Manachanallur Giridharan (born 15 April 1964) is a South Indian

music director A music(al) director or director of music is the person responsible for the musical aspects of a performance, production, or organization. This would include the artistic director and usually chief conductor of an orchestra or concert band, the d ...

, lyricist, singer, and also an educationist. He is also the founder of '' EdServ Softsystems Limited''. He has founded his own music production house called ''Gaananjali Recordings'' in 2011 and has been producing non-film albums. Giridharan also founded EdServ in the year 2001 as an Education and Training company. His music works are largely in

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language.

Early life

Manachanallur S. Giridharan hails from the town

Manachanallur Mannachanallur is a Taluk and Town in Tiruchirappalli district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Mannachanallur is famous for rice mills Demographics India census, Mannachanallur had a population of 25,931. Males constitute 49% of the popula ...

Tiruchirappalli Tiruchirappalli () ( formerly Trichinopoly in English), also called Tiruchi or Trichy, is a major tier II city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the administrative headquarters of Tiruchirappalli district. The city is credited with bein ...

district. After completing Engineering graduation from ''

PSG College of Technology PSG College of Technology is an autonomous, government aided, private engineering college in Coimbatore, India. It is affiliated with Anna University. It is affiliated to PSG and Sons Charities Trust. Among engineering colleges in India, PS ...

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,'' in 1984 he was part of films assisting in song compositions, orchestrating the background score between 1986 and 1992 including ''

Jenma Natchathram ''Jenma Natchathram'' () is a 1991 Indian Tamil-language supernatural horror film directed and co-written by Thakkali Srinivasan. A remake of the American film ''The Omen'' (1976), it stars newcomers Pramod, G. Anandharam, Sindhuja and Baby Vichi ...

'',

Witness (1995 film) ''Witness'' is a 1995 Tamil-language thriller film directed by Thakkali Srinivasan. The film stars Nizhalgal Ravi, Gautami, Aamani, Raghuvaran and Suresh, with J. Livingston, Thakkali Srinivasan, Chinni Jayanth and Baby Sowmya playing support ...

Puthiya Aatchi ''Puthiya Aatchi'' () is a 1995 Tamil-language drama film directed by Velu Prabhakaran. The film stars Anandaraj, Raadhika and Sarath Babu. The film songs was composed by Premi - Sreeni and Manachanallur Giridharan, the film score was composed b ...

and ''

Adhisaya Manithan ''Adhisaya Manithan'' () is a 1990 Tamil-language slasher film, produced by Thakkali Srinivasan and directed by Velu Prabhakaran. It is a sequel to ''Nalaya Manithan'' (1989). The film stars Gautami in the lead role, among others. Plot Gautam ...

''. He became an assistant musician to the ace director

K. Bhagyaraj Krishnasaamy Bhagyaraj (born 7 January 1953) is an Indian director, actor, screenwriter, music director, producer and politician active mainly in Tamil films. He has also written and directed Hindi and Telugu films and TV serials. As an actor, ...

in his film ''

Sundara Kandam ''Sundara Kandam'' () is 1992 Indian Tamil-language romantic comedy film, written and directed by K. Bhagyaraj, and produced by his wife Poornima. The film stars Bhagyaraj, Bhanupriya and Sindhuja. It revolves around a student (Sindhuja) who l ...

'' and even sang the title song 'EDHU PALLIKOODA VAYASU' in that film. Later he co-founded Software Solutions Integrated Limited (SSI), a premier Education and Training company of India, in 1991/92 before incepting Radiant Software Limited, another IT Training company in 1997, thus taking a break from film music. Manachanallur Giridharan relaunched his music interests in 2011 and has been releasing devotional albums since then. He acquired the Firth Grade certification in Western music from ''

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'' in 1991 and has specialized working knowledge in both South Indian Classical music and Western music. He is very fluent in

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'' and their ''

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'' and many of his compositions are based on Indian Classical ragas, thanks to

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Late Subramaniam Iyer, noted Carnatic music composer and vocalist who taught him the nuances of

in his younger years. Giridharan is also a singer since his college days and was part of the 2012 TekMusic Golden Jubilee Celebrations of

Music Works

S. Giridharan has remixed yesteryear classic melody of the film

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for his album on Lord Sakthi. The song INNAMUM PARA MUGAM originally sung by ''Nadippisai Pulavar K R Ramasamy'' was recreated by Giridharan who also rendered the song himself. Giridharan also remixed the song VADAVARAIYAI MATHAKKI, the age old classical done by

M. S. Subbulakshmi Madurai Shanmukhavadivu Subbulakshmi (16 September 1916 – 11 December 2004) was an Indian Carnatic singer from Madurai, Tamil Nadu. She was the first musician ever to be awarded the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour. She is ...

in his album on Lord Balaji and the song was rendered by

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. Following are the albums produced and released by Manachanallur Giridharan. His works are predominantly with singers viz.,

S. P. Balasubrahmanyam Sripathi Panditaradhyula Balasubrahmanyam (4 June 1946 – 25 September 2020), also referred to as SPB or SP Balu or Balu, was an Indian playback singer, television presenter, actor, music composer, dubbing artist, and film producer. He is wi ...

, Nithyasree Mahadevan,

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, and

Saindhavi Saindhavi is a Carnatic music vocalist and an Indian film playback singer. She has been performing from the age of 12. Personal life Saindhavi married her schoolmate, composer G. V. Prakash Kumar, on 27 June 2013 in Chennai, India. They were ...

: #''OM NAVA SAKTHI JAYA JAYA SAKTHI on Lord Sakthi'' #''AYYAN MALAI ENGAL MALAI on Lord Ayyappa'' #''VINDHAIGAL PURINDHAI NEE EN VAZHVILE on Lord Balaji of Tirumala'' #''UCHI PILLAIYARE CHARANAM on Lord Ganesha'' #''SABARIMALAI VA CHARANAM SOLLI VA on Lord Ayyappa'' #''ALILAYIL URANGUKINDRA MAYAKKANNANE on Lord Krishna'' #''AMBIGAI BALA KARTHIGAI RASA on Lord Muruga'' #''ANDATHILADANGA ANNAMALAIYE on Lord Arunachala of Thiruvannamalai'' #''VARUVAI VARALAKSHMI on Goddess Mahalakshmi'' #''SRI KAMAKOTI PEETAM ALUM MAHA PERIYAVA on Kanchi Paramacharya'' #''SRI RAMADOOTHAN on Lord Hanuman'' #''INTHA SOWKHYA on Carnatic Krithis by UNNIKRISHNAN live'' His works are there in www.raaga.com and www.galatta.com under devotional section. The songs are also in Youtube under the channel called GAANANJALI RECORDINGS. Giridharan owns currently a popular Voice Culture Training outfit called SINGKARO in Kodambakkam, chennai.

References

External links

Amman Album launchAlbum on Lord BalajiAyyappa album by GiridharanEdServ CEO launching album on Lord AyyappaGiridharan as EdServ CEO with ET
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