Karthik (singer)

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Karthik (born 7 November 1980) is an Indian playback singer. Karthik started his professional career as a backing vocalist and has since been working as a playback singer. He has sung in multiple languages including Telugu( over 500 songs), Kannada( over 300 songs), Tamil( over 1000 songs) and in other languages like Malayalam, Bengali and Hindi. Karthik is known for his versatility in the industry which gave him opportunity to sing a variety of songs.

Biography

Karthik developed an interest in music, early in his life. He is a trained Carnatic music vocalist and has been training since his school days. He was part of a college band and regularly participated in IIT Madras Fest Saarang. An ardent fan of A. R. Rahman, Karthik's dream was to meet Rahman and sing for him. Playback singer Srinivas, who collaborated often with Rahman was Karthik's close friend's cousin. Srinivas encouraged Karthik to look at singing as a career, which prompted Karthik to resume his singing lessons. One year later, Srinivas recommended Karthik's name to Rahman, who needed fresh voices for backing vocalists for a song from Pukar. Karthik eventually got the opportunity and recorded for the song. Having spent over a year being a backing vocalist, Karthik got his break during the re-recording of One 2 Ka 4. For the background score, A. R. Rahman wanted a high-pitched alap and he eventually chose Karthik to sing the alap. Soon after, Rahman asked him to sing the song "Nendhukittaen" from the film Star.

Alludu Seenu

Alludu Seenu (English Translation: Son-in-law Seenu) is a 2014 Telugu action-comedy film directed by V. V. Vinayak. Produced by Bellamkonda Suresh on his banner Sri Lakshmi Narasimha Productions, the film marks the debut of his son Bellamkonda Sreenivas as a hero with Samantha Ruth Prabhu, Brahmanandam and Prakash Raj playing important roles while Tamannaah made a special appearance by dancing in an item number.Devi Sri Prasad composed the music for this film while Chota K. Naidu and Gautham Raju handled the cinematography and editing of the film respectively.

The film revolves around three characters - Alludu Sreenu, Narasimha and the latter's look alike gangster Bhai. The former duo are thugs who land in Hyderabad after a failed escape to Chennai from their village. When Sreenu bumps into Bhai, he seizes the opportunity and makes use of his Personal Assistant Dimple to earn some quick money and also falls in love with Bhai's daughter Anjali. But a horrifying truth separates the lovers and the rest of the film deals with what the truth was and the consequences of the truth and how Sreenu wins Anjali's heart using Dimple.

Karthik

Karthik (hindi : कार्तिक) is a Hindu/Sanskrit Indian popular masculine given name, which means "light", "happiness", "success" and "strength".

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Seenu

Seenu may refer to:

Arjun Chandy

Arjun Chandy is an Indo-American singer, arranger, studio vocalist and vocal group coach from Dallas, Texas. He is trained in Carnatic, Hindustani and Western music that he studied and performed for over twenty years throughout the United States, India and Singapore.

Career

Chandy hails from a family where his grandmother was a Carnatic singer. Further he was trained in Hindustani singing. During his school days, he learnt to read music and studied music theory, joining the school choir. According to him, it helped to understand western classical music. When Chandy was 14, he started singing for a quartet in the school.

At the age of 15, he started working professionally, conducting and arranging music for groups in United States. Later, he went became a part of The Vocal Majority in the U.S., a national award-winning vocal group. Arjun Chandy was roped in the formation of "NAFS- The Band" when A. R. Rahman called him to Chennai at the end of 2013. Chandy is presently the band's director and conductor. He spent a year and a half post 2013 to train the band.