Bindhu Malini

Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy or simply Bindhu Malini is an Indian singer, composer, and graphic designer. She has received National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer (2018)[1][2] and Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer - Kannada (2019) for her songs in the movie Nathicharami.[3] She has composed and recorded songs for films and albums in Tamil, Hindi, and Kannada languages.

Bindhu Malini
Malini in 2018
Born (1981-11-20) November 20, 1981
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
NationalityIndian
Alma materNational Institute of Design
Occupation
  • singer
  • composer
  • graphic designer
Spouse(s)Vasu Dixit
Musical career
Genres
InstrumentsVocals
LabelsIndependent Artist

Personal life

Malini was born in Chennai in a musical family. Her mother N. Vishalakshi is a graded Akasvani Carnatic singer and grandmother Seetha Doraiswamy was a known Jal Tarang instrumentalist.[4] She holds a degree in Graphic design from the National Institute of Design.[5]

Malini married Vasu Dixit, a vocalist from Bangalore, who runs a folk-rock fusion music band called Swarathma.[6]

Career

Trained both in Carnatic and Hindustani music, Malini was influenced by the poems of saint Kabir and the songs of Kumar Gandharva.[6]

Malini's album ‛Suno Bhai’, a collection of Saint Kabir's poems, was a collaboration with Vedanth Bharadwaj.[6]

As composer

Malini scored music for the 2016 Tamil movie Aruvi with Vedanth Bharadwaj.[7] In Kannada, she first collaborated with Ananya Kasaravalli and scored music for the movie ‛Harikatha Prasanga’[4] which won Best Film award at the 9th edition of Bangalore International Film Festival, 2017.[8] In 2018, Malini composed music for the movie Nathicharami which brought her a National award.[2] Incidentally, most of her movies were women-centric.

Awards

Filmography
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In her movies as composer, most of the songs sung by Malini herself.

Year Film Singer Composer(s) Language(s)
2016 Aruvi Y Y (in collaboration with Vedanth Bharadwaj) Tamil
2017

Harikatha Prasanga

 Y Y Kannada
2018

Nathicharami

 Y Y Kannada

See also

References
  1. "National film awards-Kannada film Nathicharami dominates 2019 list". IndiaToday.in. Aug 9, 2019.
  2. Sudevan, Praveen (2019-08-23). "Music composer Bindhu Malini on scoring for National award-winning 'Nathicharami'". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  3. "Bindhu Malini cheered on by mother as she picked her filmfare award". Times of India. Dec 23, 2019.
  4. Yerasala, Ikyatha (2019-08-28). "Song sung true". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
  5. "Playback singer Bindhu Malini". nettv4u.com.
  6. "Confluence of Sound". Deccan Chronicle.
  7. "Meet composers behind the film Aruvi". The NewsMinute.com. Dec 22, 2017.
  8. "Harikatha Prasanga bags top honour at BIIF". Bangalore Mirror. Feb 10, 2017.
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