Music Director Deva Profile

Deva, born November 20, 1950 as Devanesan is an Indian film composer and singer. He is widely acknowledged as the ‘Father of Gaana Genre’ in Tamil moviedom.
Deva born to the couple M.C.Chokkalingam , M.C.Krishnaveni.

At the small age, Deva was attracted towards the world of music. Teaming with Chandra Bose, he staged so many musical programmes. He started learning classical music under Dhanraj and successfully finished a course in Western music conducted by London Trinity Music college.

Before coming to cinema, Deva worked for some time in the television field. In those days Deva’s brothers were working in the musical troupes of Illayaraja and other music directors as instrumentalists. But Deva took special interests for self-improvement in his profession and at the same time he was looking for chances to enter movies but this din’t benefited him.

Only after much hardship Deva managed to enter the field with the help of some friends and his four brothers. Just after his entry, the production work of those films, for which negotiations were on for fixing Deva as the music director, could not get completed and some other films with his music could not be released at all.

Deva continued his efforts to knock every polls and pillars for an opening which finally began yielding results, His first film, Manasukkeththa Maharaasaa.
He was then called to work on the movie Vaikaasi Poranthaachu. This film was a huge hit and Deva was praised for his work. After the release his name became known throughout the Tamil community.

Music director Deva has the reputation of having composed music for so many number of films more than 400 within the ambit of a very short period! which include Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam films

Deva is also famous for his compositions for religious films. He was widely acclaimed for his scores for Rajinikanth starrer Basha. His other famous compositions include Annamalai and Baasha, both starring Rajnikanth.

Deva’s son Srikanth Deva is also a music director, as are his brothers, who have formed the duo Sabesh-Murali. His nephew Jai is an actor.

Deva has composed songs and provided background music for [Tamil] films in a career spanning about 20 years.

One of the major criticisms against Deva is plagiarism. He is known for lifting snippets and sometimes even the full song from famous old and recent English pop songs and using them as his own.

Deva has recently made a special appearance in the film,”Modhi Vilayadu”.

Famous veteran music director M.S.Viswanathan conferred Deva with title, “Thenisai Thentral” for his contributions.

Awards:

First ‘Best Music Director’ Award from Tamilnadu Government.
Confined with Tamilnadu Government’s ‘Kalai Maamani Award’
‘Best Music Director’ award for the film “Aasai” .
Tamilnadu Arts and Cultural Academy award for the film Basha.

Deva also been honoured by awards from popular journals like “Dinakaran”, “Cinema Express” and “Screen”.

Filmography:

123  ( Telugu )
Bet  ( Telugu )
Cara Majaka  ( Telugu )
Premabandham  ( Telugu )
Vedha Nayagan  ( Tamil )
Udhaya Neram  ( Tamil )
Olave Mandara  ( Kannada )
Magudikkaran  ( Tamil )
Rajadhurai  ( Tamil )
Sendhoorapandi  ( Tamil )
Annamalai  ( Tamil )
Kizhakku Karai  ( Tamil )

Original Name  : Devanesan
Film Name        : Deva
Date Of Birth    : 1950-11-20
Place Of Birth   : TamilNadu, India
Profession        : Music Director
Debut Movie    : Manasukkeththa Maharaasaa.