Vineeth Sreenivasan (born 1 October 1985) is an Indian playback singer, lyricist, film actor, director, producer and screenwriter best known for his work in Malayalam cinema.
Vineeth Sreenivasan is son of the actor and screenwriter Sreenivasan. He started off his film career as a playback singer for films. He made his debut singing "Kasavinte Thattamittu" for the film Kilichundan Mampazham (2003). He is also well known for music albums such as Coffee @ Mg Road (2008). Vineeth made his acting debut in Cycle (2008). His well-known performances include in films Makante Achan (2009), Traffic (2011), Chappa Kurish (2011), Ormayundo Ee Mukham (2014), Oru Vadakkan Selfie (2015), Kunjiramayanam (2015), Aby (2017) and Oru Cinemakkaran (2017).
In 2010, Vineeth made his directorial debut with Malarvadi Arts Club. His second film as a director was Thattathin Marayathu (2012) which turned out to be a blockbuster at the box-office. His third film was Thira (2013), in which he introduced his younger brother Dhyan Sreenivasan. He scripted for Oru Vadakkan Selfie (2015) which become among the top 10 grossing Malayalam films at the time. And his fourth film Jacobinte Swargarajyam (2016) released on April 8, 2016, to positive reviews and was a commercial success as well. Vineeth made his debut film as a producer with the 2017 film Aanandam under his production company "Habit of Life".
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Early life and Career
Vineeth Sreenivasan is the elder son of noted Malayalam screenwriter and actor Sreenivasan and Vimala. He completed his primary education from nursery to 10th standard at Rani Jai Higher Secondary School. He graduated in mechanical engineering from KCG College of Technology, Chennai.
He is a part of the band Malayalee with Jakes Bejoy, Shaan Rahman and Arjun Sasi. He made his acting debut playing one of the main protagonists in the Malayalam film titled Cycle which did well at the box office. He did his second movie role with his father in the movie Makante Achan.
He writes the lyrics of most of his album songs and has also shown his direction skills, directing his own music videos. His music album Coffee @ MG Road became a super hit instantly. He got first prize in Mappilappattu in the Kerala State Youth Festival 1998, where he outshown his ability for quick wit. When he was asked whether his father liked him singing Mappilappattu, he answered, "He didn't have any hatred towards my Mappilappattu, to my knowledge."
Vineeth won the AMMA Best Male Singer Award 2008 for his songs "Mampullikkavil" and "Jillu Jillu" and also the Best Male new face of the year 2008 by Asianet, for his role in Cycle. Vineeth wrote the script and Lyrics and debuted as director for the movie Malarvadi Arts Club with seven new young actors. He won the Asiavision award for the best debutant director for Malarvadi Arts Club. Thattathin Marayathu is the second movie in which he was the screenwriter, director and playback singer. His third movie Thira released in 2013 in which he introduced his younger brother Dhyan Sreenivasan.
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Personal life
Vineeth married his college sweetheart Divya Narayanan on 18 October 2012, after an eight -year-long relationship since 30 March 2004. She was his junior at KCG College of Technology in Chennai..The couple had a son on 30 June 2017.
Filmography
As a director, producer and writer
As an actor
As a Dubbing artist
- Note Book- Voice for Skanda
- Positive - Voice for Skanda
Discography
Albums
As a playback singer
References
External links
- Vineeth Sreenivasan on Facebook
- Vineeth Sreenivasan on IMDb
- Vineeth Sreenivasan on Twitter
Source of the article : Wikipedia