Idea Star Singer is a popular Malayalam music reality-television competition, broadcast on the Malayalam TV channel, Asianet with Idea Cellular Limited. The show, being aired at 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m (IST), on Monday to Friday is a hunt for a talented singer in Kerala from the age group of 15-30 years, who can capture the hearts of millions with the unique combination of singing and entertainment.
2007
Idea Star Singer 2007 started with bigger and better format, anchored by Ranjini Haridas, a former Miss Kerala. She is a good anchor .The prize was an opportunity to sing in the next project by film director Vinayan, and an apartment in Cochin worth Rs 40,00,000. The apartments was given by confident group.The judging panel featured playback singer M. G. Sreekumar, music director Sharath, and the renowned Indi pop singer Usha Uthup. The fourth judging spot featured a celebrity guest who has an importance in malayalam film industry. The 2007 talent hunt was inaugurated by Malayalam superstar Mohanlal, and more than 20,000 hopeful singers applied to participate in this edition of the show. Only 45 singers were short-listed from the 100 contestants in the preliminary round, followed by an elimination round on TV via SMS and the decision of the judges. Singers were given special grooming and choreography sessions, and the competition was cut to 10 contestants, and then again to the four best participants, each vying to bag the Top Singer title.
After the final was held on 19 April 2008, Najim Arshad from Thiruvanathapuram won the competition and bagged the brand new flat from Confident Group. The first runner-up was Durga Viswanath and she was presented with the consolation prize, a Ford Fiesta car given by Alukkas Jewellery group. The second runner-up was Thushar M K and the third runner-up was Arun Gopan. The biggest winner, however, was Idea Cellular Limited as the final SMS round saw over half a million SMS messages to premium numbers.
2008
After the thumping success of Idea Star Singer 2007, the curtain was raised for its successor, Idea Star Singer 2008. Malayalam actionstar Suresh Gopi, who inaugurated the show, sang a song for the viewers, and there were also performances by M.G. Sreekumar, Ouseppachan, P. Unnikrishnan, and L.R. Eswari. The inaugural function started with a prayer and song by Najim Arshad, winner of idea star singer 2007, followed by the competition.
85 contestants will compete in the auditions round to hone their skills, but only 50 contestants will be selected. This time around, two mega prizes will be awarded, one each for a male and female contestant. Each will receive an apartment in either Thiruvananthapuram or Dubai City from Confident Group, valued to be worth 1 crore each. The judges line-up has also changed. While M.G. Sreekumar has been retained to be a judge once again, Ouseppachan and P. Unnikrishnan filled the other two judge spots, with one more spot for a weekly guest judge. Later the judges were changed, M. G. Sreekumar was removed while Sharath and Usha Uthup was called back upon popular demand. Ranjini has came again to the star singer family as anchor.
Reality Show MTV-Roadies-Review
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008The Reality Show MTV roadies
MTV Roadies currently in Season 6, is a reality television show aired on MTV India. The show was created by Raghu Ram and is hosted by Rannvijay. “Roadies has travel, adventure, drama, touch of voyeurism…” said Raghu Ram, when asked about the show. The maximum prize for winning the show is Rs 500,000.
Selection Procedure
Auditions are held in various major cities in India. People who turn up for the audition are made to undergo a group discussion, following which, selected candidates are chosen for personal interview conducted by Raghu Ram and Nikhil Chinapa. The interview round is deliberately acrimonious to test the participant’s attitude, tolerance and patience levels. In the first two seasons, 7 Roadies were selected. Since then, this number was increased to 13. Season 6 will feature 20 Roadies for the first time. There is no limit as to how many times a person can audition
Format
The selected thirteen Roadies are given Hero Honda Karizma bikes to travel on a pre-decided route. Each episode features a vote-out at the end in which the roadies eliminate one of their fellow roadie, thereby decreasing the number of roadies carrying on with the journey.
Each episode consists of number of tasks or challenges which they have to perform. These tasks can be either “Money tasks” or “Immunity tasks”. In the “Money tasks”, the roadies add cash to their account on successful completion of these tasks while in “Immunity tasks”, the team which wins gets Immunity. The team which attains Immunity becomes safe from vote-out i.e its members cannot be voted-out in that episode. The above mentioned tasks are either team-based (ie performed between two or more teams) or individual-based (ie performed one-on-one). At the end of scheduled journey, the last roadie who survives till the end is declared the winner and walks away with the total cash accumulated by performing the money tasks. The fifth season is the first time when an advantage task is introduced. The winners of an advantage task get some advantage in the vote out, which may include multiple votes or being the only one to vote in the vote-out.
The Indian version of the show is based on the original MTV reality show Road Rules which started in the yea.
Winners till date
Season 1 - There was no official winner but Rannvijay, who was among the seven finalists from this season went on to become a MTV VJ and host the following seasons.
Season 2 - Ayushmann Khuranna from Chandigarh
Season 3 - Parul Shahi from Delhi
Season 4 - Anthony Yeh from Kolkata
Season 5 - Ashutosh Kaushik from Saharanpur
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