Gopi Sunder is an award winning India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n music programmer, film score

Film score

A film score is original music written specifically to accompany a film, forming part of the film's soundtrack, which also usually includes dialogue and sound effects...

 composer, musician and singer. He has composed music for more than 5000 ad jingles, programmed music for many major composers and have scored more than ten Malayalam films.

He has composed the original score and songs for films like Flash

Flash (2007 film)

Flash is a Malayalam film released in December 2007 directed by Sibi Malayil starring Mohanlal. The film is a suspense thriller dealing with some harrowing experiences of the female central character.- Plot :...

(2007), Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded (2009) and Anwar

Anwar (2010 film)

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(2010). He has also done background music for Notebook

Notebook (film)

Notebook is a 2006 Malayalam musical film directed by Rosshan Andrrews and written by Bobby Sanjay. It is about three students at a boarding school and how they face up to challenges in their lives. The film dealt with the subject of teenage pregnancy...

(2006), Big B

Big B (film)

Big B is a 2007 Malayalam action-thriller film co-written and directed by Amal Neerad, starring Mammootty in the title role. The cinematography was done by Samir Thahir, and the original score was composed by Gopi Sundar, with Alphons Joseph doing the songs....

(2007), Mission 90 Days

Mission 90 Days

Mission 90 Days is a 2007 Malayalam film by Major Ravi starring Mammooty. It is Major Ravi's second directorial venture and is based on the assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and the following investigation.-Cast:...

(2007), Poi Solla Porom

Poi Solla Porom

Poi Solla Porom is a Tamil comedy film starring Nedumudi Venu, Karthik Kumar and Piaa Bajpai released in 2008. The film is a remake of the Bollywood cult film, Khosla Ka Ghosla.-Plot:...

(2008), Evidam Swargamanu

Evidam Swargamanu

Evidam Swargamanu is a 2009 Malayalam film written by James Albert, directed by Rosshan Andrrews, and starring Mohanlal, Sreenivasan, Lalu Alex, and Lakshmi Rai in the lead roles...

(2009)..

He got his first Filmfare Award for Best Music Director in the 58th Filmfare Awards South

58th Filmfare Awards South

The 58th Filmfare Awards South ceremony honoring the winners and nominees of the best of South Indian cinema in 2010 was held on July 2, 2011 in Hyderabad, India.-Tamil:*Nominations** 9 nominations: Aayirathil Oruvan...

 for Anwar (2010)

Anwar (2010 film)

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.

Career

Gopi Sunder born in a musical Family was an associate to the composer Ouseppachan

Ouseppachan

Ousephachan is a National Award, Filmfare Award and Kerala State Film Award-winning Indian music director who sets scores for Malayalam films. He is one of the most sought-after musicians in the Malayalam film industry.-Biography:...

 for long time. Sunder's father was a friend of Ouseppachan, which made Sunder a leading member in the troup of the prolific composer. He used to play tabla

Tabla

The tabla is a popular Indian percussion instrument used in Hindustani classical music and in popular and devotional music of the Indian subcontinent. The instrument consists of a pair of hand drums of contrasting sizes and timbres...

 for many shows in south and north India. Later he went on to make jingles and have scored about 5000 jingles, some of them with Rajeev Menon, who in eighties introduced world famous musician A. R. Rahman

A. R. Rahman

Allah Rakha Rahman is an Indian composer, singer-songwriter, record producer, musician, and philanthropist. Described as the world's most prominent and prolific film composer by Time, his works are notable for integrating eastern classical music with electronic music sounds, world music genres and...

 through his jingles. He was a keyboard programmer

Keyboardist

A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...

 for noted music director duo Vishal-Shekhar

Vishal-Shekhar

Vishal-Shekhar are a music directing duo for Hindi films and are among the leading music directors in the industry today...

 in their works like Om Shanti Om and Bluffmaster

Bluffmaster

Bluffmaster! is a 2005 Bollywood film, a remake of the Argentine film Nine Queens. Starring Abhishek Bachchan, Ritesh Deshmukh and Priyanka Chopra. Boman Irani and Nana Patekar have supporting roles in the film. This film is not related to Manmohan Desai's film Bluff Master released in 1963.The...

. In the popular songs like "Aankhon mein teri'" (Om Shanti Om) and "Ek main aur ek tu hai" (Bluffmaster) keyboard programming was done by him. His break in films came when director Rosshan Andrrews

Rosshan Andrrews

Rosshan Andrrews is an Indian film director who has made films in Malayalam cinema.- Career :His first movie was the 2005 Malayalam movie Udayananu Tharam starring Mohanlal. After the success of this movie Rosshan Andrrews directed another movie in 2006 named Notebook...

 approached him with an offer to compose the Background score for his movie Notebook

Notebook (film)

Notebook is a 2006 Malayalam musical film directed by Rosshan Andrrews and written by Bobby Sanjay. It is about three students at a boarding school and how they face up to challenges in their lives. The film dealt with the subject of teenage pregnancy...

which made him one of the most demanded background scorer in Malayalam films. Then he composed BGM for the superhit movie Big B

Big B (film)

Big B is a 2007 Malayalam action-thriller film co-written and directed by Amal Neerad, starring Mammootty in the title role. The cinematography was done by Samir Thahir, and the original score was composed by Gopi Sundar, with Alphons Joseph doing the songs....

, starring Mammootty

Mammootty

Mammootty is an Indian film actor and producer who works mainly in Malayalam cinema. He has also acted in a few Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, and Kannada films. During a career spanning more than three decades, he has acted in more than 360 films, and is only next to Prem Nazir in the number of lead roles...

, which lead to a big break in film industry for him and noted Director Sibi Malayil

Sibi Malayil

Sibi Malayil is an Indian film director of Malayalam cinema best known for his melodramas of the 80s and 90s. Since the mid-1980s he has directed some 40 movies. Movies like Kireedam, Dasharatham, Thaniyavarthanam, His Highness Abdullah, Bharatham, and Akashadoothu defined the way Malayalam movies...

 approached him for composing Soundtrack and BGM as well for his Mohanlal

Mohanlal

Mohanlal Vishwanathan Nair , known mononymously as Mohanlal , is a National Award-winning Indian actor, producer, singer and writer who is well known for his versatile and natural acting in Indian cinema & hence widely known as the Universal Star...

 starrer Flash (2007 film)

Flash (2007 film)

Flash is a Malayalam film released in December 2007 directed by Sibi Malayil starring Mohanlal. The film is a suspense thriller dealing with some harrowing experiences of the female central character.- Plot :...

. His next project as a composer was in Amal Neerad

Amal Neerad

Amal Neerad is an Indian film director, cinematographer, and screenwriter. Began his career as a cinematographer, he also turned into direction in 2007 with Big B.-Early life:...

's big budget movie Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded. His work in this movie was praised well by the audience. The songs he composed for Amal Neerad's Anwar

Anwar (2010 film)

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, which rocked the charts for many continuous weeks, has made him one of the most sought after music directors. Later his song 'kanninima' from this movie Anwar, was detected to be plagiarised from the work 'rosa maria' of spanish band 'Chambao'.

Filmography

Year	Film	Language	Notes
2006	Notebook Notebook (film) Notebook is a 2006 Malayalam musical film directed by Rosshan Andrrews and written by Bobby Sanjay. It is about three students at a boarding school and how they face up to challenges in their lives. The film dealt with the subject of teenage pregnancy...	Malayalam	Film Debut; Background score only
2007	Big B Big B Big B may refer to:* Big B , a 2007 Malayalam action-thriller* Big B , American rapper* Big B Drugs, a defunct American drugstore chain* Amitabh Bachchan or Big B, Indian actor...	Malayalam	Background score only
2007	Dhol Dhol (2007 film) Dhol is a 2007 Hindi movie directed by Priyadarshan, and produced by the Percept Picture Company starring Sharman Joshi, Kunal Khemu, Rajpal Yadav, Tusshar Kapoor, Arbaaz Khan, Payal Rohatgi, Om Puri, and Tanushree Dutta in lead roles. The screenplay written by Manisha Korde is a partial...	Hindi Hindi Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...	Background score only
2007	Mission 90 Days Mission 90 Days Mission 90 Days is a 2007 Malayalam film by Major Ravi starring Mammooty. It is Major Ravi's second directorial venture and is based on the assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and the following investigation.-Cast:...	Malayalam	Background score only
2007	Flash Flash (2007 film) Flash is a Malayalam film released in December 2007 directed by Sibi Malayil starring Mohanlal. The film is a suspense thriller dealing with some harrowing experiences of the female central character.- Plot :...	Malayalam
2008	Poi Solla Porom Poi Solla Porom Poi Solla Porom is a Tamil comedy film starring Nedumudi Venu, Karthik Kumar and Piaa Bajpai released in 2008. The film is a remake of the Bollywood cult film, Khosla Ka Ghosla.-Plot:...	Tamil Tamil language Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...	Background score only
2009	Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded	Malayalam
2009	Evidam Swargamanu Evidam Swargamanu Evidam Swargamanu is a 2009 Malayalam film written by James Albert, directed by Rosshan Andrrews, and starring Mohanlal, Sreenivasan, Lalu Alex, and Lakshmi Rai in the lead roles...	Malayalam	Background score only
2010	Thanthonni Thanthonni Thanthonni is a 2010 Malayalam-language film released on March 19, 2010. The film is directed by George Varghese, a former assistant to Joshy...	Malayalam	Background score only
2010	Mummy & Me Mummy & Me Mummy & Me is a 2010 Malayalam film directed by Jithu Joseph. Mummy & Me stars Kunchacko Boban, Archana Kavi, Mukesh, Lalu Alex, Urvashi, Shari, Janardhanan, and Anoop Menon.-Synopsis:...	Malayalam	Background score only
2010	Anwar Anwar (2010 film) - External links : * * at Oneindia.in...	Malayalam
2011	Race Race (2011 film) Race is a 2011 Malayalam thriller film directed by Kukku Surendran and starrring Kunchacko Boban, Mamta Mohandas, Indrajith, Baby Anikha, and Gowri Munjal. An adaptation of the Hollywood film Trapped , which itself was based on Greg Iles's novel 24 Hours, the film also borrows premises from the...	Malayalam	Background score only
2011	Seniors	Malayalam	Background score only
2011	Doctor Love (film) Doctor Love (film) Doctor Love or Dr. Love is a 2011 Malayalam romantic comedy film directed by K. Biju in his debut film. The film was produced by Joy Thomas and Sakthikulangara jointly, and stars Kunchacko Boban, Bhavana, Ananya, Manikkuttan, Salim Kumar, Vijayaraghavan, Nedumudi Venu, Hemanth, Vidya Unni, Aju...	Malayalam	Background score only
2011	Masters Masters (film) -Cast:* Prithviraj as ASP Sriramakrishnan* Sasikumar as Milan Paul* Ananya* Mithra Kurian * Parvathi Menon* Pia Bajpai* Biju Menon* Salim Kumar* Mukesh as Selvam's uncle...	Malayalam
2011	Bulbul Maina Bulbul Maina Bulbul Maina is a 2011 Malayalam-language Indian feature film directed by debutant Fazly Khabeer, starring Indrajith and Rima Kallingal-Plot:...	Malayalam
2012	Casanovva	Malayalam	Two Songs and Background score
2012	Ee Adutha Kalathu	Malayalam
2012	Usthad Hotel	Malayalam

Awards

Year	Status	Title	Category	Film
2010		Filmfare Award for Best Music Director	Best Music Director	Anwar (2010) Anwar (2010 film) - External links : * * at Oneindia.in...

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