Sunitha Upadrashta

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Sunitha Upadrashta
Background information
Origin Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India
Occupations Playback singer, anchor, dubbing artist
Website Official Website

Sunitha Upadrashta is a playback singer, anchor and dubbing artist in the Telugu Film industry, also known as Tollywood.

Sunitha's career began in the year 1995 with the movie Gulabi. She works as a singer and an Anchor to various channels who conduct musical programmes. She also works as a dubbing artist and has dubbed for about 750 films.

Career

Upadrashta has started her Cultural pursuit at a very early age of 3 years and got training in Music from Pemaraju Surya Rao in Karnatic Vocal and Light music from Kalaga Krishna Mohan for 8 years. She has received awards and appreciations in various competitions for her performances. Sunitha, at the age of 10, participated in Tyagaraja Aradhana Utsavalu along with her guru Sri Pemmaraju Surya Rao garu.

She has begun her singing career as a playback singer in films at an age of 16. Sri Sasi Preetham, a music director first gave her a chance to sing in her debut film ‘Gulabi’ and her debut song is ‘Ee Vela Lo Neevu’ written by Sirivennela Sitaramasastri.

She has worked under the supervision of music directors like Ilayaraja, Vidya sagar, M.M. Keeravani, S.V. Krishna Reddy, Koti, Raj, Vandematharam Srinivas, Mani Sharma, Ramana Gogula, S.A. Raj kumar, Sandeep choutha, Micky-J-Mayer, Devisri Prasad, R.P. Patnaik, Chakri, Nihal, Kalyani Malik, Anup, Sunil Kashyap, Saluri Vasu Rao, Madhavapeddi Suresh, Saketha Sairam, Bunty, V. Hari Krishna, S.S. Thaman etc. She rendered nearly 3000 songs in many south Indian films. She has sung in Kannada and Tamil apart from Telugu.

Upadrashta has given stage shows abroad as a Singer.[citation needed] She was invited to Telugu Association of North America –TANA in 1999, 2001.She was also invited for European Telugu Association – ETA and American Telugu Association – ATA.

Dubbing artist

Upadrashta has given voice over for various artists like Jyothika, Anushka, Bhoomika, Charmi, Laila, Meera Jasmine, Soundarya, Sonali Bendre, Shriya, Genelia, Sneha, Sada, Katrina Kaif, Tamannaah, Trisha, Kamilini Mukherji, Nayantara etc.

Selected films as dubbing artist

TV programmes

Upadrashta anchored many music based programmes and live shows on Gemini TV, MAA TV, ETV and Doordarshan. She has hosted Navaragam on Gemini and Jhummandi Nadam on ETV, Zee Saregama and ETV Sapta Swaralu ,Paaduta Teeyaga. She has been a part of Maa TV's Super Singer show from its 4th series as a judge and mentor.

Awards

National awards

As a student, Upadrashta received First National Award for Folk songs at Delhi, Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Delhi and she received a scholarship at the age of 8 years.

  • National Award from All India Radio under light music category in 1994 at the age of 15 years.

Nandi Awards, Andhrapradesh State Government

  • Nandi Award for Best female playback singer for TV film Antha Rangaalu 1999
  • Nandi Award for Best Female dubbing artist for the movie Jayam2002
  • Nandi Award for Best Female playback singer for the Movie Athade Oka Sainyam 2003
  • Nandi Award for Best Female dubbing artist for the movie Anand (Voice of the Kamalinee Mukherjee) 2004
  • Nandi Award for Best Female dubbing artist for the movie Pothe Poni[1] 2005
  • Nandi Award for Best Female playback singer for the movie Godavari2006
  • Nandi Award for Best female playback singer for TV film Anthahpuram, 2010
  • Nandi Award for a TV film called Mamatha Kovela in 2011
  • Nandi Award for Best Female dubbing artist for the movie Sri Rama Rajyam (Voice of the Nayantara)2012

Filmfare Awards

Other awards

  • Vamsi Berkeley Award as Best female playback singer in year 1999.
  • Vaartha Vasavi Award as a best playback singer (2000)
  • Bharata Muni Award (2000)
  • Cine Goers Award for Best Dubbing (2002)
  • Dasari Award as a best playback singer (2003)
  • Best Playback Singer award from European Telugu Association, London (2003)
  • Kalavedika Art Award as an All rounder for excellent performance as a Singer, Anchor and Movie dubbing artist (2003)
  • Sangam P Susheela Youth Award honored with Gold Medal (2004)
  • Sangam P Susheelawa Youth Award for year 2004 honored with Gold Medal.
  • Vamsi Berkeley Award as Best female playback singer in year 2005
  • Kala Sudha Award in 2006 (Ugadi Puraskar)
  • 'Best female play back singer of tollywood 2010' award for the song “Hrudaya Vedana” from the film “Aa Intlo” music scored by sri Koti. This award was given by “Radio Mirchi” in a grand function held at Chennai on Saturday 17 July 2010.
  • TV Award 2009 for Best Female Playback Singer presented by Delhi Telugu Academy in Hyderabad on August 8, 2010.[2]
  • Big FM Best Singer Award for 'Egiripothe' song from Vedam Movie in 2010.
  • Big FM Kannada Award for Big Most Entertaining Singer.
  • TSR – TV9 Award for Best playback singer – female (2010) was presented on April 10, 2011 in Hyderabad.
  • Ghantasala Melody Queen Award in 2011
  • Lata Mangeshkar Best Singer Award for 2011 was presented by the State Government at 2nd Lata Mangeshkar Music Awards – 2011 function on September 28, 2011 at Ravindra Bharathi, Hyderabad.[3]
  • Maa Tea Award for Mamatha Kovela in 2012
  • T. Subbaram Reddy Lalitha Sangeeta Puraskar in 2013
  • Sangeet Samman 2013 (Kannada film)

Performances

  • She gave her first performance at age 3.
  • She gave her first programme in Light Music on AIR in the year 1995 at the age of 16.
  • She has given about 500 programmes so far on AIR, Doordarshan, ETV, Gemini TV, and MAA TV
  • She has also given programmes abroad, at Kuwait, Dubai, Malaysia, Singapore, London, USA, Philippines, Kenya etc.
  • In the year 2009, she has done her own shows titled 'Musical Moments With Sunitha' in the USA
  • She has dubbed almost 750 films.
  • She got many awards for her dubbing. Recently she won the title of Super Singers 7.
  • She has performed at the Tirumala Brahmotsavalu.
  • During the time of 50 years of Independence, she has sung Vande Mataram along with S.P.Balasubrahmanyam at the Congress Plenary Meet. She has hosted 50 years celebrations in the Assembly.
  • She has participated in the Govt. celebrations 200 years of Secunderabad.

References

  1. ↑ "Telugu Cinema Etc – Nandi award winners list 2005". Idlebrain.com. 2006-11-11. Retrieved 2012-08-11. 
  2. ↑ "Delhi Telugu Academy awards presented". The Hindu (Chennai, India). 9 August 2010. 
  3. ↑ "New members take oath in Rajya Sabha | Rehman Khan | Chiranjeevi". Andhrawishesh.com. 2012-04-24. Retrieved 2012-08-11. 

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