| Chakri Gilla | |
|---|---|
| Born | Chakradhar Gilla 15 June 1974 Mahabubabad, Warangal, A. P, India |
| Residence | Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation | Music composer |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Religion | Hindu |
Chakradhar (Telugu: చక్రధర్) (Known as Chakri gilla ) (born 15 June 1974) is an Indian music composer and singer. He works for Tollywood.
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Chakri was born in Warangal district, Andhra Pradesh. He has one brother and three sisters.
Chakri composed music for around 85 movies so far. He started his career as music director with the Movie Bachi directed by Puri Jagannadh . As a composer he introduced many new talents (Singers and Lyricist). He won best singer award for movie Sathyam in tollywood filmfare awards.[1][2] He is generally considered to give hits in the month of January, which is considered to be Sankranthi (a Telugu festival) season in Andhra Pradesh because he gave hits like "Krishna(2008)", "Desa Muduru(2007)", "Devadasu(2006)" in straight years during sankranthi season and his next audio release (Wanted-A Gopi Chand&Deeksha Seth Starrer) incidentally is going to be happen in the month of January.
Chakri is married to Sravani from Godavarikhani.
Chakri has been accused time and again of plagiarizing popular Western music and North Indian tunes. Some of his songs have been accused of being complete rip-offs. Example Nidarosthale(Movie: Golimaar) being a complete rip-off of the Desparado[3] song.
It also appears he has taken some material from the great A. R Rahman in the song, murepincha maina in Krishna.
This has led to allegations of plagiarism in media and industry about Chakri, where he defended his actions arguing that he was doing so at the behest of directors and actors.