Vidyasagar is an National award winning Indian film composer, musician and singer who works predominantly in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi film industries. After working with several composers as assistant and conductor, Vidyasagar made his debut as a film composer in the 1989 Tamil film Poomanam. Working for over 250 feature films, he is the recipient of the prestigious National Award and five Filmfare Awards.

Biography

Vidyasagar became an independent music director with the song En Anbe in the 1989 Tamil movie Poomanam. Though Vidyasagar started his music career with a Tamil film, he gained recognition in the Tamil music industry at a later stage. He shifted base to Tollywood in 1993.

In 1994-95, Vidyasagar was selected by Tamil actor-director Arjun, with whom he worked for many acclaimed musical films like Jai Hind, Karna and Subash. Vidyasagar composed some of the music for Arjun's films with some melodic numbers like Malare and Padu Padu.

From 1996 to 2001 Vidyasagar mainly concentrated on Malayalam films. He won four Kerala State Film Award.

During this period, Vidyasagar's also composed songs for Tamil movies like 1998 Vijay's Nilaave Vaa and Uyirodu Uyiraga, starring Ajith.

In 2003, he composed songs for Anbe Sivam and Run. This was followed by Madhurey, London and Ji in 2004-05. In 2005 Vidyasagar received the [National Film Awards]] for Telugu movie Swarabhishekam by K. Vishwanath featuring carnatic music. Vidyasagar continued composing music for Chandramukhi starring Rajnikanth. The audio of the movie was a best seller and its soundtrack was also released. He composed music for the Hollywood movie Beyond the Soul directed by Rajeev Anchal. This period also saw him score music for the Hindi movie Hulchul directed by Priyadarshan. In 2008 Vidyasagar released chart-topping songs for Kuruvi. In 2008-2009, Vidyasagar composed various hits for Abhiyum Naanum.