Mirchi Music Awards South
| Mirchi Music Awards South | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best in film music |
| Country |
 India
|
| Presented by | Radio Mirchi |
| First awarded | 2009 |
| Official website |
2009 2010 |
2009
2010
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 17 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 10 September 2011.
The award first instituted in 2009 was held on 17 July 2010 in Nehru Indoor Stadium. It was hosted by Shiva an RJ of Radio Mirchi and Director Venkat Prabhu. The second edition held on 10 September 2011 was also held in Nehru Indoor Stadium hosted by Shiva and hostess Pooja.
The accolade given to the winners of the Southern Industry is same as given to the Bollywood awardees.It portrays a human partially folding his knee and leaving his hands free.The winners of "Upcoming category" will receive a Certificate of Merit and not an trophy.
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:
The Jury chairman for both the years was Gangai Amaren. As for the year of 2009 many eminent personalities were selected as the jury the are: Sudha Raghunathan, Arivumathi, S. Ve. Shekher, A. S. Lakshmi Narayanan, Bharadwaja, James Vasanthan, Malaysia Vasudevan (Late), Lingusamy, Na. Muthukumar, S. A. Rajkumar. In 2010 most of the jury members were changed except for Sudha Raghunathan and Arivumathi.They were: Malathy Lakshman, Snehan, Vijay Antony, A. L. Vijay, Vetrimaran, Pushpavanam Kuppusamy, Vasanth, Manicka Vinayagam, Sabesh
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