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Country of origin | India |
Original language | Tamil |
No. of seasons | 10 |
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Production locations | Chennai, Tamil Nadu |
Running time | approx.60-70 minutes per episode |
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Network | Star Vijay |
Release | 28 April 2006 – present |
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Airtel Super Singer Junior |
Airtel Super Singer is a 2006 Indian Tamil-language reality television singing competition, that was sponsored by KAG Tiles for the tenth season. The show is televised in India on Vijay TV, and worldwide through partner broadcasting networks. The show, together with its spin-off editions such as Airtel Super Singer Junior, are part of Vijay TV's Super Singer TV series.
The program, which debuted on 28 April 2006, seeks to discover the best playback recording voice and singing talent in Tamil Nadu through a series of statewide auditions. Selected contestants are required to participate in several competition rounds, often based on a theme for a given week, and aim to be selected to perform in the show's grand finale each season.
Winners and finalists of the competition have been offered chances to sing a song in upcoming Tamil movies, [1] [2] [3] and other prizes such as sums of money, gold, and real estate property. The ninth season of Super Singer finished on 25 June 2023. The tenth season of Super Singer started on 16 December 2023, and will end on 23 June 2024.
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10 | 16 December 2023 23 June 2024 Season synopsis
HistorySuper Singer Season 1The first season premiered on 28 April 2006, with a series of episodes which telecasted auditions for the show. [4] Auditions were held across the state of Tamil Nadu in the cities of Coimbatore, Chennai, and Madurai. Performances by auditioning contestants were judged by singers S. P. Sailaja, Jency, Malaysia Vasudevan, Sirkazhi Sivachidambaram, Mahathi, and music director D. Imman. [5] The show was hosted by playback singer Chinmayi. Later stages of the competition were held at a specially designed studio set, and performances were judged by a panel of permanent judges consisting of playback singers Anuradha Sriram, P. Unnikrishnan, and Srinivas. [4] Contestants were eliminated during the competition, and finalists received special training from voice expert Ananth Vaidyanathan in the final stages of the competition. Season 1 title winner Nikhil Mathew was formally introduced as a playback singer after he sang the song "Enadhuyire" in the Tamil film Bheema for music director, Harris Jayaraj. [6] [7] Season 1 runner up and viewer's choice, Anitha V. (now known as Anitha Karthikeyan) was formally introduced as a playback singer in the Tamil film Marudhamalai by music director D. Imman. [6] [8] Super Singer Season 2The second season premiered on 7 July 2008; It held a series of episodes that telecast auditions for the show. Auditions for the show, which commenced on 27 June 2008, were held across three cities in the state of Tamil Nadu. Performances by auditioning contestants were judged by playback singers S. P. Sailaja and Srilekha Parthasarathy in the city of Coimbatore, Sunitha Sarathy and Deepan Chakravarthy in the city of Chennai, as well as Mahathi and Mathangi in the city of Trichy. Playback singer Chinmayi returned as a permanent host of the show up to and including 21 January 2009, following which she left the show much to the disappointment of many fans of the show. She was replaced by a duo, singer-actor Yugendran and his wife, Malini, for the remainder of the show in 2009. Playback singers P. Unnikrishnan and Srinivas returned as permanent judges of the show, and a new permanent judge, playback singer Sujatha replaced Anuradha Sriram (who instead appeared as a guest judge through the season). Contestants were eliminated during the competition, and finalists received special training from voice expert Ananth Vaidyanathan in the final stages of the competition. The Grand Finale was held on 3 June 2009 at YMCA Royapettah, Chennai. At the finals, Ajeesh won the competition and was chosen by Yuvan Shankar Raja to sing the song Idhu Varai for the soundtrack of Tamil film, Goa. [9] [10] Super Singer Season 3Airtel Super Singer 3, the third season of the Airtel Super Singer show, premiered on 12 July 2010. The third season was hosted by Divya Vijayagopal and Sivakarthikeyan. The auditions were held in various parts of Tamil Nadu, and were judged by singers including S. P. Sailaja, Nithyasree Mahadevan, Unni Menon, Sowmya, Harish Raghavendra, Pop Shalini, Mahathi, and Malgudi Subha. Sujatha, P. Unnikrishnan and Srinivas continued to be the permanent judges for the third consecutive season. The grand finale was held on 23 September 2011 at Chennai Trade Centre and was broadcast live. Saicharan won the competition, [11] and was chosen by A. R. Rahman and D. Imman to sing in the films Godfather , Manam Kothi Paravai , and Saattai . Super Singer Season 4Airtel Super Singer 4, the fourth season of the Airtel Super Singer show, premiered on 4 February 2013. The fourth season was hosted by Makapa Anand, Priyanka Deshpande, and Bhavana Balakrishnan. The auditions were held in various parts of Tamil Nadu, and were judged by singers including S. P. Sailaja, Nithyasree Mahadevan, Unni Menon, Sowmya, Devan Ekambaram, Pop Shalini, Mahathi, Malgudi Subha and Rajinderpal Singh. Playback singers, Sujatha Mohan, Mano, P. Unnikrishnan and Srinivas, were the judges for the fourth season. Diwakar won the competition, [12] [13] [14] and was chosen by music directors D. Imman, Vivek-Mervin, and Kannan to sing in the films Panjumittai , Vadacurry , and Kalkandu . Super Singer Season 5Airtel Super Singer 5, the fifth season of the Airtel Super Singer show, premiered on 1 June 2015. The fifth season was hosted by Makapa Anand, Priyanka Deshpande, and Bhavana Balakrishnan. The auditions were held in various parts of Tamil Nadu and were telecast until 3 July 2015. First-round audition judges included season 3 winner Saisharan, season 4 winner Diwakar, and former contestants from those seasons such as D. Sathyaprakash, Pooja Vaidyanath, Santhosh Hariharan, and Sonia. Second and third round audition judges included S. P. Charan, Pushpavanam Kuppusamy, Devan Ekambaram, James Vasanthan, Mahathi, S. Sowmya, and Pop Shalini. Zonal audition judges were permanent judges from the junior version of the show, Malgudi Subha, Mano, and K. S. Chithra. A total of 33 contestants were selected for the finals, including local, international, and former contestants. Playback singers, P. Unnikrishnan, Srinivas, Mano, and Usha Uthup, were the judges for the fifth season. At the finale of the show, contestant Anand Aravindakshan was declared the winner of the season, while contestant Fareedha was declared first runner-up. Both finalists were promised an opportunity to sing for one of the upcoming films of music director Santhosh Narayanan. Contestant Rajaganapathy was chosen as the judge's choice scoring the highest marks and being declared the second runner-up of the season. The season landed in controversy as social media users accused the STAR Vijay Indian TV channel of wrongdoing. [15] Social media users expressed concern that audiences who spent time and money to support talented youngsters were the victim of unethical practices and criticised the channel for not being upfront about the fact that the winning contestant was already a professional playback singer - which was defended by the channel. [15] Super Singer Season 6Nippon Paint Super Singer 6 was hosted by Makapa Anand and Priyanka Deshpande, which ran from 21 January 2018 to 15 July 2018 and was broadcast by Star Vijay. All the episodes of Super Singer 6 are available on the OTT platform Hotstar. The Judging Panel includes, Anuradha Sriram, P. Unnikrishnan, Benny Dayal, and Shweta Mohan. A.R. Rahman was the Ambassador for this season. The top 6 finalists were Rakshitha, Sreekanth, Sakthi, Anirudh, Malavika, and Senthil Ganesh. The results of the finale are given as:
Super Singer Season 7Asian Paints Super Singer 7 started on 27 April 2019 and finished on 10 November 2019 on Star Vijay and was telecast from 8 PM onwards. Makapa Anand and Priyanka Deshpande return as the hosts for this season. This season returns with the same judges' panel including, Anuradha Sriram, Unnikrishnan, Shweta Mohan, and Benny Dayal. Anirudh Ravichandran is the Ambassador for this season. The top 5 were Mookuthi Murugan (SS3), Sam Vishal (SS7), Vikram (SS13), Gowtham, and Punya(SS 6). Winners:
All of the episodes of this season are available on the OTT Platform-Hotstar. Super Singer Season 8Asian Paints Super Singer 8 premiered on 24 January 2021 with a Grand Launch of a nine-hour program on Star Vijay with grace performances of Hariharan, Shankar Mahadevan, Anuradha Sriram, P. Unnikrishnan, Sid Sriram, Sakthisree Gopalan, Saindhavi, Vijay Prakash, Karthik, Anthony Daasan Shashaa Tirupati, Benny Dayal, Kalpana Raghavendar, Pradeep, Vijay Yesudas, S. P. Charan, Gana Bala, Chinnaponnu, Karunas. [16] All the episodes will be available on the OTT Platform-Hotstar. The judging panel was often shuffled with Anuradha Sriram, P. Unnikrishnan, Benny Dayal, Shweta Mohan, S. P. Charan, Shakthisree Gopalan and Kalpana Raghavendar. Once again, the eighth season was hosted by Makapa Anand and Priyanka Deshpande. The Grand Finale aired on 26 September 2021. At the finals, Sridhar Sena won the title. Prize Winners:
Season 8 contestants
Super Singer Season 9MRF Vapocure Paints Super Singer Season 9 started on 19 November 2022 on Star Vijay and was telecast from every Saturday and Sunday at 6:30 PM. Makapa Anand and Priyanka Deshpande returns as the hosts for this season. This season returns with the same judges' panel including, Anuradha Sriram, P. Unnikrishnan, Benny Dayal, and Shweta Mohan. Super Singer Season 9 Grand Finale was held on 25 June 2023 at Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, Chennai. Before the grand finale took place and during the contestants' tenure at Super Singer 9, several finalists, were offered to sing in film albums. Music directors, such as Sam C. S. and Hiphop Tamizha Adhi gave these splendid opportunities to the finalists. First, Pooja Venkatraman was offered to sing a song under Sam C. S's direction. Then Abhijith Anilkumar was offered to co-sing a song with Shreya Ghoshal in the film Thiruvin Kural, and the lyrics were written by the songwriter Vairamuthu. Finally, Aruna Sivaya was offered to sing a song under the music direction of Hiphop Tamizha Adhi . The five finalists of Super Singer 9 are Abhijith Anilkumar, Aruna Sivaya, Pooja Venkatraman, Priya Jerson and Prasanna Adhisesha. Prassana Adhisesha was nominated from the wildcard round. Several guests that included in the grand finale are Harris Jayaraj, Kalpana Raghavendar, Ananth Vaidyanathan, Pushpavanam Kuppusamy, Binni Krishnakumar. The grand finale consisted of two rounds. The first round and the second round enabled the contestants to choose their own songs and sing them in front of the wide audience. Several contestants merged two songs, during the second round. Prize Winners:
Super Singer Season 10Super Singer Season 10, the tenth season of the Airtel Super Singer show, premiered on Star Vijay on 16th December 2023, and telecasts every Saturday and Sunday. KAG Tiles is the sponsor for this season. Once again, this season is hosted by Makapa Anand and Priyanka Deshpande. The judging panel of this season is, Anuradha Sriram, Sean Roldan, Mano, and Sujatha Mohan. [17] Yamini Ghantasala, who is a playback singer and sister of music composer Thaman S, participated in the season until the fourth round (Makkal Isai Round). The Grand Finale is on 23rd June 2024. Celebrity GuestsSeason 10 had saw several celebrity guests praising the contestants for their fantastic performances and also performing along with the contestants, who include: [18]
Spin-offSuper Singer T20Super Singer T20 (சூப்பர் சிங்கர் T20) is a 2012-2015 Indian Tamil-language reality television singing competition, which aired on Star Vijay. Former contestants from previous seasons of the Super Singer and Airtel Super Singer Junior shows were divided into 6 teams. 15 league matches were held where each team competed against the other five teams. 4 teams were selected for the knockout semi-finals, before the remaining 2 teams competed against each other in the finals. The show was hosted by Divyadarshini. Super Singer - Champion of ChampionsSuper Singer - Champion of Champions is a 2020 Indian Tamil-language reality television singing competition, which aired on Star Vijay. The show has nearly 24 singers, all of them winners and finalists of Super Singers, who are now performing batch by batch, and with no audience to cheer them on. [19] The show was aired from 15 August [20] to 1 November 2020 and ended with 21 Episodes. [21] Shankar Mahadevan, Sudha Ragunathan, K. S. Chithra, Chinmayi, Anuradha Sriram, Benny Dayal, Kalpana Raghavendar, Vijay Yesudas, Shweta Mohan and Sikkil Gurucharan as the judges, take turns to watch their performance live, albeit, from their homes. The show was hosted by Ma Ka Pa Anand and Priyanka Deshpande. Super Singer Champion Of Champions Winner is Hari Priya. [22] Adaptations
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Airtel Super Singer 5 – Thamizhagathil Brahmaanda Kuralukkaana Thedal, the fifth season of the Airtel Super Singer show, is a reality-based Indian singing competition in Tamil language that aired on Vijay TV. It was designed to be a talent hunt to find the best voice of Tamil Nadu. The show premiered on 1 June 2015, and episodes were telecasted on weekdays each week at 9:30 pm. Persons above the age of 16 years were permitted to audition to showcase their talent on Vijay TV's platform. This program was sponsored by Airtel. Nippon Paint Super Singer 6 was a 2018 Indian Tamil language Reality singing competition show, the sixth season of the Super Singer show, which aired on Star Vijay on every Saturday and Sunday at 19:00 (IST) starting from 21 January 2018 until 15 July 2018. Nippon Paint sponsored the season after Airtel discontinued its sponsoring. The show was hosted by Makapa Anand and Priyanka Deshpande. The Judges of the show were the popular playback singers Anuradha Sriram, P. Unnikrishnan, Benny Dayal and Shweta Mohan. The Grand finale was held on 15 July 2018 at Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, Chennai and was a live telecast through Star Vijay. Golden voice Rakshitha, Sreekanth, Shakthi, Anirudh, Malavika and Senthil Ganesh were the final 6 contestants. Folk singer Senthil Ganesh emerged as the title winner of the show who also got a chance to sing in A.R. Rahman's music and the versatile singer Golden voice of super singer 6 Rakshitha emerged as first runner up with 2.5 million and a title golden voice of the season and Sreekanth impressed A. R. Rahman sir by his set final performance and got a chance to sing in his music. Malavika emerged as 2nd runners up with cash price of 300,000. Anand Aravindakshan is an Indian playback singer, and title winner of Airtel Super Singer 5, a television-based reality singing competition in Tamil televised on Vijay TV. Srinisha Jayaseelan is an Indian playback singer. In 2009-2010, she participated in the reality show Airtel Super Singer Junior 2 as a contestant, which was telecasted on Star Vijay. She made her debut as a playback singer in the movie Amma Kanakku under the music composition of Ilaiyaraaja in 2016, and participated in the reality show Super Singer Champion of Champions. Super Singer Season 9 is a 2022-2023 Indian Tamil-language reality television singing competition show. The ninth season of Super Singer, which airs on Star Vijay and streams on Disney+ Hotstar, telecasts every Saturday and Sunday at 6:30 PM, which started from 19 November 2022. MRF Vapocure Paints is the main sponsor for this season. Super Singer Season 10 is a 2023–2024 Indian Tamil-language reality television singing competition show. The tenth season of Super Singer airs every Saturday and Sunday on Star Vijay from 16 December 2023, and streams on Disney+ Hotstar. It is longest-running singing reality show in Tamil Nadu. References
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