Bharath B. J.

Bharath B. J.
Bharath B. J.
Born	Bharath; Bangalore, India
Occupation	Composer, Music Director, Singer
Years active	2010–present

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Bharath B. J. (Kannada: ಭರತ್ ಬಿ. ಜೆ.) is an Indian music producer, composer and singer, who works predominantly in Kannada cinema. Starting his career as a composer for the short film Simply Kailawesome in 2010, Bharath got his breakthrough in 2013 with the film Simple Agi Ondh Love Story. His greatest advancement came from the film Beautiful Manasugalu (2017) for which he won the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director.^[1] Apart from music composing, Bharath has recorded his voice for songs, notably the "Hey Who Are You" song from the film Kirik Party (2016).

Career[edit]

Bharath B. J., hailing from Bengaluru, was singing non-film light songs. Eventually he picked up the music programming and producing skills and started a studio of his own. His first work was for the short film Simply Kailawesome starring MG Srinivas and directed by MG Srinivas which was promoted well prior to its release. In 2013, Bharath bagged the project Simple Agi Ondh Love Story which found huge success upon its release escalating all its crew members; debutante director Suni, actors Rakshit Shetty and Shwetha Srivatsav along with Bharath; to huge popularity.^[2] This was followed by another successful soundtrack for the film Bahuparak (2014) which was again directed by Suni. In 2016, he was signed in to compose for the sequel film Simple Agi Innond Love Story. Apart from this, he recorded his voice for the song "Hey Who Are You" for the hugely successful film Kirik Party (2016) which had music composition by B. Ajaneesh Loknath.

In 2018, Bharath was adjudged the Best Music Director at the Filmfare Awards South for the director Jayatheertha's successful film Beautiful Manasugalu (2017).

Discography[edit]

Key
\| Denotes films that have not yet been released

Year	Film	Notes
2010	Simply Kailawesome	Short film
2013	Simple Agi Ondh Love Story	Nominated - Filmfare Award for Best Music Director - Kannada
2014	Bahuparak	Songs only
2015	Plus
2016	Simpallag Innondh Love Story
2016	1/2 Mentlu
2016	Kirik Party	Singer of the song "Hey Who Are You"
2017	Beautiful Manasugalu	Won - Filmfare Award for Best Music Director - Kannada
2018	April na himabindu
2018	Onthara Bannagalu
2018	Vanilla
2019	Striker
2019	Yaarige Yaaruntu
2019	96	Announced

Awards and nominations[edit]

Filmfare Awards South

2017: Best Music Director: Beautiful Manasugalu^[3]

References[edit]

↑ "Puneeth Rajkumar and Sruthi Hariharan win Filmfare Awards". Dailyhun.com. 18 June 2018.
↑ "2013- A sneak peek into Sandalwood's box office". Sify.com. 24 December 2013. Archived from the original on 13 August 2015.
↑ "65th Jio Filmfare Awards South 2018: Complete winners' list". The Times of India. 17 June 2018.

External links[edit]

B.J. Bharath on IMDb
Bharath B. J. on Twitter

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[1] "Puneeth Rajkumar and Sruthi Hariharan win Filmfare Awards". Dailyhun.com. 18 June 2018.

[2] "2013- A sneak peek into Sandalwood's box office". Sify.com. 24 December 2013. Archived from the original on 13 August 2015.

[3] "65th Jio Filmfare Awards South 2018: Complete winners' list". The Times of India. 17 June 2018.

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v t e Filmfare Award for Best Kannada Music Director
1991–2000	Hamsalekha (1991) C. Aswath (1992) Hamsalekha (1993) Hamsalekha (1994) No award (1995) V. Manohar (1996) V. Manohar (1997) Hamsalekha (1998) K. Kalyan (1999) Hamsalekha (2000)
2001–2009	Gurukiran (2001) Gurukiran (2002) R. P. Patnaik (2003) Gurukiran (2004) Hamsalekha (2005) Mano Murthy (2006) Mano Murthy (2007) V. Harikrishna (2008) V. Harikrishna (2009)
2010–present	V. Harikrishna (2010) Jassie Gift (2011) V. Harikrishna (2012) Arjun Janya (2013) B. Ajaneesh Loknath (2014) V. Sridhar (2015) B. Ajaneesh Loknath (2016) Bharath B. J. (2017)