Gopi Sunder

Gopi Sunder is an award winning Indian music composer, film composer, programmer, musician and singer. He has composed music for more than 5000 ad jingles, programmed music for many major composers and have scored more than ten Malayalam films.^[1]

He has composed the background score and songs for films like Flash (2007), Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded (2009) and Anwar (2010). He has also done background music for Notebook (2006), Big B (2007), Mission 90 Days (2007), Poi Solla Porom (2008), Evidam Swargamanu (2009).^[2]

He got his first Filmfare Award for Best Music Director in the 58th Filmfare Awards South for Anwar (2010).

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Gopi Sunder born in a musical Family was an associate to the composer Ouseppachan for long time.^[1] Sunder's father was a friend of Ouseppachan, which made Sunder a leading member in the troup of the prolific composer.^[1] He used to play tabla for many shows in south and north India. Later he went on to make jingles and have scored about 5000 jingles, some of them with Rajeev Menon, who in eighties introduced world famous musician A. R. Rahman through his jingles.^[1] He was a keyboard programmer for noted music director duo Vishal-Shekhar in their works like Om Shanti Om and Bluffmaster.^[1] In the popular songs like "Aankhon mein teri'" (Om Shanti Om) and "Ek main aur ek tu hai" (Bluffmaster) keyboard programming was done by him. His break in films came when director Rosshan Andrrews approached him with an offer to compose the Background score for his movie Notebook which made him one of the most demanded background scorer in Malayalam films. Then he composed BGM for the superhit movie Big B, starring Mammootty, which lead to a big break in film industry for him and noted Director Sibi Malayil approached him for composing Soundtrack and BGM as well for his Mohanlal starrer Flash (2007 film). His next project as a composer was in Amal Neerad's big budget movie Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded. His work in this movie was praised well by the audience. The songs he composed for Amal Neerad's Anwar rocked the charts for many continuous weeks.

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External links [edit]

• Gopi Sunder at the Internet Movie Database