Fame Gurukul Full Details of all the seasons

About the show:

• Fame Gurukul was an Indian reality show on Sony Entertainment Television which premiered on 27 June 2005.^[1] 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.

It is based on the Spanish Operación Triunfo and international 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 shows. Fame Gurukul 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 remained in the end.

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

Season 1 Winner:



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..



Fame Gurukul is one of the most popular prime-time shows on Indian television. The Sony Entertainment Television(India) program is produced by the same team that produced Indian Idol. The premise of the show is to select a pair of India's best singers/performers.
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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 is 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 is voted out of the show, and so on until two will remain in the end, who will receive various prizes (recording contracts, cars, etc.).

Results : Qazi Touqeer & Ruprekha Banerjee Winners
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On 20 October2005, 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.

Prizes
The Fame Gurukul Fame Jodi will receive a Rs. 1 crore music contract from Sony along with a MarutiAlto each.
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Rounds
The show is divided into many rounds for each week:
Gala - All the contestants perform on Stage, and up to four contestants are put into the "Danger Zone" by the Jury, and one is saved by the Faculty.

Lamhe - A retrospective of the previous week, with highlights and some more details Academy Main 24 Ghantai - "Reality" portion of the show, covers various goings-on in the Gurukul Academy Ran bhumi - The contestants remaining in the danger zone perform once more for the audience, however, the voting begins from the gala itself, so some of the audience results would not have reflected the ranbhumi performances.
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Aap Ka Faisla - The National audience votes to save one of the contestants, and then the safe and saved contestants save one of the two contestants remaining in the Danger Zone. The other contestant then leaves the show. If there is a tie, then the Top Student for the week can reinforce his or her vote or change to the other contestant.

2005



Contestants
Ruprekha Banerjee - Winner
Qazi Touqeer - Winner
Rex D'Souza
Arpita Mukherjee
Sandeep Batra
Arijit Singh
Monica Gadgil
Shamit Tyagi

Gurpreet Kaur
Deepshikha Sharma
Mona Bhatt
Amit Jadhav
Kirti Sagatia
Anubhav Suman
Deepak Singh Meher
Chhavi Sodhani

Faculty
Head Mistress : Ila Arun
Music : Padma Wadkar, Praŝant A Samadhar
Dance : Bosco, Caesar
Fitness : Deepika Mehta

Judges
Jury Members
Javed Akhtar - Lyricist / Screenplay witer / Poet
Kay Kay - Singer
Shankar Mahadevan - Singer / Composer

Celebrity Judges
Occasionally a celebrity judge is called on the show to comment on the performances and to inspire the singers.Following is 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

Season 2: 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 promised unlimited drama and excitement while watching the never-before-seen footage of the behind-the-scenes action and drama of the highly diverse group of celebrities, their behaviour, quirks, egos, trials, tribulations, inter-personal relationship, competitive spirit and their struggle to survive at the Gurukul uncensored, unscripted and very candid. And, for the very first time ever, viewers got to watch the celebrities in their new 'avataar' - 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.

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