Siddharth Menon

Siddharth Menon (born 1 July 1989) is an Indian playback singer , Co Founder of Thaikkudam Bridge music band and film actor. Menon has rendered some film songs but is most popular for his band Thaikkudam Bridge. His rendition of "Mandaracheppundo" from the film Dasharatham for a musical show Music Mojo in the Malayalam channel Kappa TV topped the music charts.

Siddharth Menon
Background information
Born (1989-07-01) 1 July 1989
Mumbai, India
Years active2012–present

Early life and education

Siddharth Menon was born in a Mumbai-settled Kerala family of Sathyanathan Pariyadath and Sheela on 1 July 1989, and was brought up in Mumbai. His father, Sathyanathan, is a former employee of an airline company and hails from Irinjalakkuda, Trissur. His mother, Sheela, works with the income tax department in Mumbai and hails from Vaikom, Kottayam. He has an elder brother Sharad Menon, who works in the UK as a scientist. He studied in Vivek Vidyalaya High School, Goregaon, Maharashtra. He attended Vivek College of Commerce where he received a degree in commerce. After graduation he decided to study western classical music and joined A R Rahman’s music college, KM Music Conservatory in Chennai . At present, he resides in Kochi, Kerala. He married Marathi actress Tanvi Palav in 22nd December 2019.[1][2]

Career

Siddharth Menon grew up in Mumbai with his Malayali parents, attending competitions and youth festivals and winning prizes for music. All he has to show is about a few days he attended in Ajivasan Music Academy in Mumbai. But that never dampened his passion for singing.

He performed in the Sony TV reality show, X Factor India, and his group Nirmitee was the finalist of the show. The other members in the group were Vian Fernandez, Pranil More and Ranjana Raja.

His first cousin Govind Menon composed songs for the musical show "Music Mojo" in Kappa TV, and "Nostalgia" (the reincarnation of evergreen Malayalam songs), in which Siddharth sang "Mandharachepundo", became a hit on YouTube. Both of them together started the musical band Thaikkudam Bridge.[3]

Siddharth made his debut in playback singing with the song "Tharangal" in the 2013 film North 24 Kaatham. [4]

His debut into the Malayalam film industry was through the movie Rockstar directed by V.K.Prakash in the year 2015.He has also acted and sung in Musical albumYelove along with Shreya Ghoshal, the song was released on 7 June 2014. As of 2014, Yelove has achieved 1 million views on YouTube . The next year he again became a part of album Yami.

As of 2019, he has also acted in films like Koode, Solo in supporting roles and Kadha paranja kadha and Kolambi in lead roles. He also performed in a TV show Autumn leaf on Amrita TV. He is also a stage performer and has performed in many award shows in Malayalam.

Awards

Year Ceremony Category Result
2013BIG FM 92.7 awardsbest debut male singer of the yearWon
2014South Indian International Movie AwardsSIIMA Award for Best Male Playback SingerNominated
Filmfare Awards SouthBest Male Playback SingerNominated
Asianet Film AwardsBest Playback singer(Male)Nominated
2016South Indian International Movie AwardsSIIMA Award for Best Debutant Male -MalayalamWon
Vanitha Film AwardsBest Debut ActorWon


Filmography

YearfilmRoleNotes
2014YeloveHimselfMalayalam language melodic album
2015YamiHimselfMalayalam language melodic album
2015Haram (film)HimselfCameo Appearance in song Theevandi..
2015Rockstar (2015 film)Anant AbrahamDebut Movie
2017OmanathinkalHimselfMalayalam language melodic album
2017SoloNelson
2017SoloNelsonTamil film
2018Kadha Paranja KadhaEbi
2018Sidharth Menon MedleyHimselfMusical Album
2018KoodeSean
2019Neermathalam Poothakalamguest appearance
2019KolaambiSolomanPost Production
2019NewTBAFilming

Film songs

YearSongMusic DirectorFilm
2013"Tharangal"Govind MenonNorth 24 Kaatham
2013"Pontharam"North 24 Kaatham
2014"Thumbi Penne"Gopi SundarBangalore Days
2014"Neerpalunkin"Govind MenonVegam
2014"Theruvukal"Shahabaz AmanNjan Steve Lopez
2014"Munthirivalliyil"Kilimanoor RamavarmaActually
2015"Kaanal Kaate"Thaikkudam BridgeHaram
2015"Theevandi"Haram
2015 "Varikallo"Prashant PillaiRockstar
2016 "Down To Nothing"Siddharth MenonJustice League vs. Teen Titans
2018"Arikilen"Dr.Siju JawaharKadha Paranja Kadha
2019ManasunamanasuVarun SunilRajdooth (Telugu)

Other songs

SongVocalists
"Nostalgia"Siddharth Menon, Govind Menon, Vipin Lal, Christine Jose
"Aisa Koi"Siddharth Menon
"Rahman Medley"Siddharth Menon
"Moovanthi Chayum (Yelove)"Siddharth Menon, Shreya Ghoshal
"Abhi mujh mein Kahi"Siddharth Menon
"Tum hi ho"Siddharth Menon
"Allah Allah (Yami)"Siddharth Menon, Haritha Balakrishnan
"One (Navarasam)"Siddharth Menon, Thaikkudam Bridge
Siddharth Menon MedleySidharth Menon

References

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