Music biggies on Star Plus’ reality show

After Zee TV’s Mega Challenge it’s now the turn of Star Plus. The channel is all set to make a music based reality show with celebrated singers from music based reality shows across channels. The show is produced by Gajendrra Siingh’s Saibaba Telefilms and is tipped to launch in December. This is going to be a big ticket show and according to sources, Star Plus is pinning its hope on it to generate the much needed TRPs during the weekends. According to the source, the show boasts of some famous music directors like Himesh Reshammiya, Shankar Mahadevan, Mika and Mohit Chauhan. The show which was earlier titled as MPL (Music Premiere League) will go in for a title change as Sony is currently airing a dance based show titled DPL (Dance Premiere League). Says our source, “Singers like Rahul Vaidya, Vineet Singh, Debojeet Saha, Harshit Saxena, Raja Hassan, Aneek Dhar, Himani and a few singers from Chhote Ustaad are tipped to be participating in the show. There will be six teams and each team will have one mentor. The mentors as of now who are almost finalised are Himesh Reshammiya, Shankar Mahadevan, Mohit Chauhan, Shreya Ghoshal, Shaan and Mika. There will be no individual eliminations but teams will be evicted. The show is tipped to hit the tube in the second week of December.” Talking about the host, our source says, “Bollywood celebrities were approached to host the show and Riteish Deshmukh too was on the list. He was almost finalised but had to back out at the last moment citing date issues. Now they are in talks with Ayushmann Khurrana.” We sent a text message to producer Gajendrra Siingh but he didn’t reply.