OCTOBER 2016
Deepika came into the limelight with her rendition of Kai
alavu manasu title track for K.Balachandar’s serial in which
she also acted as child artist. Now she is the prime disciple of
Sangitha Kalanidhi Sudha Raghunathan and doing Classical
music concerts in Chennai.
Hi! This is Deepika and you are watching me on
Balachander sir. K B sir was going to do
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one of his mammoth projects called Kaiyalavu manasu. So, he was just beginning
My mom is a playback singer. She has been
to look out for casting to see who fits where.
singing for Ilayaraja sir for last 30 years. Music
He came up with this idea. He wanted a
came to me from my family. My grandfather
kid who could sing as well as act. Again,
is also a singer. When I was about 3-4 years, I
I should say It was my good fortune that
used to listen to my mom practice at home and
once again Amee Jaan sir went over to KB
picked up those little songs from her. So that is
sir and showed in my pictures and said this
how I informally started singing. But formally,
is the kid who acted in my serial recently,
my career was launched by Mr. Selvakumar of
why don’t you give her a shot. Then KB sir
Audio media. It was a beautiful moment becalled us over to his office and he made me
cause I used to go along with my mom to his
sing 3-4 songs. I sang to him and then he
studio very often when she used to record for
thought I would be able to do but I didn’t
him.
really realize what a huge personality he
was then because I was just 6 years old.
On one such day, he Said very casually, “Deeps
why don’t you record something like casually
In Tamil, the first song that I sang was for
singing something”. So, I just sang a little song
Shree Vidyasagar sir for the movie Vilon Ganesha and he recorded it. It was I think
ladhi Villan that was along with Anuradha
my greatest good fortune and greatest blessing
Sreeram mam. And the very special song
I should say. That moment turned out to be like
was when I recorded for Ilayaraja sir. I sang
a whole launching pad for my musical career.
Later on, very established director Mr. Ameer
Jaan was working on a project at Selva sir’s studio and he wanted a kid who could sing. So Incidentally, Selva sir had the demo of mine that
I had recorded in his studio and he played it to
him. God’s grace and music’s grace Okayed my
voice. In fact, my first recording was at audio
media and again Selvakumar sir recorded me
for the first time. The director and the producer
were very happy. I sang this song with my mom
and post that they suddenly came up with an
Idea as to why don’t we make this little kid act
in the serial. So that’s how my career and acting
parallel launched off.
At that point, the director of this serial, Ameer
Jaan sir was assisting the legendary Shree K.
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