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The wait is over for the Vijay TV Super Singer contest. Nikhil Mathew from Chennai was crowned as the Super Singer by playback singer S P Balasubramaniam. Nikhil is an MBA student of Satyabama College and has learnt music from the age of 10 from Veeramani and is good at playing mrithangam. He received a Maruti Swift car as the prize, and a trophy, apart from the opportunity to sing for music director Harris Jeyaraj.

Vijay TV launched the Super Singer contest in April 2006 with the aim of finding the one unique voice out of 6.5 crore Tamils.

The grand prize for the winner is a golden opportunity to sing for music director Harris Jeyaraj in his forthcoming film. Auditions were conducted across the entire state of Tamil Nadu targeting three major zones - Coimbatore, Madurai and Chennai. The mode of entry of participants for the audition was through CDs and cassettes, registration through mobile phone besides on-the-spot registration.

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The judges’ panel for the initial round auditions was constituted by eminent personalities in the music industry - playback singers Malaysia Vasudevan, S P Sailaja, Jensi, Seergazhi Sivachidambaram, Malathi and Mahathi as also music director D Imman. These judges short-listed the candidates in various zones to proceed to the next level of the competitions held in Chennai.

The participants went through a series of extensive rounds testing their skills in music. These levels were judged by a special panel of judges constituting playback singers Anuradha Sriram, Srinivas and Unnikrishnan. 

Anitha was announced as the viewer’s choice, as she had the maximum number of votes. She was awarded a trophy and a laptop. Anitha was selected from the Chennai zone through CD voice registration. She is currently working for the service industry. Anitha has had training in classical music for the last five years and is a student of Hindustani music for the last one year from her guru Ram Moorthy / Megna Dandekar.

The jury award was given to Sowmya Mahadevan who was given a trophy and an E-Go electric bike. Sowmya has had classical music training for the past five years. She is a student of Meenakshi College, Kodambakkam. 

The ratings for the final performance episodes were as follows

 Episode airing date 28/7/06 time: 8-9 p.m:

The channel shares for the above episode read:

In the next two weeks, Vijay TV will be showcasing the happenings on the sets and also the life of Nikhil Mathew after being crowned Super Singer.

R Rangaraj

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Published on Aug 11^th, 2006