S. P. Venkatesh

S. P. Venkatesh is a music director and composer popular for his works in the Malayalam film industry. [1][2] He has also scored for some Bollywood and Bengali films. S. P. Venkatesh who is a Tamilian, was introduced into the Malayalam film industry by Dennis Joseph. The major break for S. P. Venkatesh came in the form of the film Rajavinte Makan, directed by Thampi Kannanthanam. The film's songs turned out to be big hits. From then on he became an integral part of Thampi's ventures. Hit after hit followed. He soon became one of the top music directors of the early and mid-nineties. Indrajaalam, Kilukkam, Minnaram, Sphadikam, Dhruvam, Kauravar, No.20 Madras Mail, Manthrikam were among the influential film scores he created. He made extensive use of acouttic guitar, bass guitar and violin orchestra in his song compositions and synth-based orchestra fused with traditional strings in his background scores. He was able to create an identity of his own through his compositions. He has also handled the orchestration for many other music directors.

In 1993 he won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Music Director for his work in Paithrukam, a movie directed by Jayaraj.

His ability to emotionally enhance scenes through background music was widely appreciated. He was known for composing extremely scintillating background scores at lighting speeds. He also composed background scores for films for which songs were composed by other composers. These include cult-classics like Devasuram, Thenmavin Kombath etc.

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Filmography

Malayalam films

Bengali films

Year Film Other notes
2008 Bhalobasa Bhalobasa
2008 Bajimaat
2008 Jor
2003 Champion
2003 Mayer Shakti
2003 Nater Guru
2003 Sangee
2002 Sathi

Hindi films

References

  1. ^ "S.P. Venkatesh". www.chakpak.com. http://www.chakpak.com/celebrity/s.p.-venkatesh/22960. Retrieved 2008-11-15. 
  2. ^ "SP. Venkatesh - Malayalam Music Director". www.raaga.com. http://www.raaga.com/channels/malayalam/music/SP._Venkatesh.html. Retrieved 2008-11-15. 

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1969–1980

G. Devarajan (1969) · G. Devarajan (1970) · V. Dakshinamoorthy (1971) · G. Devarajan (1972) · K. Raghavan, M. B. Sreenivasan (1973) · M. S. Viswanathan (1974) · Bhaskar Chendra Varker (1975) · A. T. Ummer (1976) · K. Raghavan (1977) · M. B. Sreenivasan (1978) · None (1979) · Jerry Amaldev (1980)
1981–2000

M. B. Sreenivasan (1981) · Johnson (1982) · Shyam (1983) · Shyam (1984) · G. Devarajan (1985) · Bombay Ravi (1986) · Ouseppachan (1987) · Aravindan (1988) · Johnson (1989) · Perumbavoor G. Raveendranath, Jerry Amaldev (1990) · Raveendran (1991) · Bombay Ravi (1992) · S. P. Venkatesh (1993) · Berny-Ignatius (1994) · Ilaiyaraaja (1995) · Vidyasagar (1996) · Kaithapram Damodaran Namboothiri (1997) · Vidyasagar (1998) · Sunny Stephen (1999) · Vidyasagar (2000)
2001–present

M. G. Radhakrishnan (2001) · Raveendran (2002) · M. Jayachandran (2003) · M. Jayachandran (2004) · M. G. Radhakrishnan (2005) · Ramesh Narayan (2006) · M. Jayachandran (2007) · M. Jayachandran (2008) · Mohan Sithara (2009) · M. Jayachandran (2010) ·