Deepak Dev

Deepak Dev
Deepak Dev
Background information
Genres	Film score, soundtrack, world music, Indi-pop
Occupations	Music composer
Instruments	Keyboards, vocals, Other
Years active	2003 – present

Deepak Devraj, better known as Deepak Dev (Malayalam: ദീപക് ദേവ്) is an Indian music composer, best known for his compositions in Malayalam cinema, with films such as Chronic Bachelor, Symphony, Udayananu Tharam, Naran, and Puthiya Mukham.

Early years

Deepak Dev is a jaffa native of Thalasserry in Kerala, grew up in Dubai. He studied at the Indian High School there and was learning Indian Carnatic music ever since his childhood days. Later his interest switched mainly to the keyboard. While a graduate student in Sacred Heart College, he was the mastermind behind the college rock band which went on to win the prestigious intercollege competition 'Talent Time - Woodstock' award every year. He focused a lot on programing music and started working with reputed musicians like A.R Rahman, Shankar Ehsaan Loy, Sandeep Chowta, Vidyasagar, Anu Malik, M.M. Keeravani, Mani Sharma, Adesh shrivastav. He started his career in Malayalam movies with ‘Chronic Bachelor’ directed by Siddique (of Siddique-Lal fame).^[1]

He says in an interview that he had almost given up on his musical career, soon after completing his graduation from Sacred Heart's College, Cochin, “as nothing exciting was happening in my career.” But, as fate would have it, every time he tried to sell off his keyboard, it always came back to him, “as any guy who bought it from me with a mere small advance could never pile up the money that they had promised me for that keyboard and ended up giving it back to me. And soon after the third time it happened, the Siddique-Lal duo called me to join their group for their shows in the United States. They wanted me to render some music to fill the time in-between programs. As I got a chance to visit America, my intention was to get some job in the States like marketing, sales or anything other than music. During that time Mr.Siddique heard my composition and told me that 'I have good talent in music and I must take music as my career' Eventually, it was those words gave me courage to take music as my career. "After that I came back to India i shifted base from kerala to chennai , that was in 1999. After few years I met Siddique and he asked me to compose music for his movie 'Chronic Bachelor', my first film" recalls Deepak.

He’s married to his love Smitha, who was his junior in college and the couple now live in Chennai with their two daughters, Devika Deepakdev and Pallavi Deepakdev.

Film Discography

2003	Chronic Bachelor
2005	Udayananu Tharam
2005			Naa Oopiri
2005	Naran
2005	Ben Johnson
2006	Kilukkam Kilukilukkam
2006	Lion
2007	The Speed Track
2007	Rashtram
2007	Yes Your Honour
2007	Khaki
2008		Sadhu Miranda
2009	Puthiya Mukham
2010	Dhrona 2010
2010	Tournament (film)
2011	Christian Brothers
2011	Urumi (film)
2011	King Raju (film)
2011	Lavender (film)
2011	Teja Bhai & Family
2012	Grandmaster (film)

References

1. ^ http://www.last.fm/music/Deepak+Dev/+wiki?ver=2

http://varnachitram.com/2007/01/11/interview-deepak-dev-part-1/ http://varnachitram.com/2007/01/12/interview-deepak-dev-part-2/

External links

• Deepak Dev at the Internet Movie Database

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