Vasantham Star

Vasantham Star is a 2005 Singaporean Tamil-language reality singing television show, which airs on Vasantham TV from 2005. Over eighteen years, Vasantham Star has produced seven seasons.

Vasantham Star
Genre	singing Reality show
Directed by	Heider Ali (S1) Malathi Madavan (S7)
Presented by	Season 01 Elamaran Season 02 Sara Jaynesh Isuran Season 03 Saravanan Ayyavo Season 04 Jaynesh Isuran Season 05 Varman Bharathi Season 06 Udaya Soundari Varman Season 07 Saravanan Ayyavo
Judges	Season 01 Mohamed Raffee Muralikrishnan Soundra Season 02 Kalaiselvan Soundravalli Mohan Sondramogan Season 03 Sangeetha Sondramogan Mohamed Raffee Season 04 Sondramogan Haider Ali Malarvizhi Season 05 & 06 Vicknesvari Vadivalagan Yugendran Erfan Season 07 Shabir Sulthan Vicknesvari Vadivalagan Mohamed Raffee 'Vocal Trainer' Erfanulla
Country of origin	Singapore
Original language	Tamil
No. of episodes	Season 01: 13 Season 02: 13 Season 03: 10 Season 04: 10 Season 05: 13 Season 06: 13 Season 07: 13
Production
Producers	Haider Ali (1) Anuratha Kanderaju (2) Malathi Madavan (S7) Pavithra Chandrakumar (S6)
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	approx. 50–55 minutes per episode
Original release
Network	Vasantham TV
Release	2005 (2005) – present

Vasantham Star is Vasantham's Indian Idol competition, a competition that guarantees instant stardom for the winner.^{[peacock prose]}

Overview

Season		Episodes	Original Broadcast		Winner
			First Aired	Last Aired
	1	13	2005		Shabir Sulthan
	2	13	2007		Ebbi
	3	10	2009		Vikneshwaran
	4	10	2011		Suthasini Rajenderan
	5	13	2015		Subasini
	6	13	2017		Nandhitha & Swathi
	7	13	1 January 2023	26 March 2023	Navein Gunasekaran

Season 1 (2005)

The first season aired on from 2005 and ended with 13 Episodes. The judges are Mohamed Raffee, Muralikrishnan and Soundra, Elamaran as the host. The winner of the season was Shabir Sulthan.^[1]

Prize Winners:

• Winner: Shabir Sulthan

Season 2 (2007)

The second season was aired from 2007 and ended with 13 Episodes. Sara and Jaynesh Isuran as the hosts. Kalaiselvan, Soundravalli, Mohan and Sondramogan as the judges. The title winner of Season 2 is Ebbi.^[2]

Prize Winners:

• Winner: Ebbi

Top 4 Finalist

• Devarajan
• Dinesh
• Ebbi
• Viknesh

Season 3 (2009)

The show launched on 2009 on Vasantham TV. Sangeetha, Sondramogan and Mohamed Raffee as the judges. The winner of the season was Vikneshvaran.

Prize Winners:

• Winner: Vikneshvaran
• First Runners-Up: Sivapalan

Season 4 (2011)

It began broadcasting on 2011 and finished with 10 Episodes. Jaynesh Isuran as the host. Sondramogan, Haider Ali and Malarvizhi as the judges. The winner of the season was Suthasini Rajenderan.^[3]

Prize Winners:

• Winner: Suthasini Rajenderan

Season 5 (2015)

Vasantham Star returned with its 5th season after four years. It began broadcasting on 2015 and finished with 13 Episodes. Varman and Bharathi as the hosts. Vicknesvari Vadivalagan, Yugendran and Erfan as the judges. The winner of the season was Subashini.^[2]

Prize Winners:

• Winner: Subashini
• First Runners-Up: Swaminathan

Top 3 Finalist

• Jayita
• Subashini
• Swaminathan

Season 6 (2017)

Vasantham Star returned with its 6th season after two years. It began broadcasting on 2017 and finished with 13 Episodes. Varman has officially once again been appointed as the host with Udaya Soundari. Vicknesvari Vadivalagan, Yugendran and Erfan officially once again been appointed as the judges with Erfanulla.

4 judges, 3 duos, but who will be that 1 winning duo who will walk away with the title of being the first ever Vasantham Star 2017. Sheeta and Khirathanah was the winner of second season.

Prize Winners:

• Winner: Nandhitha & Swathi
• First Runners-Up: Sheeta & Khirathanah

Contestants

• Nishmen & Shobana
• Sheeta & Khirathanah
• Hari Kishan & Sharvesini
• Aravind & Sanjeev
• Nandhitha & Swathi
• Karthikeyan & Farzana
• Ansari & Habib
• Priydharshini & Soundarya
• Ramachandran & Preethi
• Karthegasu & Ibrahim

Season 7 (2023)

The first season of the show began airing from 1 January 2023 and ended with 13 Episode from 26 March 2023. available for worldwide streaming on Mediacorp.^[4] It is the seventh season of 'Vasantham Star'.^[5][6] The three main judges of this show are Shabir Sulthan, Vicknesvari Vadivalagan and Mohamed Raffee, and Saravanan Ayyavo as the Host. Navein Gunasekaran was crowned the winner of Vasantham Star 2023.^[7]

Synopsis

The 12 finalists were selected by a panel of judges from 180 aspiring hopefuls and they come from all walks of life from students and freelance artistes to a financial advisor. Marks will be given to contestants on the basis of their performance, which is judged by three main judges (Shabir Sulthan, Vicknesvari Vadivalagan and Mohamed Raffee), and The 12 aspiring singers will also receive coaching from renowned industry professional and vocal trainer Erfanulla.

Judges and Hosts

Judges

Judges	Notes
Shabir Sulthan	Tamil Singaporean singer-songwriter, record producer, music compose. He is the winner of the inaugural singing competition Vasantham Star 2005.
Vicknesvari Vadivalagan[8]	Actress and arts practitioner.
Mohamed Raffee	veteran musician.

Host

Judges	Notes
Saravanan Ayyavo	Television Actor and Host. winner of Pradhana Vizha Best Host.

Contestants

#	Contestants	Notes
1	Mazhaimega, (22)	Civil Engineering Student in Nanyang Technological University.
2	Sarva Srilal Tejasvini, (18)	Student and Modelling.
3	Aditya Anand, (23)	Student in Nanyang Technological University.
4	Vikneswaran Rajendran, (27)	Undergraduate student in PSB Academy.
5	Ashok Kumar Shwetha, (21)	Undergraduate student in Information Systems.
6	Mohamed Yacob, (27)	Financial Advisor.
7	Harsha Channa, (29)	Freelance Singer.
8	Navein Gunasekaran, (24)	Undergraduate student in Sociology and Public Policy.
9	Thivyashalini Ramkumar, (20)	Student
10	Shakshi Harendran, (26)	Freelance Singer and Actor
11	Prajeeth Venkatesh, (26)	Undergraduate student in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
12	Sindhu Vimalkumar, (33)	Works in the Insurance Industry.

Episodes

Episodes	Airing	Team	Eliminate
1	1 January 2023 (2023-01-01)	Blind Auditions
2	8 January 2023 (2023-01-08)	Introduction Round
3	15 January 2023 (2023-01-15)	Pongal special
4	22 January 2023 (2023-01-22)	A. R. Rahman Round	Sarva Srilal Tejasvini
5	29 January 2023 (2023-01-29)	Kollywood Hero and Heroine special
6	5 February 2023 (2023-02-05)		Harsha Channa
7	12 February 2023 (2023-02-12)		Aditya Anand
8	19 February 2023 (2023-02-19)		Shakshi Harendran
9	26 February 2023 (2023-02-26)		Sindhu Vimalkumar
10	5 March 2023 (2023-03-05)		Vicky
11	12 March 2023 (2023-03-12)
12	19 March 2023 (2023-03-19)	Wildcard Round
13	26 March 2023 (2023-03-26)	Grand Finals

Finals

• Navein Gunasekaran: was announced the Winner of the Vasantham Star 2023 and received a cash prize of S$20,000.^[9]
• Mohamed Yacob: was the runner up of the season.
• Sindhu Vimalkumar: was announced third place by D. Imman.^[10]

Top 5 Finalist

Season 7 Contestants	Notes
Navein Gunasekaran	Winner
Mohamed Yacob	1st runner up
Sindhu Vimalkumar	2nd runner up
Prajeeth Venkatesh	Eliminated
Ashok Kumar Shwetha[11]	Eliminated

Grand Finale

The grand finale telecast on Live on 26 March 2023. The chief guest for the grand finale was film composer and singer, D. Imman, who announced the name of the winner of the competition. The winner of this season was Naveen Gunasekaran, won 20,000 cash prize.^[12]