The curtains have just come down on the Indian Premier League, which concluded its 13th edition on Tuesday with Mumbai Indians successfully defending their title against Delhi Capitals to lift the cup for a record fifth time. Now, Mirror has learnt that inspired by the format, another league is on its way, but this one has to do with music rather than cricket.

Zee TV, which has successfully launched musical talents like Shreya Ghoshal through its talent hunt show Sa Re Ga Ma Pa, which completed 25 years in 2020, is gearing up to bring the country’s first Indian Pro Music League in 2021. The format will have six teams owned by Bollywood A-listers and their families, including Govinda and wife Sunita, Rajkummar Rao, Shraddha Kapoor with father Shakti and brother Siddhanth Kapoor and Riteish Deshmukh and wife Genelia, representing different regions of India, while facing off each other in a musical championship.

Each team will comprise six members, including one established male and female vocalist as their captains, some reality show stars and a fresh voice from different parts of the country. There will be five innings of league matches, followed by a super match where the audience votes and umpire points will decide the outcome, and one of the teams will be declared to be the league champions.

The channel will soon start scouting talent from across the country to give them a platform to hone their talent and compete with and against the best of the best from the Indian music industry. The show promises to be a celebration of Indian music.