Koffee with Venkat Prabhu, 26-10-2011

Koffee with Venkat Prabhu, 7am Arivu team
October 26, 2011

Star Vijay Nite

Star Vijay Nite

Harris on the edge at Mayajaal

After Yuvan Shankar Raja, it will be now Harris Jeyaraj to perform musical show in Chennai. The more excitement here is that Vijay TV will telecast the show live. Yes, you heard it right, LIVE. It will be at the Mayajal and biggest stage in the world with 3D experience and a view of 270 degrees. The show is scheduled on October 2nd at 7 PM. Looks like with this show Harris Jayaraj is all set to create some world records in music and live stage show.

This is show is expected to have big crowd at Mayajaal. You can find tickets to the show at Mayajaal reception and also available in Mayajaal website.

Star Vijay Nite in UK

UK is getting ready for the Star Vijay Nite programmed on Saturday, October 08, 2011. This will be a LIVE show for the UK people, so get ready for this musical extravaganza. I am sure this show from Vijay TV will be a treat to watch given the musicians who are attending this event. Earlier Vijay TV had the Star Vijay Nite in Dubai with Sneha and Vikram as the chief guests but for this show in UK no actors has been committed yet. Since they have time for next 3 weeks, Star Vijay TV might negotiate with leading actors to get into the show.

The star Vijay Nite in UK will have Shankar Mahadevan, Hariharan, Sujatha Mohan, Swetha Mohan, Karthik and Ranina Reddy giving Live performances. The show will start at 5.30 PM on October 8th. Tickets for the show starts at £30 for adults with VIP ticket being priced at £100. I think the tickets will take a while to get sold out but make sure you get them early.

Show venue:
The NIA
King Edwards Road
Birmingham
B1 2AA

I am sure the Super singer 3 title winner along with the top level contestants with yesteryears contestants will be adding more flavour to the show. Its good that Vijay TV conducts these live shows outside India to attract people. This might be one of the reason for Vijay TV to be the top tamil/south Indian television channel.

To book your tickets and more details - appanslimited.co.uk

Michael, Vandana married..

Vijay TV Jodi No 1 winner and Boys Vs Girls contestant Michael got married with the Boys Vs Girls contestant Vandana.. I was surprised to hear this but later found few photos of the wedding in fb..

My hearty wishes to the couple and did it all started with the Boys vs Girls sets ??? :)

Saravanan Meenatchi starts today

After a great success from En Peyar Meenatchi and Madurai Vijay TV is back with next similar genre mega serial titled "Saravanan Meenatchi". All these serials sounds to be very unique and has successfully got into hearts of the viewers. Saravanan Meenatchi started today and will be aired Monday to Friday at 8.30 PM, the prime time for the television channels and for Vijay TV. I think Vijay TV is set to bang other channels to get an upper hand during this prime time for ther serials.

In the promotional video of "Saravanan Meenatchi", they say "A journey from marriage to love". The story is around the hero and heroine of the serial, Saravanan and Meenatchi. These roles are played by Mirchi Senthil and Sreeja. Senthil acts as a chennai based RJ (yeah, he is RJ in real life too) and Saravanan likes to live and loves life, enjoying every moment of his life. On the other hand, Meenatchi is from a small town near Tirunelveli and works as a teacher. She is independent but has all qualities of a village girl. Story starts similar to En Perya Meenatchi but while visiting the girls house itself instead of marriage. Things go wrong between families which bring up enemity amongst them which spoils the wedding. The story will go ahead as the movie "Dum Dum Dum" where after the wedding gets cancelled they get into love and convince their families to get married.

Since it would become like a remake, this story has something more onto it. After marriage, the couple get into trouble with difference of opinion and involve their families to resolve the issues. But, how they cope up with the change and resolve the differences/issues gets into the climax of the story. I think this will be an another super hit serial of Vijay TV.

Cast/Crew
Mirchi Senthil
Sreeja
Rajasekar
Kuyili

Direction
Azhagar

Story, Screenplay, Dialogue
Kadhiravan

Cinematography
Gopal

Vijay TV for International viewers

Star Vijay TV has been one of the top tamil channels and its viewership has been steadily increasing. They are meant to be the trendsetter in the television shows with their stupendous reality shows which bring more viewers. I always had in mind how would it matter for the international viewers. Vijay TV always had huge international contestants and its the popular channel amongst the tamil television channels in the international level. Its interesting that Vijay TVs serials are also becoming popular these days as compared to Sun TV.

But, the channel sadly doesnt aired in real time to the international viewers. They always get the shows delayed by a week. Yes, by one week. The shows are narrowed to less than 50% of what we see in India and then further the shows are delayed by a week. Star Vijay TV is still telecasting the wild card round in other countries and will continue in this week even. This makes the international viewers to watch the shows/programs online wherever available to satisfy the curiosity. Star Vijay TV is now available in many countries including Americas, European countries, South Africa, many  asian countries. While they increase the availability to many more countries, I also suggest them to bring certain shows in realtime with the Indian relaytime. This will bring them more viewers to subscribe for their channels. I certainly think many of the viewers just keep it to internet to watch the programs just because the shows are non-real time and they could see it well in advance for free. If the vijay TV is available completely then the subscribers count will increase for sure.

Also, Vijay TV can start On-demand shows with the provider which will also bring more revenue and ease for the viewers to watch their shows at their convenient time. With the internet providing everything for us, its difficult to bring in viewers to watch in TV but if the infrastrucutre is avialable, things will improve soon.

IBF - Raise your concerns here

These days we see overlay in the Vijay TV shows for the viewers if they would want to complain about the program to ibfindia. I thought it would be good to understand what it is and overview of it so that if you guys want to file a complaint, it would be easier. ;)

IBF India, Indian Broadcasting Federation is an organisation for the television broadcasters. They have major broadcasters with more than 250 TV channels. They take part in protecting and promoting interests of the broadcasters in India. So, if viewers think that the channel is not telecasting good content, IBF can be notified and they inturn take the issue to the broadcaster.

In the Vijay TV programs, we see send your complaints about the program to ibfindia providing their website and address. So, what kind of complaints can be filed ??
Complaint can be any breach of Self Regulatory Content. Some examples would be if the content get into Kissing, Sex & Nudity, Violence & Crime, Gambling, Drugs, Smoking, Tobacco, Solvents & Alcohol and much more. The categories should be from the channel's program only but not with any movie videos or movie trailer or advertisements.

The complaints should be raised within a week of program telecast and complaint should be either in English or Hindi languages. If you think any program violates with their content and should be notified, please raise your concern.

Watch Kanden this Sunday

Vijay TV has been buying many new movies and telecasting them frequently but some of these films are not a big hit or not big collections. Good thing is, they are getting into movies telecast rights and giving a good competition for other tamil regional television channels.

This week in Vijay TV it will be latest film Kanden to be aired. The channel has been telecasting new movies for over a year now and this time its the romantic film directed by Mugil. Shanthanoo, Rashmi perform the lead roles and Santhanam takes care of comedy. Although, the film didnt do well in box office and I have not seen good reviews, its definitely worth watching in Vijay TV. The movie is scheduled on this sunday at 11 AM. Watch out for Kanden this week.

Whats up Wild Card Round ?

Wild Card round of the Airtel Super Singer 3 is going on from last week and soon we would know the results of this round which will make one contestant to get into Airtel Super Singer 3 Grand finale. I know its little more time left to identify the winner, since they have grand finale with the judges and then with the live grand grand finale in which the winner is announced.

I strongly felt that Sai Sharan would have been selected for the finals and continued the wild card round for rest of the contestants. But, nevertheless I think there is close competition between Sai sharan, Koushik and Shrinivas to get into the finals. Somewhere my heart says Vijay TV will pick two contestants for the finals where one would be judges selection and another with the public voting selection. With the voting lines getting to an end for wild card round, lets keep the fingers crossed to choose the other finalists (i still think there would be more than one contestant selected).

Wild card round is really going very wild with the contestants are performing extremely well and some performances make the judges give them a standing ovation. I think these performances make the viewers vote for their contestants few times more. Also with the vijay.indya.com website, one user can vote for 3 times and more users you create, keep on voting. I am sure the number of votes will be very big and the contestants are cheered up by the viewers very much with more support. Show your support to the contestants for them to get into finals.

Will they lose their college life ?

Will they lose their college life ?

Will our K5 friends lose their independence, Joy, Laughter ?
Will the K5 Campus change forever ?
Will the spirit of K5 Friendship remain ?

Watch this week's Kana kaanum kaalangal kalluriyin kathai episodes for answers

Cinema Kaaram Coffee, New Vijay TV Show

Cinema Kaaram Coffee, New Vijay TV Show
Starts September 05, 2011 at 5 PM Monday to Friday

Star Vijay TV, other popular channels off Arasu cable

With Arasu Cable all set to be launched on Friday, operators are both upbeat and crestfallen. While they are relieved that the new government-owned multi-system operator (MSO) will break the domination of private operators in the cable TV market, they are wondering what to tell customers as some popular pay channels will not be part of the bouquet.

Accordingly, around 20 channels under the Sun group, 25 in the Star group, which include Tamil channel Star Vijay, UTV, ESPN and Ten Sports and other pay channels will not be on offer from September 2.

When contacted, the Tamizhaga Arasu Cable TV Operators’ General Welfare Association’s state treasurer, Dhamodharan, said convincing customers in the light of the absence of popular pay channels was difficult.
“We were informed that these channels would be broadcast soon. However, a timeframe for this has not been given,” he said and added that these popular channels earn more than 10 times from TRP ratings and advertisements than through subscriptions.

The Corporation has been ordered to collect only Rs 70 from customers. As a first step, of the 90 free channels, 65 will be aired from the first day itself. “But, there is no communication on the broadcast of pay channels and we are clueless about the cable charge in this regard,” Dhamodharan explained.
The operators were also not satisfied with the amount that has been fixed. Pointing out that the Corporation would take away Rs 20, they felt that it was impossible for any operator to meet his employees’ salary, repair of equipment, electricity bill, office rent and related expenses with a balance of Rs 50 per customer.
“We want to charge every customer Rs 100 along with providing some important pay channels. With this, we can give Rs 25 to the government and take Rs 75,” Dhamodharan suggested.

He said almost 50 per cent of customers would be covered at the start of the launch and around 80 per cent by the next month. Arasu Cable will operate in all districts except Chennai, which is expected to get the licence for conditional access system.

Saravanan Meenatchi - New Serial in Vijay TV

Saravanan Meenakshi - New Serial in Vijay TV
Star Vijay TV Serial

After the super success of Madurai and En Peyar Meenatchi, Star Vijay TV is back with the similar named serial but with the promotional video it looks like a non-village environment. Both Madurai and En Peyar Meenatchi were based out of villages, this promotional video is on the seashore with Mirchi Senthil and Sreeja Chandran (yeah, the pair from Madurai serial). Watch this promo and lets wait for the serial to get started soon..

Thala 50, 01-09-2011

Thala 50, Vijay TV Special program on Ajith's 50th movie Mankatha
September 01, 2011 Video

Engeyum Eppothum Special

Vinayagar Chathurthi Special Program in Vijay TV
Engeyum Eppothum Special, September 01, 2011

Neeya Naana, Vinayagar Chathurthi Special

Neeya Naana, Vinayagar Chathurthi Special
September 01, 2011
Vijay TV Special Show Video

Voting starts for Wild Card

Voting starts for Wild Card in Super Singer 3

The finals of the glamorous Airtel Super Singer 3 is around the corner. The hunt for the super singer worldwide is almost near the end with Pooja and Sathyaprakash already ready for the grand finale. Now, the rest of the contestants will be selected from the wild card round and you have a chance to choose the finalists (Really ??? ;)) I am not sure how many spots would be there, my guess is 2, lets see.

Judges have now shortlisted eight contestants for the wild card round who can be selected for the finals. It would have been nice if they had already selected Sai charan in the finals and kept a competition for rest of them for the final spot.

Kaushik – SS 03
Srinivas – SS 04
Santhosh – SS 05
Danyashree – SS 06
Saicharan - SS 07
Maalavika – SS 08
Praveen – SS 10
Hariharasudan – SS 16

Wild card round is from August 29th to September 7th, 2011.

As this is their last chance to continue their Super Singer dream the contestants have put in their best. The contestants would perform various songs ranging from melody, folk, western, classical etc.

Contestants will have to impress the judges and also viewers for the public voting. The judge for the wild card will be different, T.L. Maharajan, Sriram Parthasarthy, S.P. Shailaja, Sowmya, Nithyashree Mahadevan and Malgudi Subha.

How to Vote ?

The viewers can vote via mobile or online. Voting Mechanism Of Airtel Super Singer 3

Airtel subscribers can call 5432178 from their mobile phone.
Viewers can SMS SS XX to 57827 and cast their vote for the deserving and talented singer (XX-being the contestant’s number)

Apart from this, viewers can also login to www.vijay.indya.com and cast their vote.

Voting lines are open from today. Monday, August 29th – 10 pm to Wednesday, September 7th midnight.

Are we ready for Super Singer Junior 3 ?

With Airtel Super Singer 3 almost nearing the finals, the promotional videos for the next season of Airtel Super Singer Junior 3 has been started by Vijay TV. Undoubtedly Vijay TV's Airtel Super Singer has been the most popular reality show in tamil television channels. But, the question here is are we really ready for the Super Singer Junior 3. Overwhelmingly most of us would tell Yes for this question and its fun to watch Junior Super Singer show.




Extended over extension..

Usually Super Singer in Star Vijay TV has been extended over and over again. These days each season go for a whole year and ofcourse its interesting in most part of it. We knew that there was a rumour that Chinmayi didnt continue hosting the Airtel Super Singer show since it has been extended over the actual contract. But, I think the show has matured enough to run several seasons from now. I dont see any reason for the show to come to an end. In the last two years the Airtel Super Singer grand finale has been airted live in Vijay TV which is a real good news and they have done that well.

Super Prizes

Super Singer's popularity has made Vijay TV to give away super duper prizes which range from LCD TV to Gold bracelet to Car and to house. Now, the prize for the Super Singer 3 is villa which is valued at 40 lac INR. I think in next few seasons they will start giving prize in the range of crores. Last season with the seniors had the opportunity to sing in Yuvan Shankar Raja's composition and Ajeesh got that chance along with Car as gift. Then, the last season of Super Singer Junior had the prize of house in Pondichery worth 15 lacs and it was given to both Alka Ajith and Srikanth. In the current season, there were similar prizes in the preliminary rounds with top 40 contestants which ranged in all categories.

Are you ready ?

All these said, are we ready for the Super Singer Junior 3. Ofcourse YES for most part of it in the entertainment but I am not sure how much the kids will get affected since the shows are usually made late in the night and goes for a whole year. I am happy to see the last season juniors Nithyashree, Alka Ajith, Shree Nisha and Priyanka already sang in movies but still our environment gives first importance to education. Also, we remember that these kids after their last season of Airtel Super Singer, they also got into Junior Superstars, another singing competition between the south Indian junior singers.

Weekly Promo Vijay TV programs, August last week

Whats up with this week in Vijay TV.
Week of August 29, 2011 promo of Star Vijay TV shows