Taare Zameen Par is an Indian kids singing reality show on StarPlus. It premiered on 2 November 2020 and ended on 30 January 2021. The series was hosted by the child actress Aakriti Sharma and singer Sugandha Mishra with Shankar Mahadevan, Jonita Gandhi and Tony Kakkar as the mentors.
Format The singing show was initially designed for 20 children who are mentored throughout their progress without elimination process till finale. However, after few weeks, the show had a change in its format and followed the elimination process where each day one low scorer was selected and every Saturday all low scorers compete to make their place. On that day, the lowest scorer is eliminated.
Audition The auditions were held digitally in the month of March 2020 where first 500 participants were recognized.
Mentors The show had composer and singer Shankar Mahadevan, playback singer Jonita Gandhi and composer, lyricist, singer and producer Tony Kakkar for mentorship.
Production The title of the series was taken from Aamir Khan's 2007 film, Taare Zameen Par, after getting rights from them.
In conversation with The Times of India, Sugandha said, "I share a strong connection with kids and really enjoy being around them. I decided to be part of the show because of its unique concept. I thoroughly enjoy hosting as much as I love acting and over the years, I have developed a certain penchant for hosting television shows. I am happy to be a part of a prestigious show and looking forward to witnessing some of the finest performances in this show by a set of equally dynamic kids.”
Season 1 Judges Tony Kakkar Jonita Gandhi Shankar Mahadevan Host Sugandha Mishra Aakriti Sharma
Top 20 Contestants NameAge (in years)HometownResultPlace Biren Dang 10 Gurgaon 1st Laisel Rai 11 Jalandhar 2nd Vansh Wadhwa 14 Moga 2nd Runner-up 3rd Vishwaja Jadhav 12 Virar 4th Ratnika Shrivastava 13 Jabalpur 5th Aavya Saxena 11 Lucknow 6th Prakhruthi Reddy 10 Ballari 7th Anmol Raja 13 Hoshiarpur 8th Pratyush Anand 12 Bhopal 9th Khushi Nagar 11 New Delhi 10th Rafa Yasmine 11 Malda 11th Chaitanya Vaish 12 Patiala 12th Angel Joseph 11 Ludhiana 13th Gurman Singh Kohli 14 Gurgaon 14th Ivana Semi 12 Pune 15th Sourajoy Dev 11 Silvassa 16th Marken Lollen 13 Itanagar 17th Sajan Sharma 10 Deoghar 18th Manav Heera 14 Ludhiana 19th Raddujal Kashyap 13 Tejpur 20th
Guests Udit Narayan Rupali Ganguly as Anupamaa Mika Singh Devoleena Bhattacharjee as Gopi Modi Rupal Patel as Kokila Modi Bhoomi Trivedi Gurdeep Singh Shaan Siddharth Mahadevan Shivam Mahadevan Zeenat Aman Richa Sharma Badshah Kanika Kapoor Terence Lewis Hemant Brijwasi Sonakshi Kar L. V. Revanth Neha Kakkar Rohanpreet Singh Afsana Khan Anjana Padmanabhan Sukhwinder Singh
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