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India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n television popular singing contest that was broadcast on Sony TV, from December 21, 2007, to May 4, 2008, with a four hour grand finale. The show was created to determine which of 12 contestants, all professional and seasoned singers, was most able to sing songs 'similarly' to singer Kishore Kumar

Kishore Kumar

Kishore Kumar , born Abhas Kumar Ganguly, was an Indian film playback singer and an actor who also worked as lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter.Kishore Kumar was one of India's greatest performers of the late 20th century...

. The show featured popular judges and music directors. The series was opted for only the votes of the judges and the audience in the studio for deciding the singers who come closest to the legendary singer Kishore Kumar

Kishore Kumar

Kishore Kumar , born Abhas Kumar Ganguly, was an Indian film playback singer and an actor who also worked as lyricist, composer, producer, director, screenwriter and scriptwriter.Kishore Kumar was one of India's greatest performers of the late 20th century...

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Guests

• Leena Chandraverkar
• Asha Parekh
  Asha Parekh
  Asha Parekh is a Bollywood actress, director, and producer. She was one of the top stars in Hindi films from 1959 to 1973.-Early life:...
  
  
• Kumar Sanu
  Kumar Sanu
  Kumar Sanu Kumar Sanu Kumar Sanu (alias Kedarnath Bhattacharya , born in Kolkata, is a leading Indian Bollywood playback singer. He was awarded the Filmfare Best Male Playback Award over five consecutive years. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 2009....
  
  
• Alka Yagnik
  Alka Yagnik
  Alka Yagnik is an Indian singer who is ranked among the best Hindi playback singers of all time. She is a seven-time winner of the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award as well as a two-time recipient of the prestigious National Film Awards...
  
  
• Vinod Rathod
  Vinod Rathod
  Vinod Rathod, the son of singer Pandit Chhaturbhuj Rathod, is a Bollywood playback singer. He has sung in numerous popular Bollywood films including Chal Mere Bhai, Lage Raho Munna Bhai, Mission Kashmir and Baazigar....
  
  
• Hema Sardesai
  Hema Sardesai
  Hema Sardesai also known as simply Hema, is an Indian playback singer, best known for her Hindi songs.During her career, Sardesai has sung playback songs for over 60 Bollywood films, has released several successful Indipop albums, and has performed numerous live stage shows in almost all the states...
  
  
• Javed Akhtar
  Javed Akhtar
  Javed Akhtar is a poet, lyricist and scriptwriter from India. Some of his most successful work was done in the late 1970s and 1980s with Salim Khan as half of the script-writing duo credited as Salim-Javed...
  
  
• Nagesh Kukunoor
  Nagesh Kukunoor
  Nagesh Kukunoor is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter. He is known for movies such as Hyderabad Blues , Rockford , 3 Deewarein and Iqbal .-Early life:...
  
   (extended guest)
• Asha Bhonsle
• Rajesh Khanna
  Rajesh Khanna
  Rajesh Khanna is an Indian actor of from Hindi films, and has been Hindi film producer and an Indian politician....
  
   (grand finale)
• Kunal Khemu

First participants

• Arnab Charkrabarti (Team: Jhumroos) --- Winner
• Chintan Bakiwala (Team: Bangdoos) --- 1st runner-up
• Chetan Rana (Team: Bangdoos) --- 2nd runner-up
• Nayan Rathore (Team: Bangdoos) -- Eliminated
• Vinod Seshadri (Team: Jhumroos) -- Eliminated
• Sameer Memon (Team: Jhumroos) -- Eliminated
• Apurva (Team: Jhumroos) -- Eliminated
• Pramod Rampal (Team: Jhumroos) -- Eliminated
• Harsh Vyas (Team: Jhumroos) -- Eliminated
• Milind Ingle
  Milind Ingle
  Milind Ingle is a singer and music director from Pen, Maharashtra, India. Milind's songs are mainly in Marathi and Hindi. Milind collaborated with poet/lyricist Soumitra for his album, Gaarva meaning "cool" , in Marathi. It is a compilation of 6 songs that describe the advent of the monsoon after...
  
   (Team: Jhumroos) -- Eliminated
• Suhas Sawant (Team: Bangdoos) -- Eliminated
• Kshitij Wagh
  Kshitij Wagh
  Kshitij Wagh is an Indian playback singer. He debuts with his first Hindi film duet 'Mehki Mehki' with Shreya Ghoshal, for the film Game, Starring Abhishek Bachchan, Kangna Ranaut and Sarah-Jane Dias, Music by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy....
  
   (Team: Bangdoos) -- Eliminated
• Saurabh Ghosh (Team: Bangdoos) -- Eliminated
• Babar Chandio (Team:Chandio) -- Eliminated

Challengers

• K. Shailendra -- Eliminated
• Amit Paul -- Eliminated (due to ill health )
• Amanat Ali -- Eliminated
• Rex D' Souza -- Eliminated
• Anil Srivastva -- Eliminated
• Sikander Ali -- Eliminated

External links

• K for Kishore Official Site on SET India