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Sujith Vasudevan (Sharreth) is a music director and singer. He predominantly composes film scores and songs for Malayalam films, but has gone on to compose for Tamil, Telugu and Hindi films.
Born as Sujith Vasudevann to Vasudevan and Indiradevi in Kollam, Kerala, India, Sharreth is a protégé of Carnatic music virtuoso M. Balamuralikrishna. He made his debut as a film composer in 1990 through the Malayalam language film ‘Kshanakkathu’. Prior to debuting as a composer, Sharreth had a sporadic presence as a playback singer for films. His first song was ‘Dum dum dum’, a duet with K. S. Chithra for the Malayalam film ‘Onningu Vannengil'(1985).
Sharreth debu in telugu was ‘Kalavaramaye Madilo’, then he composed songs for ‘180’, ‘Naa Bangaaru Talli’, ‘Drushyam’.
He won the Filmfare Award for the best music director in 2008. He won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Music Director in 2011 for the film ‘Ivan Megharoopan’. He was also the first recipient of the Kerala State Film Award for Best Classical Music Singer for his song Bhavayami in the film ‘Meghatheertham’. He was judges of Idea Star Singer, Amrita TV musical reality show Super Star – the Ultimate, Kairali TV Ghandharava sangeetham 2012, Mazhavil manorama Indian Voice season 2 and Indian Voice Juinor.
His memoir (written by Sanjeev Pillai) titled Aathmaraagam was published by Litmus Publications (an imprint of D C Books) in 2014. Now he is the permanent judge of Amrita TV musical reality show Superstar.
