Saluri Koteswara Rao ,KOTi ,is an Indian composer notable for his work in the South Indian film industry. He has composed music for more than 475 movies in Telugu, Tamil, and Kannada. The son of music director Saluri Rajeswara Rao, in early 1980s Koti teamed with Somaraju (Raj), son of T.V.Raju, and the resulting duo was known as Raj-Koti.He won Nandi Award for Best Music Director for the film Hello Brother (1994).
He started his music career as an assistant to music director K. Chakravarthy[citation needed] Composers like Mani Sharma and A. R. Rahman worked as assistants with Koti during the initial part of their career.Roshan Saluri, son of Koti is also introduced as film score composer.Another son Rajeev Saluri started his career as an actor.
