Top Singer (TV series)

Top Singer is an Indian Malayalam-language reality television singing competition show broadcast on Flowers, created and directed by Sindhu Sridhar. The show features 22 contestants all under the age of 15. Esther Anil hosted the show for the first 49 episodes. After co-hosting the 50th episode with Baby Meenakshi, Meenakshi took over as the sole host. M. G. Sreekumar, M. Jayachandran, Sithara Krishnakumar, Vidhu Prathap and Anuradha Sriram ,forms the permanent judging panel, with guest musicians, singers or composers. Top Band is the orchestra of the show. Flowers Top Singer successfully completed 500 episodes.[1] The show airs daily at 08:00 PM. The competition has entered into Semi final.[2]

Top Singer
Poster
Genre	Reality Talent contest
Directed by	Sindhu Sridhar
Presented by	Baby Meenakshi (current) Esther Anil (former)
Judges	M. G. Sreekumar M. Jayachandran Sithara Krishnakumar Anuradha Sriram Vidhu Prathap
Country of origin	India
Original language(s)	Malayalam
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	500 (list of episodes)
Production
Production location(s)	Ernakulam, Kerala
Camera setup	Multi-camera
Running time	60–120 minutes
Release
Original network	Flowers TV
First shown in	October 2018 (2018-10)
Original release	1 October 2018 (2018-10-01)
External links
Website

Contestants

(in order of appearance)

Name	Place	Selection Round	Stage 1 (out of 300)	Stage 2 (out of 300)	Stage 5 (out of 500)
Sivani B Sanjeev	Thalassery	☑️	203.75 [3]	☑️	328 [4]
Vaishnavy Panicker	Hyderabad	☑️	226.75 [5]	☑️	392 [6]
Theertha Sathyan Kottaykkal	Malappuram	☑️	221.75 [7]	☑️	379 [8]
Asna	Karunagappalli	Standby	Eliminated
Aishwarya	Ranni	Standby	Eliminated
Koushik S Vinod	Kuttiady	☑️	222.75 [9]	247.75 [10]	390 [11]
Jennifer Alice	Vypin	☑️	205.25 [12]	☑️	328 [13]
P Anand Bhairav Sharma	Kollam	☑️	Quit
Seethalakshmi Prakash	Changanassery	☑️	☑️	☑️	412 [14]
Sreebhuvan R	Alathur	☑️	243 [15]	☑️	385 [16]
Nehal V Ranjith	Edappal	☑️	184 [17]	☑️	407 [18]
Gowri Krishna	Pattom	Eliminated
Adarsh P Harish	Tirur	Standby	Eliminated
Krishnadiya Ajith	Bangalore	☑️	218 [19]	☑️	370 [20]
Trisha K Sajeev	Thrissur	Standby	Eliminated
PK Suryanarayanan	Karunagappalli	☑️	232.75 [21]	☑️	350 [22]
MN Hana Fathim	Karunagappalli	Standby	Eliminated
Sneha Johnson	Thrissur	☑️	225 [23]	☑️	363 [24]
Soorya Mahadevan Pillai	Trivandrum	☑️	☑️	☑️	402 [25]
Neha Chavra	Ernakulam	Standby	Eliminated
Kishnasree	Kozhikode	Standby	Eliminated
Sreehari PV	North Paravur	☑️	213 [26]	☑️	362 [27]
Vaishnavy KV	Chottanikkara	☑️	229.50 [28]	☑️	381 [29]
Jaiden Philip	Ettumanoor	☑️	219 [30]	229.5 [31]	366
Alenia Sebastian	Pala, Kerala	☑️	220.50 [32]	Disqualified
Devika Sumesh	Thrissur	☑️	224.50 [33]	☑️	361 [34]
Avantika Pramod	Vattiyoorkavu	Eliminated
Thejus K	Irikkur	☑️	224.25 [35]	☑️	429 [36]
Gowri KR	Thrissur	Eliminated
Adithyan Pradeep	Karunagappalli	☑️	☑️	☑️	395 [37]
Niharika Prem	Ottapalam	Eliminated
Aavani P Hareesh	Thodupuzha	☑️	202 [38]	☑️	356 [39]
Jermy Jinu	Moolamattom	Standby	Eliminated
Arunima	Kanhangad	Eliminated
Fidha Fathima	Vaikom	Standby	Eliminated
Rithu Raj	Cherukulam	☑️	231.75 [40]	☑️	400 [41]
Aditi Dinesh Nair	Bangalore	☑️	☑️	☑️	380 [42]
Ananya Dinesh Nair	Bangalore	Wil️dcard Entry (Episode 13[43])	☑️	☑️	391 [44]

Summaries

Order	Rounds
	Auditions	Round 1	Round 2	Round 5	Quarter Finals
1	Sivani	Sreebhuvan	Seethalakshmi	Thejus	Vaishnavi.P
2	Vaishnavi.P	Adithyan	Vaishnavi.P	Seethalakshmi	Thejus
3	Theertha	Seethalakshmi	Rituraj	Nehal	Rituraj
4	Koushik	Aditi Dinesh	Nehal	Sooryamahadevan	Sneha
5	Jennifer	Suryanarayanan	Aditi Dinesh	Rituraj	Nehal
6	P. Anand	Rituraj	Sooryamahadevan	Adithyan	Sreebhuvan
7	Seethalakshmi	Vaishnavy KV	Vaishnavy KV	Vaishnavi.P	Sooryamahadevan
8	Sreebhuvan	Vaishnavi.P	Thejus	Ananya Dinesh	Seethalakshmi
9	Nehal	Sneha	Sreebhuvan	Koushik	Adithyan
10	Diya	Soorya Mahadevan	Ananya Dinesh	Sreebhuvan	Ananya Dinesh
11	Suryanarayanan	Thejus K	Koushik	Vaishnavy KV	Theertha
12	Sneha	Ananya Dinesh	Sneha	Aditi Dinesh	Koushik
13	Soorya Mahadevan	Koushik	Adithyan	Theertha	Diya
14	Sreehari	Theertha	Suryanarayanan	Diya	Vaishnavy KV
15	Vaishnavy KV	Alenia	Jaiden	Jaiden	Aditi Dinesh
16	Jaiden	Jaiden	Diya	Sneha	Suryanarayanan
17	Alenia	Devika	Theertha	Sreehari	Jaiden
18	Devika	Diya	Sreehari	Devika	Devika
19	Rithuraj	Aavani	Aavani	Jennifer	Jennifer
20	Thejus	Jennifer	Devika	Suryanarayanan	Sreehari
21	Adithyan	Sivani	Jennifer	Sivani	Sivani
22	Aavani	Aavani	Sivani	Jennifer	Aavani
23	Aditi Dinesh	Nehal	Alenia
24	Ananya Dinesh	P.Anand
25	Asna	Asna
26	Aishwarya	Aishwarya
27	Adarsh	Adarsh
28	Trisha	Trisha
29	Hana	Hana
30	Neha	Neha
31	Kishnasree	Kishnasree
32	Jermy	Jermy
33	Fidha	Fidha
34	Gowri K
35	Avantika
36	Arunima
37	Gowri KR

     The contestant received the highest score in a stage

     Contestants who was kept in Waiting list after final Auditions

     The contestant entered as a wildcard

     The contestant was eliminated from the competition

     The contestant was actually eliminated but saved by the judges

     Contestants who quit the show

• After the auditions, it was revealed that none of the Waiting list contestants had made it into the competition
• In stage 1, Nehal V was actually eliminated as she got very low marks but was saved by the judges
• All 22 contestants in group stage was qualified into Quarter Finals and Semi Finals

Cast

• Baby Meenakshi ( Anchor )
• Esther Anil ( Anchor ) (left the show)

Main Judging Panel

• M.G. Sreekumar
• M. Jayachandran
• Sithara Krishnakumar (left the show)
• Anuradha Sriram
• Vidhu Prathap

Guest Judging Panel

• Vaikom Vijayalakshmi ( Episodes 30 - 32 )
• Mridula Warrier ( Episodes 63 - 65, 88 - 90, 259 - 266, 345 - 349, 354, 359, 475, 476 )
• Stephen Devassy ( Episodes 66 - 69 )
• Sudeep Kumar
• Biju Narayanan ( Episodes 333 - 335, 337 - 340, 343 )
• Srinivas ( Episodes 337, 339 - 344 ) [45]
• Shakthisree Gopalan ( Episodes 350 - 353, 355 - 358 )
• Naresh Iyer
• Madhu Balakrishnan
• Haricharan
• Jyotsna Radhakrishnan
• Alphons Joseph
• Afsal

Celebrity Guests

• Innocent (actor) ( Episodes 1 - 2 )
• Sreya Jayadeep ( Child Singer )
• Manoj K Jayan ( Episodes 7 - 8, 169 - 172 )
• Salim Kumar ( Episodes 9 - 10, 18 - 20 )
• Urvashi (actress) ( Episodes 11 - 17 )
• Seema (actress) ( Episodes 21 - 29 )
• Nikki Galrani ( Episodes 30 - 32 )
• Ramesh Pisharody ( Episodes 33 - 37,[46] 74 - 78, 329 )
• Miya (actress) ( Episodes 38 - 40 ) [47]
• Jayaram ( Episodes 50, 54 - 56 )
• Priya Raman ( Episodes 88 - 89 )
• Mohanlal ( Episodes 326 - 332 ) [48]
• Mammootty ( Episode 336 )[49]
• Tovino Thomas ( Episode 344 )
• Aparna Balamurali
• Rani Johnson (wife of Johnson (composer))
• Latha Raju ( Episodes 324 - 325 )
• Sreekumaran Thampi
• P. Jayachandran
• Ouseppachan
• L. R. Eswari
• Dileep (Episode 420)[50]
• Jayasurya (Episode 421)[51]
• Manju Warrier
• Namitha Pramod
• Kaithapram Damodaran
• Mohan Sithara
• Bharathi Thamburatti (wife of Vayalar Ramavarma)
• Nanjiyamma
• B. Vasantha

Crew

• Anchor : Baby Meenakshi
• Director : Sindhu Sridhar
• Creative Head : Anil Ayiroor
• Executive Producer : Unnikrishnan C
• Producer : Amaravila Satheesh
• Director of Photography (DOP) : Biju K Krishnan
• Post-production
  • Manager : Rajeesh Sugunan
  • Edit & Creative : Shijo Thaliyichira
• Edit : Harikrishnan, Amal Tom, Sergin Thomas, Joseph Shijo, Akhil Mohan, Binil RAj, Nayan Anand, Praveen Prakashan, Aravind Vasudev
• Audio Engineer : Tijo Manimala
• Assistant Sound Engineer : Tony Jacob, Jubin Joseph, Shyam Sajikumar
• Digital Head : Sreeraj CS
• Graphics : Nithil Besto, Sujesh AK, Vineeth Anchal, Yadhukrishnan PR
• Colorist : Anoop Antony, Priju Jose
• Camera : Sunil Chovara, Aji Pushkar, Prashanth SS, Mithun, Shinu, Arun Ezhupunna, Anoop, Dhaneesh Pallippuram, Prashanth Kannan
• On-line Editor : Anoj Irinjalakuda, Ranjith Vettathu
• Script : Sunil Valathungal, Rahul Madathil
• Choreographer : Vishnu Raj, Shafeeq Sandra 'D Crew'
• Technical Head : Sharath Palakkadavath
• Technical Manager : Sreelal
• Technical Engineers : Sudarshanan, Harikrishnan
• Assistant Producers : Anul TR, Sanoop KV, Amal Kumar
• Art Direction : Bibin, Pramod

Top Band

The orchestra for the show is a group of highly talented artists.

• Keyboardist : Faisal Muhammad
• Rhythm Programmer : Linu Lal (Linu Rishin Linu)
• Wind Instruments ( Flute / Saxophone ) : Raghuthaman
• Lead Guitar : Jose Thomas
• Bass Guitar : Denson Fernandez
• Strings : Francis Xavier, Francis Sebastian, Herald, Glibson ( Cochin Strings )
• Tabla : Anand Cochin, Devadas
• Sound Engineer: Tijo Manimala

Old top band is replaced by new one in December 2019

Programme Structure

Rounds

Stage	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5
Stage 1	Devarajan Master Hits Round Performance Round Favorite Round	Vayalar Ramavarma Hits Round Character Round Favorite Round	Johnson Master Round Family Round Favorite Round
Stage 2	Favorite Round Vayalar - Devarajan Hits Round Performance Round
Stage 3		Favorite Round Evergreen Hits Round Family Round	Favorite Round Dakshinamoorthy Swamy Hits Round Performance Round	Favorite Round P. Bhaskaran Hits Round Performance Round	Favorite Round Johnson Master Round Black & White Performance Round
Stage 4	Favorite Round Duet Round Performance Round	Favorite Round Vayalar Round Performance Round

Grading System

Each contestant is awarded a grade for each song based on their performance, by the judges. Also audience can cast votes to their favourite contestants through the official website of Flowers TV [52].

Grades	First awarded to
Golden Crown	Nehal V Ranjith
A Jackpot (special)	Vaishnavi Panicker
A Extreme	Sreebhuvan R
A Triple Wow	Nehal V Ranjith
A Double Wow	Koushik S Vinod
A Wow	Seethalakshmi Prakash
A Ultimate	Aditi Dinesh Nair
A Top	Aditi Dinesh Nair
A+	Adithyan Pradeep
A	Krishnadiya Ajith
B+	-

Episodes

Date		No. of Episodes	Singers of the Day	Grades	Best Performer of the Day	Audience Choice
Year	Month
2018	1 Oct	Epi 1	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
April
2019	31 April	Epi 193	Koushik, Aditi, Devika, Krishna Diya	N/A	N/A	N/A
May
2019	1 May	Epi 194	Avani, Theertha, Ananya, Surya Narayanan	N/A	N/A	N/A
2019	24 May	Epi 217	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
June
2019	1 June	Epi 225	Aditi, Devika, Sreehari	N/A	Devika	Rithu Raj
2019	2 June	Epi 226	Sneha, Jayden, Ananya	N/A	Ananya	Soorya Mahadevan
2019	3 June	Epi 228	Sreebhuvan, Jennifer, Krishna Diya	N/A	Sreebhuvan	Theertha
2019	11 June	Epi 235	Avani, Soorya Mahadevan, Nehal	N/A	Nehal	Vyshnavi Panicker
2019	12 June	Epi 236	Shivani, Koushik, Soorya Narayanan	N/A	Koushik	Rithu Raj
2019	13 June	Epi 237	Vyshnavi Panicker, Seetha Lakshmi, Jayden	A Wow, A Ultimate, A Ultimate	Vyshnavi Panicker	Jennifer
2019	14 June	Epi 238	Thejus, Sreebhuvan, Jennifer	A Wow, A Ultimate, A Top	Thejas	Avani
2019	15 June	Epi 239	Krishna Diya, Sneha, Aditi	A Ultimate, A Plus, A Top	Krishna Diya	Shivani
2019	16 June	#Epi 250# 20 Lakhs Scholar ship	13 hours Live
2019	17 June	Epi 240	Soorya Mahadevan, Jennifer, Theertha	A Wow, A Top, A Ultimate	Soorya Mahadevan	No
2019	18 June	Epi 241	Devika, Avani, Thejus	A Ultimate, A Too, A Wow	Thejus	Sneha
2019	19 June	Epi 242	Jayden, Soorya Narayanan, Ananya	A Ultimate, A Ultimate, A Wow	Ananya	Theertha
2019	20 June	Epi 243	Koushik, Aditi, Sreehari	A Wow, A Ultimate, A Wow	Koushik	Jayden
2019	21 June	Epi 244	Devika, Seetha Lakshmi, Jayden	A Ultimate, A Wow, A Ultimate	Seetha Lakshmi	No
2019	22 June	Epi 245	Sneha, Adithyan, Vyshnavi Panicker	A Wow, A Ultimate, A Ultimate	Sneha	Ananya
2019	23 June	Epi 246 Chicken Biriyani treat by M Jaya chandran	Thejus K, Jennifer Alice, Ananya Nair	A Ultimate, A Ultimate, A Ultimate	Ananya	Vyshnavi Panicker
2019	24 June	Epi 247 New Grade Awarded to Sreebhuvan	Sreebhuvan, Shivani, Soorya Mahadevan	A Extreme, A Plus, No Grade	Sreebhuvan	Aditi Nair
2019	25 June	Epi 248	Sreehari, Soorya Narayanan, Theertha	A Wow,A Ultimate, A Ultimate	Sreehari	Koushik
2019	26 June	Epi 249	Vyshnavi KV, Sreebhuvan, Krishna Diya	A Ultimate, A Wow, A Wow	Sreebhuvan	Adithyan
2019	27 June	Epi 251	Soorya Mahadevan, Nehal, Rithu Raj	A Ultimate, A Wow, A Ultimate	Nehal	Vyshnavi KV
2019	28 June	Epi 252	Thejus K, Koushik, Shivani	A Wow, A Ultimate, A Top	Thejus K	Sneha
2019	29 June	Epi 253	Seetha Lakshmi, Soorya Mahadevan, Vyshnavi Panicker	A Top, A Wow, A Ultimate	Soorya Mahadevan	Koushik
July
2019	3 July	Epi 257	Aditi, Soorya Mahadevan, Krishna Diya	A Ultimate, A Ultimate, A Wow	Krishna Diya	Thejus K
2019	4 July	Epi 258	Sneha, Avani, Rithu Raj	A Wow, A Top, A Extreme	Rithu Raj	Ananya
2019	6 July	Epi 259	Adithyan, Jennifer, Sreehari	A Ultimate, A Top, A Ultimate	Sreehari	Sreebhuvan
2019	7 July	Epi 260 The 1st Girl who got A Extreme	Theertha, Devika, Ananya	2nd Chance for Extreme, A Wow, A Extreme	Ananya	Nehal
2019	8 July	Epi 261	Vyshnavi KV, Aditi, Rithu Raj	A Ultimate, A Ultimate, A Wow	Rithu Raj	Theertha
2019	9 July	Epi 262	Jayden, Sreehari, Nehal	A Ultimate, A Ultimate, A Plus	Sreehari	Adithyan
2019	11 July	Epi 264	Vyshnavi KV, Koushik, Vyshnavi Panicker	A Ultimate, A Extreme, A Wow	Koushik	Sneha Johnson
2019	12 July	Epi 264	Jennifer, Thejus K, Adithyan	A Ultimate, A Wow, A Ultimate	Thejus K	Devika
2019	13 July	Epi 265	Sreebhuvan, Seetha Lakshmi, Ananya	A Ultimate, A Wow, A Extreme	Ananya	Vyshnavi Panicker
2019	14 July	Epi 266	Adithyan, Theertha, Krishna Diya	A Wow, A Ultimate, A Ultimate	Adithyan	Sneha
2019	22 July	Epi 273	Seetha Lakshmi, Avani, Sreehari	A Extreme, A Top, A Ultimate	Seetha Lakshmi	Shivani
2019	28 July	Epi 278	Thejus K, Rithu Raj, Nehal	A Extreme, A Ultimate, A Tripple Wow	Thejus K	Vyshnavi Panicker
2019	29 July	Epi 279	Vyshnavi KV, Jayden, Vyshnavi Panicker	A Ultimate, A Top, A Tripple Wow	Vyshnavi Panicker	Jennifer
2019	30 July	Epi 280	Aditi, Soorya Narayanan, Vyshnavi Panicker	A Wow, A Ultimate, A Top	Sneha	Ananya
August
2019	5 August	Epi 286	Krishna Diya, Adithyan, Theertha	A Wow, A Double Wow, A Top	Adithyan
December
2019	4 Dec	Epi 403 (A GOLDEN CROWN Award introduced for Nehal)	Shivani, Avani, Nehal, Sreehari	A Wow, A Tripple Wow, Golden Crown, A Double Wow	Nehal	No

Edited by : Top Singer Team. Episode created on May/24/2019

References

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tka961VPeSQ
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpUFmPzggvw
3. Episode 92 on YouTube
4. Episode 332 (Part-C) on YouTube
5. Episode 92 on YouTube
6. Episode 335 (Part-B) on YouTube
7. Episode 90 on YouTube
8. Episode 333 (Part-A) on YouTube
9. Episode 95 on YouTube
10. Episode 169 on YouTube
11. Episode 339 (Part-B) on YouTube
12. Episode 88 on YouTube
13. Episode 344 (Part-A) on YouTube
14. Episode 350 (Part-B) on YouTube
15. Episode 88 on YouTube
16. Episode 335 (Part-A) on YouTube
17. Episode 89 on YouTube
18. Episode 343 (Part-A) on YouTube
19. Episode 89 on YouTube
20. Episode 351 (Part-B) on YouTube
21. Episode 92 on YouTube
22. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYRKNTYniyU&t=39s
23. Episode 90 on YouTube
24. Episode 350 (Part-A) on YouTube
25. Episode 332 (Part-A) on YouTube
26. Episode 91 on YouTube
27. Episode 347 (Part-B) on YouTube
28. Episode 88 on YouTube
29. Episode 348 (Part-C) on YouTube
30. Episode 89 on YouTube
31. Episode 169 on YouTube
32. Episode 91 on YouTube
33. Episode 96 on YouTube
34. Episode 350 (Part-C) on YouTube
35. Episode 93 on YouTube
36. Episode 330 (Part-A) on YouTube
37. Episode 336 (Part-A) on YouTube
38. Episode 91 on YouTube
39. Episode 330 (Part-B) on YouTube
40. Episode 90 on YouTube
41. Episode 333 (Part-C) on YouTube
42. Episode 338 (Part-B) on YouTube
43. "Episode 13". Top Singer.
44. Episode 336 (Part-B) on YouTube
45. "Singer Srinivas is all praise for Top Singer kids". Times of India. 27 September 2019. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
46. UR, Arya (19 November 2018). "Ramesh Pisharody enjoys his time with Top Singer kids". Times of India.
47. UR, Arya (26 November 2018). "Miya enjoys her time with Top Singer kids". Times of India. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
48. "Mohanlal will be the Onam guest of Top Singer kids". Times of India. 6 September 2019. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
49. "Mammootty to visit the Top Singer kids". Times of India. 20 September 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
50. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-TEt34z6wg&t=982s
51. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAzJY2Sf1O4&t=11s
52. http://www.flowerstv.in/voting/