V. Harikrishna - Career

Career

He has composed music for nearly 50 feature films out of which atleast 3 songs in each films are considered big hits in the industry. he has also sung many successful songs. He entered the Kannada music industry as a composer from the run away hit movie movie Jothe Jotheyali. in the year 2006. The film starring Lovely Star Prem and Sandalwood's Lucky Star Ramya in the lead and the top star of Kannada Industry, the 'Challenging Star' as he is usually called - Darshan Thoogudeepa in a guest role was directed by Dinakar Thoogudeepa that was produced by Meena Thoogudeepa Srinivas (Home production of Darshan) ran for 25 whole weeks and became a blockbuster hit in the Kannada film Industry. All the songs in the movie became big hits. Especially the songs 'O Gunavantha' sung by Sonu Nigam and Shreya Ghoshal; 'Surya Kannu Hodeda' sung by Rajesh Krishnan, 'Sikthare Sikthare' sung by Karthik and 'Koline Koogodilla' were all chart busters and V.Harikrishna shot to fame from then. But his actual break was in the year 2008 from the movie Gaalipata directed by today's top most film maker and lyricist Yograj Bhat who was then riding high on the success of Kannada film industry's biggest blockbuster movie Mungaru Male. And when V.Harikrishna was selected as the music director for the film by Yograj Bhat, the whole industry looked very curiously as to how the songs would be. Luckily the wonderful melodies and fast tracks composed by Harikrishna for the film became big hit in South India and created several records of highest downloads in Karnataka and also became the chart busters on radio channels. Gaalipata also won Harikrishna, his first film fare award. The songs 'Minchaagi Neenu Baralu' and 'Jeeva Kaleva' both sung by Sonu Nigam and written by Dr.Jayanth Kaikini (who also won the film fare for Minchaagi); 'Aakasha Ishte' sung by Kunal Ghanjawala; 'Nadhim Deem Thana' sung By K.S.Chithra; 'Kavithe Kavithe' sung by Vijay Prakash and Aaha Ee Bedaru Bombege sung by Udit Narayan and Anuradha Sriram were all big chart buster hit songs. V.Harikrishna did not look back from then. He went on to become the top most music director and has all the top star’s films to his credit. His music has been considered a guarantee hit and he is considered as the most bankable music composers of the industry. He has a track record of 95% hit songs of whatever he has done till date. Though a few of his films failed to be successful at the box office, his songs have all been big hits and have filled the producer’s pockets.

After that, Harikrishna has had great musical hits like Krishna, Payana, Gaja, Ambari, Junglee, Ram, Raj, Maleyali Jotheyali, Jackie, Eno Onthara, Super, Porki, Kichcha Huchcha, Hudugaru, Johny Mera Naam, Vishnuvardhana, Paramathma, Sarathy, Jogiah, Chingari, Anna Bond, Katariveera Surasundarangi, Adhuri and many more. Harikrishna is now producing a movie along with Ravivarma with Ajay Rao in the lead, the movie is titled 'Jaadoo'. He has been a successful singer. His first song was Shake Your Body in the film Ambari.