Best Music Direction – 2004 – “Kal Ho Naa Ho” (National Film Awards).

Kerala State Film Award for Best Singer – 2008.

Nandi Award for Best Male Playback Singer – 2008.

Best Male Playback Singer – 2012 – “Bolo na” – Chittagong (National Film Awards).

Best Male Playback Singer – 2000 – “Maa” – Taare Zameen Par (National Film Awards).

Best Male Playback Singer – 2000 – “Yenna Solla Pogirai” (National Film Awards).

His performances have earned him 4 national awards for playback singing. Mahadevan has worked with all the established musicians across all the film industries. There songs like ‘Mitwa’, ‘Sapno se bhare Naina’ are a few examples of such experimentations. Being part of the trio Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy, these musicians feel that its their inherent responsibility to acquaint Indian audiences with Carnatic music. As a composer, Shankar Mahadevan believes that there is still vast scope of experimentation with classical music in movies. His powerful voice and years of hard work in learning classical music has certainly helped him in hitting notes that leaves the audiences amazed. Since then, there has no looking back for Shankar delivering strong performances one after another. His first notable performance came in form of the eponymous track of his first album Breathless released in the year 1998. He had a brief stint working in the software industry but his love music prevailed and forced him to venture into music.

The inclination towards music didn’t stop him to get a degree in Engineering in Computer Science.

While visiting his uncle’s house, he laid his hands on Harmonium and started playing. The musical journey for Shankar Mahadevan started at an early age of 4. School: Our Lady of Perpetual Succour High School (OLPS) and SIES college of Arts, Commerce and ScienceĬollege: Ramrao Adik Institute of Technology, Navi Mumbai Hindustani classical Music, Carnatic Music and Singer (Playback Singing) and composer (Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy trio)

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