Manikanth Kadri

Manikanth Kadri
Occupations	Music director, Singer
Years active	2006-Present

Manikanth Kadri is an Indian film score and soundtrack composer and singer. He has predominantly scored music for Kannada as well as several Telugu films. He is the son of legendary saxophonist Kadri Gopalnath.

Career

Manikanth started out his career by composing for over 500 jingles and devotional albums. He also composed for a title track of a Malayalam tele-serial Annu Mazhayayirunnu and won the Kerala State Award for best music.^[1]

He released his first instrumental album called Dream Journey in the year 2001 and also tasted success. He also scored for background for an English feature film Tantric Journal.^[2]

His film musical career began with Smart City (Malayalam) and Mr. Garagasa (Kannada), at the age of 24. After these films, his major break through happened with the Kannada film Savari in 2009. He has scored music for various films in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, and Hindi languages.

Filmography

Year	Film Title	Language	Notes
2006	Smart City	Malayalam
2007	Mr. Garagasa	Kannada
2008	Chandranilekkoru Vazhi	Malayalam
	Ganesha	Kannada
	Avakai Biryani	Telugu
2009	Village Lo Vinayakudu	Telugu
	Savari	Kannada
	Male Bille	Kannada
2010	Prithvi	Kannada
	Ijjodu	Kannada
	Swayamvara	Kannada
	Orange	Malayalam
2011	Udhayan	Tamil
	Maduve Mane	Kannada

Awards

• 2005 - Kerala State Television Award for Best Music- Annu Mazhayayirunnu

External links

• [1]
• [2]

References

1. ^ http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/15/stories/2006051506460200.htm
2. ^ http://www.hindu.com/2006/05/15/stories/2006051506460200.htm

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Name	Kadri, Manikanth
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Short description	Film score composer
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