5-Star Grand Finale!!

Since the past few months, every week begins with a musical extravaganza. Monday and Tuesday nights are booked for marathi orchestra and its an amazing musical treat for the eyes and ears. I am talking about the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa - Little Champs on Zee Marathi. Week after week, the champs (or giants rather) present excellent songs one after the other and we still feel it's not enough. The apetite is ever growing. The skill, ease, expressions, technique and confidence with which they sing is really unimaginable. You just keep wondering how they do that. I am sure not a single orchestra in India currently is as talented as this group of kids. Unfortunately, till yesterday, one little champ kept going out of the competition every week, as per the rule of the competition.

It used to be a very sad thing to bid one shining star good bye. So finally there were 5 of them left, the best ones obviously. I personally felt that some champs didnot deserve the dropping out. And so did a lot of fellow fans. And so, Zee Marathi decided to conduct a call-back episode for the 7 champs who were dropped out. But 4 of them wisely opted out of the episode. I say wisely because the call-back didn't change the results much. It was just a TRP-raiser for Zee Marathi. In the call-back, all the 3 who participated were selected back into the group. In the following week, Radhika, who was dropped out first of the 8 initially, got dropped out first again. Avanti was next to follow and lastly, Shalmali. In the initial drop-out, it was Kartiki in place of Avanti. But I am very disappointed with Avanti's drop out. She was an equally good singer and so was Shalmali. It was very unfair to play with the emotions of the kids just to raise TRPs of your show. The earlier 3 drop out episodes became useless, since the results didn't change much. They should instead have directly included all of them in the Megafinals.

So, yesterday again was the day of dropping out one champ. And, evidently, none of them was even a micro less than the others. All are equally good which even the judges and public knew. Everyone felt that all of them should go to the megafinals. So, after a lot of drama and timepass, Pallavi announced that all the 5 stars have made it to the megafinals. It is indeed a late decision, since I personally feel that atleast Avanti and Shalmali also deserve to be in the final. But, at least the decision has been made. So, we are going to have a 5-star Grand finale, literally with a 7-member jury panel (what a force to evaluate 5 little champs). This itself is a proof of their extreme capacity and huge talent. I wish all of them the best of luck and may all of them win and make all of us maharashtrians proud. Way to go Champs!!!