Hero - Sa Re Ga Ma Pa 2012 was the fifth instalment of the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge series. It premiered on September 29, 2012 on Zee TV. The show was hosted by popular singer Javed Ali.
Over 1,20,000 auditions were conducted in New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata to select 100 contestants. Out of these, the top fifteen then competed for a position in the top ten for five weeks, two contestants being eliminated each week for three weeks, and one each for weeks 4 and 5. In the fifth week, three of the eliminated contestants won back their positions in the top ten by defeating three other contenders, to make up the final list of top ten.
The top ten then went on to compete in a contest to be decided by viewers through voting. This segment witnessed one elimination every week, until four contestants were left. The winner amongst them was announced in a Grand Finale episode. The contest was won by Jasraj Joshi, with the second, third and fourth places going to Shehnaz Akhtar, Vishwajeet Borwankar and Mohammed Aman respectively.
Javed Ali
Jay Bhanushali (Audition episodes)
Judges and Mentors
Rahul Ram
Shankar Mahadevan
Sajid-Wajid
Prasoon Joshi (Week 11)
Ajay-Atul (Week 11)
Ustad Ghulam Ali (Week 7)
Taufiq Qureshi (Week 6)
Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (Week 5)
Hariharan (Week 4)
Gurdas Maan (Week 3)
Begum Parveen Sultana (Week 2)
Pandit Jasraj (Week 1)
Sudhir Mishra, Arjun Rampal, Chitrangada Singh (Inkaar) - Week 12
Vishal Bhardwaj, Rekha Bhardwaj, Imran Khan, Anushka Sharma (Matru Ki Bijlee Ka Mandola) - Week 10
Salman Khan, Sonakshi Sinha (Dabangg 2) - Week 8
Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma (Jab Tak Hai Jaan) - Week 3
Ajay Devgn, Sonakshi Sinha (Son of Sardaar) - Week 3
Preity Zinta (Ishkq in Paris) - Week 1
Promos were made showing that [Akshay Kumar] and [Kajal Agarwal] would be there to promote Special 26 in the grand finale, but for an unknown reason they did not show up.
Jasraj Joshi (Pune) - Winner
Shehnaz Akhtar (Punjab) - Second place
Vishwajeet Borwankar (Mumbai) - Third place
Mohammed Aman (Rajasthan..) - Fourth place
(Eliminated in Week 3; successful attempt during wild-card entry episode)
Jaspreet 'Jazim' Sharma (Punjab) - in Week 13
Renu Nagar (Rajasthan) - in Week 11
Arshpreet Kaur (Punjab) - in Week 10 (previously eliminated in Week 4; successful attempt during wild-card entry episode)
Madhuri Dey (Kolkata, West Bengal) - in Week 9
Himanshu Sharma (Jagadhri, Haryana) - in Week 8 (previously eliminated in Mega Audition; successful attempt during wild-card entry episode)
Zain Ali (Lahore, Pakistan) - in Week 7 (beginning of public voting)
Barbie Rajput (Chandigarh) - in Mega Audition (unsuccessful attempt during wild-card entry episode)
Padmanav Bordoloi (Guwahati, Assam) - in Week 5 (unsuccessful attempt during wild-card entry episode)
Kunal Pandit (Mumbai, Maharashtra) - in Week 3 (unsuccessful attempt during wild-card entry episode)
Mrunmayee Tirodkar (Goa) - in Week 2
Subhrima Bhadury (Mumbai, Maharashtra) - in Week 2
Parul Mishra (Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh) - in Week 1
Arsh Mohammed (Mumbai, Maharashtra) - in Week 1
