Bindhumalini
- singer
- composer
- graphic designer
- Filmi
- Folk
- Sufi
- Classical
- Bhajan
Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy or simply Bindhumalini 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.
Personal life
Bindumalini 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]
Bindumalini 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, Bindumalini was influenced by the poems of saint Kabir and the songs of Kumar Gandharva.[6]
Bindumalini's album ‛Suno Bhai’, a collection of Saint Kabir's poems, was a collaboration with Vedanth Bharadwaj.[6]
- As composer
Bindumalini 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, Bindumalini composed music for the movie Nathicharami which brought her a National award.[2] Incidentally, most of her movies were women-centric.
Awards
- 2018 - National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer - "Mayavi manave" - Nathicharami[2]
- 2019 - Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer - Kannada - "Bhavalokada bhrameya" - Nathicharami[3]
Filmography
This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (September 2020) |
In her movies as composer, most of the songs sung by Bindumalini 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 |
2023 | Y | Y | Kannada |
Discography
Year | Film | Language | Song | Music director | Co-singer |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
2012 | Cyber Yugadol Nava Yuva Madhura Prema Kavyam | Kannada | "Olavemba Nadiyagi" | Vasu Dixit | Harishchandra |
2016 | Aruvi | Tamil | "Kukkoti Kunnati" | Bindhumalini, Vedanth Bharadhwaj | Praneeti, Vedant |
"Asaidam Venkata Kavimayil" | |||||
"Cement Kaadu" | |||||
"Uccham Thodum" | Vasu Dixit | ||||
"Merku Karaiyil" | Vedanth Bharadhwaj | ||||
"Aruvi" (Theme) | |||||
2016 | Harikatha Prasanga | Kannada | Bindumalini | ||
2018 | Nathicharami | Kannada | "Vasundhare" | Bindhumalini | |
"Yariva" | |||||
"Bhavalokada Bhrameya" | Sanchari Vijay | ||||
"Mayavi Manave" | |||||
"Dehavu Nane" | |||||
2023 | Achar & Co. | "Pickle Song" | Emmjee, Deepika Kumar, Preethi Bharadwaj |
References
- ^ "National film awards-Kannada film Nathicharami dominates 2019 list". IndiaToday.in. Aug 9, 2019.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ a b "Bindhu Malini cheered on by mother as she picked her filmfare award". Times of India. Dec 23, 2019.
- ^ a b Yerasala, Ikyatha (2019-08-28). "Song sung true". Deccan Chronicle. Retrieved 2020-10-24.
- ^ "Playback singer Bindhu Malini". nettv4u.com.
- ^ a b c "Confluence of Sound". Deccan Chronicle.
- ^ "Meet composers behind the film Aruvi". The NewsMinute.com. Dec 22, 2017.
- ^ "Harikatha Prasanga bags top honour at BIIF". Bangalore Mirror. Feb 10, 2017.
External links
- Bindhumalini at IMDb
- v
- t
- e
- P. Susheela (1968)
- K. B. Sundarambal (1969)
- Sandhya Mukherjee (1970)
- P. Susheela (1971)
- Lata Mangeshkar (1972)
- Lata Mangeshkar (1974)
- Vani Jairam (1975)
- P. Susheela (1976)
- S. Janaki (1977)
- Chhaya Ganguly (1978)
- Vani Jairam (1979)
- S. Janaki (1980)
- Asha Bhosle (1981)
- P. Susheela (1982)
- P. Susheela (1983)
- S. Janaki (1984)
- K. S. Chithra (1985)
- K. S. Chithra (1986)
- Asha Bhosle (1987)
- K. S. Chithra (1988)
- Anuradha Paudwal (1989)
- Lata Mangeshkar (1990)
- Vani Jairam (1991)
- S. Janaki (1992)
- Alka Yagnik (1993)
- Swarnalatha (1994)
- Anjali Marathe (1995)
- K. S. Chithra (1996)
- K. S. Chithra (1997)
- Alka Yagnik (1998)
- Jayashree Dasgupta (1999)
- Bhavatharini (2000)
- Sadhana Sargam (2001)
- Shreya Ghoshal (2002)
- Tarali Sarma (2003)
- K. S. Chithra (2004)
- Shreya Ghoshal (2005)
- Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar (2006)
- Shreya Ghoshal (2007)
- Shreya Ghoshal (2008)
- Nilanjana Sarkar (2009)
- Rekha Bhardwaj (2010)
- Roopa Ganguly (2011)
- Arati Ankalikar-Tikekar (2012)
- Bela Shende (2013)
- Uthara Unnikrishnan (2014)
- Monali Thakur (2015)
- Iman Chakraborty (2016)
- Shashaa Tirupati (2017)
- Bindhu Malini (2018)
- Savani Ravindra (2019)
- Nanjiyamma (2020)
- Shreya Ghoshal (2021)