Sundar C. Babu

Sundar C. Babu
Sundar C. Babu
Born	Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Genres	Film score
Occupations	Composer, music director, singer
Years active	2004–present

Sundar C. Babu is an Indian musician who composes music for Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films. He is the son of veena vidhwan Dr. Chitti Babu and Sudakshina Devi, and his brothers are Rangasai and Radhakrishnan. Under his father's guidance, Babu began his film composing career in 2006 with the Malayalam film Chacko Randaaman. He gained recognition with his Tamil debut in Chithiram Pesuthadi in the same year. The song "Vaala Meenukkum" from this film became popular, and since then, he has composed music for various films. His work in Telugu films started with the film Shambo Shiva Shambo. He studied at Alpha School.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Discography[edit]

Year	Tamil	Other Languages	Notes
2004	Vaanam Vasappadum		Credited as co-music director
2006		Chacko Randaaman (Malayalam)
2006	Chithiram Pesuthadi
2008	Anjathey	Sneham (Telugu) Anjadiru (Kannada)
2008	Panchamirtham
2009	Nadodigal	Shambo Shiva Shambo (Telugu)
2010	Sindhu Samaveli
2010	Azhagaana Ponnuthan	Highschool (Telugu)
2010	Agam Puram
2010	Viruthagiri
2011	Aadu Puli
2011	Thoonga Nagaram
2011	Shiva Poojayil Karadi		Film unreleased Only songs released
2011	Agarathi		Film unreleased Only songs released
2011	Poraali	Sangarshana (Telugu)
2011	Markandeyan
2012	Chaarulatha	Charulatha(Telugu, Kannada)
2013		Rangrezz (Hindi) film	Two songs and background score only. Hindi remake of Naadodigal
2016	Atti^[4]		Also distributor
2024	Kaa – The Forest

References[edit]

^ S. R. Ashok kumar (24 January 2011). "Hitting the high notes". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 20 May 2024.
^ "Sundar C Babu's mom passes away – Tamil Movie News". IndiaGlitz. Archived from the original on 7 April 2011. Retrieved 12 March 2012.
^ "வாள மீனு பிறந்த கதை!". Kalki (in Tamil). 23 April 2006. p. 80. Retrieved 17 March 2024.
^ "IndiaGlitz - 'Anjaadhe' music director makes a comeback - Tamil Movie News". Archived from the original on 26 July 2014.

[1] S. R. Ashok kumar (24 January 2011). "Hitting the high notes". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 7 February 2023. Retrieved 20 May 2024.

[2] "Sundar C Babu's mom passes away – Tamil Movie News". IndiaGlitz. Archived from the original on 7 April 2011. Retrieved 12 March 2012.

[3] "வாள மீனு பிறந்த கதை!". Kalki (in Tamil). 23 April 2006. p. 80. Retrieved 17 March 2024.

[4] "IndiaGlitz - 'Anjaadhe' music director makes a comeback - Tamil Movie News". Archived from the original on 26 July 2014.

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v t e Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Music Director
1968-1980	M. S. Viswanathan (1968) K. V. Mahadevan (1969) Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan (1970) Not awarded (1971-1976) Ilaiyaraaja (1977) M. S. Viswanathan (1978) Shankar–Ganesh (1979) Ilaiyaraaja (1980)
1981-2000	Ilaiyaraaja (1981) M. S. Viswanathan (1982) Not awarded (1983-1987) Ilaiyaraaja (1988,1989) Deva (1990) M. M. Keeravani (1991) A. R. Rahman (1992,1993,1994) Deva (1995) A. R. Rahman (1996) S. A. Rajkumar (1997) Bobby (1998) A. R. Rahman (1999) Deva (2000)
2001-present	Vidyasagar (2001) Sirpy (2002) Harris Jayaraj (2003) Srikanth Deva (2004) Harris Jayaraj (2005) Yuvan Shankar Raja (2006) Vidyasagar (2007) Ilaiyaraaja (2008) Sundar C. Babu (2009) Yuvan Shankar Raja (2010) Harris Jayaraj (2011) D. Imman (2012) Ramesh Vinayakam (2013) A. R. Rahman (2014) Ghibran (2015)