Shreeraj Kurup (

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:श्रीराज कुरूप,

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:ശ്രീരാജ് കുറുപ്പ്) is a poet and lyricist from

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. He is known for writing the lyrics of Mujhme ''Hindi Cover of Malare'', ''Ye Chahte'', ''Pass ho tum'', etc.

Early life

Shreeraj was born in

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parents Surendran Kurup and Vijay Laxmi. He attended

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and holds a

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in Mechanical Engineering. After completing the graduation course, he started working in

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. He Launched his own

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Channel with the name Shreeraj Kurup-Official and started publishing his work. He started off by tweaking lyrics of popular

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. His cover of hit number ''Nenjodu Cherthu'' is also popular on YouTube. He also wrote the Hindi and Malayalam lyrics for ''Tum hi ho-Multilingual'' which became a hit on YouTube. But it was the

and

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cover of a Malayalam song ''Malare'' from the movie

Premam ''Premam'' (transl. Love) is a 2015 Indian Malayalam-language coming of age romance film written and directed by Alphonse Puthren. Produced by Anwar Rasheed, it features Nivin Pauly and Sai Pallavi in the prominent roles. The plot follows Geor ...

which made him popular. ''Malare Hindi'', within few days upon release became popular on social media. The song was published in many leading newspapers all praising his work. His style of writing is always compared to that of Javed Aktar.

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* * * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:kurup, Shreeraj 1990 births Living people Indian male poets Urdu-language poets Indian lyricists Hindi-language writers Hindi-language lyricists Hindi-language poets Indian male songwriters Poets from Delhi