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Meet Qazi Touqeer: Fame Gurukul Winner Who Entered Bigg Boss 20
- •Qazi Touqeer, the co-winner of Fame Gurukul 2005, has made a comeback to television by entering Bigg Boss 20 after 21 years.
- •Host Salman Khan called him a rockstar, and former winner Gauahar Khan praised him as the most real contestant in the house.
- •Renowned singer Arijit Singh, who was also a contestant in the same season of Fame Gurukul, openly supported Qazi on social media.
- •During Fame Gurukul, Qazi received massive popularity and over 2.5 crore votes, surviving the danger zone 10 times.
- •Despite early success and a release of an album with Ruprekha Banerjee, Qazi struggled to sustain a mainstream playback singing career.
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Qazi Touqeer became a household name in 2005 by participating in Sony TV's singing reality show Fame Gurukul. Due to his energetic stage presence and massive public support, he and Ruprekha Banerjee were chosen as the joint winners of the competition on October 20, 2005.
Arijit Singh and Qazi Touqeer competed together in the 2005 season of Fame Gurukul, where Arijit finished in sixth place while Qazi won the show. Despite achieving vastly different levels of mainstream success afterward, the two maintained a close, lifelong friendship. Showing his support for Qazi's entry into Bigg Boss 20, Arijit posted on X that he would watch the show for the first time in his life for his rockstar friend.
After winning Fame Gurukul, Qazi released the collaborative album "Ye Pal" with Ruprekha Banerjee. Years later, in 2015, he made a notable appearance in the music video for the hit song "Afghan Jalebi" from the film Phantom, which starred Katrina Kaif and Saif Ali Khan. He also returned to reality television roughly 21 years later as a contestant on Bigg Boss 20.
