The preliminary auditions of the Airtel Super Singer Junior 3 happened in Trichy recently and the same was telecasted in the channel this week. The show was quite similar to all previous auditions which had initial auditions from the super singer yesteryear contestants first and it was with Ajeesh, Prasanna, Raghini Shree of Airtel Super Singer 2008 and Srinivas of Airtel Super Singer 3 to judge the performances of the contestants. Quite many contestants were good in this stage of competition. There were video booth, mobile booth getting more contestants for the main level auditions in front of judges. All of these contestants voice were recorded and judged by judges & decision was taken for each of them.
It looked as if the Trichy had a lacklusture turn out this year and since Trichy is been treated as music's own place since Thiruvaiyaru is pretty close to it. Contestants went onto sing in front of judges Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy, S.P. Shailaja and Nithyashree Mahadevan and the selected kids went up to sing in front of judges together. I mean the judges were together to watch the performances of the selected contestants. There were some real good voices which I liked and if they continue similar kind of performance, they will have a good chance to move high in the contest. Bhavana and Anand were hosting the show in the absence of Divya and I am not sure if they will continue for next few weeks. Last season Super Singer juniors Srikanth and Nithyashree were seen all through the auditions interacting with the hosts, contestants and giving some entertaining performances in front of public.
Next week we will have Coimbatore auditions to be telecasted and Chennai will follow after Coimbatore auditions are complete. The program managers look to have made the show without much of fuss/issues or late night sitting.I am expecting the turn out to improve a lot in Coimbaotre/Chennai and things should be more and more interesting in coming weeks.
Airtel Super Singer Junior 3, 28-10-2011
Airtel Super Singer Junior 3
Week 2, Day 5, October 28, 2011
Today is the last day of Trichy preliminary auditions. Many of the children who appeared in the telecast said that they came in junior 2 season and came back for the selection this time. Nithyashree was entertaining the contestants with her singing and they had her "daddy mommy" song telecasted in the episode. The judges were really little strict with the contestants on how they choose kids and they could have been little more lenient. Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy, S.P. Shailaja and Nithyashree were having good time with the kids and their entertaining performances. Voice expert Ananth Vaidyanathan started appearing in the show too early and he came in today speaking about the children of Trichy competing in this season.
There was one small kid who danced really well while he sings and he also danced with another guy. Nithyashree went laughing underneath the table and all the judges were laughing looking at the kid. He was very entertaining and both danced for Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy's singing. This was really entertaining guys.. Akshay and Murali the kids were the entertainers. Akshay and Murali were spot selected by the audience for his cute dance steps and singing ofcourse. There are 21 contestants in waiting list and were trained by Ananth Vaidyanathan. Following the training, some of them were selected from the waiting list depending on their learning capability. From the 21 contestants, Ananth Vaidyanathan chose 5 contestants for the next level of competition. All the selected contestants were with their certificate for selection to next round appeared together with Bhavana and Anand. Overall the judges have selected these children for the next level of competition in Chennai. They have not said the total count/number of children being selected.
Week 2, Day 5, October 28, 2011
Today is the last day of Trichy preliminary auditions. Many of the children who appeared in the telecast said that they came in junior 2 season and came back for the selection this time. Nithyashree was entertaining the contestants with her singing and they had her "daddy mommy" song telecasted in the episode. The judges were really little strict with the contestants on how they choose kids and they could have been little more lenient. Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy, S.P. Shailaja and Nithyashree were having good time with the kids and their entertaining performances. Voice expert Ananth Vaidyanathan started appearing in the show too early and he came in today speaking about the children of Trichy competing in this season.
There was one small kid who danced really well while he sings and he also danced with another guy. Nithyashree went laughing underneath the table and all the judges were laughing looking at the kid. He was very entertaining and both danced for Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy's singing. This was really entertaining guys.. Akshay and Murali the kids were the entertainers. Akshay and Murali were spot selected by the audience for his cute dance steps and singing ofcourse. There are 21 contestants in waiting list and were trained by Ananth Vaidyanathan. Following the training, some of them were selected from the waiting list depending on their learning capability. From the 21 contestants, Ananth Vaidyanathan chose 5 contestants for the next level of competition. All the selected contestants were with their certificate for selection to next round appeared together with Bhavana and Anand. Overall the judges have selected these children for the next level of competition in Chennai. They have not said the total count/number of children being selected.
Airtel Super Singer Junior 3, 27-10-2011
Airtel Super Singer Junior 3
Week 2, Day 4, October 27, 2011
Trichy auditions continued today in the Airtel Super singer Junior 3 with the main level of auditions getting on with all 3 judges judging the contestants. The judges were asking the contestants to sing different genre of songs apart from their choice fo genre. But, they were not keen of the song being sung rather just the genre of the song. As the usual seasons with the siblings participating in the event, not both of them were selected and only one gets selected to the main level competition in Chennai. So, the partents and contestants really dont know how to react to it whether to be happy or sad. There was one kid who was super singer junior Srikanth's fan and wants to dance and play with him. This was really funny and good thing was he was encouraged by seeing Srikanth's performances in the junior 2 season and that made this kid to participate in the event. Many parents of the kids who were rejected for the next round were not really demotivated and they were keen to make their kids participate in the next season of the show.
Many kids didnt like or want the red light to be chosen by the judges. Most of the times, judges gracefully informed them to appear in the next season and made sure they dont press the red light button. They really took care of making sure the kids are not very disappointed in case of not being selected in future rounds. Judges were keen on the sruthi in which the kids sing and many of them who are not trained where jumping between the sruthis. They pointed out the sruthi issues to them and I am not sure if some of them really understood the issue being pointed out. Hosts were not there for most of the time today too and that made the show better ? The hosts Bhavana and Anand came in the video for few seconds only and it was all with the voice over in editting the show. I guess they made more presence in the actual audition which were cut down with the editting of the episode and we might see them in the next few episodes.
Week 2, Day 4, October 27, 2011
Trichy auditions continued today in the Airtel Super singer Junior 3 with the main level of auditions getting on with all 3 judges judging the contestants. The judges were asking the contestants to sing different genre of songs apart from their choice fo genre. But, they were not keen of the song being sung rather just the genre of the song. As the usual seasons with the siblings participating in the event, not both of them were selected and only one gets selected to the main level competition in Chennai. So, the partents and contestants really dont know how to react to it whether to be happy or sad. There was one kid who was super singer junior Srikanth's fan and wants to dance and play with him. This was really funny and good thing was he was encouraged by seeing Srikanth's performances in the junior 2 season and that made this kid to participate in the event. Many parents of the kids who were rejected for the next round were not really demotivated and they were keen to make their kids participate in the next season of the show.
Many kids didnt like or want the red light to be chosen by the judges. Most of the times, judges gracefully informed them to appear in the next season and made sure they dont press the red light button. They really took care of making sure the kids are not very disappointed in case of not being selected in future rounds. Judges were keen on the sruthi in which the kids sing and many of them who are not trained where jumping between the sruthis. They pointed out the sruthi issues to them and I am not sure if some of them really understood the issue being pointed out. Hosts were not there for most of the time today too and that made the show better ? The hosts Bhavana and Anand came in the video for few seconds only and it was all with the voice over in editting the show. I guess they made more presence in the actual audition which were cut down with the editting of the episode and we might see them in the next few episodes.
Chennai Auditions starts
Chennai Auditions for Airtel Super singer Junior 3 starts, details below
After Trichy and Coimbatore, now Chennai will have the Airtel Super Singer Junior 3 auditions this week and here are the details,
October 24 to October 28
Video Booths open from morning 10.30 AM
Video booth locations are,
Abirami Mega Mall
Purasawakkam
City Center
Mylapore
Vivek Showroom
Vadapalani
Lalitha jewellery
Panagal Park, T.Nagar
Univercell
Anna Nagar East
Mobile Booth
Mobile booth will also come around the coimbatore city during these days.
Mobile Phone
Airtel subscribers can call 5432178 to record the voice.
Internet
The audio file can be uploaded in the Vijay TV website also.
If you miss all the chances, this is the finals chance in here on october 29th at 8 AM
Sir Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall
chetpet, Chennai
Dont miss this opportunity to become Super Singer Junior 3 and this will lead you/your kids to become a playback singer.
After Trichy and Coimbatore, now Chennai will have the Airtel Super Singer Junior 3 auditions this week and here are the details,
October 24 to October 28
Video Booths open from morning 10.30 AM
Video booth locations are,
Abirami Mega Mall
Purasawakkam
City Center
Mylapore
Vivek Showroom
Vadapalani
Lalitha jewellery
Panagal Park, T.Nagar
Univercell
Anna Nagar East
Mobile Booth
Mobile booth will also come around the coimbatore city during these days.
Mobile Phone
Airtel subscribers can call 5432178 to record the voice.
Internet
The audio file can be uploaded in the Vijay TV website also.
If you miss all the chances, this is the finals chance in here on october 29th at 8 AM
Sir Venkatasubba Rao Concert Hall
chetpet, Chennai
Dont miss this opportunity to become Super Singer Junior 3 and this will lead you/your kids to become a playback singer.
Airtel Super Singer Junior 3, 26-10-2011
Airtel Super Singer Junior 3
Week 2, Day 3, October 26, 2011
All 3 judges of the Trichy auditions came together to judge the preselected contestants in the next level of auditions. This will be the 3rd level of the auditions for the kids. Lot of kids from villages around Trichy participated in the auditions and they seem to perform well. Looks like preliminary auditions will be completed soon in the show and I expected Vijay TV to have the preliminary for whole week by showing funny and entertaining kids in the show. It will also be good for the channel to compare and publish the turnout between the seasons because this time it looks to be with lacklusture turnout and is that the reason the numbers are not out. But, I am sure Chennai will see more kids coming this year in comparison against the previous seasons.
Siblings Manisha, Malavika, Ashwin who appeared in Junior 2 and missed out to be in the top list of the competition are back in the Junior 3 event. They came in to show their capability and there were some more kids who came in the show for second time after last years event. Today we didnt had much of hosts in the telecast and it was always with the voice over alone. Honestly I felt it was better with this than bad compering. Also, I am not sure why Divya is not seen in the Airtel Super singer Junior show yet.. might be she will be seen in Coimbatore or Chennai auditions. Out of the judges of previous seasons for the auditions, I think this set of judges is really good when they speak with the kids. It will be good to see Soumya, Tippu, Mahathi, Srilekha Parthasarathy in the show for the auditions. Looks like they would be appearing after a while with in earlier stages of the competition.
Week 2, Day 3, October 26, 2011
All 3 judges of the Trichy auditions came together to judge the preselected contestants in the next level of auditions. This will be the 3rd level of the auditions for the kids. Lot of kids from villages around Trichy participated in the auditions and they seem to perform well. Looks like preliminary auditions will be completed soon in the show and I expected Vijay TV to have the preliminary for whole week by showing funny and entertaining kids in the show. It will also be good for the channel to compare and publish the turnout between the seasons because this time it looks to be with lacklusture turnout and is that the reason the numbers are not out. But, I am sure Chennai will see more kids coming this year in comparison against the previous seasons.
Siblings Manisha, Malavika, Ashwin who appeared in Junior 2 and missed out to be in the top list of the competition are back in the Junior 3 event. They came in to show their capability and there were some more kids who came in the show for second time after last years event. Today we didnt had much of hosts in the telecast and it was always with the voice over alone. Honestly I felt it was better with this than bad compering. Also, I am not sure why Divya is not seen in the Airtel Super singer Junior show yet.. might be she will be seen in Coimbatore or Chennai auditions. Out of the judges of previous seasons for the auditions, I think this set of judges is really good when they speak with the kids. It will be good to see Soumya, Tippu, Mahathi, Srilekha Parthasarathy in the show for the auditions. Looks like they would be appearing after a while with in earlier stages of the competition.
Airtel Super Singer Junior 3, 25-10-2011
Airtel Super Singer Junior 3
Week 2, Day 2, October 25, 2011
Bhavana and Anand continued hosting the Trichy auditions of the Airtel Super singer junior 3. Main auditions started after the preliminary auditions with the judges Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy, S.P. Sailaja and Nithyashree Mahadeven. It continued with all three judges judging separately the contestants. I think there were many good voices that came in the auditions and we will be seeing all of them in further auditions and rounds. As usual we had the siblings and friends performing together to the judges. Having said that the performers are juniors, its loaded with fun and entertainment. Judges were enjoying and handled them very well so that they are not very disappointed if not selected. Super singer junior Nithyashree came into get the contestants for the main auditions to Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy.
Super Singer Junior Srikanth also appeared to take some contestants for the main auditions to judge Nithyashree. First list of waiting list was announced and the contestants who are selelcted to next round of the competition was also announced. Main selection got over today and as of today they had 127 contestants selected for the next level of the competition. All these 127 contestants will be facing all 3 judges together for the next level of the audition. Keep watching the show for the updates. We saw some fun in the show but usually there will be lot of performances that looks very very funny and I am not sure why that lacks this time.
Week 2, Day 2, October 25, 2011
Bhavana and Anand continued hosting the Trichy auditions of the Airtel Super singer junior 3. Main auditions started after the preliminary auditions with the judges Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy, S.P. Sailaja and Nithyashree Mahadeven. It continued with all three judges judging separately the contestants. I think there were many good voices that came in the auditions and we will be seeing all of them in further auditions and rounds. As usual we had the siblings and friends performing together to the judges. Having said that the performers are juniors, its loaded with fun and entertainment. Judges were enjoying and handled them very well so that they are not very disappointed if not selected. Super singer junior Nithyashree came into get the contestants for the main auditions to Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy.
Super Singer Junior Srikanth also appeared to take some contestants for the main auditions to judge Nithyashree. First list of waiting list was announced and the contestants who are selelcted to next round of the competition was also announced. Main selection got over today and as of today they had 127 contestants selected for the next level of the competition. All these 127 contestants will be facing all 3 judges together for the next level of the audition. Keep watching the show for the updates. We saw some fun in the show but usually there will be lot of performances that looks very very funny and I am not sure why that lacks this time.
Airtel Super Singer Junior 3, 24-10-2011
Airtel Super Singer Junior 3
Week 2, Day 1, October 24, 2011
Trichy audition started today in the Airtel Super singer junior 3. Anand and Bhavana hosted the show and they first invited Nithashree and Srikanth to open the gates for the auditions. I think its a good way to honour them here and they would feel really happy. Raghinishree, Ajeesh, Prasanna, Srinivas of Airtel Super singer fame were the preliminary judges for the Trichy auditions. The kids got their registration complete and got started in waiting for their auditions. They also had some games in the area to play and enjoy their waiting time.
The prize money for winning this season of title would be 60 lakhs worth 3 bedroom apartment from Temple Green project by Arun Excello developers. There were some funny moments that started immediately with the auditions that some children were afraid before singing and especially with Prasanna. This preliminary auditions was going on great with some good performers and had lots of action at Trichy. Sometimes these hosts really make the contestants cry for unnecessary reasons and all those happened this time too.
I guess the best part of the Super singer junior is always with the auditions and those funny moments started today itself with the cute kids trying to do innocent things while singing. Many kids were dancing while singing and those looked absolute nice. Srinivas spoke very well with the kids and one kid who danced very well who seems to have appeared in few films gave him a nice time. I dont know why they have got Raghini Shree for judging the kids here.. no more comments on that. As rightly said by Srinivas "Nothing is more fun than being with kids" I think they had a good time there with those kids. Whomever had sent the recorded voice in Cd/cassette and those who sang in video booths were pre-selected for the main selection in audition.
Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy, S.P. shailaja and Nithyashree Mahadevan were the judges for the main selection. The pre-selected contestants started singing in the sets with red and green lights for the audition results. There were some contestants singing in front of each judges and further they will have all the selected kids in front of all judges together.
Week 2, Day 1, October 24, 2011
Trichy audition started today in the Airtel Super singer junior 3. Anand and Bhavana hosted the show and they first invited Nithashree and Srikanth to open the gates for the auditions. I think its a good way to honour them here and they would feel really happy. Raghinishree, Ajeesh, Prasanna, Srinivas of Airtel Super singer fame were the preliminary judges for the Trichy auditions. The kids got their registration complete and got started in waiting for their auditions. They also had some games in the area to play and enjoy their waiting time.
The prize money for winning this season of title would be 60 lakhs worth 3 bedroom apartment from Temple Green project by Arun Excello developers. There were some funny moments that started immediately with the auditions that some children were afraid before singing and especially with Prasanna. This preliminary auditions was going on great with some good performers and had lots of action at Trichy. Sometimes these hosts really make the contestants cry for unnecessary reasons and all those happened this time too.
I guess the best part of the Super singer junior is always with the auditions and those funny moments started today itself with the cute kids trying to do innocent things while singing. Many kids were dancing while singing and those looked absolute nice. Srinivas spoke very well with the kids and one kid who danced very well who seems to have appeared in few films gave him a nice time. I dont know why they have got Raghini Shree for judging the kids here.. no more comments on that. As rightly said by Srinivas "Nothing is more fun than being with kids" I think they had a good time there with those kids. Whomever had sent the recorded voice in Cd/cassette and those who sang in video booths were pre-selected for the main selection in audition.
Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy, S.P. shailaja and Nithyashree Mahadevan were the judges for the main selection. The pre-selected contestants started singing in the sets with red and green lights for the audition results. There were some contestants singing in front of each judges and further they will have all the selected kids in front of all judges together.
Airtel Super Singer Junior 3, 21-10-2011
Today was the final day of Airtel Super singer junior 3 launch week with the auditions for small set of contestants and the Vijay TV faces have been appearing in the show to make it a big launch. Judges were continuing in the week with S.P. Sailaja, Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy, Mahati and Manicka Vinayagam. Special Celebrity of Vijay TV today was Mirchi Senthil who hosts the Tamizh Cinema Indha Varam and the new serial Saravanan Meenakshi came into the show. Roshan, Parvati, Balasarangan, Lakshmi, Rakshita and Nikhil of junior superstars came in for a very special performance today and performed "thaiya thaiya" song. Watch and enjoy the happenings here..
Familiar contestants of Super Singer junior who could not get into the show in last seasons came in for their auditions again. "New life", an orphanage also saw Vijay TV coming into their place to have the auditions. Raghini Shree went on there for the audition and got few children selected from there to participate in the event. It was nice of Vijay TV to have this done and I wish they could go to many more similar places to find their talent and bring happiness to their lives.
We later had a Special performance from Tejashree and Tanujashree, Nithyashree Mahadevan joined them later and they were introduced as D.K. Pattammal's 4th generation. Nithyashree went on wishing all the luck for the contestants in the Super singer junior 3. There were 3 waitlisted contestants in this week's auditions and the decision on their selection was announced. With this, launch week of Airtel Super singer junior 3 got over and lets hope for the Trichy auditions to be telecasted soon.
Familiar contestants of Super Singer junior who could not get into the show in last seasons came in for their auditions again. "New life", an orphanage also saw Vijay TV coming into their place to have the auditions. Raghini Shree went on there for the audition and got few children selected from there to participate in the event. It was nice of Vijay TV to have this done and I wish they could go to many more similar places to find their talent and bring happiness to their lives.
We later had a Special performance from Tejashree and Tanujashree, Nithyashree Mahadevan joined them later and they were introduced as D.K. Pattammal's 4th generation. Nithyashree went on wishing all the luck for the contestants in the Super singer junior 3. There were 3 waitlisted contestants in this week's auditions and the decision on their selection was announced. With this, launch week of Airtel Super singer junior 3 got over and lets hope for the Trichy auditions to be telecasted soon.
Coimbatore Auditions starts
Coimbatore Auditions starts, details below
After Trichy, now Coimbatore will have the Airtel Super Singer Junior 3 auditions this week and here are the details,
October 17 to October 21
Video Booths open from morning 10.30 AM
Video booth locations are,
Vivek Showroom
Srivatsa siva complex
100 feet road, Tatbad, Coimbatore
Europa discount store
Sai baba colony
Shri Kannan departmental store
Cross cut road, Ram nagar,
Gandhipuram
Lotus TVS
224a, Mettuppalayam road
Coimbatore
Baby world
727c, Avinashi road
Near Kotak mahindra bank
Mobile Booth
Mobile booth will also come around the coimbatore city during these days.
Mobile Phone
Airtel subscribers can call 5432178 to record the voice.
Internet
The audio file can be uploaded in the Vijay TV website also.
If you miss all the chances, this is the finals chance in here on october 22nd at 8 AM
Hindustan college of arts and science
Avinashi road
Dont miss this opportunity to become Super Singer Junior 3 and this will lead you/your kids to become a playback singing.
After Trichy, now Coimbatore will have the Airtel Super Singer Junior 3 auditions this week and here are the details,
October 17 to October 21
Video Booths open from morning 10.30 AM
Video booth locations are,
Vivek Showroom
Srivatsa siva complex
100 feet road, Tatbad, Coimbatore
Europa discount store
Sai baba colony
Shri Kannan departmental store
Cross cut road, Ram nagar,
Gandhipuram
Lotus TVS
224a, Mettuppalayam road
Coimbatore
Baby world
727c, Avinashi road
Near Kotak mahindra bank
Mobile Booth
Mobile booth will also come around the coimbatore city during these days.
Mobile Phone
Airtel subscribers can call 5432178 to record the voice.
Internet
The audio file can be uploaded in the Vijay TV website also.
If you miss all the chances, this is the finals chance in here on october 22nd at 8 AM
Hindustan college of arts and science
Avinashi road
Dont miss this opportunity to become Super Singer Junior 3 and this will lead you/your kids to become a playback singing.
Real Winners
Although Vijay TV selects one contestant as winner of the Airtel Super Singer show and now they have 5 seasons completed with the winners Nikhil Mathew, Krishnamoorthy, Ajeesh, Alka, Sai Sharan... I personally feel that whomever gets an opportunity to sing in the movies are the real winners since they achieve their goal and for most of them super singer has provided a platform to attain that goal. For some of them the winner by himself got opportunity on the winning day to sing for some music director and for the rest it comes little late but the real talent is appreciated in the industry. I remember when Chinmayee says that even though you sing for a music director you are not sure if your voice is the final voice until you get a confirmation in the CD/Cassette. So, that the way it works and these guys have somehow made it get their name in the CD/audio tracks of some movie.
Nikhil Mathew got opportunity from Harris Jeyaraj in the film Bheema and the delay of the movie saw him delayed as being a playback singer. Then I read in the internet that Nikhil had song a Malayalam song for Christian Brothers. I am not sure if Krishnamoorthy had got any chance to sing in movies since he was made super singer junior and further he would have got quite a big change in his voice. Ajeesh sang in Goa, an opportunity from Yuvan Shankar Raja which was a big hit and heard he had sung another song for Yuvan himself but I am not sure about other songs. Ravi got an opportunity to sing a song before he went to the US. Raghini Shree had recently sung for Yuvan Shankar Raja in the movie Kadhal to Kalyanam and we might see more from her in coming years. Prasanna also had a chance to sing for James Vasanthan in movie Eesan ? (not sure of the movie) and not sure if he had sung any more. Since there are few singers by name Prasanna, its hard to know if it is super singer contestant. Vijay Narain had also sung recently for Yuvan Shankar Raja in a recently released movie. Moving into the super singer junior last season, Alka had already sung 3 songs under different music directors and looks like she is going to have a big ride. Priyanka, Nithyashree, Shreenisha was given opportunity by Bala in the movie Avan Ivan. Also, Priyanka recently said that she has sung a song for D.Iman even.
Now, the recently ended Super Singer season 3, Sai Sharan is going to get a chance from A.R. Murugadoss' next production movie, music director might be new for this movie. Satyaprakash is going to get a chance from G. V. Prakash and from Dhanush's upcoming movie directed by Aishwarya Dhanush (not sure if both could be clubbed as one opportunity). Pooja is also going to get a chance to sing devotional song which was earlier asked by T.M. Maharajan in the devotional songs round. I am sure she would get opporunity from other music directors too. The list will be growing every month and these talents are given a real opporunity to become real winners. Please add upon other contestants who got opporunitites which are not listed here as comments.
Nikhil Mathew got opportunity from Harris Jeyaraj in the film Bheema and the delay of the movie saw him delayed as being a playback singer. Then I read in the internet that Nikhil had song a Malayalam song for Christian Brothers. I am not sure if Krishnamoorthy had got any chance to sing in movies since he was made super singer junior and further he would have got quite a big change in his voice. Ajeesh sang in Goa, an opportunity from Yuvan Shankar Raja which was a big hit and heard he had sung another song for Yuvan himself but I am not sure about other songs. Ravi got an opportunity to sing a song before he went to the US. Raghini Shree had recently sung for Yuvan Shankar Raja in the movie Kadhal to Kalyanam and we might see more from her in coming years. Prasanna also had a chance to sing for James Vasanthan in movie Eesan ? (not sure of the movie) and not sure if he had sung any more. Since there are few singers by name Prasanna, its hard to know if it is super singer contestant. Vijay Narain had also sung recently for Yuvan Shankar Raja in a recently released movie. Moving into the super singer junior last season, Alka had already sung 3 songs under different music directors and looks like she is going to have a big ride. Priyanka, Nithyashree, Shreenisha was given opportunity by Bala in the movie Avan Ivan. Also, Priyanka recently said that she has sung a song for D.Iman even.
Now, the recently ended Super Singer season 3, Sai Sharan is going to get a chance from A.R. Murugadoss' next production movie, music director might be new for this movie. Satyaprakash is going to get a chance from G. V. Prakash and from Dhanush's upcoming movie directed by Aishwarya Dhanush (not sure if both could be clubbed as one opportunity). Pooja is also going to get a chance to sing devotional song which was earlier asked by T.M. Maharajan in the devotional songs round. I am sure she would get opporunity from other music directors too. The list will be growing every month and these talents are given a real opporunity to become real winners. Please add upon other contestants who got opporunitites which are not listed here as comments.
Airtel Super Singer Junior 3, 20-10-2011
Airtel Super Singer Junior 3
Week 1, Day 4, October 20, 2011
Special performances and little auditions were continuing in the Airtel Super Singer Junior 3 today with the launch week. Anand of "Cinema Karam Coffee" fame was the Vijay TV host of the day celebrating with everyone on the launch week. Priyanka started today's special performance for the day and she sang "chinna thaayaval". There was another surprise that Priyanka revealed on she recorded her second song with D.Iman's music and I am happy for her. Then the audition for the next six contestants started and 2 of them were selected for the second level of the auditions.
Shravan's "something something" followed after the audition which he did perform very well in the last season of super singer junior 2. It was then auditions with next set of contestants followed by a boring anchoring from the hosts. I didnt really liked the compering style or content from them.
This time with Vijay TV going to different villages in Tamil Nadu, today we had Kancheepuram. Further there were some more auditions in the show where few contestants were selected for the next level of audition. Whole of these special performances and the auditions with small set of contestants will continue tomorrow even. Keep watching the proceedings.
Week 1, Day 4, October 20, 2011
Special performances and little auditions were continuing in the Airtel Super Singer Junior 3 today with the launch week. Anand of "Cinema Karam Coffee" fame was the Vijay TV host of the day celebrating with everyone on the launch week. Priyanka started today's special performance for the day and she sang "chinna thaayaval". There was another surprise that Priyanka revealed on she recorded her second song with D.Iman's music and I am happy for her. Then the audition for the next six contestants started and 2 of them were selected for the second level of the auditions.
This time with Vijay TV going to different villages in Tamil Nadu, today we had Kancheepuram. Further there were some more auditions in the show where few contestants were selected for the next level of audition. Whole of these special performances and the auditions with small set of contestants will continue tomorrow even. Keep watching the proceedings.
Was it worth to have 30 judges ?
The Airtel Super Singer 3 has got over and the next season for the juniors is getting started now. Is it worth to speak about the ended season and is it worth to speak about the judges marks ? I knew you would say a big No, but I wanted to post this from the day I saw the episode when the Vijay TV revealed the judges scores. There were several questions in my mind while watching those episodes of Airtel Super Singer and I was very disappointed with few thing in them. First being, was there a need for the Vijay TV to have that episode at all, providing the vote count is fine and that is required but if the judgement is based only on the public voting why was there a need to provide judges's scores. The episode had many musicians in the show and it was as if they all came to support Vijay TV for some reason. Srinivas and Sriram Parthasarathy gave their feedback in the social networking sites and that was cool from them. They made sure that people who follow them get to know their thoughts.
So, the next disappointment was that when they revealed the judges score and the grand finals had 30 judges judging the performances of the finalists. I dont see any reason for the 30 judges to score and if it at all they wanted many playback singers to judge the contestants, they should have some criteria in choosing the judges first of all. We saw some of the judges were not really good enough to judge a grand final of super singer. I dont want to name or hurt anyone in doing so. But, I was disappointed to first see Ajeesh as one of the judge... a long pause.. and if you look at the score he had given to Satyaprakash was terrible. For what Satyaprakash got a standing ovation from all the musicians in there, Ajeesh had given him marks of 14 for 2 performances. While I compare against other judges, Ajeesh's score was the least among all judges for Satyaprakash. I dont know the reason behind this scores :) I feel that if we make the judges scores, then the show has to make sure that the judges are not baised towards any particular contestant.
Frankly I would not suggest any new methodology for Vijay TV to follow their selection criteria but I would want to suggest them to watch other popular reality shows and see how they identify the winner. Recently ended Just dance with Hrithik Roshan, the winner was selected based on 50% from judges and rest 50% from public votes. I felt this is very genuine and please dont ask me how can we trust the numbers published by the television channels.
So, the next disappointment was that when they revealed the judges score and the grand finals had 30 judges judging the performances of the finalists. I dont see any reason for the 30 judges to score and if it at all they wanted many playback singers to judge the contestants, they should have some criteria in choosing the judges first of all. We saw some of the judges were not really good enough to judge a grand final of super singer. I dont want to name or hurt anyone in doing so. But, I was disappointed to first see Ajeesh as one of the judge... a long pause.. and if you look at the score he had given to Satyaprakash was terrible. For what Satyaprakash got a standing ovation from all the musicians in there, Ajeesh had given him marks of 14 for 2 performances. While I compare against other judges, Ajeesh's score was the least among all judges for Satyaprakash. I dont know the reason behind this scores :) I feel that if we make the judges scores, then the show has to make sure that the judges are not baised towards any particular contestant.
Frankly I would not suggest any new methodology for Vijay TV to follow their selection criteria but I would want to suggest them to watch other popular reality shows and see how they identify the winner. Recently ended Just dance with Hrithik Roshan, the winner was selected based on 50% from judges and rest 50% from public votes. I felt this is very genuine and please dont ask me how can we trust the numbers published by the television channels.
Love for Super Singer
What does Bala Says ?
Director Bala, who directs movies to bring the best out of the actors and most of his movies had seen the actors make a benchmark in acting. Taking Vikram in Sethu, Surya in Nandha had public to notice the acting skills which made them to be a growing stars in the kollywood. Earlier while speaking in the Avan Ivan promotional appearance in Super Singer 3, Bala said that he follows the Airtel Super Singer very closely and makes sure he does not misses any of the episode. He likes music and while the channel brings the talent from the public, its more exciting to watch is what Bala said. Looks like Bala does not have the shooting during the Super Singer episode time in Vijay TV. For the liking he had for the show and the talent he saw in the last super singer junior contestants, he gave Nithyashree, Shreenisha and Priyanka an opportunity to sing in his recent movie Avan Ivan. This was not it all, he likes Anath Vaidyanathan a lot and especially for the reason that he helps the Super Singer contestants to improve their voice and singing. So, he wanted Ananth Vaidyanathan to act in his movie and that ended up for Ananth Sir to get introduced in the film Avan Ivan. Bala also said that he doesnt like anyone disturbing him in the middle of the show and for the matter of fact he does not like Divya coming in the middle of performances to compere/host the show. I am not sure what he really meant here ;)
Whats up with Murugadoss
While director Bala expressed his love for music and Airtel Super Singer, director A.R. Murugadoss even had expressed that in the recently completed season. Murugadoss did not appear in person for the grand finals of the Super Singer 3 but we had a recorded video of him speaking to the viewers and contestants. He said that all Vijay TV programs are excellent and while it comes to finding the talents, Vijay TV is the best Tamil channel who does that. Super Singer has been a very good talent finding event and Vijay TV does an excellent job is what Murugadoss thinks. He said that he was impressed by the way contestants perform and the channel runs the show. For the love for music and Vijay TV's super singer, A.R. Murugadoss will give an opportunity for the winner of Airtel Super Singer 3 winner to sing in his next production movie and Sai Sharan would get the chance from him. This announcement came on the grand finals of the show which saw many musicians appear for the event.
Airtel Super Singer Junior 3, 19-10-2011
Airtel Super Singer Junior 3
Week 1, Day 3, October 19, 2011
Third day of the Super Singer Junior 3 launch week continued in the show. We had the same four judges Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy, S.P. Shailaja, Mahathi and Manicka Vinayagam waiting for the rest of the contestants auditions. Super Singer junior start Srikanth came into the show to give a special performance with "I am a super star". I dont want to comment on the special performances as the judges do in the show. After seeing the bloopers we got to know that the judges might not be available in the show while these special performance were given. Then after that performance from Srikanth, some contestants who had given auditions in the last seasons came in for auditions this year to get a chance to get into the competition.
Balasarangan and Lakshmi came in for yet another special performance and they had recently appeared in the junior super stars. They sang "swaasame swaasame" and finally there were some comments from the judges for this performance. Then there were some more auditions and this time it was with first time contestants for auditions.
Finally there was another special performance from Shreenisha singing "ragathula ragathula". Looks like the contestants who are selected in this level of auditions will be qualified to compete in the level 2 auditions of the Airtel Super Singer Junior 3. I think this week show itself which claim to be launch week is not so interesting and at time irritates with the way it has been organized.
Week 1, Day 3, October 19, 2011
Third day of the Super Singer Junior 3 launch week continued in the show. We had the same four judges Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy, S.P. Shailaja, Mahathi and Manicka Vinayagam waiting for the rest of the contestants auditions. Super Singer junior start Srikanth came into the show to give a special performance with "I am a super star". I dont want to comment on the special performances as the judges do in the show. After seeing the bloopers we got to know that the judges might not be available in the show while these special performance were given. Then after that performance from Srikanth, some contestants who had given auditions in the last seasons came in for auditions this year to get a chance to get into the competition.
Balasarangan and Lakshmi came in for yet another special performance and they had recently appeared in the junior super stars. They sang "swaasame swaasame" and finally there were some comments from the judges for this performance. Then there were some more auditions and this time it was with first time contestants for auditions.
Finally there was another special performance from Shreenisha singing "ragathula ragathula". Looks like the contestants who are selected in this level of auditions will be qualified to compete in the level 2 auditions of the Airtel Super Singer Junior 3. I think this week show itself which claim to be launch week is not so interesting and at time irritates with the way it has been organized.
Super Singer Winners Series - Alka
This season also had Srikanth who has impressed many judges and Vijay TV that forced them to take him for the grand finals & gave away a flat for him too. Alka has been appearing in the channel for multiple events and in super singer by giving some guest performances to the viewers. Usually her singing is pretty good and the feel is what thats missing most of the times. But, she was able to reach most difficult notes and had a nice voice that helped her to win the title. I felt that Alka had got and used most of the opportunities after she got into the spotlight while participating in the super singer event. I think she will have a big ride in the playback singing in Tamizh movies and will go high in the coming years.
Super Singer Winners Series - Ajeesh
Super Singer season 2 had Ajeesh winning the title and got a chance to sing in Yuvan Shankar Raja's music. His "ithuvarai illatha" from Goa is a super hit song but I am not sure if he is getting more chances in the movies lately. The season of 2008 also had a contraversial decision by making Ajeesh as super singer which was opposed by many viewers in comparison with Ravi. The expectation was Ravi would win the title but the public voting went onto Ajeesh. During the season Ajeesh was performing well until top 20 level but after that he had a very big improvement and most of his performances were superb. I felt that the later performances that ajeesh gave in the competition saw him winning the title and had a huge public backing. There was an announcement that the vote difference was more than a lakh but the exact vote count was not revealed by the channel.
Ajeesh is being found in the Vijay TV programs after the super singer show and was also involved in auditions of the Airtel Super singer last season. In the Vijay TV music awards Ajeesh had got best debutant (?) singer award and recently in the Radio Mirchi music awards even he was awarded similar award. While Ajeesh won the super singer title I thought that he had good backing from him friends in colleges. There were several memorable performances by Ajeesh in Airtel Super Singer 2 and all of his performances in the one-on-one round were brilliant and in-fact he went on winning that round of the competition. The LIVE grand finale started during this season of the competition and there was a huge pressure for the contestants to perform well. All I can remember was that the show had Renu and Prasanna as the other finalists apart from Ajeesh and Ravi. There were some criticism that the award has been given based on regionalism and judges were biased which might change looking on the recent announcement of winner of Airtel Super Singer 3 :). All being said I think we will have more of Ajeesh's contribution to Tamil cinema in coming days.
Airtel Super Singer Junior 3, 18-10-2011
Airtel Super Singer Junior 3
Week 1, Day 2, October 18, 2011
Ramya and Kalyani continued to host the Airtel Super Singer Junior 3 launch and there were some auditions being done in the sets. This is similar to what we had last year in the senior's season. The audition judges were Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy, S. P. Shailaja, Mahathi and Manicka Vinayagam & the show started introducing the judges. Sivakarthikeyan came in the show as the anchors of Vijay TV are introduced in this week and today its Siva. They together introduced the Jodi Junior winners Madan and Gabriela to give a special performance and they gave a nice performance. Nithyashree of Airtel Super singer Junior 2 fame gave her performance with "pattathu raani" which was well appreciated by the judges in last season. She used to give complete feel for the song and that makes the difference in singing this particular song.
This was followed by some of the contestants who had their auditions in the show. First round had six contestants and out of which two of them got the selection and one person was waitlisted. To give away chocolates to the losers I dont know why they had such a bad compering by Ramya and Kalyani. As compared to worldwide selection of contestant in the recent ended season, this time Vijay TV goes to small villages across Tamil Nadu to perform audition. Prasanna of Airtel Super Singer season 2 was the judge for the audition in a village near Gummidipoondi.
Nikhil and Rakshitha who participated in Junior Super Stars were in the show to give a special performance with "yemmadi aathadi". I think this week is only with special performances and I thought this would happen since it was similar last year too. I felt that Vijay TV could have kept it to Ajeesh, Nikhil Mathew, Renu to judge this level of auditions and it was not a real good time for the singer in the show. Further we had some more auditions with some contestants getting selected. There were no comments for the special performance from the judges. For most of the moment Kalyani and Ramya made us feel that Divya is a better host for Super Singer. No comments from me on this
Week 1, Day 2, October 18, 2011
Ramya and Kalyani continued to host the Airtel Super Singer Junior 3 launch and there were some auditions being done in the sets. This is similar to what we had last year in the senior's season. The audition judges were Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy, S. P. Shailaja, Mahathi and Manicka Vinayagam & the show started introducing the judges. Sivakarthikeyan came in the show as the anchors of Vijay TV are introduced in this week and today its Siva. They together introduced the Jodi Junior winners Madan and Gabriela to give a special performance and they gave a nice performance. Nithyashree of Airtel Super singer Junior 2 fame gave her performance with "pattathu raani" which was well appreciated by the judges in last season. She used to give complete feel for the song and that makes the difference in singing this particular song.
This was followed by some of the contestants who had their auditions in the show. First round had six contestants and out of which two of them got the selection and one person was waitlisted. To give away chocolates to the losers I dont know why they had such a bad compering by Ramya and Kalyani. As compared to worldwide selection of contestant in the recent ended season, this time Vijay TV goes to small villages across Tamil Nadu to perform audition. Prasanna of Airtel Super Singer season 2 was the judge for the audition in a village near Gummidipoondi.
Nikhil and Rakshitha who participated in Junior Super Stars were in the show to give a special performance with "yemmadi aathadi". I think this week is only with special performances and I thought this would happen since it was similar last year too. I felt that Vijay TV could have kept it to Ajeesh, Nikhil Mathew, Renu to judge this level of auditions and it was not a real good time for the singer in the show. Further we had some more auditions with some contestants getting selected. There were no comments for the special performance from the judges. For most of the moment Kalyani and Ramya made us feel that Divya is a better host for Super Singer. No comments from me on this
Airtel Super Singer Junior 3, 17-10-2011
Airtel Super Singer Junior 3
Week 1, Day 1, October 17, 2011
Today's show of Airtel Super Singer Junior is the launch of the season 3 of TamilNadu's next chellakural thedal. As expected the show has started the auditions in some of the cities and it is expected to have the auditions soon in the channel but before starting with that Vijay TV always brings in yesteryear's contestant to give special performance as an ocassion to launch the show. It was similar thing that happened today in the show where they launched the season 3 of Airtel Super Singer Junior 3. Ramya and Kalyani started hosting the show and they first invited Srinivas and Unnikrishnan, the judges of recently completed Super Singer 3 event and they came in to wish Sai Sharan and wish the prominent judges of junior 3 season.
This season's prize money is worth 60 lakhs and will be a 3 bedroom townhouse from Arun Excello developers itself. Initially in the show we had A.M.Sundar, Marketing Director of Arun Excello Home Pvt Ltd speaking to the viewers and we also had the company handing over the house to Sai Sharan who won it after winning the Airtel Super Singer 3 title. Then Srinivas and Unnikrishnan invited playback singers and permanent judges of Airtel Super Singer Junior, Mano, Chitra and Malgudi Subha.
Bhavana of Jodi Season 5 also came into the show as a guest anchor for the launch of season. Then she was followed by Sara of Deiva Thirumagal appearing in the show since the show is for the juniors. Last season's top contestants Priyanka, Shreenisha and Nithyashree sang "Oru malayoram angu konja neram". This was followed by Alka Ajith's final performance was repeated by the channel. I guess they were expected Alka to come and give a performance. Shravan, the runner up of the last junior season came in and it was surprise to know that he has got an opportunity to sing in movie Pasakara nanbargal composed by Deena. He gave that performance with "rekka katti parakura". Finally Srikanth appeared and sang "yen uchhi mandayila".
Week 1, Day 1, October 17, 2011
Today's show of Airtel Super Singer Junior is the launch of the season 3 of TamilNadu's next chellakural thedal. As expected the show has started the auditions in some of the cities and it is expected to have the auditions soon in the channel but before starting with that Vijay TV always brings in yesteryear's contestant to give special performance as an ocassion to launch the show. It was similar thing that happened today in the show where they launched the season 3 of Airtel Super Singer Junior 3. Ramya and Kalyani started hosting the show and they first invited Srinivas and Unnikrishnan, the judges of recently completed Super Singer 3 event and they came in to wish Sai Sharan and wish the prominent judges of junior 3 season.
This season's prize money is worth 60 lakhs and will be a 3 bedroom townhouse from Arun Excello developers itself. Initially in the show we had A.M.Sundar, Marketing Director of Arun Excello Home Pvt Ltd speaking to the viewers and we also had the company handing over the house to Sai Sharan who won it after winning the Airtel Super Singer 3 title. Then Srinivas and Unnikrishnan invited playback singers and permanent judges of Airtel Super Singer Junior, Mano, Chitra and Malgudi Subha.
Bhavana of Jodi Season 5 also came into the show as a guest anchor for the launch of season. Then she was followed by Sara of Deiva Thirumagal appearing in the show since the show is for the juniors. Last season's top contestants Priyanka, Shreenisha and Nithyashree sang "Oru malayoram angu konja neram". This was followed by Alka Ajith's final performance was repeated by the channel. I guess they were expected Alka to come and give a performance. Shravan, the runner up of the last junior season came in and it was surprise to know that he has got an opportunity to sing in movie Pasakara nanbargal composed by Deena. He gave that performance with "rekka katti parakura". Finally Srikanth appeared and sang "yen uchhi mandayila".
Super Singer Winners Series - Krishnamoorthy
Most of us were expecting Vignesh to win the event with his consistant peformances during the show but Krishnamoorthy was smart enough to provide super performances in the later part of the competition. Aparna was part of Wild card contestant after being eliminated from the show. Dhanyashree, Balasarangan, Roshan, Saisharan were good and got popular with the public with this season of Airtel Super Singer. I think the winner was selected via public voting (I am not sure about the internet/website voting). Chinmayee compered the show and made it a lively event rather an just another competition.
Super Singer Winners Series - Nikhil Mathew
I dont really remember most of the events from this season since it was just getting popular. They had similar rounds in the show but didnt went on extended as we see now. From the top level contestants Nikhil and Anitha has become popular after the competition and they appear in most of the Vijay TV events and both of them have already become playback singers. Nikhil Mathew, originally hailing from Kerala gave a tough competition in the show and had equally deserved contestants with him in the show. It was also said that Nikhil moved from Kerala to Chennai to pursue his dream of becoming a playback singer. He had a strong carnatic backing and very controlled singing during the competition which saw him winning the title.
Register here for Auditions
If you are looking for registering to the Chennai or Coimbatore auditions, you can do it in the Vijay TV official website. I have posted the screenshot of the registration form which accepts the details and audio clip. The basic details of the contestant with their address and parents details are required to complete the registration.
The audio file can be either mp3 or wav, you can record it through microphone and upload the same. This is a very good option provided by Vijay TV this time where you can eliminated sending CD/cassette or be in the line to get the audition done. Also, the quality of the audio will be pretty good given that there are quite many softwares available to record voices for free. There is still lot of time left to get selected for the Coimbatore and Chennai auditions, so keep uploading your kid's voice to get called from the channel and to get a chance to become Super Singer Junior 3.
With the Trichy auditions got over this weekend and Vijay TV is starting to telecast the show from next week, Coimbatore and Chennai auditions will continue in the next weeks so that the telecast and audition schedule will be aligned sequentially. Get ready for the super singer junior ride..
The audio file can be either mp3 or wav, you can record it through microphone and upload the same. This is a very good option provided by Vijay TV this time where you can eliminated sending CD/cassette or be in the line to get the audition done. Also, the quality of the audio will be pretty good given that there are quite many softwares available to record voices for free. There is still lot of time left to get selected for the Coimbatore and Chennai auditions, so keep uploading your kid's voice to get called from the channel and to get a chance to become Super Singer Junior 3.
With the Trichy auditions got over this weekend and Vijay TV is starting to telecast the show from next week, Coimbatore and Chennai auditions will continue in the next weeks so that the telecast and audition schedule will be aligned sequentially. Get ready for the super singer junior ride..
Super Singer Junior 3 starts this week
The wait is over and Vijay TV is all set to start the Airtel Super Singer junior 3 from this week in the television. Usually Super Singer junior is always fun to watch from the start where the kids would be very enjoyable to watch. This year the show promises greater entertainment and this provides another golden chance for kids in the age group of 6-14 years to showcase their singing talent on a Vijay TV's platform.
As we know that its not just recognition but also fame, opportunity to sing with many legends and will become an icon, household name. "The success of the various seasons of Super Singer encouraged us to launch the junior 3 version of the reality show. The junior version proved to be a bigger success and the property now occupies the prime band of Tamil Television and is a winner. This season promises lot more talent and bigger prize money and the expectation has increased vastly as well", says K. Sriram, General Manager, Vijay TV.
Airtel Super Singer Junior 3- From October 17, 2011 at 9 PM (Monday to Friday). Dont miss it..
Most Viewed Song - Aaromale by Srinivas
Super singer contestant Srinivas came back with a bang in the competition with his performance in the wild card round. The performances made everyone to look back at him and give standing ovation including judges. But, all I could think is that it was not the only best performance from him, he had infact given many superb performances in various stages of the competition. His 'Aaromale' performance from Vinnaithaandi varuvaya made all judges to surprise that the song could be performed in a live stage (I meant live recording not telecast) given the complexity and notes of the song. I have heard few times the song performed by the actual playback singer Alphons Joseph but felt Srinivas' version was better hearing in shows. No wonder that this song was the most viewed song on the internet after the performance and I guess it would have been most liked in the social networking websites too. Aaromale from Srinivas was the most viewed song in the internet of all performance in Airtel Super singer 3.
Srinivas did a fantastic job in singing Aaromale and for a while I thought it would make him to have an edge over Santosh to get into the finals of the competition. This performance was especially appreciated by everyone from judges to public since this was the first time we see it being performed in Airtel Super singer stage. We have to keep in mind that Srinivas even gave other good performances and this was not the only performance. Vijay TV did a good job in rewarding Srinivas for a fighting comeback in the wild card round that made the competition interesting and gave him 1 lakh cash prize. I think this performance of Srinivas will be in our hearts for a long time and it will be remembered whenever someone else tries to perform the same on stage. While this performance came in almost at the end of the season still it is mentioned as the most viewed song and I think it would hold true given the popularity of this one performance. Watch the same here and keep enjoying the music.
Srinivas did a fantastic job in singing Aaromale and for a while I thought it would make him to have an edge over Santosh to get into the finals of the competition. This performance was especially appreciated by everyone from judges to public since this was the first time we see it being performed in Airtel Super singer stage. We have to keep in mind that Srinivas even gave other good performances and this was not the only performance. Vijay TV did a good job in rewarding Srinivas for a fighting comeback in the wild card round that made the competition interesting and gave him 1 lakh cash prize. I think this performance of Srinivas will be in our hearts for a long time and it will be remembered whenever someone else tries to perform the same on stage. While this performance came in almost at the end of the season still it is mentioned as the most viewed song and I think it would hold true given the popularity of this one performance. Watch the same here and keep enjoying the music.
Whom can we expect to attempt again..
Even though some of the viewers are not so happy that Sai Sharan and Santhosh won the first and second place of the Airtel Super Singer 3, there are some viewers who think in a very different way.. yeah.. they say thank god they got the awards, we will not see them again participating in next season of the show. :) lol. This sounds crazy but imagine that is the kind of impact they have got with the judgement of the show. Leaving aside that similar to these people like Sai Sharan, Santhosh, Dhanyashree, Madhumitha, Aishwarya, Mathangi who were competing for last 2 seasons (either in junior/senior), I thought of listing out other juniors who might start getting into the competition giving a try again this time. I know some of you guys might not like it but Vijay TV cannot stop it and they wouldnt want to stop it either.
Taking the last season alone into consideration, we might not see Nithyashree, Sreenisha, Priyanka since they have already sung in Avan Ivan film, but lets wait and see if they will really get a chance to compete. Similary Srikanth was given a house in the last season and he has been appearing as host of Junior Superstars program with singer Mano. This will leave Srikanth even out of the competition this time. Then, Shravan will not be eligible with his age crossing 14, Alka has already proved and started singing quite a few songs in movies which will make them not to appear in the competition. Prasanna Sundar, Vishnucharan, Balasarangan, Roshan - I am not really sure whether their age will allow them to get participate this time, I doubt. I remember that Roshan and Balasarangan appeared in both the last 2 seasons of the Airtel Super Singer Juniors.
If we start looking into the perception of why contestants get into the competition in each season, the first point is to prove themselves and see their improvement over the years/months gets recognized. This will also help them to win the super singer title as did by Sai Sharan. Ofcourse, Vijay TV will bring them into the spotlight and they would get more fame which will attract them/family to get themselves compete. Finally the exposure that they get from the channel is tremendous and cannot be compared with other tamil regional channels at all. Also, the Airtel Super Singer has become household title these days and people watch it carefully and backup the contestants whenver required. Keeping all of these in mind, they would keep participating every year till they win the title and we will keep watching the show every year.
Taking the last season alone into consideration, we might not see Nithyashree, Sreenisha, Priyanka since they have already sung in Avan Ivan film, but lets wait and see if they will really get a chance to compete. Similary Srikanth was given a house in the last season and he has been appearing as host of Junior Superstars program with singer Mano. This will leave Srikanth even out of the competition this time. Then, Shravan will not be eligible with his age crossing 14, Alka has already proved and started singing quite a few songs in movies which will make them not to appear in the competition. Prasanna Sundar, Vishnucharan, Balasarangan, Roshan - I am not really sure whether their age will allow them to get participate this time, I doubt. I remember that Roshan and Balasarangan appeared in both the last 2 seasons of the Airtel Super Singer Juniors.
If we start looking into the perception of why contestants get into the competition in each season, the first point is to prove themselves and see their improvement over the years/months gets recognized. This will also help them to win the super singer title as did by Sai Sharan. Ofcourse, Vijay TV will bring them into the spotlight and they would get more fame which will attract them/family to get themselves compete. Finally the exposure that they get from the channel is tremendous and cannot be compared with other tamil regional channels at all. Also, the Airtel Super Singer has become household title these days and people watch it carefully and backup the contestants whenver required. Keeping all of these in mind, they would keep participating every year till they win the title and we will keep watching the show every year.
Grand Finals' Judges score
Recently Vijay TV announced the marks of each contestant during the grand finals and that episode was little contraversial depending on the supporters ;) I dont have any say on why the scores were published given that the public vote count was also published. This was a kind of deliberate effort from the channel to prove their innocence to public and make sure they have similar backing for the soon-to-start Super singer Junior 3. I was not really surprised to see Satyaprakash getting highest marks since he performed really well on that day too and was far better than others.
How could they have Ajeesh to give marks to the contestants for the grand finals, this was the question in my mind. I really dont think Ajeesh has gone to the level to judge the final performance and I think Satyaprakash has been the best find in all seasons of Airtel Super singer. So, Ajeesh judging the performance of Satya and others were not so good. I was shocked by the marks from Ajeesh for Satya too, it was 14 marks for 2 songs and thats the lowest of all the 30 judges. I couldnt resist laughing for this while seeing many judges had given whole 20 for his performances. I think this has been biased judgement and revealing this kind of results or marks is going to affect Vijay TV.
Also, I am not sure why do they opt to have 30 judges to score the performances ? I would say they could have sticked onto 10-15 top singers and rest of them could have just enjoyed the performances or given some special performances. I wish to convey to the channel that either do things that could bring justice to the show or dont publish the way in which you organised the show. I am concerned about this because this might create biased judgement further and already public voting is been questioned by many people in the forums.
How could they have Ajeesh to give marks to the contestants for the grand finals, this was the question in my mind. I really dont think Ajeesh has gone to the level to judge the final performance and I think Satyaprakash has been the best find in all seasons of Airtel Super singer. So, Ajeesh judging the performance of Satya and others were not so good. I was shocked by the marks from Ajeesh for Satya too, it was 14 marks for 2 songs and thats the lowest of all the 30 judges. I couldnt resist laughing for this while seeing many judges had given whole 20 for his performances. I think this has been biased judgement and revealing this kind of results or marks is going to affect Vijay TV.
Also, I am not sure why do they opt to have 30 judges to score the performances ? I would say they could have sticked onto 10-15 top singers and rest of them could have just enjoyed the performances or given some special performances. I wish to convey to the channel that either do things that could bring justice to the show or dont publish the way in which you organised the show. I am concerned about this because this might create biased judgement further and already public voting is been questioned by many people in the forums.
Wild Card for Semifinals
Whenever we have wild card rounds either in Airtel Super Singer or other programs in Vijay TV it happens after the semifinals and the participants gets a chance to enter into the finals of the show. I think they could change this to have the wild card round for the semi finals and finalists are chosen from the semifinals and no more additional contestants after that. This is to give the guys who came till the semifinals a good respect and make sure he is distinguished from other contestants who were eliminated in earlier rounds. I cannot say that one performance in the wild card round might get a participant who got eliminated long back to get into the finals of the show itself. This will prove to be discrimination for other contestants who got selected till semifinals.
I have not been keen on other programs in other channels across India on the wild card rounds and my guess is that Vijay TV might follow the other channels or atleast the star group of channels with similar programs.In the last seasons of the Airtel Super Singer there used to be recall round and alongside with the wild card round but this time the recall round has been removed by the program managers which is good. But, as a substitution to that they had the international contestants getting into the show joining the top contestants. This was more irritating than the recall round where only few contestants get into the show getting another chance. I would say that the international contestants be treated as other local contestants and have their auditions at the sametime as local participants. This might not give better opportunity to overseas contestants given the fact that they might get eliminated in the earlier stages itself. Having said all these we are not sure how Vijay TV and the Airtel Super Singer Junior 3 program managers will run the season this time. Last time it was 1.5 years to get through the season and to find a winner and this time it might be similar time to choose the next super singer junior.
I have not been keen on other programs in other channels across India on the wild card rounds and my guess is that Vijay TV might follow the other channels or atleast the star group of channels with similar programs.In the last seasons of the Airtel Super Singer there used to be recall round and alongside with the wild card round but this time the recall round has been removed by the program managers which is good. But, as a substitution to that they had the international contestants getting into the show joining the top contestants. This was more irritating than the recall round where only few contestants get into the show getting another chance. I would say that the international contestants be treated as other local contestants and have their auditions at the sametime as local participants. This might not give better opportunity to overseas contestants given the fact that they might get eliminated in the earlier stages itself. Having said all these we are not sure how Vijay TV and the Airtel Super Singer Junior 3 program managers will run the season this time. Last time it was 1.5 years to get through the season and to find a winner and this time it might be similar time to choose the next super singer junior.
How can you get into Super Singer competition ?
There are several ways to get into the Airtel Super Singer Junior 3 competition and the auditions has just started this week in Trichy and it will continue for next few weeks across major cities of Tamil Nadu. I will not be surprised if the auditions will go international similar to Just Dance like Hrithik Roshan program that went to US, UK and few more countries looking for talent. There was requisition from the channel to send the recorded voice in CD or cassette to Vijay TV office to get into the super singer program which will get the contestants into the final level of auditions. But, people who missed that or didnt want to try recording it in CD or cassette can walk into video booths being place in multiple location across the cities. So, get into the video booth and record your voice to registered yourself to get into the competition. If you think that the video booth is not a great idea or not very close to your place, look for the mobile van that runs across the city all through October 9 to October 14 where you can register your voice.
Having the mobile van for audition is not a new thing for Vijay TV since they have been having mobile van that gets votes, provides info to public, gets public view and stuffs. Finally there is a last option to get into the audition itself that happens in each city. This will be with heavy crowd and multiple audition levels before getting into the final audition itself. This will be a more difficult task than other options that are available. Participants can reappear multiple times in different cities incase of not selected in any city. I remember once person in last super singer season appeared in all 3 cities for the audition and finally got selected in Chennai auditions.
Having the mobile van for audition is not a new thing for Vijay TV since they have been having mobile van that gets votes, provides info to public, gets public view and stuffs. Finally there is a last option to get into the audition itself that happens in each city. This will be with heavy crowd and multiple audition levels before getting into the final audition itself. This will be a more difficult task than other options that are available. Participants can reappear multiple times in different cities incase of not selected in any city. I remember once person in last super singer season appeared in all 3 cities for the audition and finally got selected in Chennai auditions.
Trichy Auditions has started
First level auditions of the Airtel Super Singer Junior 3 has started in Trichy in this week and later it will continue in other cities in consecutive weeks with a week break I guess. Here are the details of the Trichy auditions and make sure you have your children participate in any or all of the auditions. Super Singer Junior 3 has been awaited by the viewers for sometime for the reason being the last edition of Super singer was delayed a lot. Now, from next week there would be fun in the TV while we watch the little super singers trying to prove their capability.Trichy Audition Details
October 9 to October 14
Video booth would be available in the following locations from 10.30 AM. Participants can record their voice in these video booths.
Waves & Fashion Bug
(Near Ayyappan temple)
2/9, Lawsons Road,
Cantonment,
Trichy
Mankudi Restaurant
(Near Malaimalar office)
27, Mcdonald Road,
Trichy - 17
Focus Fashion Factory
55, Thennur High Road,
Thennur,
Trichy
Ganga Super Market
86, EVR Road,
Pudhur,
Trichy
Mangal & Mangal Thanga Maligai
NSB Road,
Trichy
October 15
First level main auditions will be held in this location at 8 AM on Ocotber 15. If you miss all above options then make it to this for sure.
SRM Hotel
Race Course Road,
Khajamalai,
Trichy
Mobile booth will also come around the city during these days and the interested participants can record their voice in the mobile booths too. This first level auditions is expected to create history for Vijay TV with the number of contestants participating might overrun the last 2 season's numbers. Contestants are given priority on first come first serve basis. So, make sure you guys reach at the earliest.
Juniors can get their auditions here
Vijay TV has released a list of locations across south Tamilnadu where the children between 6 to 14 years of age can register themselves for the Airtel Super Singer junior 3 competition. In these places the contestants can fill up the registration form and record their voice by singing few songs. Further these recordings will be considered for the earlier stages of the auditions. I think to reduce the preliminary audition time, this is required for the channel so that they can bring many of the contestants in off-site location and get things done. Also, in these cities the onsite audition might not happen and that is also one of the reason that this is being scheduled in these places.
So, kids get ready for the super singer audition and make yourself comfortable to give your best performance in the below locations. If you want your kids to badly get into the auditions somehow, try sending the CDs, get into the recording in any of the below location and also try to be at the audition event itself so that you get multiple chance to get into competition. I know, if there is enormous talent, one of these option should be enough to become super singer itself. Here is the list,
Kaveri Provisional Stores
84, Madathu Theru,
Kumbakonam
Kannan Departmental Stores
Dindukkal Bypass Road,
Madurai
Hotel Annapurna
Thirvanandapuram Road,
Palayankottai, Tirunelveli
Royal Super Market
112, Salai Road,
Big Bazaar, Ramanathapuram
Bombay Sweets
Old Bus stand, South Ram Part,
Tanjavur
So, kids get ready for the super singer audition and make yourself comfortable to give your best performance in the below locations. If you want your kids to badly get into the auditions somehow, try sending the CDs, get into the recording in any of the below location and also try to be at the audition event itself so that you get multiple chance to get into competition. I know, if there is enormous talent, one of these option should be enough to become super singer itself. Here is the list,
Kaveri Provisional Stores
84, Madathu Theru,
Kumbakonam
Kannan Departmental Stores
Dindukkal Bypass Road,
Madurai
Hotel Annapurna
Thirvanandapuram Road,
Palayankottai, Tirunelveli
Royal Super Market
112, Salai Road,
Big Bazaar, Ramanathapuram
Bombay Sweets
Old Bus stand, South Ram Part,
Tanjavur
Vote count revealed
Finally Vijay TV wanted to prove to the viewers that the judgement of the super singer is in the hands of public and they dont really have any take on that. To prove it they had a very contraversial episodes last week with all judges speaking about the performances of the contestants and also told their marks of each of the performances during the grand finale. The scores stood in the way of Sathyaprakash leading with arnd 520 marks and followed by Sai Sharan with around 490 marks. I felt this was needless in the show to tell this immedidately after the grand finals. Is it to honour Sathyaprakash or is it to prove that its not in hands of Vijay TV/judges or is it to insult Sai Sharan ? I am sure there are mixed reactions to this episode and the argument will keep on continuing..It was not over with just the marks but also with the vote count for each contestant. The vote count has always been secret for last few seasons and they dont disclose it out for various reasons. This time super singer program managers thought it would be good to show it off to public so that the channel/program managers are not affected with the future seasons of the program. The vote count clearly says the number of vote recieved for each of the contestant with the classification of the type of vote even. This disclosure will now make it clear for public and makes it evident that there was huge public backing for Sai Sharan and Santhosh. Now it will time for us to crib against each others and not the Vijay TV or Super Singer judges. I am really amazed by the number of SMS votes being sent by the public and the IVR voting being casted. It is understood that these kinds of voting mechanisms are expensive around 6 INR and people have shown their interest to choose winner by spending money.
More than 4 lakh SMS have been sent for choosing the winner of the show. Looking at the number of votes for the contestants, there are clear trends across them with the vote difference and Sai Sharan's IVR voting has been exceptional. I was expecting to have more online votes and there are chances that the online voting can be exploited with maximum of 3 votes per user. But, surprisingly the online voting has not seen a big number. In fact, I was afraid that people might have automated scripts to generate usernames and cast votes automatically for thousands of times. Now that we say that the public voting alone should not the only criteria to choose the winners and judges marks should also be considered, things are not clear on how Vijay TV will plan ahead to choose the winners from next time. I guess they would continue with the voting which brings the viewers to choose their favourite and a good way to earn money for the channel.
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