Santhosh Dhayanidhi

Santhosh Dhayanidhi is an Indian film composer and singer. He made his debut as a music composer through Inimey Ippadithan (2015).

Santhosh Dhayanidhi
Born	Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Occupation(s)	Film composer, music director
Instrument	keyboard/piano

Career

Dhayanidhi began his career in film music by working as a keyboard programmer for A. R. Rahman and worked with him for two years from the production of the albums to Kadal (2013) and Lingaa (2014). He simultaneously worked as a composer for TV commercials, notably for an ad promoting the Indian reality show Bigg Boss 8.^[1] Dhayanidhi made his debut as a composer with the film Inimey Ippadithan (2016) after being recommended to the producer by the lead actor Santhanam. Santhanam had heard about Dhayanidhi after looking for a debutant and being briefed about Santhosh by Kaushik, an employee at Sony Music India.^[2][3]

Discography

Released soundtracks

• The year next to the title of the affected films indicates the release year of the either dubbed or remade version in the named language later than the original version.
• • indicates original language release. Indicates simultaneous versions, if featuring in more languages
• ♦ indicates a remade version, the remaining ones being dubbed versions

Year	Tamil	Other language	Dubbed releases	Notes
2015	Inimey Ippadithan •
2016	Mo •
2017	Enakku Vaaitha Adimaigal •
	Kattappava Kanom •
	Madura Veeran •
2018	Raati (7UP Madras Gig song)			[4]
2019	Lisaa •		Lisaa (Telugu)
2019	Thumbaa •
2020	Danny •
2023	Baba Black Sheep			[5]
	Partner
2025	Paranthu Po †		Songs only	[6]

Playback singer

Year	Film	Songs	Notes
2015	Inimey Ippadithan	"Thaedi Odunaen"
2017	Enakku Vaaitha Adimaigal	"Ondroduthan Ondroga"
2021	Kutty Pattas •	"Kutty Pattas"