The richly popular musical reality show in Zee Kannada has entered the 7th series. Hamsalekha is the Maha Guru of this show and four his students in the past the ace singers now – Rajesh Krishna, Hemanth, Nanditha and Archana Udupa are training 24 new singers – six each and then entering the ‘Maha battle’ in this 40 episodes that starts on 3rd October 2009. Nearly 1000 singers with training and without training have been contacted from nook and corner of Karnataka for this reality show. 24 have been finally selected.
One hour on Saturday and Sunday the contest takes off is directed by Balaraj. Miditech Nivedith is happy to associate with this novel style of music contest for the age group of 16 to 26.
The Maha Guru of this contest Hamsalekha has composed a song written by Sharief as the theme song. Manaviyathe Enagidhe was recorded in the Hamsalekha studio and every singer learnt the minute mistakes they make expressed Hamsalekha. He expects the five new songs from this contest with a novel touch in it - one from his end and four from his Shishyas - Rajesh Krishna, Nanditha, Hemanth and Archana Udupa.
Nanditha the new entry to this reality show intends to make use of the learning and use the chance effectively. It is still a learning process in life and helps us in growing she pointed. We are all from the Beru of Hamsalekha said Archana Udupa who is in the second series of this reality show. For the four of us Hamsalekha is the mentor and he is now Maha Guru and we are mentors for six singers for this show explained the beautiful Archana Udupa. Playback singer Hemanth said there was no such platform for him when he came 10 years ago. This type of music shows should grow tremendously he felt.
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