Opinion: Hats-off to Sa Re Ga Ma Pa… Little Champs

Hats-off to Zee Telugu TV show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa… Little Champs

Congratulations to Maestro in Making… Master Harsha for winning Little Champs title on Sunday night. I usually do not watch any Telugu TV shows. I watch Telugu movies, news and sitcoms on ZEE Café and Star World. Whenever we visit our parents, occasionally we are forced to glance through Telugu TV shows on Gemini, ETV etc. I simply could not tolerate meanness in those shows. All of these shows offer low quality entertainment to portray grudge, adultery and sick family relationships. If any stranger watches these low quality stereo-type shows, they actually start misjudging our family values. I am not sure how these TV shows can offer any form of entertainment to audience.

I was browsing through channels couple of weeks ago and came to know about this show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa… Little Champs – I quickly became fan of this show. It is amazing to see such a great talent of young Telugu children performing with great confidence and stride. I watched semi-finals last week and finals on Sunday night. In my opinion, I think this program beat out American Idol show.

We moved back to India couple of years ago. I only stayed up until Midnight to watch Finale of Telugu Film Industry Vajrotsavam a few months back then I stayed up until midnight to watch this wonderful show: Grand Finale of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa… Little Champs. Harsha, Sarath and Bhuvana rocked audience with their excellent performance; they sang wide range of Telugu songs from Bhakti to Folk to Fast-Beat. They also showed some of highlights of rest of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa… Little Champs shows, not only these three children, it is incredible to know that they had so many gifted children participated in this show.

Devi Sri Prasad is a good musician; however he was just boring and inappropriate to watch him on the stage during Grand Finale of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa… Little Champs. His sour throat did not help; he sang totally outdated songs and audience very much were not in mood to hear his loud voice. Disco lights only made the whole thing unbearable. It was really nice to see legendary Janaki on the stage and she sang wonderfully mimicking two little babies (bava and maradalu). She was graceful with her blessings on Little Champs. Ramana Gogula, Shailaja and Koti were very supportive and impartial judges. They were giving tips to participants as well as continue to encourage them to pursue their passion of singing – after all, all of these participants are winners!!!

I was touched when Karunya, Sunita, Little Champs etc. made a tribute to folks who lost their lives during horrendous terrorist attacks on Aug 25 th in Hyderabad.

Aswini Dutt and his Vyjayanthi Movies are known for making monumentally successful Telugu movies. However, they did not have many success stories in the recent time. I can only guess it is because of Aswini Dutt's misventure into politics and other businesses he lost focus on his core competency. It is nice to see Vyjayanthi tele productions made this successful TV show on ZEE Telugu channel.

Overall, I sincerely hope that there will be more quality shows such as Sa Re Ga Ma Pa… Little Champs on Telugu TV channels and continue to encourage future bright stars of India. World knows India for our talent pool of engineers and doctors, I am confident that Indians will also be known for our creative talents in wide range of creative arts in future.