Indian lyricist
V. Nagendra Prasad is a lyricist, composer and director who predominantly works for Kannada cinema. He has written more than 3000 songs, largely for Kannada cinema.
Early life.
Prasad was born on 3rd December, 1975. He is the elder son of M.V. Venkata Ramanappa and Chandramma of Ijjala Ghatta village in Nagamangala Taluk, Mandya District.
He completed his schooling in Doddaballapura, Bangalore, and his Master’s degree in Kannada Literature at Manasa Gangothri, Mysore University.. Prasad obtained his D.Litt (Doctor of Literature) from Hampi University in 2021.
Career.
V. Nagendra Prasad made his debut as a Kannada lyricist for the movie "Gajina Mane" directed by "K. V. Jayaram" in 2000. He was appreciated for his debut as a dialogue writer for a supernatural film written and directed by K. Raghavendra Rao, Sri Manjunatha. His debut as a director for Nalla featuring Sudeep has been remarked by many. He has also worked in music composition, direction, acting and dialogue writing for Television. He is also known to be involved in Theatre, both on Stage and in Street plays. In 2018, he made his debut as a lead actor in his own directorial "Googal" movie. His other appearance was as a lead actor in the movie Guruji.
As lyricist.
V. Nagendra Prasad has penned more than 3000 songs for over 1000 movies, with hundreds of Devotional, Classical, Patriotic, and Promotional albums, and over 50 TV serials.
He has worked with numerous music composers including Ilayaraja, Hamsalekha, Rajan–Nagendra, Upendra Kumar, Sadhu Kokila, Gurukiran, V. Harikrishna, Arjun Janya, Vidhya Sagar, V.Manohar, Rajesh Ramanath, Raghu Dixit, Anoop Seelin, Mano Murthy, Deva, M. M. Keeravani, Gandharva, L. N. Shastri, Jessie Gift, Chandan Shetty, Ravi Basrur, Sridhar V. Sambhram, Bharath B. J., B. Ajaneesh Loknath, Manikanth Kadri, Poornachandra Tejaswi, Manisharma, Thaman, R. P. Patnaik, Sandeep Chowta, Venkat Narayan, Gowtham Srivatsav, Vineeth Menon, D Imman, Yuvan Shankar Raja, and Charan Raj, amongst others.
Awards and nominations.
Partial list of awards.
References.
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