Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi Li'l Champs is an Indian Marathi language singing reality show which is a part of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi which aired on Zee Marathi. Li'l Champs first season premiered in 2008. The winner of the first season was Kartiki Gaikwad. There were three more seasons, the latest one being the 4th season broadcast in 2023.
Production The show aimed to discover the best singing talent in the age range of 5–15 years from the Maharashtra. The show was judged by singer and composer Avadhoot Gupte and singer Vaishali Samant in addition to other 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.
Auditions Auditions for the show up to season 13 were held in Pune, Nashik, Aurangabad, Nagpur, Thane, Kolhapur and Mumbai. For season 14, channel arranged auditions through WhatsApp by making some short video of songs.
Finalist The top 5 Little Champs Season 1 Finalists are Rohit Raut Prathamesh Laghate Aarya Ambekar Mugdha Vaishampayan Kartiki Gaikwad
These Top 5 Finalist were invited in the show Chala Hawa Yeu Dya on Zee Marathi from 8–10 February 2021 for completing 12 years of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Li'l Champs Finale.
Rules 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.
Scoring system 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. 'Sa+' = 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.
In the first week of the Final round, all the contestants performed but no contestant was eliminated this week. In the following weeks, the viewers had a chance to act as judges. From the second week onwards, the votes of the viewers received via SMS and the scores of the judges resulted in contestants having low scores to be eliminated.
In the first week, the weighting of the judges' scores was 90% while that of the viewers' votes was 10%. In the second week, the weighting of the judges' scores was 80% while that of the viewers' votes was 20%. In this manner the weighting of the votes of the viewers and the judges' scores was 50% each by the end of the fifth week. This weighting stayed constant till the Mega-Final. The result of the Mega-Final, though, were solely decided by the votes of the viewers. So also there was a jury of 5 reputed singers which included Shridhar Phadke, Devaki Pandit, Pt. Sanjeev Abhyankar, Suresh Wadkar and Asha Khadilkar, who along with Avadhoot and Vaishali were assessing the participants.
Rounds The competition consisted of the following rounds.
Preliminary round Talented contestants who had to leave the contest because of a minor difference in scores were given another chance in a special "Call Back" round. A total of two "Juniors" and four "Seniors" were selected for the Quarter-Final from the "Call Back" round.
Quarter-final In the second stage, i.e. in the Quarter Final, 12 "Junior" contestants were split across 3 groups while 24 "Senior" contestants were split across 4 groups. "Junior" contestants performed on the episodes broadcast on Mondays while the "Senior" contestants performed on the episodes broadcast on Tuesdays.
The Quarter-Final round for the "Junior" contestants went on for three weeks. Two contestants were eliminated on every Monday. The six contestants who were selected at the end of the third week competed again in the fourth week. The best four contestants out of these were chosen for the Semi-Final round. The Quarter-Final round for the "Senior" contestants went on for four weeks. Three contestants were eliminated on every Tuesday. At the end of the fourth week, two eliminated contestants whose scores were the highest amongst those eliminated were selected for the Semi-Final round. In this manner, four "Junior" and fourteen "Senior" contestants, for a total of eighteen contestants competed in the Semi-Final round.
Semi-final The Semi-Final round went on for three weeks. The selected eighteen contestants were split into three groups of six each. There was no distinction between "Seniors" and "Juniors". Every contestant performed a song on the episodes broadcast on Monday and Tuesday. Two contestants were eliminated at the end of the episode broadcast on Tuesdays.
Final Twelve contestants contested the Final round. Every week one contestant was supposed to leave the contest.
Elimination chart Round 1 to Semi-final Numbers in the cells indicate the episode in which the contestant performed in a <Week>.<Episode> format. For example, 4.1 in the Round 1 column indicates the 1st episode i.e. the one on the Monday of the 4th week of Round 1. + Legend Did Not Perform Performed Eliminated Winner
SingerRound 1Round 1 CallbacksRound 2Round 2 CallbacksSemi-Final Abhishek Saraf3.1 1.1 Aditi Subhedar1.1 3.1 Aditya Apte5.2 3.2 Aishwarya Sahasrabuddhe3.2 4.2 1 Anuja Kamat1.21.22.2 Anushka Kulkarni4.2 3.2 Aarya Ambekar1.2 2.2 1 Ashish Kulkarni1.21.24.2 Avanti Patel1.2 3.2 3 Bhagyashri Tikle5.1 3.14.12 Chinmay Kale3.2 Divya Dicholkar4.2 Juilee Joglekar4.2 Kalyani Bhande3.21.22.2 Kartiki Gaikwad2.1 1.14.13 Kasturi Joshi4.1 Kaustubh Mulay1.2 1.2 Ketaki Mategaonkar2.2 3.2 2 Krutika Borkar2.1 Malavika Dikshit1.1 Manasi Deshpande3.2 3.2 Mayuri Atre5.11.11.1 Mihir Khare3.2 2.2 2 Mohit Karle4.2 1.2 1 Mugdha Kale3.11.1 Mugdha Vaishampayan4.1 2.14.11 Neha Karmarkar1.2 4.2 1 Prajakta Marathe5.2 2.2 Prathamesh Laghate2.2 4.2 2 Radhika Nande5.2 1.2 2 Rageshri Vairagkar5.1 1.14.13 Revati Tanawade2.1 2.14.1 Rohit Raut4.2 3.2 1 Rutuja Phatak4.2 1.2 Sagar Phadke2.2 2.2 3 Sanchita Garge2.2 4.2 3 Saraswati Borgaonkar2.21.2 Shalmali Sukhtankar5.2 1.2 3 Shamika Bhide5.21.21.2 2 Sharayu Date1.1 3.14.1 Sharvari Naik3.1 Shirin Kelkar5.1 Shraddha Joshi3.2 4.2 Shreya Datar1.1 Shreya Karlekar4.1 2.1 Shridhar Patankar2.11.1 Sukrut Tamhankar5.2 Vaidehi Mekde4.11.12.1 Vaishnavi Paralikar2.21.2 Veda Nerurkar3.1 3.1
Final and Mega-Final + Legend Did Not Perform Performed Eliminated Winner
Round: Final Mega-FinalWeek:12345678910*111213141516171819 Contestant Result Aarya Ambekar 10.1 Avanti Patel 10.1 Kartiki Gaikwad 10.2 Ketaki Mategaonkar Mugdha Vaishampayan 10.1 Neha Karmarkar Prathamesh Laghate 10.1 Radhika Nande 10.2 Rohit Raut 10.1 Sagar Phadke Shalmali Sukhtankar 10.2 Shamika Bhide 10.1
Seasons Season Originally Broadcast Days First aired Last aired 1 Mon-Tue 2 Wed-Thu 3 Thu-Sat 4 Wed-Sat
Awards + Zee Marathi Utsav Natyancha AwardsYearCategoryRecipient2009Best EventGrand FinaleBest JudgeAvadhoot GupteBest Anchor FemalePallavi JoshiBest Non-fiction ShowEssel Vision Productions2010Best JudgeAvadhoot Gupte2021Best Anchor FemaleMrunmayee Deshpande2023
Reception Week Year TAM TVR Rank Ref. Mah/Goa All IndiaWeek 3920080.85188Week 4520081.02167Week 4720081.15129Week 5020081.33145Week 120091.55133Week 320092.0119Week 520092.11208 February 2009Grand Finale2.66110Week 3120100.881709 January 2011Grand Finale0.83188
References
External links
Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Marathi Li'l Champs at ZEE5