[1] The competition promised its winner an opportunity to sing their first song as a playback singer for music director Harris Jeyaraj.
[1] People that were the age of 18 or above participated in a series of auditions held earlier in April across the state of Tamil Nadu in the cities of Coimbatore, Chennai, and Madurai.
Performances by auditioning contestants were judged by a variety of celebrities including playback singers, vocalists, and music directors, such as S. P. Sailaja, Jency, Malaysia Vasudevan, D. Imman, Mahathi, and Malathi.
Guest judges also appeared during various rounds of the competition, including playback singer Vani Jairam, actor and director Silambarasan, actor Vikram, as well as playback singer S. P. Balasubrahmanyam who appeared as a chief guest during the grand finale.
[2] Contestants received training from voice trainer Ananth Vaidyanathan in the final stages of the competition.
In the second performance round, permanent judges Anuradha Sriram, Srinivas, and Unnikrishnan taught the contestant a new song.
In the fourth performance round originally aired on 23 and 24 June 2006, playback singer Vani Jairam appeared as a special guest judge.
In the fifth performance round originally aired on 30 June 2006 and 1 July 2006, actor and director Silambarasan ("Simbhu") appeared as a special guest judge to provide opinions from the perspective of a film-maker.
The first group consisted of contestants SS02 Rajani Saranathan, SS04 V. Anitha, SS07 Sowmya Mahadevan, SS10 Swathi, Sridharan, SS11 N.S.
The second group consisted of contestants SS01 Kilgin, SS03 Maya, SS5 Gowtham Bharadwaj, SS06 Vijay Krishnan, SS08 Nithin Raj, and SS09 Nikhil Mathew.
In the lifeline round aired from 14 July 2006 onwards, eight contestants eliminated in levels 5 and 6 were given a chance to perform again with a view of re-entering the competition.
The chief guest for the grand finale was renowned playback singer, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, who announced the name of the winner of the competition.
Finalist Sowmya Mahadevan won the jury award after receiving the highest number of votes from the lifeline round.