Joshua Sridhar

Joshua Sridhar
Joshua Sridhar
Birth name	Sridhar
Born	9 March 1974 (age 50)
Genres	Film score, Film soundtrack
Occupation(s)	Film composer, Music director
Instrument(s)	Synthesizer, Electronic Keyboard, Vocal
Years active	2004 to present

Joshua Sridhar (born 1974 in Chennai, India)^[1] is an Indian composer.^[2]^[3] He made his debut on the runaway hit Tamil film Kaadhal which was released on 8 December 2004.^[1]^[4]

Early life and education

Joshua Sridhar was born in Chennai on 9 March 1974 to Saravanan and Rajalakshmi. He studied at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's Rajaji Vidyashram in Chennai from 1980 to 1990. After finishing High School he studied Western Classical Music for two years. He studied 8 Grades (Trinity College, London) in both Theory of Music and Piano. In 1993 he converted to Christianity and was baptised at Emmanuel Methodist Church (Chennai) and was given the name Joshua, the biblical character from the old testament. Not wanting to remove the name he was given at the time of birth he kept the name Sridhar and came to be known as Joshua Sridhar. In 2004 he came out of Christianity and now lives as Hindu.^{[citation needed]}

Career

Joshua Sridhar began his career in the year 1993 composing, arranging and programming music for gospel albums and jingles. In the year 1996, he entered Indian cinema. He worked as a keyboard player/programmer for many Indian film composers (notably Manisharma & A.R.Rahman) between 1996 and 2004. In 2004 made his film debut as composer of Kaadhal. The film was released on 8 December 2004.^[5]

Filmography

Year	Language^[6]				Notes
Year	Tamil	Telugu	Malayalam	Kannada	Notes
2004	Kaadhal •	Premisthe			Nominated for Filmfare Awards – Tamil
2005	Abhayam	Danger •
2006	Uyir •	Manohara
2006	Chennai Kadhal •	Prema
2006	Aran		Keerthi Chakra •		Won SICA Award for best Music Director – Malayalam
2006		Game •
2007				Arasu •
2007	Ninaithu Ninaithu Parthen •	Prema
2007	Kalloori •	Kalasala
2009				Love Guru	Nominated for Filmfare Awards — Kannada
2010				Gaana Bajaana	Nominated for Filmfare Awards — Kannada
2010				Huduga Hudugi
2010				Devadas
2011	Appavi
2011	Veppam •^[7]	Sega			Nominated for SIIMA Awards – Tamil^[8]
2011	Vithagan
2011	Yuvan	Keratam •
2012	Acham Thavir	Genius *
2013				Whistle
2013				Googly	Nominated for Filmfare Awards — Kannada^[9]
2014				Huchudugaru
2015	Pulan Visaranai 2
2015	Vellaiya Irukiravan Poi Solla Maatan
2016	54321
2016	Parandhu Sella Vaa				25th Film
2017				Rajahamsa
2018	Oru Kuppai Kathai
2019	July Kaatril
2019				Yaana

Notes:

The films are listed in order that the music released, regardless of the dates the film released.
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.

References

^ ^a ^b "Joshua Sridhar Biography". Oneindia.in. Greynium Information Technologies. Archived from the original on 16 August 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
^ Joshua Sridhar at IMDb
^ Suganth, M. (29 January 2011). "Joshua says no to spotlight!". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 11 September 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2013.
^ Suganth, M. (22 January 2011). "I don't believe in comebacks: Joshua". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 16 August 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
^ "Kollywood Music Director Joshua Sridhar Biography, News, Photos, Videos". nettv4u. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
^ "Joshua Sridhar Filmography". Oneindia.in. Greynium Information Technologies. Archived from the original on 16 August 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
^ Srinivasan, Pavitra (11 January 2011). "Veppam's album is no great shakes". Rediff.com. Archived from the original on 16 August 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
^ Ramchander (7 June 2012). "Ajith, Vikram, Surya nominated for SIIMA Best Actor". Oneindia.in. Greynium Information Technologies. Archived from the original on 16 August 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2014.
^ "61st Idea Filmfare Awards — Complete Nominations List". The Times of India. Bennett, Coleman and Co. 12 July 2014. Archived from the original on 16 August 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2014.