Hero Honda Sa Re Ga Ma Pa is a highly popular Indian Television singing competition and reality show on Zee TV channel. This is one of the most hyped about reality shows in India. The show was founded by Gajendra Singh in 1995. Previously it was named as Sa Re Ga Ma. It has served as a platform for budding and struggling singers from across the nation. The show also has some of the best singers performing from various parts of the globe.

The show was renamed as Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge and public voting system was introduced in 2005. Debojit Saha was the winner of the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2005 while Aneek Dhar won the last season, Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2007. Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge 2009 is the 3rd installment of the Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Challenge series. The show got started on July 04, 2008 and is aired every Friday and Saturday at 10 p.m. It is hosted by Aditya Narayan. He is the son of well-known Indian playback singer Udit Narayan. It is the 5th public voting competition in the `Sa Re Ga Ma Pa` series whose contestants have already become very popular. The USP of Sa Re Ga Ma Pa challenge 2008 is that the show open to different countries, gives an equal opportunity to everyone irrespective of their nationality, religion, caste and creed. The show is a treat for all the music lovers.

The show is being judged by Asha Bhosle, the well-known Indian playback singer as Mahaguru and by four popular Bollywood music composers namely Aadesh Shrivastava, Shankar Mahadevan, Pritam Chakraborty and Himesh Reshammiya. Asha Bhonsle will choose the participants in initial stage while later on this work will be done by Kavita Krishnamurthy. The contestants have been divided into 4 groups or gharanas namely Jai Ho, Rock, Lakshya and Dhoom. The mentors are divided as Aadesh Shrivastava for Jai Ho, Himesh Reshammiya for Rock, Shankar Mahadevan for Lakshya and Pritam Chakraborty for Dhoom.

For the present season of Hero Honda Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, the judges are Suresh Wadekar and Gulam Ali Kha Sahib.

Auditions were held in various cities of India such as Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Delhi etc. in May-June 2008. Auditions for the show were also held in various foreign countries like USA, U.K., Pakistan, U. A. E. etc.

Now a day reality shows of the like become a sensation with the youth and are inspiring thousands of talented artists to come forward. In one word they are such a platform by means of which one can aspire to touch the stars. However, the ever-growing popularity of these shows has taken the nation by storm. People have started taking them seriously and the gates to stardom have been opened for those who have the talent.