Padutha Theeyaga

Padutha Theeyaga is a reality-based Indian singing competition in Telugu that airs on ETV Telugu. The program seeks to discover the best singing talent in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana through a series of statewide auditions.

Padutha Theeyaga
Poster shows Paadutha Theeyaga title with the host Mr.S.P.Bala Subramanyam garu
Directed byN.B.Sasthri
Presented byS. P. Balasubrahmanyam
JudgesS. P. Balasubrahmanyam and several other judges
Country of originIndia
No. of episodes1,102
Production
Executive producer(s)Surabhi Shekar
Production location(s)Andhra Pradesh
Running time1 hour
Release
Original networkETV Telugu
Original releaseJanuary 12, 1996 –
Present

This is the first music based reality show in South India. The show is hosted by the one of the most popular Indian playback singers, Padma Bhushan Dr. S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, who hails from Andhra Pradesh, South India. He has sung songs in most of the Indian languages and is a recipient of National award. He was honored with Padmasri in 2001 and Padma Bhushan in 2011 by the Indian Government for his contributions to the Indian music industry.

Paadutha Teeyaga is a unique programme and first of its kind. The main objective of this programme is to bring out emerging singing talent into limelight.

Launched in the year 1996 "Padutha Theeyaga" has so far completed more than 1100 episodes. During its journey across various seasons, Padutha Theeyaga has introduced many new talents to Telugu Film Industry.

Most renowned and a towering personality in Indian Film Industry as an Ace-Singer, Music Director, versatile actor and producer Dr.S.P. Balasubrahmanyam is the Sutradahari of "Padutha Theeyaga". He is the mentor and host of the show.

The show usually airs on Sunday morning at 11:00 AM in India and is telecast worldwide through partner broadcasting networks.

It gave a platform for a lot of famous singers such as Mallikarjuna, Usha, Parthasaradhi, Sandip, Karunya, Hemachandra, Gopika Poornima, Kousalya, Venu, Geetha Madhuri etc

Several prominent personalities in the South Indian film industry have also appeared in this program. Some of them are Megastar Chiranjeevi, Venkatesh, Akknineni Nageswara Rao, M.M.Keeravani, M.M.Srileka, M.S.Viswanathan, T.M.Soundararajan, Veturi Sundararamurthy, Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry, Bhuvana Chandra, Chandrabose, R.P.Patnaik, Rajan - Nagendra, K.Viswanath, Bapu - Ramana, Singeetham Srinivasa Rao, J.D.Chakravarthy, Devisri Prasad, Usha, Mani Sarma, Shekar Kammula, Saluri Koteswara Rao, Saluri Vasu Rao, Saluri Rajeswara Rao, Vani Jayaram, Suseela, L. R. Eswari, C.Narayana Reddy, Gangai Amaran, Krishnudu, Kousalya, Kodandarami Reddy, K.M. Radhakrishnan, D.Ramanaidu, Vandemataram Srinivas, P.B.Srinivas, Krish, Ramoji Rao, Kodi Ramakrishna, S.V.Krishna Reddy etc

All Seasons Details

Padutha theeyaga program was first started in 1996 and continued till 2000 with 4 successful seasons. Again in 2007 the program restarted with new format and it is continuing till now

Old series 1 (1996)

Top 4 Contestants:-

Name Placement
Singer UshaWinner Women Category
ParthuWinner Men Category
Komanduri RamachariRunner Men Category
MishmaRunner Women Category

Old Series 2 (Junior) (1998)

Top 4 Contestants:-

Name Placement
Malavika (singer)Winner Girls Category
N. C. KarunyaWinner Boys Category
Pavan SeshaRunner Boys Category
అంజనా సౌమ్యRunner Girls Category

Series 1

The program was restarted again in 2007 with new format it was for adult contestants. They selected 3 or 2 singers from each district of combined andrapradesh and gave voice of the district title to one among them and started the series with voice of the district title holders. Rajesh Kumar from Ananthapur and Lipsika from Khammam shared the first two places. Finals was judged by Sri.S.P.Balasubramanyam and guest judge was Devi Sri Prasad. Megastar Chiranjeevi made a special appearance in the finals and gave prizes to the contestants. The Grand Finale was conducted in Visakhapatnam. Winner Rajesh Kumar won Cash prize of Rs.10,00,000 and runner Lipsika won Rs.5,00,000. The prize money was sponsored by Suvarna Bhoomi. Grand finals was completed on October 18, 2010.

Series 2

was for the junior contestants with Lakshmi Meghana , gnaesh Revanth , Anjani Nikhila, Raghawendra as finalists.Lakshmi meghana is the winner..

Series 3

was also completed and this was sponsored by EXO-Dishwash. In this season, Sairamya got first prize., Damini got second prize, and Sarathchandra Kalahasti and Nuthana got equal marks and the two were equally given third place.

Series 4

was also for the adult contestants. Ivaturi Harini, Nandibhatla Tejaswini, Rohit and Sai Charan were the finalists and these contestants stood in the first, second and the third places respectively and the third place was shared by Rohit and Sai Charan together.

Series 5

had Sharath Santosh, Surya Karthik, Praveen kumar and Charumathi Pallavi as the finalists. Out of them Praveen was the first, followed by Pallavi, Sharath and Karthik in that order. The season 5 finale had the great drummer Sivamani as the chief guest. Even this season was for adults.

Series 6

had kids of age 6-15.The winner was Parameshwara Rao.

Series 7

was held at USA. The winner was Arjun Addepalli.

Series 8

was for children of age 9-14. The winner was K.S.Abhiram. The second position was occupied by Sarvepalli Sreya, the third Geethika and fourth Maanya Chandran. Abhiram was good at his tone, while Sarvepalli was the one who was versatile and expressive in her singing. Geethika had a good voice and Maanya, a good range. This was a very good batch with a tough competition among the participants.

Series 9

was also in USA, and was for ages 9–13. All participants were females. The final 8 were Meghana Pothukuchi (the winner), Neha Dharmapuram, Vishnupriya Kothamasu (finalist), Sumedha Vadlapudi (pre-finalist), Sneha Mokkala (finalist), Lasya Ravulapati, Nikhitha Pathapati (finalist), and Ananya Penugonda.

2015 Paadutha Theeyaga Selections Process

  • February 15, 2015: Last Date for submitting Audition Songs(1 Classical style and 1 Fast Beat)
  • February 28, 2015: An email sent from PT team stating that the entries had been received and sent to Balu garu for finalizing the list of 21 contestants
  • April 13, 2015: Notifications to the final 21 contestants sent
  • April 15, 2015: Requested Copy of Birth Certificate from the finalists
  • April 25, 2015: Confirmation email sent
  • May 12, 2015: Sent a list of 13 songs which would cover 24 episodes to each participant. Next batch of 6-7 songs will be given in the second week of July.
  • May 16, 2015: Request sent to participants for full details (Full Name, City, State)
  • May 12–17, 2015: Lyrics requested for all the songs from participants. PT team corrected them and emailed back
  • May 29-June 6, 2015: Half-hour Skype training sessions offered by PT team for the first four songs in the list. Training involves only fine tuning and pitch setting.

Series 11

was in the USA, and was for ages 13–16. Participants consisted of 15 females and 2 males. The final five were Akhila Mamandur (Winner, $10,000) from Houston, TX; Abhijith Vemulapati (Runner-up, $5,000) from Woodland, CA; Bhavna Ravichandran (Finalist, $2,500) from Greensboro, NC; Supraja Kadagandla (Finalist, $2,500) from Olympia, WA; and Priya Kanajam (Pre-Finalist, $1300) from Minneapolis, MN.

Series 12

From series the program telecasting time was changed from 9:30PM Monday to 9:30 PM Sunday

Top 18 Contestants:-

Name Hometown Placement
SugandhiniNelloreWinner
Nada priyaNelloreRunner up
GaneshHyderabadSecond runner up
Sai HarikaKurnool3rd runner up
HaripriyaEliminated 14th
Hima binduHyderabadEliminated 13th
Lakshmi BhavajaHyderabadEliminated 12th
Sai MadhavMancherialEliminated 11th
SwethaEast GodavariEliminated 10th
SaikiranHyderabadEliminated 9th
AishwaryaHyderabadEliminated 8th
Laxmi ShravaniHyderabadEliminated 7th
SudeshnaHyderabadEliminated 6th
AshwiniHyderabadEliminated 5th
BabithaHyderabadEliminated 4th
VarshiniHyderabadEliminated 3rd
RamaniVijayanagaramEliminated 2nd
Bhuvana kruthiHyderabadEliminated 1st

Series 13

Top 18 Contestants:-

Name Hometown Placement
Chodavarapu JahnaviNagpurWinner
Attaluri PravasthiChennaiRunner up
Kovvuri VaishnaviHyderabadSecond runner up
Jonnalagadda SrikarHyderabad3rd runner up
Sri VaishnaviMangalagiriEliminated 14th
NaseeruddinThadepalligudemEliminated 13th
SandeepHyderabadEliminated 12th
Drishya SajanNelloreEliminated 11th
LasyaNagpurEliminated 10th
SrishanthAnantapuramEliminated 9th
Shiva KeerthanaVijayawadaEliminated 8th
KarthikeyaHyderabadEliminated 7th
YogithaKharagpurEliminated 6th
Vijay kumarVisakhapatnamEliminated 5th
RohithVisakhapatnamEliminated 4th
JyothirmayiHyderabadEliminated 3rd
Naimisha sriVisakhapatnamEliminated 2nd
Sri DhruthiHyderabadEliminated 1st

Series 14

Top 18 Contestants:-

Name Hometown Placement
Sree purnimaWinner
SivakumarRunner up
YashaswiSecond runner up
SudhanjaliEliminated 15th
SrivaniEliminated 14th
Rahul SaiEliminated 13th
VaidehiEliminated 12th
Saika BirwalEliminated 11th
RenukumarEliminated 10th
SrivatsavaEliminated 9th
Pranav SaiEliminated 8th
SnigdhaEliminated 7th
YashwanthEliminated 6th
AishwaryaEliminated 5th
SuhithaEliminated 4th
Sri ManasaEliminated 3rd
Sri SahithiEliminated 2nd
PrathyushaEliminated 1st

Series 15

Top 18 Contestants:-

Name Hometown Placement
PranathiWinner
KaushikaWinner
DheerajWinner
HarikaEliminated 15th
SamyukthaEliminated 14th
Harsha SriEliminated 13th
VardhanEliminated 12th
ReshmaEliminated 11th
MunidilishEliminated 10th
SharvaniEliminated 9th
AnanyaEliminated 8th
SanjanaEliminated 7th
ShravaniEliminated 6th
BhoomikaEliminated 5th
RaghavaEliminated 4th
KarthikeyaEliminated 3rd
PranayEliminated 2nd
Jashwanth NaiduEliminated 1st

Series 16

Top 18 Contestants:-

Name Hometown Placement
Akshya SaiWinner
JahnaviRunner up
CharanSecond runner up
HimajaEliminated 15th
SwarajaEliminated 14th
AkhileshwarEliminated 13th
Ravi KumarEliminated 12th
Sai PrasadEliminated 11th
HarishEliminated 10th
DhanasriEliminated 9th
ShanmukhaEliminated 8th
SrivalliEliminated 7th
SrivaniEliminated 6th
PragnyaEliminated 5th
AbhishekEliminated 4th
RashmiEliminated 3rd
Supradeep ReddyEliminated 2nd
Uday ShankarEliminated 1st

Series 17

From this season the program telecasting time was changed from 9:30 PM Sunday to 11:00AM Sunday

Top 13 Contestants:-

Name Hometown Placement
Laxmi srivalliBheemavaramWinner
LekhyaHyderabadRunner-up
Nagaram SruthiHyderabad2nd Runner-up
Harshitha kancharanaPalasa3rd Runner-up
Sai shreyaPuneEliminated 9th
Indu madhuriNelloreEliminated 8th
Geetha mahathiHyderabadEliminated 7th
poluri NehaHyderabadEliminated 6th
KoushikVijayawadaEliminated 5th
Nithin maniHyderabadEliminated 4th
Rudraksh tigullaHyderabadEliminated 3rd
Prudvi manoj kumarGunturEliminated 2nd
SrinidhiVijayawadaEliminated 1st

Series 18

Top 18 Contestants:-

Name Hometown Placement
Harshitha PVSLVisakhapatnamTBA
Lahari Sampatthika AinnapurapuHyderabadTBA
Sai Sandeep PakkiVisakhapatnamTBA
Lakshmi HimasriNalgondaTBA
ShanthiKurnoolTBA
Reddappa CharyTirupatiTBA
VaishnaviHyderabadTBA
KeerthiSrikakulamTBA
Dr.YashaswiniHyderabadTBA
M.K MounikaMachilipatnamTBA
SravyaHyderabadeliminated 8th
Balakrishnan NairJangaonEliminated 7th
KirankumarVijayanagaramEliminated 6th
SubbalakshmiVijayanagaramEliminated 5th
SreenijaHyderabadEliminated 4th
Veera SwamiVijayanagaramEliminated 3rd
Uma KrishnaHyderabadEliminated 2nd
Sai DivyaTirupatiEliminated 1st

Padutha Theeyaga Finalists (and Pre-Finalists)
Seasons Winner Runner-Up Third Place Fourth Place Prefinalist
Season 1 Rajesh Kumar Lipsika Mallika Sabiha N/A
Season 2 Lakshmi Meghana Anjani Nikhila Ganesh Revanth Ragavendhra N/A
Season 3 Sai Ramya Damini Nuthana , Sharath Chandra N/A Lahari
Season 4 Harini Tejaswini Sai Charan , Rohit N/A N/A
Season 5 Praveen Kumar Pallavi Sharath Santosh Surya Karthik N/A
Season 6 Parameswara Rao Sri Lalitha Sudheep Shanmukha Priya Sahiti
Season 7 (USA) Arjun Addepalli Vamsi Priya Udaya Bindu Manisha N/A
Season 8 K.S. Abhiram Sarvepalli Shreya Bhavyasree Geethika Maanya Chandran Sriram Charan
Season 9 (USA) Meghana Pothukuchi Sneha Mokkala Sri Vishnu Priya Kothamasu Nikitha Pathapati Sumedha Vadlapudi
Season 10 Priya, Swathi, Sai Jagadhathri, Vamsidhar, Shivani N/A N/A N/A N/A
Season 11 (USA) Akhila Mamandur Abhijit Vemulapati Bhavna Ravichandran Supraja Kadagandla Priya Kanajam
Season 12 Sugandhini Nadapriya Ganesh Sai Harika N/A
Season 13 Chodavarapu Jahnavi Attaluri Pravasthi Kovvuri Vaishnavi Jonnalagadda Srikar N/A
Season 14 Sri Poornima Siva Kumar Yashaswy N/A N/A
Season 15 Dheeraj, Pranathi, Kaushika
Season 16 Akshaya Sai Jahnavi Charan N/A N/A
Season 17 Lakshmi Srivalli Lekhya Nagaram Sruthi Kancharana Harshitha Sai Shreya
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