyaasa Sawan song in duet with Lata Mangeshkar) came up to praise me. Alkaji got tearful listening to my Megha re. Then we had rehearsals with the band one evening, the technicals (where the shooting details would be worked out) the next day and the actual shoot on the third day.Īfter the lockdown, the show resumed with my recital of Ghar morey pardesiya. We had to pick up eight songs in two days. Alka ma’am used to come on and off and knew me too. Sanu uncle had seen me in the Zee Bangla show and used to support me a lot.
There was a change in judges after the lockdown with Kumar Sanu and Udit Narayan stepping down to make way for Himesh Reshammiya and Jaaved Ali who joined Alka Yagnik. Our auditions in Calcutta were in January. So there was less scope later for me to demonstrate my singing. In the final, too, I had no songs of my own. Towards the end, I hardly got solo songs. Since most of my duets were with Aryananda, I had to fight in every song. Who had you regarded as your closest competitor?īoth Aryananda (Babu, the eventual winner from Kerala) and Zaid Ali (a finalist).
So along with the rest of the country, seated at home, I too came to know that I was the runner-up. The results were decided after audience votes were polled. So all possible results were canned and we had to react accordingly. Actually, the final was shot a month back when the result had not been decided.
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