Prem Anand, Vice President, Indian Customer Business, Astro, said, “We are glad to offer our customers season 2 of this well-liked local Tamil reality singing competition, along with even more interesting features, following the success of Big Stage Tamil Season 1. We’re pleased to share that Big Stage Tamil Season 1 was a highly popular show garnering the highest viewership of 56% more than our other original local Tamil reality singing competitions that have premiered on Astro thus far. We’re optimistic that season 2 continues to entertain our viewers and we hope our customers will get to enjoy this new season.”
Over the course of 10 weeks of intense competition, Big Stage Tamil Season 2 will introduce distinguished local music composer, Jay as a mentor for the very first time, who will be guiding the contestants in honing their vocal abilities. On top of that, this reality singing competition stars a panel of judges who are singers from the local music industry including Dr Burn and Preetha Prasad alongside Yugendran Vasuthevan, an international icon who is a playback singer, actor, and music composer. With years of experience with profound musical knowledge and skills to deliver, these multitalented judges will encourage the contestants to greatly challenge themselves and strive harder to accomplish more notable performance standards.
Sponsored by Cuckoo, the winners of the competition will take home impressive cash prizes as well as Cuckoo products as below:
- Champion: RM50,000, Cuckoo Grande Water Purifier and will get an opportunity to be a Rocketfuel Entertainment talent;
- First runner up: RM25,000 and Cuckoo U Model Air Purifier;
- Second runner up: RM10,000 and Cuckoo P10 Pressure Multi-Cooker; and
- Consolation prizes:
- 2 winners from the Grand finale (round 2): RM5,000 each; and
- 2 winners from the Grand finale (round 1): RM3,000 each
Big Stage Tamil Season 2 is hosted by renowned local talents, Saint TFC and Viki, and is sure to enthral viewers with its fierce rivalry between its extensive line-up of twenty-four contestants – Thanuja; Devaswara; Pridhashrie; Nittyan; Yoshiny; Piraveen; Berma Chandra; Nehsan; Chaaruhasne; Pavitren; Ramya; Dhanasegarran; Gajendran; Nishadevi; Lachman; Shirley; Lakshmann; Thivya; Ruhan; Unnitheivan; Yassaskaran; Ponyamunan; Jeevanraj; and Thesyalan.
Watch new episodes of Big Stage Tamil Season 2 every Sunday at 9pm on TV and Astro GO or stream anytime On Demand. If you missed Season 1, stream anytime on Astro GO and On Demand. For more information on Big Stage Tamil Season 2, visit content.astro.com.my.
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