12-year-old city girl turns music director for new movie

Kochi: A 12-year-old city girl is aspiring to become India’s youngest music director as the audio of the song she has composed for an upcoming Malayalam movie was released at Ernakulam Press Club on Saturday. Shreya S Ajith, a Class VII student of St Paul’s International School, composed a song for the film ‘Kalluvazhayum Njaval Pazhavum’ directed by Dileep Thomas and its audio release was done by music directors Bijibal and Anil Johnson.
Shreya is the only daughter of music director Ajith Sukumaran and Sruthi Suresh, a professor at FISAT. Her passion for music began at a very young age and she proved it by composing a kid’s song when she was three-and-a-half-years old after getting inspired by her father. She started training in Carnatic music at the age of four and has composed several short songs, enabling her win the Indywood Best Child Musician Award at the age of nine.
“The initial tuning of my songs is mostly done during my travel and I roughly record the tunes in my mobile phone. Shreya keenly observed this ever since she was a baby and she herself recorded a kid’s song in my phone when she was three-and-a-half-years old. It was then we realized her passion for music. Later, that song was sung by the students of St Paul’s when they participated in Rajagiri Kids Fest. Shreya is very dedicated and she now knows how to play keyboard and the basics of various recording hardware and software,” said Sukumaran.
The song ‘Oru Vaakku Minduvan’ that was released on Saturday was composed by Shreya during the lockdown. Two other songs in the same film are composed by her father. “Shreya has composed several devotional song in the recent years. When she expressed her wish to compose a song for the new movie I signed up for, I let her do it. Lyricist Sasikala Menon wrote the lyrics. She composed the song a year ago and wanted to release it at the earliest,” said Sukumaran.
Shreya said she aspires to become a singer and musician. “I am so happy that I could complete the song. I am thankful to my parents and the musicians for the support they gave,” she said.