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Archived from the original on 8 November 2012. Archived from the original on 18 November 2012. ^ "Know your stars: Shakthisree Gopalan".Archived from the original on 22 October 2018. ^ "Narrow-minded and insensitive: Singer Shakthisree Gopalan on Rahman concert walk out".Nominated - SIIMA Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Tamil - "Bhoomi Bhoomi" - Chekka Chivantha Vaanam.Nominated - Vijay Award for Best Female Playback Singer - "Naan Nee" - Madras.Nominated - Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Tamil - "Naan Nee" - Madras.Won - Vijay Award for Best Female Playback Singer - "Nenjukkulle" - Kadal.Won - Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Tamil - "Nenjukkulle" - Kadal.Discography įilmography As a dubbing artist Year She has won the Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Tamil and the Vijay Award for Best Female Playback Singer for singing "Nenjukkulle" from Kadal. She also released ‘By Your Side’ in December 2016, in which she collaborated with Hari Dafusia, a Toronto-based keyboardist-producer, and Nigel Roopnarine, a bass player. She has also been a backlisted vocalist for many A R Rahman compositions.Īpart from playback singing for movies, she also collaborated with Prashanth and released an indie single called Begin in November 2017. She subsequently went on to record a number of songs for films such as "Irumbukottai Murattu Singham", "Kattradhu Kalavu". She also got to jam the unplugged version of her Tamil film song "Nenjukkule" from the film Kadal with A R Rahman. However, the title track for the composer's Bollywood film, Jab Tak Hai Jaan (2012) released first.
That's when she got a break to sing 'Nenjikulle' for the movie Kadal, the first song that she recorded in her career. It was around that time she shared the music she had composed with him. Shaktisree met A R Rahman when she got an assignment to design his music school, K M Music Conservatory. "Off the Record" consists of Vikram Vivekanand (Guitar), Satish Narayanan (Bass) and Tapas Naresh/Vinay Ramakrishnan (Drums). In the year 2014, she performed in MCC (Madras Christian College) cultural fest at Deepwoods and National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli cultural fest Festember, SASTRA University cultural fest Kuruksastra'14, VIT University cultural fest Riviera 14 and Madras Institute of Technology cultural fest Mitafest 15. She was placed third in the Chennai Live's Band hunt. After having won the "SS Music Voice Hunt " title in the year 2008, Gopalan debuted into film playback in the same year. Career Īt the age of 13, Shakthisree Gopalan was already trained in the field of Carnatic music and rock. She was first auditioned in November 2008 and got the opportunity to sing her debut song for the film Taxi 4777. Eventually in 2008, she won the second season of SS Music's Voice Hunt. Since she was under 18, it ended with the auditions.
During her 11th standard, SS Music conducted Voice Hunt 1. She was trained in Carnatic music for 13 years. She moved to Chennai after her school and pursued her degree in architecture at the Anna University's School of Architecture and Planning. She did her schooling in Rajagiri Public School, Kalamassery. I won’t be forgetting the shooting experience of Richie for more reasons than one.Shakthisree Gopalan was born and brought up in Kochi, Kerala. But I managed to keep cool and speak like a professional. “It was an overwhelming experience as I’ve always been a big admirer of him. It was only later when the director asked her to meet Nivin that Shraddha realised she had actually seen the actor. So, instead of greeting him, I just turned around and began learning my lines,” she laughs. But as Nivin wasn’t due for the shoot that day, I thought I’d probably imagined the whole thing, or that it was someone else. “I looked up from my script, and saw the man smiling at me as he passed by. Shraddha, who was sitting in the backyard of the house, was learning her lines, when someone who looked ‘a lot like Nivin Pauly’ waved at her. The unit had started shooting in a house in Courtallam. The film also got her meeting Nivin Pauly, her co-star in the film and a long-term favourite. “I tried karakuzhambu for the first time, on the recommendation of director Gautham Ramachandran. As luck would have it, Shraddha, who plays a journalist in Richie, had to put up with the smell of fish all through the shoot which happened extensively along the coastline.