Adept In Multiple Languages, Keeravani’s Malayalam Connection Ended In 1996 – FilmyVoice

M M Keeravani as we speak is being hailed as one of many best music composers of Tollywood, however he earned his early spurs in Okay Balachander’s 1991 Tamil film, ‘Azhagan’ (Good-looking), starring Mammootty and Bhanupriya. Within the credit score strains, he was referred to as Maragathamani.

In the identical 12 months, Keeravani, utilizing the identical id, composed the music for celebrated filmmaker I V Sasi’s hit film ‘Neelagiri’, additionally starring Mammooty. And within the 12 months that adopted, he gave the music for ‘Soorya Manasam’, the Sowcar Janaki-Mammootty movie the place the latter performs a mentally challenged man.

Within the meantime, he continued with Telugu and Tamil movies, venturing onto Kannada, the place he didn’t change his identify, as he did but once more, this time to M M Kreem, when he scored the music for ‘Felony’, Mahesh Bhatt’s 1995 Telugu-Hindi bilingual thriller primarily based on ‘The Fugitive’ and starring Nagarjuna, Ramya Krishna and Manisha Koirala.

Though he went on to provide music to quite a lot of Kannada movies, his final Malayalam manufacturing was ‘Devaraagan’ (1996), which additionally marked Sridevi’s final look in a Mollywood film.

The movie is remembered primarily for its songs, which had been penned by M D Rajendran. And solely Keeravani is aware of why he selected to not do Malayalam movies post-‘Devaraagan’. Two Malayalam movies – one in 1996 and one other in 1999 – that Keeravani wrote the music for, by no means received launched, however movies that includes his music have been dubbed into Malayalam.

Okay S Chithra, who lent her voice to the songs of ‘Devaraagan’, was ecstatic when she heard about Keeravani’s Oscar second. “It is a well-deserved award for a vastly down-to-earth particular person,” she mentioned, including a private word: “Everyone knows how Keeravani is scared to even fly in an plane, however he has flown to the US prior to now. He’s one one that speaks little or no.”

Telugu cinema, notably the ‘Baahubali’ franchise, has consumed Keeravani’s inventive energies, though, in his M M Kreem avatar, he has been giving music to not less than one Bollywood manufacturing a 12 months, from, notably, Sudhir Mishra’s ‘Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin’ to Mahesh Bhatt’s ‘Zakhm’, Pooja Bhatt’s ‘Jism’ and ‘Rog’, and the Akshay Kumar-starrer ‘Child’.