Shoba Chandrasekhar

Shoba Chandrasekhar
Born	Shoba
Nationality	Indian
Years active	1967 – present
Spouse(s)	S. A. Chandrasekhar
Children	Joseph Vijay Chandrasekar
Website	www.actorvijay.com

Shoba Chandrasekhar is an Indian film playback singer, director, writer and producer. She is the mother of Kollywood actor Vijay. Her son had debuted in the film S.A Chandrasekar's Naalaya Theerpu.

Personal life

She is married to S. A. Chandrasekhar, who is an Indian film director, producer and writer. Her son Vijay, is one of Tamil Nadu's leading actors and her daughter Vidhya died at the age of 2. Sangeetha is her daughter-in-law. Her siblings are Sunder, Surender and Sheela. Her Mother is Mrs. Lalitha.

Musical training

Her guru was Shri Meenakshi Sundaram. Later she joined the Tamil Nadu Government Music College and pursued her learning from the great tutors in the college like Vidwan Shri T.M. Thiagarajan. She also had the opportunity to learn Veena from Smt. Kalpakam Swaminathan at the music college. For the past 5 years she has been learning vocal carnatic music from Smt. Brinda Thiagarajan – daughter of Shri Maharajapuram Santhanam.

Awards and titles

She has been honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Mrs. Chennai award by the Esthel Hotels and Resorts. Shoba Chandrasekhar, a singer, has been given this award for her philanthropic activities in Chennai as well as for being a good mother and wife.

Others

She has been appointed as the Artistic Heritage Consultant by the order of the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha.

Film career

She was a singer in light music troupes. She later graduated to singing in films. She has written several stories that have been made into movies by moviemaker husband S. A. Chandrasekhar. She turned film producer and then became a film director. She has also performed at various classical concerts. She also recently released a devotional album titled 'Anaimuganum Arumuganum', talks about her singing career.

Her first light classical music programme was telecast on Vijay TV in April 2003. The title of the programme was 'Samarpanam'. Her first live concert was for the Maharajapuram Santhanam Trust. Her first film song was 'Maharaja Oru Maharani ... ' from the film Iru Malargal. She has sung in nearly all the films made by her husband.

She has produced 10 films and written stories for more than 50. She also directed two films Nanbargal and Innisai Mazhai. In fact, Mr. Chandrasekhar worked as her associate director in these films. He was assisted by Shankar, now a famous director. The management of the Esthel hotels and resorts said that Shoba is a perfect example of an egoless person. She also sang over 12 movies.

Partial Filmography

Year	Film	Credited as			Language	Notes
		Director	Producer	Writer
2008	Pandhayam		Y		Tamil
2006	Nenjirukkum Varai			Y	Tamil
2006	Aadhi		Y		Tamil
1998	Nilaave Vaa		Y		Tamil
1996	Maanbumigu Maanavan			Y	Tamil
1995	Vishnu			Y	Tamil
1995	Deva			Y	Tamil
1994	Rasigan			Y	Tamil
1993	Sendhoorapandi			Y	Tamil
1992	Naalaiya Theerpu		Y	Y	Tamil
1992	Innisai Mazhai	Y		Y	Tamil
1991	Nanbargal	Y		Y	Tamil
1989	Rajanadai		Y	Y	Tamil
1987	Sattam Oru Vilayaattu		Y		Tamil
1986	Vasantha Raagam		Y		Tamil
1986	Enakku Nane Needipathi			Y	Tamil
1985	Neethiyin Marupakkam		Y	Y	Tamil
1985	Pudhu Yugam		Y		Tamil
1983	Hasida Hebbuli			Y	Kannada
1982	Pattanathu Rajakkal			Y	Tamil

As a playback singer

Year	Title	Song(s)	Composer	Co-singer(s)	Ref.
1967	Iru Malargal	"Maharaja Oru Maharani"	M. S. Viswanathan	Sadan, T. M. Soundararajan
1978	Aval Oru Pachai Kuzhanthai	"Maalai Ilam"	Illayaraja	SN. Surendar
1985	Neethiyin Marupakkam	"Potti Kadaiyile"	Illayaraja	Illayaraja
1986	Kodai Mazhai	"Pala Pala Kuruvi"	Illayaraja	Uma Ramanan
1986	Natpu	"Adi Maadi Veettu"	Illayaraja	P. Jayachandran
1992	Innisai Mazhai	"Dhoori Dhoori"	Illayaraja	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
1993	Kattalai	"Nambinen Maharajene"	Illayaraja	Mano
1994	Rasigan	"Love Love Mama"	Deva	S. P. Balasubrahmanyam
1995	Visnhu	"Dhoddabetta"	Deva
1997	Once More	"Oormila Oormila"	Deva	Vijay
2005	Sivakasi	"Kodambakkam Area"	Srikanth Deva	Tippu
2006	Nenjirukkum Varai	"Azhagana Ponnu"	Srikanth Deva	Gopal Sharma
2007	Mudhal Kanave	"Beeru Venuma Brandy Venuma"	Srikanth Deva	Vikranth
2008	Pandhayam	"Chinnamamiye"	Vijay Antony
2009	Vettaikaaran	"Uchimandai Surrru"	Vijay Antony	Krishna Iyer, Charulatha Mani, Sakthi Sree
2010	Veluthu Kattu	"Sangili Pungili"	Bharani	Karthik, Rap Valla
2010	Sura	"Naan Nadanthal Adhiradi"	Mani Sharma	Naveen, Janani Madhan

External links

• Shoba Chandrasekhar at IMDB

• http://profiles.lakshmansruthi.com/index.php?uid=684
• http://www.kollyinsider.com/2011/11/jayalalitha-gives-new-post-to-vijays.html