I am not listing singers here because they are always around in some way or the other...we always know their face and stories. But here are people I feel who should be called by Sony for sure:
Pre 90s:
Anandji (Kalyanji-Anandji)
Pyerelal Sharma (Laxmikant-Pyarelal)
Usha Khanna (the first female music director)
90s:
Anand-Milind (they can do an entire weekend since their father was also a music director)
Shravan Rathod
Jatin-Lalit
Dilip Sen-Sameer Sen
Viju Shah (he too can do an entire weekend, his father was Kalyanji)
Sameer Anjaan
Raam-Laxman
Javed Akhtar
2000s onwards:
Salim-Sulaiman
Pritam
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy
Ajay-Atul
If I had chose singers, they'd be the following since we haven't seen them on Indian TV:
KS Chitra
Poornima
Vinod Rathod
Yesudas
Hariharan
Anuradha Paudwal
We can definitely expect Pyare Ji & Ajay - Atul. They came in last 2 seasons too.
I want them to invite Shekhar and they can do VS Special.
Arijit Singh hardly goes anywhere so if he comes it would be great.
Chitra Ji & Kavita Krishnamurthy are in my list too.
I’d really like an Asha Bhosale special.
Other than that:
Madhuri dixit - Anil Kapoor
SRK - Kajol
Shravan (of Nadeem - Shravan fame)
Mahesh Bhatt (his movies have amazing music)
Rajesh Roshan
Chitra
Shubha Mudgal/Ila Arun
Gulzar
Javed Akhtar
They don't even acknowledge their music team...actors make it all about themselves unlike their seniors. Why would we want that?
I won't watch the mothers special as it makes me super emotional and disturbed
But yayy for Pyareji
I want to see Shreya Ghoshal and Sonu Nigam on the show. They have great songs and are very professional judges. They are bound to sing live as well and that would be honey for the ears.
Definitely Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy and Salim-Sulaiman. Both of them can have special episodes. Even Vishal-Shekhar. All these music directors have great songs, and they could give constructive criticism to the contestants when they perform on their own songs.