Originally posted by: BharathiK
The luxury flat which Sonia won in Idea Singer worth 1crore (worth nearly 3crores now if she want to sell).
In wildcard Sonia didn't get votes genuinely. Blue fishing housing and Thirumanai chemicals spent lakhs on votes. These 2 well known richest companies had full page advertisements in all leading news papers in Tamil nadu and Kerala seeking votes for Sonia (2nd page advertisements that too full page!). For advertisements alone roughly 25lakhs was spent.
Blue Fish is owned by Thirumalai chemicals, Thirumalai Badri and his son Anand. They have been watching SS4 and whole family became Sonia fans. Thirumalai Chemicals shares are doing great. Spending 20 to 25 lakhs to their favorite is nothing for them and this family now wants Sonia to get title without any returns from her. Simple gesture from the richest fan family. For Sonia this is pleasant surprise.
She is also a deserving finalist but choosing this route to get votes is very unfair considering other contestants who had also put same effort in singing. Power of money can do wonders. If these companies didn't show up Sai or Aravind might became 5th finalist.
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