Super Singer 4

Airtel Super Singer 4, the fourth season of Airtel Super Singer, premiered on 4 February 2013. The show was a reality-based Indian singing competition in Tamil that aired on STAR Vijay. It was designed to be a talent hunt to find the best voice of Tamil Nadu. Judges for the auditions were Ananth Vaidyanathan, S.P. Sailaja, Devan Ekambaram, Nithyasree Mahadevan, Mahathi, Pop Shalini, S. Sowmya, Mano and Malgudi Subha. Some of these judges along with other noted musicians reappeared as Guest judges. To name a few- S. Janaki, M. S. Viswanathan, A. R. Rahman, P. Susheela, Asha Bhosle, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Vairamuthu, L. R. Eswari and Vani Jairam. Judges for the main competition were Sujatha, Mano, Unnikrishnan and Srinivas. Makapa Anand, Priyanka Deshpande, and Bhavana were the hosts for the show. The voice trainer was Ananth Vaidyanathan.^[1][2] The show aired on weekdays at 9:00 pm IST.

Super Singer 4
Season 4
Presented by	Makapa Anand, Priyanka Deshpande, Bhavana
Judges	Sujatha Mohan, Mano, Unnikrishnan, Srinivas
Release
Original network	STAR Vijay
Original release	4 February 2013 (2013-02-04) – 1 February 2014 (2014-02-01)
Season chronology

Auditions

The auditions for the show were held at three zones, Trichy, Kovai and Chennai in December 2012 and January 2013.^[3][4] Thousands of applicants aged above 16 participated in the zonal auditions. The judges for the preliminary auditions included eminent singers from the music industry and popular contestants from the previous seasons of the show. The show premiered in February 2013 featuring the audition phases from various zones.^[5]

Direct finalists

1. Diwakar
2. Parvathy
3. Syed Subahan

Wild card round winners

1. Sarath Santhosh
2. Sonia Aamod

Finalists

1. Diwakar (winner)
2. Parvathy
3. Syed Subahan
4. Sarath Santhosh
5. Sonia Aamod

Grand Finale

The final contest to decide the winner of the show was held at Sun Palm Driving Range & Golf Academy, Guindy and was telecast live on television and internet on 1 February 2014. Winners were selected by audience poll. Votes could be cast through SMS, IVR and online. After two performances by each contestant, Diwakar was declared as the winner and received an apartment worth Rs. 6 million as prize. Syed Subahan was declared as Judges Choice Winner for the best performance in Grand Finale and 1st runner-up as he got the second maximum votes of audience. Syed got 1 kg of Gold for 1st runner-up. The second runner-up Sarath Santhosh received Rs. 1 million. The other two contestants Sonia Aamod and Parvathy received Rs. 500,000 each.

Many prominent singers were present at the venue. Legendary singer S. Janaki was the chief-guest for the event. Makapa Anand, Priyanka, and Bhavana hosted the show.

Elimination chart

Legend

Did Not Perform	Female	Male	Airtel Super Singer 4

Safe

Spot selected (Spot)

Wait listed (WL) or Danger zone (DZ)

Eliminated (Elim)

Promoted by judges (P)

Immunity (I)

Top performer(T)

Genre:		Love Songs Round	Fast Duet Round	Free Style Round	Tribute to the Legends	Folk Songs Round	Multilingual Songs Round	Western Round	Kalluri Salai Round	Mabbu Songs Round	Dance Attack Round	Super Singer Stars
Week:		May 20	May 27	June 3	June 10	June 17	June 28	July 5	July 12	July 19	July 26	August 2
Place	Contestant	Result
1	Diwakar[6]
2	Syed Subahan
3	Sharath											T
4	Parvathy										T
5	Soniya			P			P
6	Aravind Srinivas											DZ
7	Madhumita											DZ
8	Narayanan											DZ
9	Ganesh
10	Sai Vignesh
11	Vaishali									DZ	DZ
12	Rizwan
13	Deepti										DZ
14	Vaijayanthi						DZ
15	Sanjay											DZ
16	Shenbagaraj
17	Soundarya Bala Nandakumar
18	Nirjhari								DZ
19	Krishnan
20	Mahitha							DZ
21	Ramesh							DZ	DZ
22	Niranjana									T
23	Alagesan								DZ		DZ
24	Namitha								DZ	DZ	DZ
25	Rajagopalan	DZ	DZ								DZ	Elim
26	Sai Shankar				DZ	DZ				DZ	Elim
27	Vignesh							DZ		Elim
28	Sahil								Elim
29	Sherley						Elim
30	Arvind					Elim
31	Thirupurasundari				Elim
32	Ramnath		Elim
33	Rafiq	Elim