Mani Sharma

Mani Sharma is an Indian composer, singer, arranger, multi-instrumentalist and music producer known for his works primarily in the Telugu and Tamil cinema along with Hindi and Kannada films. He is a recipient of two state Nandi Awards, three Filmfare Awards South, two CineMAA Awards, and three Mirchi Music Awards South for Best Music Direction. His works are noted for integrating Indian classical music with electronic music, world music and traditional orchestra. He is often referred to as "Melody Brahma" for his melodious tunes. He has a number of hit albums in his frequent collaborations with Chiranjeevi and Mahesh Babu, Nandamuri Bala Krishna, Akkineni Nagarjuna, Daggubati Venkatesh, Pawan kalyan, Jr NTR, Allu Arjun, Prabhas, and Ram Charan. In his early days he worked as a programmer under many music composers namely Saluri Rajeswara Rao, Chakravarti, Ramesh Naidu, Ilaiyaraja, Raj-Koti, M. M. Keeravani. Ram Gopal Varma recognised his talent and insisted that he work as a music composer in his film Raathri and for a tune in Antham. Choodalani undi is the first movie where he composed songs. The producer Ashwini Dutt introduced him as a full time music composer and later went on to work with him for many films. Many music composers such as S. Thaman, Devi Sri Prasad, Harris Jayaraj worked under him in their early days.