Santhosh Dhayanidhi

Santhosh Dhayanidhi
Born	Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Occupation(s)	Film composer, music director
Instrument(s)	keyboard/piano

Santhosh Dhayanidhi is an Indian film composer and singer. He made his debut as a music composer through Santhanam's comedy film, Inimey Ippadithan (2015), winning critical acclaim for his song compositions and background score.

Career

Santhosh Dhayanidhi began his career in film music by working as a keyboard programmer for A. R. Rahman, and worked with the director for two years from the production of the albums to Kadal (2013) and Lingaa (2014). He simultaneously worked as a composer for television commercials, notably for an advertising promoting the Indian reality show Bigg Boss 8.

Santhosh made his debut as a composer with the comedy film Inimey Ippadithan (2016) after being recommended to the producer by the lead actor Santhanam. Santhanam had heard about Santhosh after looking for a debutant and being briefed about Santhosh by Kaushik, an employee at Sony Music India.

Discography

Released soundtracks

• The year next to the title of the affected films indicates the release year of the either dubbed or remade version in the named language later than the original version.
• • indicates original language release. Indicates simultaneous makes, if featuring in more languages
• ♦ indicates a remade version, the remaining ones being dubbed versions

Year	Tamil	Notes
2015	Inimey Ippadithan •
2016	Mo •
2017	Enakku Vaaitha Adimaigal •
	Kattappava Kanom •
	Madura Veeran
2018	Lisaa

Playback singer

Year	Film	Songs	Notes
2015	Inimey Ippadithan	"Thaedi Odunaen"
2017	Enakku Vaaitha Adimaigal	"Ondroduthan Ondroga"

External links

• Santhosh Dhayanidhi on X