Deva (music director)

Music Director DEVA Music director Deva has the reputation of having composed music for so many number of films within the ambit of a very short period! He got introduced as film music director through the picture "Manasukkeththa Maharaasaa", in the year 1989. In the intervening 10 years he has composed music for a total of more than 600 films! Deva, whose original name was Devanesan, was born to the couple M.C.Chokkalingam-M.C.Krishnaveni, the date of birth being 20-11-1950. Even at the small age, Deva was attracted towards the world of music. Teaming with Chandra Bose, he staged so many musical programmes. He started learning classical music under Dhanraj and successfully finished a course in Western music conducted by London Trinity Music college! Before coming to Cinema, Deva worked for some time in the Television field. In those days Deva's brothers were working in the musical troupes of Ilayaraja and other music directors as instrumentalists. But Deva, as he was taking special interests for self-improvement in his profession was also at the same time looking for chances to enter into cinefield. But the benefits of those efforts didn't bear fruits that much easily. Only after so much hardship he managed to enter the field with the help of some friends. Just after his entry, the production work of those films, for which negotiations were on for fixing Deva as the music director, couldn't get completed and some other films with his music couldn't be released at all! Yet, without getting upset, Deva had been continuing his efforts which finally began yielding results! The first film, with Deva's music direction, that was releaesd was "Manasukkeththa Maharaasaa". This film didn't popularize Deva to the expected level! The second film released was "Vaikaasi Poranthaachu", which spread his name even to the nooks and corners of the state! Only after that so many film companies came to book Deva for their projects. So far he has composed music for more than 400 films which include Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films. Yet, he hasn't given up composing music also for 'bhakthi' films! Above all, Deva composed music for the films acted by Tamil cinema's important personality, Super Star Rajinikanth, which added to the great popularity of Deva. There's an important reason also for the cinefield's great personalities opting for Deva for composing music for their films! It's this: fame couldn't blind his eyes and he never forgets people. He mingles with them with humane approach! As a result, he composed music for "Annaamalai", "Bhaashaa", "Arunachalam" and wrote new success history, rising to the No. 1 spot among the music directors in Tamil. Deva is a music director and music composer in the Tamil film industry. Many know his gaana pattu (songs in which the lyrics have little or no substance, written mostly using Madras bashai). He is widely acknowledged as the 'Father of Gaana Genre' in Tamil moviedom
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