This story is from March 12, 2023
One music director with three trade names who's now the rage in America
The song is now shortlisted for the Academy Awards in the Best Song category.
Keeravani was awarded the Padma Shri recently after which he won the Golden Globe award, LACFA award, national award for best music director and also won 11 Nandi awards for best music director in the Telugu film industry.
Born on July 4, 1961, Keeravani is the son of Koduri Shiva Shakti Datta, a renowned lyricist, and nephew of screen writer and director, V. Vijayendraprasad. His elder son Kaala Bhairava is a singer and has sung for several works of Keeravani, including 'Naatu Naatu'. His younger son has also made his debut in the music industry with the movie, Mathu Vadalara.
Keeravani's big break came in the blockbuster movie, �Kshana Kshanam' of Ram Gopal Varma that established him as a music director. All the songs became major hits and led to Keeravani being catapulted to the big league.
Incidentally, Keeravani's wife M.M. Srivalli is the elder sister of Rajamouli's wife, Rama Rajamouli.
He also assisted veteran lyricist Veturi for almost one year and had gone on record stating that Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan and John Williams are musicians who have had an influence on him.
In 1997 he won the national best music director award for the movie, 'Annamaya'. He had also won a Tamil Nadu state award for the best music director in 1991 for the movie, 'Azhagan'.
His major works are in the movies 'Kshanam Kshanam' (1991), 'Seetharamayya Gari Manavaralu' (1991), 'Gharana Mogadu' (1992), 'Soorya Manasam' (1992), 'Varasadu' (1993), 'Allari Priyyudu' (1993), 'Criminal' (1994), 'Shiva Sankalpam' (1995), 'Devaragam (1996), 'Baahubali', both parts (2015 and 2017) and 'RRR' (2023).
Keeravani, who is known as M.M. Kreem in Bollywood, has a new movie coming up and it is the Ajay Devgn, Tabu-starrer �Auron Mein Kahan Dum Tha'. He has composed music for other Hindi movies such as '12 O'Clock' of Mithun Chakraborty, 'Missing', 'Baby', 'Special', 'Makkhi' and 'Lahore', to name a few.
Industry sources told IANS that M.M. Keeravani/M.M. Kreem is now one of the most sought after music directors in the Hindi film industry.
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As we all know and have always been saying that art and artists have no language boundaries and talent is always universal. The below songs will prove that once again saying that music is also universal and it is only the sense of rhythm that makes people connect with it and its people irrespective of their race, region and culture. Since the current trend is about the Telugu song ‘Naatu Naatu’ going viral and it is nominated for the Oscars under the ‘Best Original song’ category at the 95th Academy Awards, let us have a look at a few more Telugu songs that made Foreign audiences go crazy in the past...!
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Tollywood music director Devisri Prasad who is popular for funky and peppy dance numbers in Indian cinema has composed this music for Allu Arjun starrer and Sukumar directorial 'Pushpa' and if the film is a Pan-India blockbuster hit, its music is Pan-world superhit. If don’t believe me check this…!
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Link to its original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txHO7PLGE3o
Link to its Intl fans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8jcSwlh7bo
The film was directed by Purijaganath starring JrNTR in dual roles and Rakshita as the lady lead. The film has its music composed by
Chakri and the song crooned by himself is a blockbuster hit at the time of its release. In later times it has become popular as it reached abroad and this is how foreigners reacted to the JrNTR's song..!
Link to the Original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNS77i3Mke8
Link to Japanese fans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9QcTtcCsKU
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Everyone knows what a hit movie was ‘Baahubali2; The conclusion at the Indian box office, not just the movie, but the film’s songs also went viral with foreigners despite not knowing its meaning, and this is how they learned and started performing it.
Link to the original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlkNcHDFnGA
Link to the Indonesians fans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ix3_j8sjZwE
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Can you imagine a Poland child who is not even 10 years of age is getting a Telugu song mugged up and reciting it live on a talk show, and this song is from Naga Chaitanya and Sai Pallavi’s film ‘Love story’ which has its music composed by Pawan CH.
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Link to the original song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gwW_JWKLxk
Link to its Intl fans:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEfB3SbOVIc&t=165s
This is yet another song from Naga Chaitanya’s film ‘Love Story directed by Shekar Kammula that starred Sai Pallavi as the female lead.
More than the movie, the film songs went viral and have become a superhit not just with Indians but Koreans as well check this…!
Link to the song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ozmyl1ZEyY
Link to the intl fans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxW7UQz4bSc
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The above old Telugu song is often used by several TV channels and YouTubers for its satirical and funny lyrics. This is a very old Telugu song
from a film titled ‘Erra Mallelu’ Directed by Dhavala Satyam.
Link to the song:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P74eDQR-hU
Link to Intl auience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=z3Hdw6r7Rfk
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This superhit song from Venkatesh’s ‘Gharshana’ is a remake of the Tamil film ‘Kaaka Kaaka’ starring Suriya and Jyothika in the lead roles, where Asin played the female lead in Telugu. The film’s music composed by Harris Jayaraj is ever green that is played on music channels continuously even today.
Link to original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M41dsbRO6dQ
Link to West fans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAnaIoZatn8
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This is one of the most popular songs in South Indian movies, it is often used to make fun of horror subjects or for pranks and parody songs. The
the song was originally composed in the ‘Chandramukhi’ film by director P.Vasu that starred Rajinikanth and Jyothika the film was also a blockbuster hit besides its songs going viral.
Link to the song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94dxGOen_fg
Link to Intl fans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmsDCmJqfK4
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This song is adapted from a Telangana folk song by DRC Sunil and it was later adapted into a film by Sai Kartheek that is directed by Anil Ravipudi and not just the film song, the film is also very successful in Tollywood and its song has gone viral as shown below…!
Link to the song: https://youtu.be/57T6RruDUFI
Its Intl audience : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rPOrM0D7ZA
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