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Soundtrack
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In movie industry terminology usage, a sound track is an audio recording created or used in film production or post-production. Initially the dialogue, sound effects, and music in a film each has its own track, and these are mixed together to make what is called the composite track. A dubbing track is later created when films are dubbed into another language. This is also known as a M & E track containing all sound elements minus dialogue which is supplied by the foreign distributor in the native language of its territory. The contraction soundtrack came into public consciousness with the advent of so-called soundtrack albums in the late 1940s and these phrases were soon shortened to just original motion picture soundtrack. More accurately, such recordings are made from a music track, because they usually consist of the isolated music from a film, not the composite track with dialogue. The soundtrack to the 1937 Walt Disney film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was the first commercially issued film soundtrack. It was released by RCA Victor Records on multiple 78 RPM discs in January 1938 as Songs from Walt Disneys Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and has since seen numerous expansions and reissues. The first live-action musical film to have a commercially issued soundtrack album was MGM’s 1946 film biography of Show Boat composer Jerome Kern, the album was originally issued as a set of four 10-inch 78-rpm records. Only eight selections from the film were included in this first edition of the album, in order to fit the songs onto the record sides the musical material needed editing and manipulation. Needless to say, it was several generations removed from the original, the playback recordings were purposely recorded very dry, otherwise it would come across as too hollow sounding in large movie theatres. This made these albums sound flat and boxy, the phrase is also sometimes incorrectly used for Broadway cast recordings. While it is correct in some instances to call a soundtrack a cast recording it is never correct to call a cast recording a soundtrack, contributing to the vagueness of the term are projects such as The Sound of Music Live. Which was filmed live on the set for an NBC holiday season special first broadcast in 2013, film score albums did not really become popular until the LP era, although a few were issued in 78-rpm albums. Like the 1967 re-release of the film, this version of the score was artificially enhanced for stereo, in recent years, Rhino Records has released a 2-CD set of the complete Gone With the Wind score, restored to its original mono sound. One of the film scores of all time was John Williams music from the movie Star Wars. Many film score albums go out-of-print after the films finish their theatrical runs, in a few rare instances an entire film dialogue track was issued on records. The 1968 Franco Zeffirelli film of Romeo and Juliet was issued as a 4-LP set, as a single LP with musical and dialogue excerpts, and as an album containing only the films musical score
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Telugu language
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Telugu is a Dravidian language native to India. It is also spoken by significant minorities in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and it is one of six languages designated a classical language of India by the Government of India. Telugu ranks third by the number of speakers in India. It is one of the scheduled languages of the Republic of India. Approximately 10,000 inscriptions exist in the Telugu language, the speakers of the language call it Telugu or Tenugu. The older forms of the name include Teluṅgu, Tenuṅgu and Teliṅga, the etymology of Telugu is not certain. Some historical scholars have suggested a derivation from Sanskrit triliṅgam, as in Trilinga Desa, tradition holds that Shiva descended as a lingam on three mountains, Kaleshwaram, Srisailam, and Bhimeswaram, which are said to have marked the boundaries of the Trilinga Desa. Atharvana Acharya in the 13th century wrote a grammar of Telugu, Appa Kavi in the 17th century explicitly wrote that Telugu was derived from Trilinga. Scholar Charles P. Brown comments that it was a strange notion as all the predecessors of Appa Kavi had no knowledge of such a derivation. George Abraham Grierson and other linguists doubt this derivation, holding rather that Telugu was the older term, another view holds that tenugu is derived from the proto-Dravidian word ten– south to mean the people who lived in the south/southern direction. The name telugu then, is a result of n -> l alternation established in Telugu, according to the natve tradition Telugu grammar has a hoary past. Sage Kanva was said to be the first grammarian of Telugu, a Rajeswara Sarma discussed the hisoricity and content of Kanvas grammar written in Sanskrit. He cited twenty grammatical aphorisms ascribed to Kanva, and concluded that Kanva wrote an ancient Telugu Grammar which was lost, according to the Russian linguist M. S. Andronov, Telugu split from the Proto-Dravidian languages between 1500 and 1000 BC. According to linguist Bhadriraju Krishnamurti, Telugu, as a Dravidian language, descends from Proto-Dravidian, linguistic reconstruction suggests that Proto-Dravidian was spoken around the third millennium BC, possibly in the region around the lower Godavari river basin in peninsular India. The material evidence suggests that the speakers of Proto-Dravidian were of the associated with the Neolithic societies of South India. A legend gives the Lepakshi town a significant place in the Ramayana — this was where the bird Jatayu fell, when Sri Rama reached the spot, he saw the bird and said compassionately, “Le Pakshi” — ‘rise, bird’ in Telugu. This indicates the presence of Telugu Language during Ramayana period, there is a mention of Telugu people or Telugu country in ancient Tamil literature as Telunka Nadu. Telugu words were found in Hebrew literature, inscriptions with Telugu words dating back to 400 BC to 100 BC have been discovered in Bhattiprolu in the Guntur district of Andhra Pradesh
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Aditya Music
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Aditya Music India Private Limited is music company in India. It owns a music label Aditya Music, Aditya Music has its presence in Tollywood, the Telugu film industry. It is headquartered at Hyderabad, India, Aditya Music is the record label preferred by most filmmakers in Tollywood and they eventually became a household name in the film industry of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. Aditya Music was established in late 1990s by Umesh Gupta who now serves as Managing Director of the company, Aditya Music was primarily into distribution and marketing of music of other music labels for the state of Andhra Pradesh. Later they started acquiring their own music rights, for the manufacture of audio cassettes, they started a plant in 2000. Aditya Music owns music rights for majority of films in Tollywood and it recently acquired few labels such as Shiva Musicals, Leo, Maruti Music, Echo, Sohan Music, Supreme, Pyramid Audio and accounts to the largest player in Telugu film music. It is member of PPL India and IPRS
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Record producer
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A record producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performers music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album. A producer has many roles during the recording process, the roles of a producer vary. The producer may perform these roles himself, or help select the engineer, the producer may also pay session musicians and engineers and ensure that the entire project is completed within the record companies budget. A record producer or music producer has a broad role in overseeing and managing the recording. Producers also often take on an entrepreneurial role, with responsibility for the budget, schedules, contracts. In the 2010s, the industry has two kinds of producers with different roles, executive producer and music producer. Executive producers oversee project finances while music producers oversee the process of recording songs or albums. In most cases the producer is also a competent arranger, composer. The producer will also liaise with the engineer who concentrates on the technical aspects of recording. Noted producer Phil Ek described his role as the person who creatively guides or directs the process of making a record, indeed, in Bollywood music, the designation actually is music director. The music producers job is to create, shape, and mold a piece of music, at the beginning of record industry, producer role was technically limited to record, in one shot, artists performing live. The role of producers changed progressively over the 1950s and 1960s due to technological developments, the development of multitrack recording caused a major change in the recording process. Before multitracking, all the elements of a song had to be performed simultaneously, all of these singers and musicians had to be assembled in a large studio and the performance had to be recorded. As well, for a song that used 20 instruments, it was no longer necessary to get all the players in the studio at the same time. Examples include the rock sound effects of the 1960s, e. g. playing back the sound of recorded instruments backwards or clanging the tape to produce unique sound effects. These new instruments were electric or electronic, and thus they used instrument amplifiers, new technologies like multitracking changed the goal of recording, A producer could blend together multiple takes and edit together different sections to create the desired sound. For example, in jazz fusion Bandleader-composer Miles Davis album Bitches Brew, producers like Phil Spector and George Martin were soon creating recordings that were, in practical terms, almost impossible to realise in live performance. Producers became creative figures in the studio, other examples of such engineers includes Joe Meek, Teo Macero, Brian Wilson, and Biddu
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Mr. Perfect (film)
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The movie is produced by Dil Raju and written by Ravi Abburi. The film released on 22 April 2011 to positive reviews and eventually became a box-office blockbuster, the film won the newly incorporated, Nagi Reddy, memorial Award as the best Telugu family entertainer for the year 2011. It was dubbed into Tamil under the same title, in 2013 it was dubbed in Hindi under the title No.1 Mr. Perfect and Malayalam as Mr Perfect. Vicky, an expert in gaming software, lives in Australia and never compromises in his life and he believes that one should be oneself in a relationship and one shouldnt change ones characteristics or personality to get along with his/her partner. He also encourages his friends to follow his principle of life, but Vickys principles and attitude lead to a clash of interests with his father, who constantly advises him to adjust his character for his and others happiness. Meanwhile, in India, Vickys parents arrange an alliance between him and Priya. Priya is Vickys childhood friend and a doctor by profession, initially, Vicky and Priya do not get along well - they both play practical jokes on one another. But later, on her fathers advice, Priya attempts to change her attitude towards Vicky, Vicky too begins to fall in love with her and is ready to accept the wedding proposal. He receives the news of his friends divorce where the relationship soured due to too many compromises, Vicky is very disturbed when he begins to find out that Priya has compromised on her interests for his sake. He rejects the proposal and returns to Australia. Back in Australia, Vicky is matched up through a Cadbury survey with Maggie, both of them meet at a mall and interested in each other, begin to date and soon decide to get married. However, Maggies father is none other than the MindGames heads brother, soon, the relatives begin pouring in from India and among them, to Vickys shock, is Priya, who happens to be the grooms cousin. During the 4 days, with the help of Priya, he manages to win over the entire family and it is clear that Vicky is going to win Maggies fathers challenge. Priya leaves for India on the night before Vicky wins the challenge, Vicky receives a message Priya had recorded prior to him rejecting her on his mobile phone where she had declared her love for him. He gains a change of heart on seeing this message and realises how much Priya had loved him and was willing to change for him and he also realises the need for compromises in life. Vicky conveys his feelings to all the guests present and decides not to marry Maggie. Maggie understands his feelings and accepts his decision, Vicky returns to India to win back Priya. After initially playing hard-to-get, Priya accepts Vickys love and they live happily ever after, Perfect received mixed to positive reviews from critics
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Dhada
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Dhada is a 2011 Telugu-language action-romance film directed by Ajay Bhuyan and produced by D. Siva Prasad Reddy. The film features Naga Chaitanya and Kajal in the lead roles, the film features music by Devi Sri Prasad, cinematography by Gnana Shekar V. S of Vedam fame, editing by Dharmendra Kakarala of Prasthganam and LBW - Life Before Wedding fame. The film was dubbed into Tamil as Tiger Vishva, the film has action scenes inspired from the 2009 British-American film, Sherlock Holmes. In 2013 the movie was dubbed in Hindi under the same title, dhada collected ₹225 million in its total run. The film received reviews and was a box office failure. Viswas family members are introduced, namely his older brother Rajiv, Viswa meets Rhea, who is an only daughter of a wealthy business tycoon who is concerned about money and growth, but not about affection and love. While Viswa is trying to get Rheas attention, he gets into a quarrel with a gang who does business with human trafficking. He fights and frees some girls who were kidnapped. and the leader tries to find Viswa. Rheas father sets up a proposal with another business tycoons son, the gangs owner soon finds out that Rajiv works for him and tries to chase him down, but Viswa beats everybody up. He soon realizes that he has to save Rhea from her soon-to-be husband, Rheas fiance tries to kill her by locking her in a car and throwing the car into an ocean, but Viswa saves Rhea. The film ends with Viswa bringing Rhea out of the ocean in a blanket, the film soon began production works with Kajal Aggarwal being signed on in a leading role, with the producers announcing a release date of July 2010. The producers approached Arjun and Kamalinee Mukherjee to appear as the brother, subsequently, Srikanth and Anita Hassanandani were selected for the roles, but Anita opted out before her schedule began and was then replaced by Samiksha. The film began shooting in May 2010 after delays, the film was completed in four schedules, with the climax being shot in Bangkok, Thailand. The figures dont include the Print and Advertising costs, dhada AP distribution rights were sold for ₹120 million to RR Movie Makers. Its overseas rights were sold for ₹10 million. Its Hindi remake rights were sold for ₹8 million, maatv bought the satellite rights for ₹50 million. The soundtrack was composed by Devi Sri Prasad, the music was released on 25 July 2011 at Shilpa Kala Vedika, Hyderabad. The soundtrack consists of seven tracks. It was released by Aditya Music, akkineni Nageswara Rao and Dr D Ramanaidu attended the function as chief guests. The Music has been received well by the audience
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100% Love (2011 film)
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100% Love is a 2011 Telugu-language Indian romantic drama film directed by Sukumar and produced by Bunny Vasu under Geetha Arts studio. The film features Naga Chaitanya and Tamanna in the lead roles, production works began in February 2010, while the filming continued for over one year, with the title only being announced in March 2011. The film features music by Devi Sri Prasad and was released on 6 May 2011, the film was dubbed and released in Malayalam and Tamil with the same title and as Nooru Sadhaveedham Kaadhal / 100% Kaadhal, respectively. It was declared a Blockbuster and is said to be the best film of Naga Chaitanya after Ye Maaya Chesave and for Sukumar after Arya and it was remade in Bengali in 2016 as Prem Ki Bujhini. This movie is based from Itazura na Kiss is a Japanese shōjo manga series written. Balu is always the top ranker in his college, Mahalakshmi, his cousin comes to Balu’s house to continue her studies. She is in awe of her Mr. Perfect Bava and takes his help to achieve big in studies, surprisingly, she surpasses him and becomes the first ranker. Balu gets deeply hurt by this and he resorts to cunning ways to deviate Mahalakshmi, but to his surprise Ajith stands first this time. Meanwhile Mahalakshmis father brings her a proposal, but she doesn’t want to marry him. Balu and Mahalakshmi compromise by agreeing to help each other, Balu helps her in getting the proposal canceled and Mahalakshmi starts deviating Ajith from studies for the sake of Balu, but Balu gets attracted to her. When the couple is heading to fall in love, Mahalakshmi unknowingly hurts the ego of Balu, after three years they meet again in the hospital because their grandmother suddenly falls ill. While trying to find out how Balu is doing, Mahalakshmi realizes he hadnt changed at all, both argue a lot until their parents try to get them married. Surprisingly, Balu mentions that he has a girlfriend named Swapna that he hopes to marry, while introducing her to his family, Mahalakshmi notices that Swapna is much more than she is. To get back at Balu, she agrees to get married to Ajith, Ajith turns out to be the head of a company that makes more than Balus company. Balu, angry that Ajith is greater than he is, puts his company in risk in hopes that he can surpass Ajiths company, unfortunately, his partner cheats him, and Balu is on the verge of losing his company. Mahalakshmi works hard to help him out of the time as his new project manager. Both make an excellent team and Balus company is saved, in an after party, Balu credits Mahalakshmi for his success. She again unknowingly hurts Balus ego and this time, Balu confesses that he felt the need to be great in Mahalakshmis eyes because he loved her
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Sukumar (director)
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Sukumar is an Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter who predominantly works in Telugu cinema. He began working as a writer and assisted Mohan and V. V. Vinayak, Sukumar made his directorial debut with Arya in 2004, whose success catapulted him to stardom. Sukumar won the Filmfare Award for Best Director – Telugu and Nandi Award for Best Screenplay Writer for his work in Arya and his other notable films include Jagadam, Arya 2, 100% Love,1, Nenokkadine, and Nannaku Prematho. Sukumar is known for his complex, multi-layered screenplays which earned him the reputation of being an intelligent screenwriter and he is also known for infusing grey shades in the character sketches of the protagonists in his films. Under the banner Sukumar Writings, he made his debut as a producer with Kumari 21F, whose story. He received the K. V. Reddy Memorial award for his contributions to Telugu cinema in the year 2014, Sukumar was born on 11 January 1970, in Mattaparru, a village near Razole in the East Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. His father Tirupathi Naidu was a trader and his mother Veera Veni was a homemaker. Sukumar was the youngest of the six children of Naidu and Veni, at the age of 6, following the slaughter of a rooster he loved, Sukumar began practising vegetarianism. He did his schooling from a Zilla Parishad High School, Razole and he later worked as a mathematics and physics lecturer in Aditya Junior college, Kakinada. After six years, Sukumar and his junior Prakash Toleti decided to do something creative as they opined that their life has become too mundane as a lecturer, Sukumar and Toleti began their career as writers in Telugu cinema and worked as writers for a few films. After writing three scenes for Jayanth C and they were summoned by the college to help them in recruiting the students. They walked out of the film on moral grounds, due to lack of earnings, Sukumar briefly continued to teach students, earned money, and returned to film industry. Sukumar later assisted Jayam Rajas father Mohan for Kshemanga Velli Labanga Randi, before making his directorial debut, Sukumar worked under V. V. Vinayak for Dil as an assistant director. Sukumar had a relationship with Thabitha, whom he met first at the Sudarshan Theatre, RTC X Roads and they married in 2009 in the presence of his parents and sister. Though Hamsinis parents opposed Sukumar for being a technician, they accepted their alliance later. The couple have a son, Sukranth and a daughter, Sukrataveni, Sukumar began working on the script of his directorial debut Arya in Vishakhapatnam before joining the sets of Vinayaks Dil. Its producer Dil Raju assured that he would produce the film if Dil becomes a commercial success, Raju was impressed with Sukumars script and Allu Arjun was selected as its protagonist after considering Ravi Teja, Nithin, and Prabhas. Anuradha Mehta and Siva Balaji were chosen for the two lead roles
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Naga Chaitanya
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Prior to the release of his first film, he signed his second film with Indira Productions, which was to be directed by Gautham Menon. Ye Maaya Chesave released in February 2010 with comparisons drawn to his father Akkineni Nagarjunas romantic film and his next movie was Sukumars 100% Love co-starring Tamannaah. The movie was followed by Dhada and Bejawada. Chaitanya also appeared in the movie Autonagar Surya, in 2013, he appeared in Thadaka. The film Manam also featured members of his family. He has also appeared in Oka Laila Kosam, Chaitanya was born on 23 November 1986 in Chennai. His parents are the actor and entrepreneur Akkineni Nagarjuna, the son of actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao and Lakshmi Daggubati and his maternal uncle Daggubati Venkatesh and cousins Rana Daggubati, Sumanth and Sushanth are also actors. Nagarjuna and Lakshmi divorced after which the married actress Amala Mukherjee. After his parents divorce, Chaitanya left to Chennai with Lakshmi and he used to play keyboard and bass guitar in his school band and went on to study keyboard from Trinity College London. During his stay in Chennai for eighteen years, he completed his schooling and he expressed his desire to take up acting as his profession to Nagarjuna during his second year of graduation. Chaitanya debuted in 2009 with the film Josh directed by Vasu Varma in which he played the role of a college student, rediff. com wrote As a debutant, Naga Chaitanya has performed well. He has his moments where hes proven himself, There is always scope for improvement and one hopes that he will hone his skills in the years to come. Chaitanya won film fare Award South for Best Male Debut Actor and he played the role of a Hindu Telugu assistant director who falls in love with a Syrian Christian Malayali girl. A reviewer from Sify. com wrote Naga Chaitanya is at home in romantic scenes and his asset is his voice and his casual acting style. Chaitanya has improved much better in performance from his first film and he can now confidently act in more romantic films and strengthen his position. However, the felt that he should concentrate on his looks as he felt that Chaitanya looked very boyish. The film was a hit at the box office. He also received a nomination for Filmfare Award South for Best Actor Male, after Ye Maaya Chesave, he worked with Sukumar for another love story titled 100% Love in which he played the role of a studious and egoistic college student who is the top ranker of his college
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Tamannaah
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Tamannaah Bhatia known as Tamannaah, is an Indian actress who predominantly appears in Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films. In addition to acting, she participates in stage shows and is a prominent celebrity endorser for brands. In the same year, Tamannaah made her Telugu film debut in Sri, in 2007, she starred in two college-life-based drama films, Happy Days in Telugu and Kalloori in Tamil. She thus established herself as one of the contemporary actresses in Telugu cinema. T. Rama Rao Jr. Ravi Teja, Prabhas, Rana Daggubati, Naga Chaitanya, Ram Pothineni, Siddharth, Manoj Manchu, Varun Sandesh, Sushanth, Saif Ali Khan, Ajay Devgn, Akshay Kumar, Ranveer Singh. She acted nearly 50 films in three different languages- Tamil, Telugu and Hindi. She also made a Cameo Appearance in a Kannada film - Jaguar, Tamannaah also acted with Shahrukh Khan for a TV Commercial Advertisement of Yepme. com. She is the first actress from India who was nominated at Saturn Awards for Best Supporting Actress, Tamannaah received the Kalaimamani Award in 2010 from the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Tamannaah Bhatia was born on 21 December 1989 and she changed her screen name for numerological reasons, varying it slightly to Tamannaah. She also appeared in Abhijeet Sawants album song Lafzo Mein from the album Aapka Abhijeet which was released in the year 2005, Tamannaah was first seen in the 2003 film Enakku 20 Unakku 18, directed by Jyothi Krishna. She played the role of Trishas friend at the age of 13, in 2005, at the age of 15, she played the female lead in Chand Sa Roshan Chehra which was a commercial failure at the box office. The same year, she made her debut in Telugu cinema with Sri and her first release of 2007 was Shakti Chidambarams Viyabari in which she played the role of a journalist who wants to write an article about a successful entrepreneur played by S. J. Suryah. The film opened to reviews and flopped at the box office. She got her breakthrough with Sekhar Kammulas Happy Days and Balaji Sakthivels Kalloori and she won critical acclaim for her performances in both films. The commercial success of Happy Days and Kalloori established her career as an actress in both Telugu and Tamil films and her performance in the latter earned her a nomination at the 56th Filmfare Awards South in the Best Tamil Actress category. Her first release of 2008 was the Telugu film Kalidasu directed by debutante G. Ravicharan Reddy and she was paired with debutante Sushanth, the grandson of actor Akkineni Nageswara Rao. Upon release, the film opened to reviews and critics felt that she looked good. The film was an average grosser at the box office and she later made a cameo appearance in the Telugu film Ready followed by another cameo appearance in the Telugu - Tamil bilingual Ninna Nedu Repu titled Netru Indru Naalai in Tamil. Tamannaahs first release of 2009 was the Tamil film Padikkadavan, directed by Suraj and co-starring Dhanush, the film received mixed reviews from critics but Tamannaahs performance in a limited role won praise
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Chandrabose (lyricist)
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Chandrabose is an Indian lyricist who writes songs for Tollywood films. He was also a singer at the start of his motion picture career. He has won a number of awards as best lyricist, chandrabose is from the village of Challagariga in the Warangal district in Telangana, where he completed high school. He earned a degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, early in his career, he tried working as a singer in Doordarshan, without success. He then decided to switch to working as a lyricist and his friend Srinath, who suggested the change, introduced him to the director Muppalaneni Shiva. Siva had already directed Gharana Alludu and was starting production on Taj Mahal, music director M. M. Sreelekha helped him with his first movie song, Manchu Kondalloni Chandramaa, in 1995
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Adnan Sami
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Adnan Sami Khan is an Indian singer, musician, music composer, pianist and actor. He performs Indian and western music, specially for Hindi movies and his most notable instrument is the piano. He is the first person in history to play Indian classical music on the piano in a style he pioneered and created through the Indian instrument called the Santoor. A review in US-based Keyboard magazine described him as the fastest keyboard player in the world and he can play over 35 musical instruments. Born to Naureen and Arshad Sami Khan in London, he is of Pakistani origin and he has some of the best-selling independent albums of all time in South Asia. The Times of India has called him the Sultan of Music, Adnan Sami was born in 1971 in London to Pakistani parents. He was raised and educated in the United Kingdom and his father, Arshad Sami Khan, was a Pashtun while his mother Naureen Khan hailed from Jammu. Adnans father served as a Pakistan Air Force pilot, before becoming a senior bureaucrat and his paternal great-grandfather, general Ahmed Jan, was from Afghanistan and a military advisor to king Abdur Rahman Khan. His paternal grandfather Agha Mehfooz Jan was the governor of four Afghan provinces under Amanullah Khans reign, following this, his fathers family migrated to Peshawar, then in British India. Adnans mother, Naureen, is a niece of the Pakistani socialite Akleem Akhtar. Pop star Fakhar-e-Alam is his second cousin, Sami attended Rugby School in Rugby, West Midlands, UK. He went on to graduate with a degree in journalism. Adnan followed his bachelors degree with a law degree from Kings College London and he went on to qualify as a barrister from Lincolns Inn, England. He had played the piano since the age of five and composed his first piece of music when he was nine years old, Sami began taking lessons in Indian classical music from the santoor maestro Pandit Shivkumar Sharma when visiting India during his school vacations. Indian singing legend Asha Bhosle spotted talent in a ten-year-old Sami at an R. D. Burman concert in London and he is an accomplished concert pianist, music composer and singer with a command of Indian and Western classical/semi-classical music, jazz, rock and pop music. Sami went on to learn Indian classical music from Pandit Shivkumar Sharma, at the age of sixteen, Sami was approached to write a song for famine-hit Ethiopia, for which he won a special award from UNICEF. In his career of 32 years, Adnan Sami has won international awards including the Nigar Award, Bolan Academy Award. Adnan is the youngest recipient of the Naushad Music Award for Excellence in Music, previous recipients of this award include Lata Mangeshkar and Music Maestro Khayam
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Harini (singer)
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Harini is an Indian film playback singer and classical singer, who sings mainly in Tamil films. She has also sung in Hindi, Malayalam, Telugu and Kannada language films and she considers legendary singer K. S. Chitra as her inspiration. She is married to playback singer Tippu. Harini learnt Carnatic music from Gowri and Radha Viswanathan from the age of four, in her later years, she learned from Sudha Raghunathan and currently from Suguna Purushotthaman. She used to participate in competitions and in one such competition which she won. Subsequently, she was called by Suhasini Maniratnam to sing Nila Kaigirathu for her first film Indira and her very first song, Nila Kaigirathu, was recorded at the age of 15. Since then, she has received offers from various music directors across South India, within a career spanning for a decade, she sang over 2000 film songs and several album songs, most of them in Tamil. She is also credited for her good memory skills for not having any reference while singing in her stage shows and she claims to have known all her songs by heart at any point in time. The music was composed and produced by Manachanallur Giridharan, harini has been the recipient of several popular awards in the singing category
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Ranjith (singer)
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Ranjith also known as K. G. Ranjith is an Indian playback singer, working in the Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada film industries. Ranjith was born in Chennai, India into a Malayali family, hailing from Kalluvazhi and he grew up listening to various kinds of music. He used to stay in a locality where there were many Keralites, later, a family friend suggested that he be trained in classical music. He learned Hindustani music and Carnatic music and he was trained by Vidwan Cuddalore Subramanian, K. S. Kanakasingam, Trichur P. Ramankutty and P. S. Narayana Swamy. He became popular when he won the Sun TV Saptha Swarangal singing contest in 2001 and he is married to a trained Bharata Naatiyam dancer, Reshmi Menon. He has a daughter named Ria, Mani Sharma introduced Ranjith as a playback singer, calling him to sing the song Adugu Adugu for the Telugu film Bobby alongside accomplished singer, Hariharan. Ranjiths first Tamil song was Hey Penne from Aasai Aasaiyai, also composed by Mani Sharma, however, the song which gained Ranjith popularity was Suppose from the film Sukran. In 2007, he sang his first song in his mother tongue Malayalam, Ranjith was nominated for the Best Male Playback Singer prize in the Telugu category at the 56th Filmfare Awards South for the song Entavaraku from Gamyam. In 2005, Ranjith composed, arranged and performed an ensemble of Ayyappa Namaskara Slokas that was compiled into an album titled Saranam Ayyappa and he further composed and arranged the music for the dance ensemble Panchamukhi. He has worked often with Yuvan Shankar Raja, Vidyasagar and other directors in Tamil. Ranjith at the Internet Movie Database Ranjiths discography
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Swathi Reddy
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Swathi Reddy Medapati is a Russian-born Indian film actress and television presenter. Her nickname and fame comes from her stint in the Telugu television show Colours, after playing supporting roles, she made her debut as a leading actress in the Tamil film Subramaniapuram. Her role in the Telugu film Ashta Chamma earned her the Filmfare Award, Swathi was born in Vladivostok, Soviet Union. She was named as Svetlana but later the name was changed to Swathi and her father, who was an officer in the Indian Navy, was training as a submariner in the Soviet Union. She has one brother named Siddharth. Her family moved to Mumbai and later to the Eastern Naval Command in Visakhapatnam, while studying in 11th class, she moved to Hyderabad. She enrolled at St. Mary’s College in Yousufguda, Hyderabad, after her EAMCET, she ventured into television at age 17 by hosting a show called Colors. Due to a response, the show was further extended and moved to primetime slot. She went on to present over 150 episodes, after completing the first year of her graduation, she made her debut in feature films. She made her debut in supporting roles and her first film in supporting role was Danger, a Telugu Movie. Her next movie release in support role was Aadavari Matalaku Ardhalu Verule which released in 2007, in 2008, she debuted as a female lead in her first Tamil movie Subramaniapuram. For her performance in Ashta Chamma she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu and she made her debut in Malayalam films with Amen which was a super hit. Reportedly, Swati will work in Telugu cinema in sequel Gitanjali 2 directed by Raj Kiran, Swathi has been occasionally working as a voice actor and playback singer as well. In 2008, she had dubbed for actress Ileana DCruz in the film Jalsa, in 2010, she gave her voice to an HIV/AIDS education animated software tutorial created by the nonprofit organization TeachAIDS. She has also appeared in an advertisement for Cadburys Dairy Milk, Swathi has said that she has given her consent to her parents for marriage. Swathi Reddy at the Internet Movie Database
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Haricharan
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Haricharan Seshadri, simply known and credited as Haricharan, is a Carnatic vocalist, playback singer, and musician. Haricharan comes from a family of music connoisseurs where his grandfather P. S. Ganapathy was an organiser of mic-less Carnatic concerts in the 60s under the name Aalapanaa, alamelu Ganapathy is a national awardee in Mathematics, and has been in academia for more than 35 years. His father G. Seshadri is a B grade artist through AIR, and an employee, and his mother Latha. Haricharan started learning Carnatic music at an age of seven under Smt. Sethu Mahadevan, and then from stalwarts like K. V. Narayanaswamy, T. M. Prabhavathi and P. S. Narayanaswamy. He recorded his first Tamil film song for the film Kaadhal, in Joshua Sridhars music when he was 17 and his song Unakkena Iruppen was nominated for the National Film Awards in 2005 which became widely popular. Since, he has recorded several hit numbers for various music directors across the south, predominantly in Tamil and he became more famous after his more recent song, Thuli Thuli. Haricharan is one of the most used singer in Yuvan Shankar Rajas music and he has also sung Rotaract Change Anthem for RI Dist 3230. In 2012, Haricharan sang alongside Rajinikanth for the song Maattram Ondrudhaan Maradhadhu from soundtrack of Kochadaiiyaan, Haricharan at the Internet Movie Database Twitter Facebook Discographies Raaga. com Thiraipaadal. com Haricharan on Devaragam Haricharan on Saavn
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Shweta Mohan
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Shweta Mohan is an award-winning Indian playback singer. She has sung in Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, shweta Mohan was born into a Malayali family in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She is the daughter of Krishna Mohan & the Playback singer Sujatha Mohan and she is married to her long time boyfriend Ashwin Shashi on 16 January 2011. Ashwin is her friend Aarathis brother and she is learning Carnatic classical music from Smt. Binni Krishnakumar and Hindustani classical music from Sri, ghulam Niyaz Khan.2 Nandagopalam Malankara Jyothis Vol
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Ye Maaya Chesave
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Ye Maaya Chesave is a 2010 Telugu-language romantic drama film written and directed by Gautham Menon, with dialogues by Umarji Anuradha. The film stars Naga Chaitanya and debutant Samantha Ruth Prabhu in the lead roles and it was produced by Manjula Ghattamaneni under the banner Indira Productions and features a critically acclaimed soundtrack and background score composed by A. R. Rahman. Other credits include cinematography by Manoj Paramahamsa, dialogues by Umarji Anuradha, the lead actors of the movie Naga Chaitanya and Samantha Ruth Prabhu are set to become couples in real life as well. The film was shot along with the Tamil version Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa which was shot first with a different cast. The Satellite Rights were sold to Zee Telugu for ₹3.5 crore and this film is Menons second Telugu venture, after the critically successful Gharshana. Upon release the music, scored by two-time Academy Award winner A. R. Rahman, became a huge success, apart from highly successful soundtrack, the background score of the film is hailed as one of Rahmans best works. Ye Maaya Chesave portrays the relationship between a Telugu Hindu assistant director, Karthik, and a Malayali Saint Thomas Christian girl. Jessie is torn between her love for Karthik and her family, who is steadfast in their disapproval of him and this results in a volatile relationship until Jessie leaves him without an explanation. They accidentally meet after a couple of years and the movie takes a different turn. Ye Maaya chesave was made with a budget of ₹12.5 crore The Tamil version was made following much speculation that Gautham Menon was set to remake it with Manjulas brother. Karthik is an engineering graduate but aspires to become a filmmaker. Through his friend, Karthik gets introduced to director Puri Jagannadh, with his support, Karthik family, who are Hindus, rents the ground floor of a two-storeyed house which belongs to the Thekekuttus. The Thekekuttu family is a conservative Malayali Syrian Catholic family from Alappuzha, Kerala, the Thekekuttus have a daughter, Jessie, who is 2 years older to Karthik. When Karthik meets Jessie for the first time, he falls in love with her, Karthik expresses his love one day to her, who is afraid of speaking to men around her strict father, and ends up angering Jessie. Her parents learn about their affair and arrange a marriage for her, but at the wedding, she refuses to marry the groom, displeasing everyone in her family. Karthik and Jessie continue to each other without the knowledge of their parents. Suddenly, Jessie is forced by her father to marry and seeks Karthiks help, busy Karthik is unable to attend to her calls and messages, Jessie is unable to reach him. After a tense phone call from Jessie, Karthik goes back one night to check on her, an angry and hurt Jessie makes a final decision to break up with Karthik because of her fathers strong disapproval of their love
