17 Facts About Santhosh Narayanan

Santhosh Narayanan is an Indian composer and musician in the Tamil film industry.

Santhosh Narayanan composed music and songs for some Telugu and Malayalam movies.

Santhosh Narayanan was educated at RSK Higher Secondary School, Tiruchirappalli.

Santhosh Narayanan composed the music including two original songs for the Telugu short film Advaitham, Santhosh Narayanan was part of the contemporary folk music band "La Pongal" in which he performed in a few live shows in 2009.

Santhosh Narayanan made his debut as an independent music director in the 2012 Tamil film Attakathi directed by Pa.

Santhosh Narayanan composed a song in the Gaana genre for the film, "Aadi Pona Aavani", and gave a then-unknown Gana Bala, who had been singing gaana songs at funerals until then, the chance to sing it.

All three albums, Attakathi, Uyir Mozhi and Pizza were recorded and mastered by Leon Zervos at Studios 301 in Sydney Australia; furthermore, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra had performed for the soundtrack of Pizza, which saw Santhosh Narayanan collaborating with Gana Bala again, albeit on a Blues number this time.

For Uyir Mozhi, some of the songs Santhosh Narayanan had scored for a private album were used by the director.

Santhosh Narayanan won accolades that year: the Jaya TV 2012 award for Sensational Debutant Music Director for Attakathi, and the Big Tamil Melody Award for Best Debut Music director for Pizza.

Santhosh Narayanan worked on the black comedy film Soodhu Kavvum directed by the Director Nalan Kumarasamy next.

Santhosh Narayanan had four soundtracks released that year, the first being the album to the romantic drama Cuckoo.

Cuckoo's soundtrack was highly appreciated by critics who called it an "alluring and immersive album" and "the best soundtrack that composer Santhosh Narayanan has produced yet".

In May 2017, Santhosh Narayanan signed for Kaala, his second film for Superstar Rajinikanth.

Santhosh Narayanan was involved with Dulquer Salmaan's 2021 Malayalam film Salute, before being replaced by Jakes Bejoy.

Santhosh Narayanan composed the soundtrack and film's score for Sarpatta Parambarai; It marked the composer's fifth consecutive film with Pa.

Santhosh Narayanan worked with Maajja on independent music as Enjoy Enjami sung by Arivu, Dhee and himself which clocked 19 million views within one week of release making it the highest watched Tamil music video album and keeping now at 296 million views.

Santhosh Narayanan's upcoming releases are Anel Meley Pani Thuli, Gulu Gulu and Buffoon in Tamil, Project K in Telugu and Pathonpatham Noottandu and Anweshippin Kandethum in Malayalam.