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Fame Gurukul

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Genre
  
Reality television

Original language(s)
  
Hindi

No. of episodes
  
Total ??

First episode date
  
27 June 2005

Program creator
  
Miditech

Country of origin
  
India

No. of seasons
  
1

Camera setup
  
Multi-camera

Final episode date
  
2005

Presented by
  
Manav Gohil, Mandira Bedi

From the contestants of Fame Gurukul 2005, from left: Arpita Mukherjee is smiling, standing looking to her left, she has long black hair and is wearing a black see-through shirt with a flame print on it and denim pants. 2nd from left at the back is a man smiling, standing with black hair, wearing a red shirt with black stripes. In front of him, 3rd from left, is Monica Gadgil, smiling, standing with her hands on her sides, wearing a yellow dress and a pink see-through scarf. 4th from left, at the back, Arijit Singh is serious, has black hair, and is wearing a blue flower-printed polo with a black necklace and black pants. 5th from left, is Shahid Kapoor, smiling, standing, while his right hand holds the left arm, he has black hair and is wearing a black floral printed polo, a silver watch, a black belt, and denim pants. 6th from left, Qazi Touqeer is smiling, standing looking at Shahid, has long wavy hair with brown highlights, and is wearing striped pants and an orange polo with maroon, black, and white stripes. 7th from left, at the back, is a man standing with black hair and wearing a black shirt. In front of him, 8th from left is Mona Bhatt, smiling, with black wavy hair, wearing earrings, a red scarf, a gold bracelet, rings, and a red dress with a white silver design. On the right side, at the back, is a man smiling, standing, with brown hair, wearing a dotted red polo, and in front of him is a woman smiling, with brown hair, wearing a gold shiny long sleeve dress.

Judges
  
Javed Akhtar, Shankar Mahadevan, KK

Awards
  
Indian Telly Award for Best Reality Show, ITA Award for Best Reality Show

Similar
  
Indian Idol, Deal Ya No Deal, Jo Jeeta Wohi Super Star, MTV Unplugged, Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Ba

Fame Gurukul was an Indian prime-time reality show on Sony Entertainment Television (India) which premiered on 27 June 2005. The program was produced by the same production house of Indian Idol. The concept of the show was to select a pair of India's best singers/performers.

Contents

The top three contestants in Gurukul's Fame 2005 On the left, Qazi Touqeer is smiling, right-hand thumbs up has wavy hair with yellow highlights, and is wearing a brown-striped long-sleeve polo. In the middle is Ruprekha Banerjee, smiling, pointing her left finger to the right and right finger to the left, she has long black hair with yellow highlights and wears a large earring, a blue scarf, gold and silver bracelets, and a yellow long sleeve. On the right, Rex D'Souza is smiling, with his left-hand thumbs up, wearing a dark blue shirt and a brown jacket with large assorted buttons.

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 was 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 was voted out of the show, and so on until two will remained in the end, who received various prizes (recording contracts, cars, etc.).

On the left is a woman who is happy, eyes closed, standing, with wavy brown hair and wearing a white long sleeve with a floral design. Next to her, 2nd from left, Ila Arun who is happy, standing holding her blue bag with her left hand, with wavy brown hair and wearing a white long sleeve with a floral beaded design. Next to her, 3rd from left, with a yellow circle around his face, is Arijit Singh, smiling, standing, with black hair, wearing a red long sleeve and a black necklace. On the right Javed Akhtar is smiling, standing with his right arm on the shoulder of Arijit, has white hair and is wearing a white long-sleeve polo.

Prizes

In the movie scene of Fame Gurukul 2005, a group of contestants are on the stage with the audience around them. On the left is a woman smiling, standing while looking at her left, having wavy hair and wearing a yellow shiny top with maroon edges, black pants, and sandals. 2nd from left, Qazi Touqeer stands next to her, smiling, mouth half open, both hands up in a closed fist with a microphone in his chin, wavy hair, and wearing a blue bandana-red long sleeve under her black leather jacket, brown pants, and black shoes. 3rd from left is Rex D'Souza, who is happy, standing right foot forward, both hands open with a microphone on his mouth has black hair and is wearing a red shirt and red leather jacket, red pants, and black shoes. On the right is a woman smiling, standing left arm bent, with brown hair and a microphone on her mouth, wearing an earring, bracelet, and a sky blue dress, and a pair of high heels.

The Fame Gurukul Fame Jodi received a Rs.1 crore music contract from Sony in addition to a Maruti Alto car each.

Contestants

On the left, Qazi Touqeer is smiling, standing with both hands in his pocket, having black wavy hair, wearing a necklace, blue shirt, dark blue coat, black belt, and black pants. 2nd from left, a man, smiling, standing while looking to his left with his hand in his pocket, he has black hair and is wearing a blue long sleeve, a black belt, and black pants. 3rd from left, Rex D'Souza is smiling, standing with his right arm on top of a man (left), right-hand thumbs up, left arm on the shoulder of Arijit Singh (right), left-hand thumbs up, has black hair, and is wearing a black long sleeve, and on the right, Arijit Singh, smiling, standing with both arms up and thumbs up, has long black hair, wearing a red long sleeve and black pants.

  • Lalit Goswami
  • Ruprekha Banerjee
  • Khandu Kamble
  • Chandan Gupta
  • Qazi Touqeer
  • Rex D'Souza
  • Arpita Mukherjee
  • Sandeep Batra
  • Suraj Verma
  • Arijit Singh
  • Samaj Gupta
  • 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
  • Jeevan Arya

    • Head Mistress

  • Ila Arun

    • Music

  • Padma Wadkar
  • Praŝant A Samadhar

    • Dance

  • Caesar Gonsalves

    • Fitness

    Deepika Mehta

    Jury Members

  • Javed Akhtar - Lyricist / Screenplay writer / Poet
  • KK (Krishnakumar Kunnath) - Singer
  • shankar mahadevan - Singer / Composer

    • Celebrity Judges

    In the movie scene of Fame Gurukul 2005, the celebrity judges in a room with a cream chair and black chair,, behind is red and gold curtains. At the back, from left, Shreya Ghoshal is serious, sitting, hands on lap, has black hair, wearing a orange collar sleeveless dress, 2nd from left, Alisha Chinoy is Serious, Sitting,The ankle of left leg rests right above the knee of the right leg, has short brown hair, wearing a blue with collar long sleeve and a denim pants, 3rd from left, Bipasha Basu is serious, sitting, legs crossed both hands together at her knees, has long black hair, wearing a long earrings and a red dress, in front of them, from left, John Abraham is serious, sitting hands over his lap, has black hair, wearing a cream with olive green print long sleeve, a gray pants and brown leather shoes, 2nd from left, Bhumika Chawla is serious, sitting, right hand under her chin and elbow leaning on top of her leg, left hand resting on her lap, has black curly hair, wearing earrings, yellow top with yellow scarf, yellow pants, and yellow shoes, 3rd from left, Karan Johar is serious, sitting, arms over his lap hands together, has black hair, wearing a black with white stripes long sleeve, khaki pants, and brown shoes. 4th from left, Alka Yagnik is serious, sitting arms crossed, wearing earrings, a gray top, a light blue scarf and blue pants, On the right, Aftab Shivdasani is serious, Sitting on a black chair, leaning backwards, left arm bend hands closed on front of his mouth, right hand open on his right leg, wearing a wristwatch, a gray with white line shirt, gray denim pants, and cream shoes.

    Occasionally a celebrity judge was called on the show to comment on the performances and to inspire the singers. The following was 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 Chinoy
  • 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 brought what they claimed to be "a bigger, better, more exciting and entertaining" version of Fame Gurukul named Celebrity Fame Gurukul where now was the turn of some popular personalities to compete by going "back to school". 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.

    They were now given various tasks to learn becoming singers and performers, while competing for the grand prize.

    The show offered an unprecedented level of drama and excitement by showcasing never-before-seen, behind-the-scenes footage of a highly diverse group of celebrities. It delved into their behavior, peculiarities, egos, challenges, interpersonal relationships, competitive nature, and their efforts to persevere in the Gurukul in an uncensored, unscripted, and candid manner. Moreover, for the first time, viewers had the opportunity to see these celebrities in a new role - as singers.

    The proceeds of the show would 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.

    Making of the Fame Singer

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

    The format once again allowed votes by the faculty, contestants as well as viewers who would ultimately decide the best singer and performer out of the nine television personalities, spiced up with entertaining musical performances, gripping drama and high emotions entertaining the viewers.

    Contestants

  • Ajay Gehi
  • Amit Sareen
  • Bakhtiyaar Irani
  • Bobby Darling
  • Hansika Motwani
  • Jayati Bhatia
  • Smita Bansal
  • Tanaaz Currim
  • Tisca Chopra
  • Vinod Singh

    • Amit Sareen finished winner, with Vinod Singh as 1st runner-up and Tanaaz Currim as 2nd runner-up.

    Judges

  • Javed Akhtar
  • Alka Yagnik
  • Vinay Dobariya
  • Notice

    • References

    Fame Gurukul Wikipedia
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