S S Thaman | Prema the Journalist #65 | Full Interview

S S Thaman was born as Ghantasala Sai Srinivas in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, into a Telugu-speaking Brahmin family of musicians from Pottepalem, Nellore district in Andhra Pradesh. He is the grandson of director Ghantasala Balaramayya. His father Ghantasala Siva Kumar was a drummer, who worked for seven hundred films, under the composer, K. Chakravarthy. His mother, Ghantasala Savitri is a playback singer and his aunt is singer. B. Vasantha. Sai Srinivas adopted the stage name Thaman and suffixed it with an S, the initial of his father's name Sivakumar.
S S Thaman studied at Don Bosco School in Chennai. He joined a music team consisting of S.P. Balasubrahmanyam and G. Anand as a rhythm pads player when he was nine years old, and discontinued studies when he lost his father at the age of 13. He was compelled to make his hobby into a profession to overcome the crisis in his family. He then joined the Raj-Koti team and worked for three years on sixty films and collaborated M. M. Keeravani, working with him for three years to complete thirty films.
S S Thaman considered Mani Sharma to be his guru and spent eight years under his tutelage while working on 94 films with him. On the whole he put in fourteen years of rhythm and keyboard programming with the veterans before branching out on his own.
S S Thaman made his debut as a composer in through the Telugu feature film Malli Malli (2009), although the soundtrack album was released in 2008. Jeevi of Idlebrain credited Thaman's work in the film is credited as "good". The same year his second soundtrack, of the film Sindhanai Sei, marked his debut in the Tamil cinema. He has also made his playback singing debut by recording "Uchimeedhu" song from the soundtrack.
Although S S Thaman got his major success with the album of the film Kick (2009), critics gave mixed reviews citing it as "mediocre". In the same year, he has four more soundtrack album releases-three in Telugu and one in Tamil. Composition of "Mahalakshmi" and "Dhakku Dhakku" songs from the film Sankham were praised. In 2010, he has composed score and soundtrack album for nine films, with majority of them being Tamil. Brindavanam was the most successful composition of all. Released on 12 September 2010, the album received positive reviews.
In May 2017, S S Thaman made his Hindi debut when he was one of the six composers who featured in the soundtrack album of Rohit Shetty's Golmaal Again, a comedy franchise in Hindi cinema. In 2018, he composed a theme song for Rohit Shetty's successful venture Simmba.
Thaman shares his journey only on “Prema The Journalist” KZbin channel.
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00:00 - Intro
00:47 - Detachment through cricket
02:52 - Influence of director Trivikram
07:03 - Father's blessing in disguise
10:32 - Freedom from music directors
12:32 - Pressure as a music director
14:21 - Credit for DJ Tillu music
15:58 - Learnings from each music director
18:19 - Handling multiple compositions parallelly
21:05 - Reflecting on own compositions
22:16 - Valuing feedback from crew
24:17 - Unexpected chartbusters
26:10 - Dedication towards Akhanda
28:36 - Favourite compositions
31:28 - Music production budgets
32:56 - Kalavathy song controversy
36:27 - Bond with Mahesh Babu
38:48 - Composing as a fan
40:28 - Godfather composition experience
42:10 - Mani Sharma's appreciation
42:52 - Bheemla Nayak composition experience
45:34 - Introducing new talent
50:09 - Sarkaaru Vari Paata composition experience
53:56 - Finalising singers for tracks
56:50 - Social Media presence post pandemic
1:00:02 - Indian Idol judge role
1:02:59 - Dressing style
1:04:20 - RAPID FIRE
1:04:26 - Favourite contemporary music directors
1:06:18 - Mapping movie titles to music directors
Edited by: Gopi Kanth Nuthi
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PREMA MALINI is a two time Erstwhile AndhraPradesh State Nandi award, and one time National award winning TV Journalist, with deep expertise in creating socially relevant television documentaries, Celebrity Interviews and news programming.

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Understand Prema garu and thoroughly enjoy the interviews. won’t the subtitles work if the interview is mostly in Telugu so we get to hear/enjoy our language more

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Prema : I have seen you for long time, I'm so proud of you. Ee routine dialogues kottaledu enti we interview lo

[@MahiGaya3]

Excellent interview!! Very talented SS Thaman. All the best SST. Good one Prema gaaru.

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Madam garu the above interview is highly appreciated and known so many things behind every song and how the music director involved in every song is also amazing and thanks Madam Garu

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Prema garu respect to you thanks for this interview ❤

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Sst rocks😍

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Super star Mahesh Babu 😍💣💥 33:00

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47:50

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51:10

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Jai SSMB 💥🔥💪🤩🤙💯

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Jai SSMB 💥🔥💪

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King of South India SSMB 💥🤩

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With Bheemla Naik, unfortunately actual director(Sagar K Chandra) was never given credit

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Anna nuv entha mandiki fan anna , saou fan kudana

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10:15 Respect 🙏

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Jai ssmb 💥💥💥

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MB🔥🔥

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Clean shave after so long 👌👌👌👌👌

[@Hurricane-ps1id]

i am very disappointed that you had not even asked him a single question/update of his upcoming films lineup

[@ravindrasai7240]

Dsp tho kuda oka Interview cheyandi madam plzzz....pushpa India wide success gurinchi adagandi

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Babulake Babu Mahesh babu 💥🤩

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Prema garu... pogadandi thapuledu bhajana cheyakandi..... Meeru kuda Ila bhajana interview chesthe ila

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Nice

[@kgfteja1993]

Invite Singer SP CHARAN son of Sp Balu garu.....,,he is doing great on web series ,reallty shows in Telugu and TAMIL "Padutha Theeyaga " show on ETV good

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Mam.. Me every video lo me vocubulary too beautiful words coming

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Jai balayya....

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Edenti e roje ga promo vachindi.appude full video na.any way thanks

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Jai Ramcharan🔥

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Ma ma mahesha songsame to same sarainodu movie lo block buster song laage vundhi

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Trivikram garini interview cheyandi

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Vaaarrriiiisssuuu வாரிரிரிசுசு

[@Hurricane-ps1id]

what prema ji, why the hell didnt you ask him about his tamil movies Prince with SIvakarthikeyan and Varisu with Vijay

[@shilpaa6907]

Not the audience nor the other judges, it is Thaman who decides the winner of Telugu Indian Idol. We are fools to watch this biased show. Learn from Padutha Theeyaga and Saregamapa. My request to classically trained young musicians , avoid Telugu Indian Idol. Coming from a musically inclined family for 5 generations.

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Prema garu also needs a whole body workout- please play cricket andi.

[@pratibhaveena830]

Ippudunna music directors andarloki chetha paatalu chesedi Thaman🤦 Melody anedi thana dictionary lo ne ledu.. eppuduuu dabba vaayimpu pichi paatalu, vaatiki chetha sahityam, malli vaatini Telugu raani aa Sid sriram Arman mallik tho paadinchadam karma ra devuda🙆 Thaman music chesadu ante aa cinemalo okka paata kuda bavundadu ani fix ayipovali🙏 Ithani kante Mickey j mayor, Gopi Sundar, Radaan n latest ga hit album ichina Vishal (Sitaramam fame) chaaaaala better. Okka paatalo kuda madhuryam gani chakkati sahityam kani undatledu. Urke over hype chestharu Thaman edo goppa music director ani.. Worst songs he makes👎👎

[@SoNu-dk2ti]

Why you are involving sid sriram..he is not only telugu singer don't comment on him..big fan of him from tamilnadu

[@vasu1171]

Chetha fellow

[@Hurricane-ps1id]

but why? any reason?

[@gouthamch1006]

Ni bonda ra ni bonda... Em telsu ani chetha fellow antav howle?