Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs 2009 (SRGMP) is the third season of the popular ZeeTV show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa L'il Champs. Going on air from June 5, 2009, the music reality show will feature 12 participants: 6 boys and 6 girls. The theme of the show this year is unique - Jeetenge World, Boys Ya Girls. The eliminations by public voting began on August 5, 2009. The season finale was held in Mumbai on Saturday 24 October 2009; the winner was Hemant Brijwasi.
Abhijeet Bhattacharya - Boys' Mentor
Alka Yagnik - Girls' Mentor
Kailash Kher - June 26 & June 27
Saif Ali Khan, Deepika Padukone, Pritam (to promote their movie Love Aaj Kal) - July 3
Pritam Imtiaz Ali Zaynah Vastani - July 4
Shaan - July 10 & July 11
Kavita Krishnamurthy - July 17 & July 18
Imran Khan, Ravi Kishan (to promote their movie Luck), and Udit Narayan - July 24
Udit Narayan - July 25
Sukhwinder Singh - July 31 & August 1 - Friendship Special
Jatin Pandit, Suresh Wadkar, (to serve as the selection board for the Wild Card Entry) - August 7 and 8
Shahid Kapoor (to promote his movie Kaminey) - August 14
Daler Mehndi, Shreyas Talpade (to promote Shreyas' movie Aage Se Right) - August 22
David Dhawan, Govinda, Vashu Bhagnani, Sameer, Neeraj Shridhar, Anushka Manchanda, & Shravan (to promote Govinda's movie Do Knot Disturb) - August 28
Wadali brothers - August 29
Anandji Virji Shah, Mohammed Zahur Khayyam - September 4
Priyanka Chopra, Harman Baweja (to promote their movie What's Your Raashee?) - September 5
Asha Bhosle - September 11
Salman(Mohammed Ghouse) - September 18
Bappi Lahiri - September 19
Ratan Rajput & Manoj Tiwari - September 24
Emran Hashmi, Soha Ali Khan (to promote their film - Tum Mile) - September 25
Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgan (to promote their movie All the Best: Fun Begins) - October 2
Zayed Khan (to promote his movie Blue) - October 3
Ritesh Deshmukh (to promote his movie Aladin) - October 9
Lara Dutta (to promote her film Blue) - October 10
Vishal-Shekhar (Vishal Dadlani & Shekhar Ravjiani) - October 17
The hosts are 2 little kids. Afsha at first was auditioning as a contestant, and ended up being the hostess. Dhairya was already famous from few movies like: Partner (2007 film) and Baabul. Also from shows: Kya Aap Paanchvi Pass Se Tez Hain? and Ek Se Badhkar Ek.
Afsha Musani
Dhairya Sorecha
August 21:
Abhijeet Shrivastav - OUT
Shreyasi Bhattacharjee - Safe
Shristi Bhandari - Safe
August 28:
Shristi Bhandari - OUT
Hemant Brijwasi - Safe
Rahul Dutta - Safe
September 4:
Rahul Dutta - OUT
Prateeksha Shrivastav - Safe
Antara Nandy - Safe
September 11: NO ELIMINATION (on Asha Bhosle's request)
Hemant Brijwasi
Antara Nandy
Swarit Shukl
September 18:
Abhigyan Das - Safe
Shreyasi Bhattacharjee - Safe
Antara Nandy - OUT
September 25: NO ELIMINATION
Yatarth Ratnam Rastogi
Prateeksha Shrivastava
October 2:
Abhigyan Das - OUT
Swarit Shukl - Safe
October 9:
Prateeksha Shrivastava - OUT
Hemant Brijwasi - Safe
October 16:
Swarit Shukl - OUT
2009 Grand FINALE
Hemant Brijwasi (from Mathura) - WINNER
Yatharth Ratnum Rastogi (from Varanasi) - 1st runner-up
Shreyasi Bhattacharjee (from Kolkata) - 2nd runner-up