Gopi Sunder

Gopi Sunder
Birth name Gopi Sunder
Born Edapally, Kochi, Kerala, India
Genres Film score, world music
Occupations Composer, Music Director, Singer, Keyboard Programmer, Arranger
Instruments Tabla, Keyboard
Years active 2006–present
Labels Sensa Digital World

Gopi Sunder is an award winning Indian music programmer, film score composer, musician and singer. He has composed music for more than 5000 ad jingles, programmed music for many major composers and have scored more than ten Malayalam films.[1]

He has composed the original score and songs for films like Flash (2007), Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded (2009) and Anwar (2010). He has also done background music for Notebook (2006), Big B (2007), Mission 90 Days (2007), Poi Solla Porom (2008), Evidam Swargamanu (2009).[2].

He got his first Filmfare Award for Best Music Director in the 58th Filmfare Awards South for Anwar (2010).

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Career

Gopi Sunder born in a musical Family was an associate to the composer Ouseppachan for long time.[1] Sunder's father was a friend of Ouseppachan, which made Sunder a leading member in the troup of the prolific composer.[1] He used to play tabla for many shows in south and north India. Later he went on to make jingles and have scored about 5000 jingles, some of them with Rajeev Menon, who in eighties introduced world famous musician A. R. Rahman through his jingles.[1] He was a keyboard programmer for noted music director duo Vishal-Shekhar in their works like Om Shanti Om and Bluffmaster.[1] In the popular songs like "Aankhon mein teri'" (Om Shanti Om) and "Ek main aur ek tu hai" (Bluffmaster) keyboard programming was done by him. His break in films came when director Rosshan Andrrews approached him with an offer to compose the Background score for his movie Notebook which made him one of the most demanded background scorer in Malayalam films. Then he composed BGM for the superhit movie Big B, starring Mammootty, which lead to a big break in film industry for him and noted Director Sibi Malayil approached him for composing Soundtrack and BGM as well for his Mohanlal starrer Flash (2007 film). His next project as a composer was in Amal Neerad's big budget movie Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded. His work in this movie was praised well by the audience. The songs he composed for Amal Neerad's Anwar, which rocked the charts for many continuous weeks, has made him one of the most sought after music directors. Later his song 'kanninima' from this movie Anwar, was detected to be plagiarised from the work 'rosa maria' of spanish band 'Chambao'.[1][3]

Filmography

Year Film Language Notes
2006 Notebook Malayalam Film Debut; Background score only
2007 Big B Malayalam Background score only
2007 Dhol Hindi Background score only
2007 Mission 90 Days Malayalam Background score only
2007 Flash Malayalam
2008 Poi Solla Porom Tamil Background score only
2009 Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded Malayalam
2009 Evidam Swargamanu Malayalam Background score only
2010 Thanthonni Malayalam Background score only
2010 Mummy & Me Malayalam Background score only
2010 Anwar Malayalam
2011 Race Malayalam Background score only
2011 The Train Malayalam Background score only
2011 Seniors Malayalam Background score only
2011 Doctor Love (film) Malayalam Background score only
2012 Bulbul Maina Malayalam
2012 Casanovva Malayalam Three Songs and Background score
2012 Masters Malayalam
2012 Ee Adutha Kalathu Malayalam
2012 Usthad Hotel Malayalam

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Awards

Year Status Title Category Film
2010 Won Filmfare Award for Best Music Director Best Music Director Anwar (2010)

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f "Sound SENSE". Chennai, India: The Hindu. 2010-10-23. http://www.hindu.com/mp/2010/10/23/stories/2010102353050800.htm. Retrieved 2010-10-23. 
  2. ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2065631/
  3. ^ Sathyendran, Nita (2010-10-22). "Sound Sense". The Hindu (Chennai, India). http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article842801.ece. 

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