The third season of Airtel Super Singer Junior - Thamizhagathin Chellakuralukkana Thedal ('the search for the sweet voice of Tamil Nadu') premiered on 17 October 2011 and 26 October 2012. The music competition reality TV show was again telecast on Vijay TV, and Bharti Airtel returned to sponsor the show. Episodes were telecast between Monday to Friday each week at 9:00pm. Children from the age of 6 years to the age of 14 years were permitted to audition to showcase their talent on Vijay TV's platform.[1] Apart from gaining recognition from acclaimed names of the music industry and being a child singing icon, the show promised that its winner would be honored with a 3-bedroom Villa worth Rs.60 lakhs from its sponsor, Arun Excello Temple Green Township. Aajeedh Khalique was crowned the winner of Airtel Super Singer Junior Season 3. Pragathy Guruprasad was the first runner up.
After playing footage of Airtel Super Singer 3 winner Saicharan being honoured with his prize, semi-finalists Srinisha, Priyanka, Srikanth, and Shravan from Airtel Super Singer Junior (season 2) performed in this episode to promote and celebrate the opening of season 3 of the show. Child actress Sara made a special guest appearance during this episode following her performance in the 2011 Tamil language film, Deiva Thirumagal.
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18 October 2011 (2011-10-18)
Actor Sivakarthikeyan, a former host of Airtel Super Singer 3, appeared as a special guest host during this episode. Winners of Jodi Junior, Madan and Gabriela, performed a dance routine before former finalist from Airtel Super Singer Junior (season 2) performed the song Pattatthu Rani. Former contestants of Junior Superstars, Nikhil and Rakshitha sung Yemmadi Aathaadi. Audition judges from the episode performed, and judged a few auditions, and footage from ground level auditions which took place in certain villages in Tamil Nadu judged by Airtel Super Singer 2008 contestant Prasanna was also telecast.
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19 October 2011 (2011-10-19)
Contestants who had given auditions in previous seasons came in for auditions this year to get a chance to get into the competition. Former contestants of Junior Superstars, Balasarangan and Lakshmi sang the song "Swaasame Swaasame", and semi-finalist Srinisha from Airtel Super Singer Junior (season 2) sang the song "Rahathula Rahathula".
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20 October 2011 (2011-10-20)
Semi-finalist Priyanka from Airtel Super Singer Junior (season 2) sang "Chinna Thaayaval" after which it was revealed she recorded her second song as a playback singer for music director D. Imman. Runner-up from that season, Shravan, also sang the song "Something Something" in between the several auditions which took place, and the footage from ground level auditions in Tamil Nadu village Kancheepuram was also telecast.
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21 October 2011 (2011-10-21)
Great-granddaughters of D. K. Pattammal, Tejashree and Tanujashree, appeared with their mother Nithyasree Mahadevan, as special guests in this episode. Tejashree and Tanujashree gave their debut performance for Vijay TV singing Papanasam Sivan's composition "Engal Naatu" to conclude the launch week, before passing an inpromptu test set by judges Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy and Manikka Vinayagam. Prior to their appearance, actor Mirchi Senthil also briefly appeared as a special guest to promote the soon-to-be released Vijay TV serial, Saravanan Meenatchi; several former contestants of Junior Superstars, including Roshan, Parvati, Balasarangan, Lakshmi, Rakshita and Nikhil performed the song "Thaiya Thaiya"; and familiar contestants from earlier seasons of Airtel Super Singer Junior who could not get into the show in last seasons came in for a special audition to see if they directly qualified for main level auditions.
The ground level auditions in Trichy and Coimbatore were judged by former contestants of Airtel Super Singer 2, being Ajeesh, Prasanna, Srinivas and Ragini.[2]
The ground level auditions in Chennai were judged by former winners and finalists from each season of the senior version of the show, Airtel Super Singer, including Nikhil Mathew and Anitha from season 1, Ajeesh, Raginisri, and Prasanna, from season 2, as well as Saicharan, Santhosh Hariharan, Sathyaprakash, Pooja, and Malavika from season 3.
24 October 2011 (2011-10-24) - 25 October 2011 (2011-10-25)
First round auditions which were held in Trichy required auditioning contestants to perform a song before a single audition judge. Contestants were either spot-selected, rejected, or wait-listed until the conclusion of the round. This round was hosted by Makapa Anand and Bhavana.
26 October 2011 (2011-10-26) - 28 October 2011 (2011-10-28)
Second round auditions which were held in Trichy required auditioning contestants to perform a song before a panel of three audition judges. Contestants were either spot-selected, rejected, or wait-listed until the conclusion of the round. The 21 waitlisted auditioning contestants were given training by permanent voice trainer Ananth Vaidyanathan after which they were asked to perform to demonstrate their learning capacity; the voice trainer selected 5 of the waitlisted auditioning contestants. This round was hosted by Makapa Anand, and Bhavana who failed to announce the total count of children or selections.
31 October 2011 (2011-10-31) - 1 November 2011 (2011-11-01)
First round auditions which were held in Coimbatore required auditioning contestants to perform a song before a single audition judge. Contestants were either spot-selected, rejected, or wait-listed until the conclusion of the round. 45 out of 100 auditioning contestants were selected from this level of auditions. This round was hosted by actress Kalyani and Anandakannan.
2 November 2011 (2011-11-02) - 4 November 2011 (2011-11-04)
Second round auditions which were held in Coimbatore required auditioning contestants to perform a song before a panel of four judges. Contestants were either spot-selected, rejected, or wait-listed until the conclusion of the round. Waitlisted auditioning contestants were given training by permanent voice trainer Ananth Vaidyanathan after which they were asked to perform to demonstrate their learning capacity; the voice trainer made selections after those performances. 27 auditioning contestants were selected from Coimbatore. In total, it was announced 58 auditioning contestants were selected from both Coimbatore and Trichy, and that it was intended that the 31 auditioning contestants shortlisted from Trichy was intended to be further shortlisted to 15. This round was hosted by actress Kalyani and Anandakannan.
7 November 2011 (2011-11-07) - 8 November 2011 (2011-11-08)
First round auditions which were held in Chennai required auditioning contestants to perform a song before a single audition judge. Contestants were either spot-selected, rejected, or wait-listed until the conclusion of the round. This round was hosted by actress Ramya and Makapa Anand.
9 November 2011 (2011-11-09) - 11 November 2011 (2011-11-11)
Second round auditions which were held in Chennai required 235 auditioning contestants to perform a song before one of two panels each with three judges. Contestants were either spot-selected, rejected, or wait-listed until the conclusion of the round, with a total of 40 contestants to be selected by the conclusion of the round. Waitlisted auditioning contestants were given training by permanent voice trainer Ananth Vaidyanathan after which they were asked to perform to demonstrate their learning capacity; the voice trainer made selections after those performances. This round was hosted by actress Ramya and Makapa Anand.
14 November 2011 (2011-11-14) - 16 November 2011 (2011-11-16)
First round main level auditions were held in Chennai required auditioning contestants to perform a song and impress a panel of five audition judges within 120 seconds. Contestants were either spot-selected, rejected, or wait-listed until the conclusion of the round. Waitlisted auditioning contestants were given training by permanent voice trainer Ananth Vaidyanathan after which they were asked to perform to demonstrate their learning capacity; the voice trainer made selections after those performances. This round was hosted by Makapa Anand and Ramya.
17 November 2011 (2011-11-17) - 18 November 2011 (2011-11-18)
Second round main level auditions were held in Chennai required auditioning contestants to perform a song and impress a panel of five audition judges within 120 seconds. Contestants were either spot-selected, rejected, or wait-listed until the conclusion of the round. Waitlisted auditioning contestants were given training by permanent voice trainer Ananth Vaidyanathan after which they were asked to perform to demonstrate their learning capacity; the voice trainer made selections after those performances. At the conclusion of this round, 60 contestants were selected. This round was hosted by Makapa Anand and Ramya.
21 November 2011 (2011-11-21) - 25 November 2011 (2011-11-25)
Third round main level auditions were held in Chennai required the 60 auditioning contestants to perform a song and compete with two other auditioning contestants, and impress a panel of five audition judges. Contestants were either spot-selected, rejected, or wait-listed until the conclusion of the round. Waitlisted auditioning contestants were given training by permanent voice trainer Ananth Vaidyanathan after which they were asked to perform to demonstrate their learning capacity; the voice trainer made selections after those performances. At the conclusion of this round, the list of 60 contestants would be further shortlisted to 30 finalists. This round was hosted by Deepak and Divyadarshini.
Finalists
Aajeedh Khalique (winner)
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Finals
Main Competition Performance Rounds
Introduction Round (28 November 2011 – 2 December 2011)
Special guest audition judges appeared on the show to introduce the 30 selected finalists, while the permanent judges returned to greet the selected contestants for the first time.
Fast Songs Round (5 December 2011 – 9 December 2011)
This round required the top 7 contestants to sing songs which fitted in the Carnatic music ("classical") genre. This week's orchestra accompanying the contestants consisted of 7 special guest performers (instrumentalists). The best Carnatic singer title of the season was also promised to the best performing contestant of the week.
At the conclusion of this week's performances, the 7 special guest judges decided not to eliminate any contestant based on this week's performances. Consequently, the scores would be carried over to the next week, and a decision would then be made as to which contestant would be eliminated.
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