Santhosh Dhayanidhi

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

Santhosh Dhayanidhi is an Indian film composer and singer. He made his debut as a music composer through Inimey Ippadithan (2015).

Career

Dhayanidhi began his career in film music by working as a keyboard programmer for A. R. Rahman and worked with him for two years from the production of the albums to Kadal (2013) and Lingaa (2014). He simultaneously worked as a composer for TV commercials, notably for an ad promoting the Indian reality show Bigg Boss 8 . ^[1] Dhayanidhi made his debut as a composer with the film Inimey Ippadithan (2016) after being recommended to the producer by the lead actor Santhanam. Santhanam had heard about Dhayanidhi after looking for a debutant and being briefed about Santhosh by Kaushik, an employee at Sony Music India. ^{[2] [3]}

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 versions, if featuring in more languages
• ♦ indicates a remade version, the remaining ones being dubbed versions

Year	Tamil	Other language	Dubbed releases	Notes
2015	Inimey Ippadithan •
2016	Mo •
2017	Enakku Vaaitha Adimaigal •
	Kattappava Kanom •
	Madura Veeran •
2018	Raati (7UP Madras Gig song)			[4]
2019	Lisaa •		Lisaa (Telugu)
2019	Thumbaa •
2020	Danny •
2023	Baba Black Sheep			[5]
	Partner
2025	Paranthu Po †		Songs only	[6]

Playback singer

Year	Film	Songs	Notes
2015	Inimey Ippadithan	"Thaedi Odunaen"
2017	Enakku Vaaitha Adimaigal	"Ondroduthan Ondroga"
2021	Kutty Pattas •	"Kutty Pattas"

References

1. Subhakeerthana, s. (26 May 2015). "AR Rahman's apprentice makes his solo debut". Deccanchronicle.com. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
2. Srinivasan, Sudhir (23 May 2015). "Going commercial". The Hindu. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
3. "Music composer Santhosh Dhayanidhi on Anirudh singing in Enakku Vaaitha Adimaigal". 12 September 2016. Archived from the original on 29 January 2017. Retrieved 27 January 2017.
4. "Santhosh's 'Raati' is here". The Hindu. 27 June 2018. Archived from the original on 24 April 2025. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
5. "Baba Black Sheep review: A film with two different halves". The South First. 13 July 2023. Archived from the original on 24 April 2025. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
6. Kumar, Akshay (23 May 2025). "Aju Varghese makes his Tamil debut with Ram's Paranthu Po". Cinema Express. Retrieved 26 May 2025.

External links

• Santhosh Dhayanidhi on Twitter