Fame Gurukul

Fame Gurukul is an Indian prime-time show on Sony Entertainment Television(India) which premiered on 27 June 2005. The program is produced by the same production house of Indian Idol. The premise of the show is to select a pair of India's best singers/performers.It is based on the Spanish/French Operación Triunfo/Star Academy format of Endemol, better known in English under the UK title Fame Academy; in Indian terms, it is essentially a mixture of Indian Idol and Big Brother (TV series). The show started out with 16 contestants living in a musical performance academy (Gurukul). Every week (normally) one contestant is voted out of the show, and so on until two will remain in the end, who will receive various prizes (recording contracts, cars, etc.).

Contents : 1 Prizes 2 Season one 2.1 Contestants 2.2 Faculty 2.2.1 Head Mistress 2.2.2 Music 2.2.3 Dance 2.2.4 Fitness 2.3 Judges 2.3.1 Jury Members 2.3.2 Celebrity Judges 2.4 Presenters 2.5 TV Production 2.6 Results 3 Celebrity Fame Gurukul 3.1 Making of the Fame Singer 3.2 Contestants 4 External link

Prizes :

The Fame Gurukul Fame Jodi will receive a Rs. 1 crore music contract from Sony along with a Maruti Alto each.

Season one :

Contestants :

• Ruprekha Banerjee
• Chandan Gupta
• Qazi Touqeer
• Rex D'Souza
• Arpita Mukherjee
• Sandeep Batra
• suraj verma
• Arijit Singh
• Monica Gadgil
• Shamit Tyagi
• Gurpreet Kaur
• Deepshikha Sharma
• Mona Bhatt
• Amit Jadhav
• Keerthi Sagathia
• Anubhav Suman
• Deepak Singh Meher
• Chhavi Sodhani
• Naveen Yadav
• Biki Pal

Faculty :

Head Mistress :

• Ila Arun 

Music :

• Padma Wadkar
• Praŝant A Samadhar

Dance :

• Bosco Martis
• Caesar Gonsalves

Fitness :

Deepika Mehta

Judges :

Jury Members :

• Javed Akhtar - Lyricist / Screenplay writer / Poet
• KK - Singer
• Shankar Mahadevan - Singer / Composer

Celebrity Judges :

Occasionally a celebrity judge is called on the show to comment on the performances and to inspire the singers. The following is a list of special judges who appeared on Fame Gurukul:

• Karan Johar
• Bipasha Basu and John Abraham
• Diya Mirza
• Anil Kapoor
• Alka Yagnik
• Madhavan
• Shreya Ghoshal
• Alisha Chinai
• Aftab Shivdasani
• Bhumika Chawla

Presenters :

• Mandira Bedi
• Manav Gohil

TV Production :

• Anupama Mandloi - Executive Producer, Sony Entertainment Television India
• Paul Coueslant - Consultant Executive Producer, Endemol International
• Nikhil Alva - Series Producer, Miditech

Results :

On 20 October 2005, the final show of Fame Gurukul was broadcast in which the final three contestants - Qazi Touqeer, Rex D'Souza and Ruprekha Banerjee battled it for the top spots. After much waiting and various shows in between, the results were finally announced. Qazi Touqeer, the favourite was one of the winners, while Ruprekha Banerjee made up the pair with him.
 

Celebrity Fame Gurukul :

After the claimed success of Fame Gurukul, Sony Entertainment Television brings what they claim to be "a bigger, better, more exciting and entertaining" version of Fame Gurukul - CELEBRITY FAME GURUKUL. It's now the turn of some popular personalities to turn shishyas at the famous and prestigious Gurukul.

Nine popular television personalities will "go back to school" - Tanaaz Cureim, Ajay Gehi, Amit Sareen, Vinod Singh, Tisca Chopra, Bakhtiar Irani, Bobby Darling, Hansika Motwani and Smita Bansal are the new students at the Fame Gurukul. They now learn the nuances of becoming singers and performers, while competing for the grand prize.

The show promises you unlimited drama and excitement while watching the never-before-seen footage of the behind-the-scenes action and drama of the highly diverse group of celebrities. Get a unique opportunity to see your favourite television stars as themselves and not in character - no holds barred&no inhibitions. Their behaviour, quirks, egos, trials, tribulations, inter-personal relationship, competitive spirit and their struggle to survive at the Gurukul will be uncensored, unscripted and candid. And, for the very first time ever, you get to watch these celebrities in their new 'avataar' - as singers.

The proceeds of this show will go to the 'Make a Wish Foundation'- a non-profit organization dedicated to granting the most cherished wishes of children living with life-threatening illnesses.

Celebrity Fame Gurukul is based on the successful reality show called 'Comic Relief Does Fame Academy' which was a spin off on 'Fame Academy' produced by the format owner Gestmusic, part of the Endemol Group.

Making of the Fame Singer :

After receiving close to 50 million votes, Celebrity Fame Gurukul will take the popularity of the show to new heights. The television celebrities who are all non-singers are now training together and competing at the Gurukul - where discipline and their raw talent will be professionally tested by the well-known team of Ila Arun, Prasant Samadar, Padma Wadkar and Bosco-Ceasar.

The format once again allows votes by the faculty, contestants as well as viewers who will ultimately decide the best singer and performer out of the nine television personalities. Spiced up with entertaining musical performances, gripping drama and high emotions, 'Celebrity Fame Gurukul' is sure to entertain the entire nation.

Contestants :

• Ajay Gehi
• Amit Sareen - Winner
• Bakhtiar Irani
• Bobby Darling
• Hansika Motwani
• Jayati
• Smita Bansal
• Tanaaz Currim - 2nd Runner-up
• Tisca Chopra
• Vinod Singh - 1st Runner-up
• Arjit Singh
• Anil Bhargava

 External Link :

Indian Idol 1

The first season of Indian Idol premiered on 28 October 2004 on Sony Entertainment Television. It concluded on March 5, 2005. It was hosted by Mini Mathur and Aman Yatan Verma. Anu Malik, Sonu Nigam, and Farah Khan were the judges. Abhijeet Sawant won the competition.

The musical reality show which started all other reality shows of its kind was aired in Sony television and is the Indian Idol show. Indian Idol season 1 was aired on 28th October, 2004 and ended on 5th March, 2005. It gave an opportunity to the budding artists in the singing field to try their luck in achieving their dream of becoming singer. Many participated in this competition and were cheered by the audiences and the public likely. Aman Verma and Mini Mathur hosted the Indian Idol show and made it lively and encouraging. The judges of the show Indian Idol 1 were very talented and experienced in the field of music. One of the finest and popular singers, Sonu Nigam, multitalented music director Anu Malik and award winning choreographer Farah khan were the three judges of the show which was sponsored mainly by Amul India Company.

The winner of the show was selected using the public voting mode. A Mumbai boy, Abhijeet Sawant won the first season of this competition. First runner-up was Amit Sana from Bhilai, 2nd runner-up was Rahul Vaidya hailing from Nagpur and Prajakta Shukre hailing from Jabalpur, MP came fourth in the competition. Every other contestant were able to reap some or the other benefits from Indian Idol season 1.

"Aap Ka Abhijeet" was the first solo album of winner Abhijeet Sawant, released by Sony BMG. He represented India in Asian Idol competition and came third in the show. His second album ‘Junoon’ was a success and made him a household name. He also did commercial advertisements for the product Spearmint. His first film ‘Lottery’ got him into the acting career but was not able to do well and liked by the audiences.

First runner-up of Indian Idol 1, Amit Sana released his first and solo album and got many offers of singing. Second runner-up Rahul Vaidya, hosted the popular show, Aaja Mahi Ve and dance show, Jhoom India on Star plus Channel.  He sang for a film, Shaddi No. 1 and was a member of the Shankar’s Rockstars which won the musical show, Music Ka Maha Muqquabla which was aired on Star Plus. He also won another musical show, Jo Jeeta Wohi Superstar in which Abhijeet Sawant was the first runner-up. Prajakta Shukre also released her solo album and is seen in musical shows and events. Other contestants Rahul Saxena, Amit Tandon got offers from Farah Khan and TV producers respectively.

Elimination chart 

External  links

• Indian Idol official website