Mano Murthy
Murthy in 2022
Background information
Origin	Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Genres	Film score,theatre
Occupations	Composer, music director, instrumentalist, entrepreneur,network engineer
Years active	1994–present

Mano Murthy is an Indian musician and composer in theKannada film industry. He is best known for his songs inMungaru Male, one of the biggest hits in the Kannada industry.

Before moving onto becoming a composer, he was an entrepreneur, having co-founded three companies in California. He was a programmer in Microsoft. His latest venture, an IP security provider calledAllegro Systems, was acquired byCisco Systems.^[1][2][3] He has judged many reality shows such asFresh Voice of Karnataka,Saagardaache Sapthaswara and others.

Murthy had nurtured deep interest in music since a young age. He used to play drums when he was an undergrad electrical engineering student atUVCE,Bangalore University. He went to the US for graduate studies at theUniversity of California, Davis andStanford University.

He started his music career with composing music for the movieAmerica! America! directed byNagathihalli Chandrashekhar. The songs of this movie became popular, most notable being the songs "America America" and "Nooru Janmaku". He went on to compose music for the movieNanna Preethiya Hudugi. The songCar Car of this movie was a big hit. He also composed the Music for National award-winning MoviePreethi Prema Pranaya, and the superhit Comedy movieJokefalls.^[4] Some of the popular songs areGandhavathi andNaguvina Loka Idu. In spite of these hit songs, his name remained relatively unknown inKannada filmdom. HoweverMungaru male which became the most successful box office hit inKannada film industry at that time earning Rs. 750 million brought Mano murthy into limelight. It earned him enormous popularity and critical acclaim.Next came another super hit movieCheluvina Chithara (2007) which gave him much more fame. The quality of music and melody in songs makes him the favourite choice by producers. He also composed music for a Hindi movie in 2005 which did not take off unfortunately.

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• Filmfare Award for Milana (Ninnindale song)
• Filmfare Award 2006 for Best Music Director, Mungaru Male
• Karnataka State Award 2006 for Best Music Director, Mungaru Male
• E TV Award 2006 for Best Music Director, Mungaru Male
• Sansui Shri Gandha Award 2006 for Best Music Director, Mungaru Male
• Hello Gandhinagar Award 2006 for Best Music Director, Mungaru Male
• Karnataka Chitrarasikara Sangha Award 2006 for Best Music Director, Mungaru Male
• M.S.Ramaih Chitralaya Award 2006 for Best Music Director, Mungaru Male
• Garuda Mall Award 2007 for Most Popular Music Director
• South Cine Fans Award Chennai 2003–2004 for Best Music Director, Preeti Prema Pranaya
• National Award 2004 for Best Movie Preeti Prema Pranaya as Producer

• Mano Murthy atIMDb
• Official site

• Kannada film score composers
• Living people
• Musicians from Bengaluru
• Filmfare Awards South winners
• University of California, Davis alumni
• Stanford University alumni
• University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering alumni
• 20th-century Indian musicians
• Karnataka State Film Award winners

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