Santhosh Dhayanidhi is an Indian

film composer A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film. The score comprises a number of orchestral, instrumental, or choral pieces called cues, which are timed to begin and end at specific points during the film in order to ...

and singer. He made his debut as a music composer through ''

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'' (2015).

Career

Dhayanidhi began his career in film music by working as a keyboard programmer for

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and worked with him for two years from the production of the albums to '' Kadal'' (2013) and ''

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'' (2014). He simultaneously worked as a composer for TV commercials, notably for an ad promoting the Indian reality show ''

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''. Dhayanidhi made his debut as a composer with the film ''

'' (2016) after being recommended to the producer by the lead actor

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. Santhanam had heard about Dhayanidhi after looking for a debutant and being briefed about Santhosh by Kaushik, an employee at

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Discography

Released soundtracks

* The year next to the title of the affected films indicates the release year of the either dubbed or remade version in the named language later than the original version. * • indicates original language release. Indicates simultaneous versions, if featuring in more languages * ♦ indicates a remade version, the remaining ones being dubbed versions

Playback singer

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Dhayanidhi, Santhosh Living people Musicians from Chennai Tamil film score composers Indian male film score composers Year of birth missing (living people)