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Mirchi Music Awards South

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ6873054 ↗
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Mirchi Music Awards South are 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 languages. The broadcast partners were Star's Kannada offering Suvarna TV, Star's Tamil channel Vijay TV, Zee Telugu & ETV, Star's Malayalam channel Asianet plus.

Ceremonies

Trophy

The accolade given to the winners of the Southern Industry is the 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" receive a Certificate of Merit and not a 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 selecting the winners is audited by Ernst & Young. Each of the four south Indian languages will have separate jury panels headed by a chairman. The jury and chairman for each language for both years are as follows.

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