Anusha Mani is an Indian female playback singer who works actively in Bollywood film Industry.

Early life

Anusha hails from a musically-inclined family, and learnt Carnatic music from Smt Meera Nathan. Having sung in Gujarati plays, she met Amit Trivedi

Amit Trivedi

Amit Trivedi is an Indian film composer, musician, singer and lyricist, working in Bollywood. After working as a theater and jingle composer and composing for non-film albums, he debuted as a film composer in the 2008 Hindi film Aamir, and shot to fame in the Hindi film music scene with his...

 with whom she made a music album, which was never released.

Career

Her big break came in 2007, when Shankar Mahadevan

Shankar Mahadevan

Shankar Mahadevan is an Indian music composer and singer. He is a part of the Shankar Ehsaan Loy trio team that composes for Indian films and a playback singer.-Early life:...

 of Shankar Ehsaan Loy offered her the chance to sing the track Dhoka from Johnny Gaddaar

Johnny Gaddaar

Johnny Gaddaar , is a 2007 Indian crime thriller noir film written and directed by Sriram Raghavan; produced under the banner Adlabs...

 after listening to an album she'd appeared on. She has since then worked in about six albums with the trio to date. She had also sung the track Dil Mein Jaagi from the Dev D

Dev D

Dev.D is a 2009 Indian romance film released on 6 February 2009. Written and directed by Anurag Kashyap, the film is a modern day take on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's classic Bengali novel Devdas., previously adapted for the screen by P.C. Barua and Bimal Roy and more recently by Sanjay Leela...

, which won Amit Trivedi the National Film Award for Best Music Direction

National Film Award for Best Music Direction

The National Film Award for Best Music Direction are given annually. In years 1994, 1995 and 2010, an award for Best Background Score was instituted by the Jury, which was won by Johnson and by Ilaiyaraaja . Ilaiyaraaja and A. R...

. She also does concerts for musicians.

Filmography

• Johnny Gaddaar
  Johnny Gaddaar
  Johnny Gaddaar , is a 2007 Indian crime thriller noir film written and directed by Sriram Raghavan; produced under the banner Adlabs...
  
  
• Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic
  Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic
  Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic is a 2008 Hindi film with Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukerji in lead roles and Rishi Kapoor and Ameesha Patel in special appearances. The child artists include Akshat Chopra, Shriya Sharma, Rachit Sidana and Ayushi Berman...
  
  
• Dev D
  Dev D
  Dev.D is a 2009 Indian romance film released on 6 February 2009. Written and directed by Anurag Kashyap, the film is a modern day take on Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay's classic Bengali novel Devdas., previously adapted for the screen by P.C. Barua and Bimal Roy and more recently by Sanjay Leela...
  
  
• Sikandar
  Sikandar
  Sikandar is the Persian version of the name Alexander, after Alexander the Great. It is used as male first name in Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia...
  
  
• Hum Tum Aur Ghost
  Hum Tum Aur Ghost
  The music is composed by Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy....
  
  
• Tere Bin Laden
  Tere Bin Laden
  Tere Bin Laden is a 2010 Bollywood satire film produced by Walkwater Media and written and directed by Abhishek Sharma. The film stars Pakistani pop singer Ali Zafar in the lead role as an ambitious young reporter, who, in his desperation to migrate to the U.S., makes a fake Osama bin Laden video...
  
  
• Aisha
  Aisha
  Aisha bint Abu Bakr also transcribed as was Muhammad's favorite wife...
  
  
• Game
  Game
  A game is structured playing, usually undertaken for enjoyment and sometimes used as an educational tool. Games are distinct from work, which is usually carried out for remuneration, and from art, which is more often an expression of aesthetic or ideological elements...
  
  
• Don 2: The Chase Continues

External links

• Anusha Mani : Filmography and Profile on Bollywood Hungama