1. Thaman S is the recipient of the National Film Award for Best Music Direction for his work in the 2020 musical hit Ala Vaikuntapuramulo.
17 Facts About Thaman S
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Thaman S is known for his frequent collaborations with Ravi Teja, Surender Reddy, Sreenu Vaitla, Trivikram Srinivas, and Boyapati Srinu.
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Thaman S was born as Ghantasala Sai Srinivas in a Telugu family of musicians in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh and grew up in Chennai.
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Thaman S's father, Ghantasala Siva Kumar, was a drummer, who worked for seven hundred films, under music director K Chakravarthy.
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Sai Srinivas adopted the stage name Thaman S and suffixed it with an S, the initial of his father's name Sivakumar.
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Thaman S's father was his first teacher, who was an accomplished drummer who worked with the likes of legendary percussionist Sivamani.
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Thaman S entered Telugu cinema as a supporting drummer at the age of 11 when he accompanied his father for the background score for the film Bhairava Dweepam in 1994.
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Thaman S performed in 7000 stage shows all over the world before becoming a music director.
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Thaman S worked for 64 Indian music directors as a rhythm box player, keyboard programmer and drummer for 900 films before he became a film music director.
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Thaman S made his acting debut with one of India's most celebrated directors Shankar's Boys.
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Thaman S joined a music team consisting of S P Balasubrahmanyam and G Anand as a rhythm pads player when he was nine years old, and discontinued studies at the age of 13 when his father died.
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Thaman S was compelled to make his hobby into a profession to overcome the crisis in his family.
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Thaman S considers Mani Sharma to be his guru and spent eight years under his tutelage, while working on 94 films with him.
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Thaman S made his debut as a composer in through the Telugu feature film Malli Malli, although the soundtrack album was released in 2008.
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Thaman S has made his playback singing debut by recording "Uchimeedhu" song from the soundtrack.
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In May 2017, Thaman S made his Hindi debut when he was one of the six composers who featured in the soundtrack album of Rohit Shetty's Golmaal Again, a comedy franchise in Hindi cinema.
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Thaman S is a Cricket player, part of CCL and owns a team called Thaman Hitters.