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Saturday, July 4, 2009

V. Dakshinamoorthy

Birth name Venkateshwara Dakshinamoorthy

Also known as Swamy

Born 22 December 1919

Origin Alappuzha, Kerala, India

Genre(s) Carnatic music

Occupation(s) Musician

Instrument(s) Harmonium, Vocal

Years active 1950 - present

V. Dakshinamoorthy (b. 22 Dec 1919) is a veteran carnatic musician and music director of Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi films, predominantly in Malayalam films. He has set scores for the songs in over 125 films. He is now retired from film music direction but is still active in classical music^[1]. He has to his credit as many as 859 songs composed over a a period of 50 years.In the year 2008, at 90 years he composed 4 songs for a Malayalam Movie Mizhikal Sakshi.
Biography
Dakshinamoorthy was born on 22 December 1919 as Venkateswaran Dakshinamoorthy, to D. Venkateswara Iyer and Parvathi Ammal in Alappuzha, Kerala, India. His interest in music was nurtured by his mother who taught him keerthanas of Thyagaraja Swamikal when he was still a child. After finishing S.S.L.C., he learned carnatic music form Venkatachalam Potty in Trivandrum.
He learned more about carnatic music and became an expert of it. He debuted in the film industry with Nalla Thanka, produced by Kunchacko and Koshy under the banner of K & K Productions. The hero of the film was Augustin Joseph, father of renowned singer K. J. Yesudas. The film also had songs sung by Augustin. Dakshinamoorthy went on to set scores for K. J. Yesudas and his son Vijay Yesudas (for the film Poomukhappadiyil Ninneym Kathu, directed by Bhadran) as well, thus achieving a rare treat.
He set the scores for many songs written by Sreekumaran Thampi, forming a famous musician-songwriter duo like the Vayalar Ramavarma - G. Devarajan and P. Bhaskaran - Baburaj duos. He had R. K. Shekhar, father of the music director A. R. Rahman as his assistant for a few films, who later became a musician in his own right. He went on to direct music for over 125 films including Navalokam, Seetha, Viyarppinte Vila, Sri Guruvayoorappan, Kadamattathachan and Indulekha.
His evergreen compositions include Swapnangal... Swapnangale ningal...(Kavyamela), Pattu padiyurakkan njan...(Seetha), Uthara swayamvaram...(Danger Biscuit), Kattile pazhmulam...(Vilaykku Vangiya Veena) and Vathil pazhuthilooden...(Idanazhiyil Oru Kalocha). He was guru of many singers and Music Directors including P. Leela, P. Susheela, Kalyani Menon and Ilaiyaraja. In 1971 he won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Music Director.
In 2003, he received the coveted 'Sangeetha Saraswathi' Award from the hands of revered Poojya Sri Guruji Viswanath of Manava Seva Kendra, Bangalore.
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Ravi Bombay (music director)

Ravi Shankar Sharma, better known by his first name Ravi, is an Indian music director, who has composed music for several Hindi and Malayalam films. After a successful career in Hindi films, he took a break from 1970s to 1984, and made a successful comeback as Bombay Ravi.

Biography

Ravi Sharma gave several hit songs and received Filmfare nominations for these films: Chaudhvin Ka Chand (1960), Do Badan (1966), Humraaz (1967), Ankhen (1968), and Nikaah (1982). He won Filmfare awards for Gharana(1961) and Khandaan (1965).^[1] His other successful films include Waqt, Neel Kamal and Gumraah. His songs Aaj mere yaar ki shaadi hai, Babul ki duyaen leti ja and Doli chadh ke dulhan sasural chali became very popular in wedding celebrations. He was one of the music directors who shaped the career of Asha Bhosle with songs like Tora man darpan. He was also instrumental in making Mahendra Kapoor a popular singer in Bollywood. After a successful career in Hindi films during 1950s and 1960s, he took a long break after 1970 till 1982. In 1982, he gave music for the Hindi film Nikaah, and one of the film's songs Dil ke armaan aansooyon main beh gaye sung by Salma Agha won her the Filmfare Best Female Playback Award.

In 1980s, he made a comeback as a music director in Malayalam (and some Hindi) films as Bombay Ravi. During 1984, the famous Malayalam director Hariharan convinced him to start a second innings especially for his lovers in South India. The first movie was Panchagni. The songs saagarangaLE and aa raatri maanju poyi (sung by Yesudas and Chitra) were hits. All the songs from the malayalam movie "Vaisali" released in 1989 were super hits and Chithra won National Award for the song "Indupushpam Choodi Nilkum" from the same movie.Ravi released some albums thereafter. Ravi has composed for many films produced by South Indian banners - Ghoonghat, Gharana, Grihasti, Aurat, Samaj ko badal dalo (Gemini), Meherban, Do kaliyan (AVM) Bharosa, Khandaan (Vasu films). So his trips to Madras were frequent. In fact he mentions that he was close to the late Sivaji Ganesan.

Filmography

Hindi

Ek Saal (1957)-ASHOK KUMAR-MADHU BALA-KULDEEP KAUR
Narsi Bhagat (1957)-SAHU MODAK-NIRUPA ROY-MANHAR DESAI
Delhi Ka Thug (1958)-NUTAN-KISHOR KUMAR
Dulhan (1958)-NIRUPA ROY-RAJ KUMAR-NANDA
Ghar Sansar (1958)-BALRAJ SAHNI-NARGIS-RAJENDRA KUMAR-KUMKUM
Mehndi (1958)-AJIT KHAN-JAYASHREE-VEENA
Nai Raahen (1959)-ASHOK KUMAR-GEET BALI
Pehli Raat (1959)-NIMMI-NANDA-SUDESH KUMAR
Apna Ghar (1960)-MOTI SAGAR-SHYAMA-NANDA
Chaudhvin Ka Chand (1960)-GURU DUTT-WAHEEDA REHMAN-REHMAN-JOHNY WALKAR
Ghunghat (1960)-BINA ROY-PRADEEP KUMAR-BHARAT BHUSHAN-ASHA PAREKH-REHMAN
Tu Nahin Aur Sahi (1960)-PRADEEP KUMAR-KUM KUM
Gharana (1961)-RAJ KUMAR-RAJENDRA KUMAR-ASHA PAREKH-LALITA PAWAR
Nazrana (1961)-RAJ KAPOOR-VYJAYANTHI MALA-USHA KIRAN-GEMINI GANESHAN
Pyaar Ka Saagar (1961)-MEENA KUMARI-RAJENDRA KUMAR-MADAN PURI
Wanted (1961)
China Town (1962)SHAMMI KAPOOR-SHAKILA
Raakhi (1962)-ASHOK KUMAR-WAHEEDA REHMAN-PRADEEP KUMAR-AMITA
Tower House (1962)-AJIT KHAN-SHAKILA
Umeed (1974)-NANDA-JOY MUKHERJEE-AGHA-LEELA NAIDU
Aaj Aur Kal (1963)-ASHOK KUMAR-NANDA-SUNIL DUTT-TANUJA
Gehra Daag (1963)-MALA SINHA-RAJENDRA KUMAR-MUMTAZ-LALITA PAWAR
Gumrah (1963)-ASHOK KUMAR-MALA SINHA-SUNIL DUTT-SHASHI KALA
Nartaki (1963)-NANDA-SUNIL DUTT-ZEB REHMAN-OM PRAKASH
Ustadon Ke Ustaad (1963)ASHOK KUMAR-SHAKILA-PRADEEP KUMAR-SHEIKH MUKHTIAR
Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke (1963)-ASHOK KUMAR-SUNIL DUTT-LEELA NAIDU-REHMAN
Door Ki Awaaz (1964)-SAIRA BANO-JOY MUKHERJEE-DURGA KHOTE-JOHNY WALKER
Shehnai (1964)-RAJSHRI-BISHWAJEET-VEENA-REHMAN-NIRUPA ROY
Kaajal (1965)-RAJ KUMAR-MEENA KUMARI-DHARMENDRA-PADMINI-MUMTAZ-MEHMOOD
Khandaan (1965)-NUTAN-SUNIL DUTT-MUMTAZ-OM PRAKASH-LALITA PAWAR-PRAN
Waqt (1965)-RAJ KUMAR-SUNIL DUTT-SADHANA-SHASHI KAPOOR-SHARMILA TAGORE
Do Badan (1966)-MANOJ KUMAR-ASHA PAREKH-SIMMI GREWAL-WASTI-PRAN
Dus Lakh (1966)-SANJAY KHAN-BABITA-OM PRAKASH-MANORAMA-HELEN-PRAN
Phool Aur Patthar (1966)-MEENA KUMARI-DHARMENDRA-SHASHI KALA-O.P.RELHAN
Sagaai (1966)-RAJSHRI-BISHWAJEET-REHMAN-JAYANT-PARVEEN CHAUDHARY
Yeh Zindagi Kitni Haseen Hai (1966)-ASHOK KUMAR-SAIRA BANO-JOY MUKHERJEE-SAYIDA KHAN
Aurat (1967)-PADMINI-FEROZ KHAN-NAZIMA-RAJESH KHANNA-PRAN
Humraaz (1967)RAJ KUMAR-VIMMI-SUNIL DUTT-MUMTAZ-MADAN PURI-BABY SARIKA
Meharban (1967)-ASHOK KUMAR-NUTAN-SUNIL DUTT-SHYAMA-RAJ MEHRA-MEHMOOD
Aankhen (1968)-MALA SINHA-DHARMENDRA-SUJIT KUMAR-ZEB REHMAN
Do Kaliyaan (1968)-MALA SINHA-BISHWAJEET-NIGAR SULTANA-OM PRAKASH-BABY SONIA(DOUBLE ROLL)
Gauri (1968)-NUTAN-SUNIL DUTT-MUMTAZ-SANJEEV KUMAR-OM PRAKASH-RAJENDRA NATH
Man Ka Meet (1968)-SOM DUTT-LEENA CHANDRAVARKAR-VINOD KHANNA-SANDHYA RANI
Neel Kamal (1968)-RAJ KUMAR-WAHEEDA REHMAN-MANOJ KUMAR-BALRAJ SAHNI
Aadmi Aur Insaan (1969)SAIRA BANO-DHARMENDRA-MUMTAZ-FEROZ KHAN-ACHLA SACHDEV-AJIT KHAN-KOMAL
Anmol Moti (1969)-JEETENDRA-BABITA-MANMOHAN-KAMINI KAUSHAL
Badi Didi (1969)-NANDA-JEETENDRA-ARUNA IRANI-NAZIR HUSSAIN
Doli (1969)-RAJESH KHANNA-BABITA-PREM CHOPRA-NAZIMA-OM PRAKASH
Ek Phool Do Mali (1969)-SADHANA-SANJAY KHAN-BALRAJ SAHNI-MANORAMA-DURGA KHOTE-DAVID
Dharkan (1972)-MUMTAZ-SANJAY KHAN-DILIP RAJ-RUPESH KUMAR-ACHLA SACHDEV-MASTER ALANKAR
Dhund (1973)-SANJAY KHAN-ZEENAT AMAN-NAVIN NISHCHAL-DANNY DENZOGPA
Mehmaan (1973)-REKHA-BISHWAJEET
Nikaah (1982)-RAJ BABBAR-SALMA AGHA-DEEPAK PARASHAR-HEENA KAUSAR-ASRANI
Tawaif (1984)-ASHOK KUMAR-RISHI KAPOOR-RATI AGNIHOTRI-DEEPAK PARASHAR

Albeli (1955)-GEETA BALI-PRADEEP KUMAR
Ek Alag Mausam (2003)
Vachan (1955)-GEETA BALI-BALRAJ-RAJENDRA KUMAR-NEELIMA-RADHA KRISHAN
Modern Girl (1961)-PRADEEP KUMAR-SAYIDA KHAN
Salaam Memsaheb (1961)-SUBIRAJ-NAAZ
Bombay Ka Chor (1962)-MALA SINHA-KISHOR KUMAR-BADRI PRASAD
Bahu Beti (1965)-MALA SINHA-JOY MUKHERJEE-ASHISH KUMAR-MUMTAZ
Nai Roshani (1967)-ASHOK KUMAR-MALA SINHA-RAJ KUMAR-TANUJA-BISHWAJEET-BHANUMATI
Ek Mahal Ho Sapnon Ka (1975)-ASHOK KUMAR-SHARMILA TAGORE-DHARMENDRA-LEENA CHANDRAVARKAR
Paisa Ya Pyaar (1969)-ASHOK KUMAR-MALA SINHA-BISHWAJEET-TANUJA-SHARAD KUMAR-SHASHI KALA
Chirag Kahan Roshni Kahan (1959)-MEENA KUMARI-RAJENDRA KUMAR-MUMTAZ BEGUM-HONEY IRANI
Barosa(1963)GURUDUTT-ASHA PAREKH
Mulzim(1963)PRADEEP KUMAR-SHAKILA
Pyar kiya to darna kya (1963)SHAMMI KAPOOR-SAROJA DEVI
Grashthi (1963)ASHOK KUMAR-MANOJ KUMAR-RAJASHRI-MEHMOOD
Koun apna Koun paraya(1963)WAEHDA REHMAN-TONY WALKER

The following are some of his unforgettable compositions:

Jab Chali Thandi Hawa (Do Badan)
Yeh Mausam Rangeen Samaa (Modern Girl)
Zindagi Ittefaq Hai (Aadmi aur Insaan)
Neele Gagan Ke Tale (Hamraaz)
Yeh Rang Bhare Baadal (Tu Nahin Aur Sahi)
Chaudhvin Ka Chand Ho (Chaudhvin ka Chand)
Yeh Hawa (Gumraah)
Tumhari Nazar Kyun Khafaa ho Gayi (Do Kaliyan)
Sansaar Ki Har Shai Kaa (Dhund)
Chalo ek baar pir se (Gumrah)
Itni haseen itni jawan raat kya kare(Aaj aur kal)
Chulene nazuk wonton ko (Kaajal)
Babul ki duha lethe ja (Neel kamal)
Tume mere mandir tume mere puja(Khandaan)

Malayalam (as Bombay Ravi)

Panchagni (1986)

Nakhakshathangal (1986)

Kalivaakku (1986)

Gagananeelima-Kalivaakku-Yesudas.mp3

Five Star Hospital (1997)

Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha (1989)

Vidhyarambham (1990)

Sargam (1992 film) (1992)

Ennu Swantham Janakikutty

Chembakapoo mottil (1997)_Yesudas_Kaithapram_Revi Bombay_Ennu Swantham Janakikutty.mp3

Sukrutham (1992)

Ghazal (1993)

Padheyam (1993)

ChandraKantham-Padheyam.mp3

Mayookham (2005)

Parinayam

Vaishali

Sumangalee Bhava (2005

M. G. Radhakrishnan

M. G. Radhakrishnan is a senior music director in the South Indian film and music industries. He is a disciple of Sree Vidyadhiraja Hridayanjali, an Indian ascetic, and has composed music for ascetic's lyrics, was sung by his sister Dr. K Omanakutty, a Carnatic vocalist. He has also composed the poems of Kamala Das (also known as Kamala Suraiya), a famous Indian writer. Radhakrishnan introduced K. S. Chithra, a famous singer and a student of Omanakutty, to the film and music industry by employing her in the film Attahaasam. His brother M. G. Sreekumar is an Indian playback singer in Malayalam and Tamil cinema.

Manichithra Thazhu

Midhunam

Njan Ekananu

Kannezhuthi pottum thottu

Poochakkoru_poothaali-.mp3

Vidyasagar (music director)

Born March 3, 1963 (1963-03-03) (age 46)
Origin Indian flag Chennai, India
Genre(s) Film score
Occupation(s) Film composer, music director, Singer
Instrument(s) keyboard/piano,
Years active 1984 till now

Vidyasagar (Tamil: வித்யசாகர்) is an Indian music director and music composer in the Tamil and Malayalam film industry. ^[1]His compositions include "Nee Katru", "Orey Manam","Appadi Podu" as well as classical numbers like "VaralManjal", "Anandam Anandam" or "Kana Kandenadi". Vidyasagar has lately been composing fast numbers for movies starring Tamil stars Vikram, Vijay, Ajith, and R. Madhavan.

Biography

Vidyasagar was born into a Telugu Brahmin family of musicians and brought up in Chennai. His father U. Ramachander was a musician who could play eight instruments^{[citation needed]} and his grandfather Varaha Narasimha Murthy was the court 'Vidhwan' for the king of Vijayanagaram Bobili in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Vidyasagar started learning vocal classical music and harmonium from his father at the age of four. When he was eight-years-old Vidyasagar joined Dhanraj Master. In fact both A. R. Rahman and Vidyasagar had joined on the same day. Vidyasagar learnt guitar for 3-4 years there, then the piano. Vidyasagar studied Western classical music at the Trinity College of Music, London.

At age of eleven, Vidyasagar knew how to play a dozen musical instruments and signed up to work as a regular musician for many music directors. Vidyasagar could play for all languages because then, most films had their recording at Chennai. Vidyasagar wanted to then compose his own tunes and have someone else play them. He had assisted various music directors and even done ghost music for some of them. So he had the experience and wanted to compose independently.

1989 to 1996

Vidyasagar became an independent music director with the song "En Anbe" in the 1989 Tamil movie 'Poomanam' directed by Rajasekhar (Robert). Though Vidyasagar started his music career with a Tamil film, recognition in Tamil music industry came to him much later. He shifted base to Telugu and from 1993 to 1996, Vidyasagar became the top music director in Telugu.

In 1994-95, Vidyasagar was picked up by Tamil actor-director Arjun, with whom he worked for many musically acclaimed films like 'Jai Hind', 'Karna', 'Subash' and 'Sengothai' though the movies themselves didn't do well. Vidyasagar composed some of his best music for Arjun's films with some melodic numbers like 'Malare', 'Bhoomiae', and 'Padu Padu' some of which went unnoticed. After a not so impressive start in Tamil film industry Vidyasagar was discovered by Malayalam film industry.

1996 to 2001

From 1996 to 2001 Vidyasagar mainly concentrated on Malayalam films where he became the top music director. In Malayalam right from his first film "Azhagiya Ravanan" to "Meesa Madhavan" he struck the right cord. He has created scores in which ragas and rhythms combined to a good melody, which even bagged him four Kerala State Awards. Vidyasagar's love for melody has made him turn to Malayalam film industry time and again, and the songs in hit films like Azhagiya Ravanan, Meesa Madhavan, Gramaphone, CID Moosa and Kilichundan Mambazham were all well received.

In his music he experienced all kinds of song situations and he explored his talent to the maximum in that period. His film 'Pranayavarnangal' is still considered by many one of the best albums ever cut in Malayalam industry^{[citation needed]}. Malayalee listeners still see Vidyasagar as their hot favourite after Ravindran. Undoubtedly the talented music director has given his best in malayalam film industry.

His career best was "Millennium Stars"(1999),in Malayalam, which was a WorldClass soundtrack.Some songs were Bilingual, and India's best singers,Dr. K.J. Yesudas and Hariharan sang together in these songs.Songs like "Parayan Nhaan Marannu" and "Shravan Gange" in this movie, were truly of the class of the world's top soundtracks.

During this period, Vidyasagar's song compositions in Tamil movies like 1998 Vijay starrer "Nilaave Vaa" and "Uyirodu Uyiraaga" starring Ajith did catch attention and became quite popular but still the bad patch in Tamil films continued for Vidyasagar during this period. Vidyasagar was probably the only composer in South India who has delivered many super hit songs during his early days but was not considered a success. Even today, some of Vidyasagar's prior songs composed for movies are sung by music troupes. But the total success of the film counts ultimately because the music director will be identified with the film.

2001 to Present

After a successful Malayalam career he made a come back into Tamil with "Dhill" and "Poovellam Un Vasam". Songs in both of these films were instant hits. Then came "Dhool" which opened new doors in Tamil songs with highly successful folk song 'Ithanadu Kara Kodumae', and great melody in 'Aasai Aasai'. With "Dhool" and "Dhill" under his belt, Vidyasagar was the talk of the town, for which he had to wait for 13 years. With a successful come back he then went on to give music to some of most successful films of the year 2002-2003 like "Anbe Sivam" and Madhavan's "Run" which was a huge musical hit as well as commercial hit. The music composed by Vidyasagar for movies released in 2003 "Iyarkai", "Thithukudhe", "Parthiban Kanavu" were highly popular in spite of the fact that some of these movies failed at the box office. Vijay's "Thirumalai" was another hit album.

^[4]The year 2004 saw Vidyasagar come up with "Ghilli" which was an instant hit with song 'Appadi Podu Podu' ruling the charts in Tamil music world. This was followed by other hits like "Madurey", "London" and "Ji" in 2004-05. In the year 2005 Vidyasagar received national award for the Telugu movie 'Swarabhishkam' by K. Vishwanath featuring carnatic classical music.^[5] Vidyasagar continued his success spree by composing music for Rajnikanth starrer 'Chandramukhi' (he mentions this as a call from God), which was the biggest hit of the year 2005 and a comeback movie for Rajnikanth. The audio of the movie was a best seller and the BGM (Back Ground Music) of the film was also released for the first time in the Indian music industry. He has composed music for the Hollywood movie "Beyond the Soul" directed by Rajeev Anchal. The 2004-05 year also saw him score music for the Hindi movie "Hulchul" from Priyadarshan. With Mozhi, Vidyasagar once again gave listeners some songs like "Katrin Mozhiye" and "Sevvanam Selaikatti" which were instant hits of 2007. In 2008 Vidyasagar came with chart topping songs for "Kuruvi" starring Vijay. "Kuruvi"'s music was well received by music critics and Vijay's fans. In 2008-2009, Vidyasagar gave multiple melodious hits for the movie 'Abhium Nanum'. The song 'Va Va En Dhevadhaye', which expresses the bond between a father and daughter is considered to be one of the best lilting melodies of the year.

Vidyasagar is now a well known figure in the Tamil film music, often for his hugely popular numbers composed for movies starring Tamil super stars Vijay and Vikram. As said by Vidyasagar in an interview about recognition for music, "When success eludes you, nobody is bothered about you, what you know and what you could do. That is why mediocrity succeeds. If you are successful, nobody questions your knowledge.".