Show starts with Aditya announcing that there's now 5 weeks remaining for the finals....then the announcement for the theme is amde. Its suresh wadkar special.
Sureshji comes on stage and sings....he starts with guru pranam and then goes on to sing few lines from Megha re megha re and aye zindagi Gale laga le. At the end of the song his students come up on the stage and that includes previous srgmp and indian idol contestant Rahul Vaidya too.
Sonu praises sureshji for the work he is doing for music. he then requests him to play tabla which is sureshji's first love. Sonu himselg bring the tabla on stage and Suresh wadkarji play it.
The guest of the evening is announced. its Vishal Bhardwaj...Vishal informs all that his dream was always to work with sureshji and he is happy to have done so. there are many hit songs of these two combined.
Aditya declares total votes - its more than 9lakh this week.
The judgement chair is no more...all five contestants r made to stand on a round platform and an arrow revolves above them to give the positions.
this weeks #1 contestant is none other than Anamika.
Anamika :
She 1st sing few lines of jungle jungle baat chali hai....Vishal is happy and then sonu too joins and sings the song in a kids voice. sonu informs all that the song was composed by Vishal.
Song - Surmaye Shaam
Film - Lekin
Suresh - he finds the performance good.
Sonu - Not upto the mark....
Vishal - U choose a very diff song....but still did well as per your age.
Aditya announces a surprise for Sureshji....its a msg from Lataji. she tells how sureshji had eagerly wanted to take autograph of her when he was a kid. according to her his presence cannor be ignored...she showers praise on him.
Next round to find #2....its Amir.
Amir -
Song - Aye zindagi gale laga le
Film - Sadma
Suresh - Finds it good
Sonu - Good but 1st learn the song properly then go for variations in it
Vishal - he praises amir a lot....
Next surprise a Tribute to Sureshji from ravindra Jain....sureshji on his request sings the song - jaane kaisi bahe yeh hawa.
Sureshji's daughter ananya comes on stage and sings taare zammen par. briliant performance đ then comes his wife Padmaji, his elder sister and school trustee atul singhani
Padmaji was among the 1st contestants of the 1st episode of srgmp in 1993 and they show clipings of sonu and her. aditya tells all that we now hv here the 1st contestant and 1st host of this show together on the sets....a rae sight maybe for any show.
#3 now - Its Tanmay
Song - Sapne mein milti kudi meri
Film - Satya
Suresh - great performance....he is too happy.
Sonu - he tells all how he is getting emails saying he pinches his cheek on their behalf...tanmay has already become famous.
Vishal - Tum jitne upar ho utne hi neeche....
Two left...and one among them will now get eliminated.
Next tribute is from sushil kumar shinde who is a great friend of Sureshji
Rohana dn Vasu brought on stage...aditya tells that one among them would now get eliminated. but before that they r going to give their performances. Rohan has a gift for Sureshji...a pack of CD with songs of sureshji.
Rohan -
Song - Chappa Chappa Charkha Chale
Film - Machis
Sureshji sonu and Vishal all praise him for the fantastic performance by him...
Many others like rajesh roshan and zakir hussain pay tribute to Sureshji.
Vasundhara -
Song - Tumse milke
Film - Parinda
Sonu and sureshji all praise her. surehsji on the request of vasundhara goe sup the stage and sing a marathi song with her. Vishal tells her to do proper riyaaz to get few things right in her singing.
Aditya now calls Vishal on stage....they both together release the C-2007 contestants CD sets. there r two sets - Safar and Shubh Vivah. both carry songs from the challenge. Shbh Vivah series has songs from the shaadi episode that the season had....
Nana Patekar now pays tribute to sureshji.
Now comes the final decision...who among Vasundhara and Rohanpreet will get eliminated?
Both r called on stage...here now sureshji calls and pleads not to eliminate anyone. As a mark of respect to sureshji this being his episode none r eliminated this week.
So No Elimination this week!!!
All come up on the stage and they sing chappa chappa charkha chale....then they declare the power packed performance.....it's Amir this week.