Antakshari

<a href=http://www.tellychakkar.com/news/shaan-will-no-longer-host-star-voice-india-chote-ustad>Gajendra Singh</a> who has made a mark as a producer of music reality, talent hunts and formats such as <a href=http://www.tellychakkar.com/news/antakshari-ke-chor-machaye-shor>Antakshari</a> and <a href=http://www.tellychakkar.com/news/sa-re-ga-ma-pa-lil-champs-gets-its-winner>Sa Re Ga Ma Pa</a> is back. However, this time he will be trying his hand in the fiction genre. Yes, you heard it right, Gajendra Singh is making his first fiction show for Sahara One.

Showing its solidarity with <em> Mumbaikars</em> and mainly Maharashtrians, Mi Marathi is bringing a long forgotten tradition back. Mi Marathi is inviting <em> laavni</em> groups to display their talents on one stage. Through this show Mi Marathi will provide the interested groups a platform to perform and get eliminated for the Number One Group in <em>laavni </em> performance.

Zee TV's <em>Antakshari</em> bid adieu for a short time to its viewers. The show had a successful stint of 12 long years and this is the first time that Zee TV has decided to give the show a break and bring it back after sometime. <em>Antakshari</em> announced the break at a gala event attended by the entire music, films and TV fraternity. While the show is on a break to come back revamped, it is speculated that Annu Kapoor may not be a part of the revamped show.

Zee TV's <em>Sansui Antakshari</em> has caught one of its teams Parwane cheating on the show. The accused Mahesh and Jai are believed by Zee TV to have written lyrics on their palms and used these while singing. Zee TV will telecast this drama in their next show.

Do you have it in you? It seemed like another <em>Indian Idol</em>. Only this time, it was an audition for India's first musical show, Zee's <em>Sansui Antakshari</em>. Over a thousand aspiring participants turned up for the auditions on Sunday at Ravindra Natya Mandir, Mumbai. Music directors Anand Sharma and Sujit Dutt, the judges of the event, had a tough time screening the singers. They judged the participants not only for their singing talent but also their attitude or the 'A' factor as it is called. Auditions in Mumbai will follow those in Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta.

It was a Saturday when shoots and weekend outings were pushed back from the agenda of telly stars. Star Plus, in another of its innovative stunts, pulled off a premature Holi at the Tulip Star on Saturday, and got the stars to play uninhibited with colours, flowers and water. Unlike other structured events, the Holi bash turned out to be an exuberant spontaneous affair, with celebs of all shows hugging, greeting each other with lavish colour and splashing generous tinted water over one another.