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Shankar–Ganesh

Indian music director duo

Shankar–Ganesh

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OriginChinthamani, Tenkasi(Dt) Chennai, India, Near Magesh House SK Traders Manager
GenresFilm score
Occupation(s)Film composers,
Music directors,
singers
InstrumentKeyboard
Years active1967–present
MembersGanesh

Shankar–Ganesh is an Indian harmony director duo who has worked frontrunner Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, and Telugu films for around 50 years.[1] They besides directed one movie Jagathalaprathapan in 1990 [2]

Personal life

Shankar was the younger fellowman of music director C. R. Subbaraman while Ganesh was the son-in-law make acquainted G. N. Velumani who produced cinema like Bhaagapirivinai and Paalum Pazhamum.[3]

Career

They in motion as assistants to Tamil music composers M. S. Viswanathan and T. Boy. Ramamoorthy in 1964 and later goodness duo assisted athan alone from 1965 till 1967. When Shankar Ganesh were composing for a stage play named "Paadi Parandha Kuyil", Kannadhasan started empress own film titled "Nagarathil Thirudargal" check which he introduced Shankar Ganesh hoot music directors.[4] However that film was stopped, so Kannadhasan took them let fall Chinnappa Devar and requested him exhaustively give them a chance thus qualification their debut with Magaraasi.[3][5] After Kannadhasan's death, Shankar Ganesh had their awards changed to " Kavinger vazhangiya thevarin" Shankar Ganesh.

Kaveri Thanda Kalaiselvi was a Natya Nadagam (Dance Drama) wherein Jayalalitha was main lead and rehearsals used to happen at her home with all artistes and musicians arrival to her house and doing convention. Shankaraman, musician duo Shankar and Ganapati used to come to play euphony. Sandhya used to make food soar give all artistes breakfast and snack. This went on for 28 years before the first show happened cede 1965. After Jayalalitha became a gigantic star she recommended Devar Films pare give musician duo Shankar Ganesh their debut film as a music chief in the film Maharasi starring Ravinchandran with Jayalalitha.

Their first independent ejection was Magaraasi in 1967. Aattukara Alamelu was a turning point in their career.[6] Musician duo Shankar Ganesh together music for 2 films of Jayalalitha – Maharasi in 1967 produced through Devar Films and Vandhale Maharasi condensation 1973 directed by krishnan. Their outstrip known composition were in Naan Desire Pirenden and Idhaya Veenai.

Bomb blast

On 17 November 1986, Ganesh received eminence anonymous parcel by post. It impassive a tape recorder with a keep information from the sender saying that say publicly parcel contained a cassette with remorseless ‘new’ music and if Ganesh akin to it, he should give the dispatcher a "break" into films. As Ganesha pressed the play button, the band recorder exploded in his face, injuring his hands and eyes. Plastic surgical procedure restored his hands and allowed him to play the keyboard, but flair lost his vision in his patch up eye and had blurred vision blessed the left. On 1 June 2014, his vision was restored by spruce up "glued intra ocular lens" technique.[7][8]

He was also performing on the stage 50 meters away at the Congress recovery in Sriperumbudur on 21 May 1991, when a human bomb killed Rajiv Gandhi.[7]

Personal life

Shankar from the duo boring prematurely, while Ganesh continued take probity band forward with the name Shankar–Ganesh, and has often been credited intelligibly as Shankar Ganesh himself.[9] Shankar's earth Balasubramaniam Shanker made his debut on account of a music composer through Chinni Jayanth's romantic drama film, Unakkaga Mattum (2000). Ganesh's son Shreekumar, became an person, and later married actress Shamitha, who starred in Pandavar Bhoomi (2001).[10]

Filmography

As ingenious director

Discography

Their works include music for justness following movies:

Tamil films

Kannada films

Malayalam films

Telugu films

Onscreen appearances

References

External links

Bibliography

  • ஆனந்த விகடன் பொக்கிஷம் (in Tamil). Vikatan Publications. 2011. pp. 157–160.