Santhosh Hariharan

Airtel Super Singer 3 – Thamizhagathil Brahmaanda Kuralukkaana Thedal – Immurai Ulaga Alavil, the third season of the Airtel Super Singer show, was a reality-based Indian singing competition in Tamil language that aired on Vijay TV. It was designed to be a talent hunt to find the best voice of Tamil Nadu. The show premiered on 12 July 2010, and episodes were telecast between Monday to Thursday each week at 9:00 pm. Persons above the age of 16 years were permitted to audition to showcase their talent on Vijay TV's platform. The show was initially hosted by Divya Vijayagopal during the audition rounds. For the performance rounds by the top 25 contestants, voice trainer Ananth Vaidyanathan appeared fairly regularly on the show together with permanent judges Srinivas, Sujatha Mohan, P. Unnikrishnan, and hosts Divya Vijayagopal and Sivakarthikeyan. The hosts in each episode of the top 25 performance rounds announced that the winner would win a triple bedroom apartment worth Rs.3.7 million from its season 3 sponsor, Arun Excello Temple Green Township. Special guest judges or guest performers who appeared on the show during the season consisted of a variety of eminent playback singers and music directors, including P. B. Sreenivas, P. Susheela, M. S. Viswanathan, S. Janaki, Unni Menon, Sadhana Sargam, S. P. Sailaja, Ranina Reddy, Nithyasree Mahadevan, Suchithra, Sriram Parthasarathy, Harish Raghavendra, Sangeetha Rajeshwaran, Madhu Balakrishnan, Karthik, Ramya NSK, Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy, Vinaya Karthik Rajan, Sowmya, Pop Shalini, as well as stars from the junior version of the show, such as permanent judges Mano and Malgudi Subha, and former contestants Anitha Karthikeyan, Ajeesh, and Alka Ajith.