Shashikanth, better known as Bobo Shashi ( ta, போபோ சஷி : born 12 October 1981) is an Indian film composer and singer.

Biography and career

Shashi was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India to a musically affluent family. His father Murali is a famous composer who composes along with his brother Sabesh as Sabesh–Murali. His uncle

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is a popular music composer. His cousins are actor Jai and composer

Srikanth Deva Srikanth Deva is an Indian music director of Tamil films. He made his debut as music director in the Tamil movie '' Doubles'' in 2000. He is the son of composer Deva, nephew of the famous music director duo Sabesh–Murali and the cousin of actor ...

. His first movie for which he composed music was ''

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'' (2009). The soundtrack won critical acclaim. Prior to the movie, he assisted other Indian film composers, such as

, Sabesh–Murali,

, and

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. A year later, after his first film released, he started to compose music for Telugu films. His Telugu film debut was '' Bindaas'', followed by '' Thakita Thakita''. In 2012, Shashi composed the music for '' Uu Kodathara? Ulikki Padathara?''. Out of the six songs he composed in the movie, he composed five (with the sixth being composed by

). In 2016, he composed one song (along with Karunas) from the movie '' Kadavul Irukaan Kumaru'', composed by

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. In 2018, he composed the music for ''

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''. In 2022, he composed the music for ''

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''.

Filmography

As music director

As singer

References

https://web.archive.org/web/20120602091250/http://telugu.16reels.com/celebrities/bobo%20shashi-filmography.aspx http://www.mixss.com/thulli-ezhunthathu-kadhal-mp3-songs-bobo-sashi.html Living people 1981 births Musicians from Chennai Telugu film score composers Tamil film score composers {{India-composer-stub