mm keeravani or koduri marakathamani keeravani is now a household name in india and after the golden globe and lafca awards he has become a rage among music lovers across the globe he goes by the name marakathamani in the tamil film industrythe song naatu naatu and the movie rrr are synonymous with each other and keeravani is the one who has given life to this song which is on everyones lips across the country after it became a hit and also started winning global awardsthe song is now shortlisted for the academy awards in the best song categorykeeravani was awarded the padma shri recently after which he won the golden globe award lacfa award national award for best music director and also won 11 nandi awards for best music director in the telugu film industryborn on july 4 1961 keeravani is the son of koduri shiva shakti datta a renowned lyricist and nephew of screen writer and director v vijayendraprasad his elder son kaala bhairava is a singer and has sung for several works of keeravani including naatu naatu his younger son has also made his debut in the music industry with the movie mathu vadalarakeeravanis big break came in the blockbuster movie kshana kshanam of ram gopal varma that established him as a music director all the songs became major hits and led to keeravani being catapulted to the big leagueincidentally keeravanis wife mm srivalli is the elder sister of rajamoulis wife rama rajamoulithe ace music director started his career as an assistant to telugu composer and musician k chakravarthy and malayalam composer c rajamani in 1987he also assisted veteran lyricist veturi for almost one year and had gone on record stating that nusrat fateh ali khan and john williams are musicians who have had an influence on himin 1997 he won the national best music director award for the movie annamaya he had also won a tamil nadu state award for the best music director in 1991 for the movie azhaganhis major works are in the movies kshanam kshanam 1991 seetharamayya gari manavaralu 1991 gharana mogadu 1992 soorya manasam 1992 varasadu 1993 allari priyyudu 1993 criminal 1994 shiva sankalpam 1995 devaragam 1996 baahubali both parts 2015 and 2017 and rrr 2023keeravani who is known as mm kreem in bollywood has a new movie coming up and it is the ajay devgn tabustarrer auron mein kahan dum tha he has composed music for other hindi movies such as 12 oclock of mithun chakraborty missing baby special makkhi and lahore to name a fewindustry sources told ians that mm keeravanimm kreem is now one of the most sought after music directors in the hindi film industryalso read