Happy Birthday MM Keeravani: 5 award-winning compositions of the ace music director

Ace music director MM Keeravani

turns 59 today. The music composer and singer has won a billion hearts with his beautiful compositions. The music director is also a proud winner of a

National Film Award

for Best Music Director for the film Annamayya. Be it a soothing melody or an upbeat song, Keeravani is the only composer in the country who can create a magical tune for a song. Keeravani has also won eight Filmfare Awards, eleven state Nandi Awards and a Tamil Nadu State Film Award. The music composer's work has been recognized globally and is known to be one of the most talented music directors of all times. As he turns a year older today, let's take a look at some of his

remarkable compositions

that won awards.

Devotional Annamayya The songs from Akkineni Nagarjuna starrer Annamayya, released in 1997, have been composed by MM Keeravani. The K Raghavendra Rao directed film has 20 beautiful and famous devotional songs. The beats and tunes of these songs imbibe a spiritual feeling inside us and make us feel

positive and energetic

. Sung by SP Balu, Chitra, Mano, SP Sailaja, and Keeravani, the soulful tracks in the film have a range of emotions. The film won the best music director award (songs) for Keeravani in addition to special mention (actor) for Nagarjuna.

Romantic musical entertainer Pelli Sandadi

Composed by Keeravani, the songs from 1996 film Pelli Sandadi received

Nandi Award for Best Music Director

. The beautiful songs in the film were sung by SP Balasubrahmanyam, Chitra, Keeravani and Mano. The songs are known for its lyrics and composition. The lyrics of these songs have been penned by Sirivennela Seetharama Sastry, Jonnavithula, Veturi Sundararama Murthy, Samavedam Shanmukha Sarma and Chandrabose. Directed by K Raghavendra Rao, the film completed a silver jubilee run in twenty-nine theatres.

Fantasy action romantic entertainer Magadheera

The songs from Ram Charan and Kajal Aggarwal starrer 2009 film Magadheera is composed by MM Keeravani and written by Bhuvanachandra, Chandrabose and Keeravani. The songs in the album have been sung by Ranjith, Shivani, Nikitha Nigam, Anuj Gurwara, Daler Mehndi, Geetha Madhuri, Jassie Gift and Keeravani. The composition of songs in the film, Magadheera, earned Keeravani his sixth Filmfare Best Music Director Award. Magadheera is one of the biggest grossers of 2009. But point to note is the way its makers hard sold the film relying heavily on its songs.

Bangaru Kodipetta

is a rehashed version of the original Keeravani compositions.

Fantasy action entertainer EegaThe songs from the film Eega featuring an ensemble cast of Nani, Samantha, Kicha Sudeep and Devadarshini, was composed by MM Keeravani with lyrics by Ramajogayya Sastry, Anantha Sreeram and Chaitanya Prasad. Deepu, Sahithi, Vinay Prakash, Anju Gurwara and Rahul Sipligunj have lent their voices to the songs in the film. The composition, which was considered for a Nandi Award for Best Music Director, is pretty good.

Epic action visual extravaganza Baahubali: The Beginning

MM Keeravani has won two Nandi Awards for Best Male Playback Singer for the song Nippulaa Swasa Ga and Best Music Director for this

SS Rajamouli

directed the film. The songs from this film won the music lovers hearts. The film starred Prabhas, Anushka Shetty, Tamannaah Bhatia, Rana Daggubati and Ramya Krishnan in the lead roles. The epic action film became the

third highest-grossing films of all time

. The film also received two National Film Awards, thirteen Nandi Awards, seven SIIMA Awards, ten IIFA Utsavam Awards, four Filmfare Awards South, thirteen CineMaa Awards and six Ananda Vikatan Cinema Awards.