M Ghibran

M Ghibran (Tamil: M ஜிப்ரான்) is a film music composer. For more than a decade, he worked as an Ad-film composer and composed for over 800 television commercial jingles in different languages before turning into a film music composer in the Indian Film Industry. He has completed Grade 8 in both Piano and Music theory through Trinity College London and also obtained his degree in Classical compositions and film scoring under Australian Composer Lindsay Vickery at the LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore.^[1]

Career

M Ghibran, having worked in several Ad films, was a good friend of director A. Sarkunam and Vimal. When Sargunam wanted to direct a new film after Kalavani, he roped in M Ghibran to work for his venture. Thus, Sargunam - Ghibran collaborated for the film, Vaagai Sooda Vaa. The soundtrack for the film was widely appreciated from all the corners indicating Ghibran to be one of the most promising young composers in Indian cinema.^[2]

Times of India stated "M Ghibran joins the list of debut composers who have impressed with their work in recent times. The music score complements the movie, and marks him out as a musician to watch out for."^[3]Karthik Srinivasan from milliblog gave "A 200 for a debutant composer after a long time in Tamil!" and commented that "Vaagai Sooda Vaa’s soundtrack is a brilliant achievement – the music is refined and layered, something that is rarely expected out of a debut! Hats off, Ghibran!" ^[4]Malathai Rangarajan from The Hindu wrote that "Music is another highlight. M. Gibran's numbers keep ringing in your ears long after you leave the cinema"^[5]Rajagopalan Badrinarayanan from musicperk.com wrote "‘Vaagai Sooda Vaa’ is a wholesome package with wonderful songs. Being his first movie Gibran has done a great job with the musical score. This movie has given him a great scope to prove his potential. The album will surely reshuffle the current chart"^[6]

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