Chakri Biodata

Birth Name : Chakradhar Gilla

Date of birth : 15/06/1974

Place of birth : Mahabubabad, Warangal, A. P, India

First Movie : Bachi

Category : Telugu

Chakri is an Indian music composer and singer. He was born on June 15, 1974 at Mahabubabad, Warangal, A. P, India. His parents are 'Venkata Narayana' and 'Vidyavati', he has thre siblings one brother and three sisters. Chakri is spouse of 'Sravani'. Studied at Manipal Institute of Technology. Chakri composed music for around 85 movies. He started his career as music director with the Movie 'Bachi' directed by 'Puri Jagannadh'.

Awards

He was awarded with Fimfare for best playback singer

He is a recipient of two Santosham awards, two Ghantasala awards for the years 2006 and 2007

He also won two Ugadi Puraskar awards from Delhi for the years 2004 and 2005

Early Career

Chakri began early training in playing violin and flute in Warangal. Like any other struggling artist, Chakri came to Hyderabad in the year 1995 with high hopes to make it big in the movie industry. However, he went through a lot of toil with little help from family and friends. Chakri started his musical journey with private albums. His first album was ‘Panduvennala’. An album made on Megastar Chiranjeevi got him into spotlight and he got his first break. By then he had already composed 50-60 private music albums.

In Film Industry

In 1999, Chakri met Puri Jagannath who was making his first movie ‘Bachi’. Chakri was the music director for this film. Chakri composed music for around 85 movies so far. He won best singer award for movie 'Sathyam' in tollywood filmfare awards and Nandi award for movie 'Simha'.