Mirchi Music Awards South

Mirchi Music Awards South
Description	Best in film music
Country	India
Presented by	Radio Mirchi
First awarded	2009
Website	Tamil Kannada Malayalam Telugu

Mirchi Music Awards South is the South Indian segment of the annual Mirchi Music Awards, presented by Radio Mirchi to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the South Indian music industry. The awards are separately given for Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. The awards were first given in 2010 for the best of 2009 and the ceremony was held at the Nehru Indoor Stadium on 17th July 2010.The print partner was The Times of India.The broadcast partners are Star’s Kannada offering Suvarna TV , Star’s Tamil channel Vijay TV , Zee Telugu , Star's Malayalam channel Asianet plus.The second edition was held in Nehru Indoor Stadium on 23rd July 2011.

Trophy

The accolade given to the winners of the Southern Industry is same as given to the Bollywood awardees.It protrays a human partially folding his knee and leaving his hands free.It was said that the future year winners will receive a Certificate of Merit and not an trophy.

Jury

There will be two set of juries to decide the awards - a screening jury to short list the entries and a Grand Jury, with whom rests the task of finalizing the winners for each award. The entire process of screening, shortlisting and selection of winners is audited by Ernst & Young. Each of the four south Indian languages will have separate Jury panels headed by a Chairman. The list of Jury and Chairman for each language's jury for both years:

Tamil

Gangai Amaren

• S. Ve. Shekher
• Arivumathi
• A.S. Lakshmi Narayanan
• Bharadwaja
• James Vasanthan
• Malaysia Vasudevan (Late)
• Lingusamy
• Na. Muthukumar
• Sudha Raghunathan
• S. A. Rajkumar

Telugu

D. Suresh Babu

• Anantha Sreeram
• Amma Rajasekhar
• Chakri
• Chandrabaose
• Tanikella Bharani
• Saluri Koteswara Rao
• Devi Sri Prasad
• Ramana Gogula
• K. K. Senthil Kumar
• Sunitha Upadrashta

Kannada

Hamsalekha

• Gurukiran
• Manjula Gururaj
• Mano Murthy
• Nagathihalli Chandrashekhar
• Raghu Dixit
• Rajesh Krishnan
• V. Harikrishna
• Yograj Bhat

Malayalam

Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri

• Aashiq Abu
• Anil Panachooran
• K. S. Chitra
• Deepak Devraj
• Jassie Gift
• Jency Anthony
• Johnson Master
• M. Jayachandran
• Raghu Kumar
• Sibi Malayil

History

The event honours the awardees under 17 broad categories in Telugu , Malayalam and Kannada.It honours the Tamil winners under 18 broad Categories.Mannin Kural - Male/Female is awarded only for the Tamil Music Industry whereas Lifetime Achivement Award is awarded to all languages except Tamil.

Award Categories

Jury Awards

• Best Upcoming Lyricist
• Best Upcoming Music Director
• Best Upcoming Male Vocalist
• Best Upcoming Female Vocalist
• Best Female Playback Singer
• Best Male Playback Singer
• Best Music Director
• Best Lyricist
• Album Of The Year
• Song Of The Year
• Manin Kural - Male (Tamil only)
• Manin Kural - Female (Tamil only)
• Outstanding contribution to Film Music Award
• Lifetime Achivement Award (All except Tamil)

Listeners Choice Award

• Mirchi Listener Choice (Song)
• Mirchi Listener Choice (Album)

Critics Award

• Critic Award (Song)
• Critic Award (Album)

Technical Awards

• Technical Sound Engineer

External Links

1st Mirchi Music Awards South Winners

Rules and Regulations for qualifying for the Award