Bindhumalini Narayanaswamy or simply Bindhumalini is an Indian singer, composer, and graphic designer. She has received National Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer (2018)[1][2] and Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer - Kannada (2019) for her songs in the movie Nathicharami.[3] She has composed and recorded songs for films and albums in Tamil, Hindi, and Kannada languages.
Bindumalini was born in Chennai in a musical family. Her mother N. Vishalakshi is a graded Akasvani Carnatic singer and grandmother Seetha Doraiswamy was a known Jal Tarang instrumentalist.[4] She holds a degree in Graphic design from the National Institute of Design.[5]
Bindumalini married Vasu Dixit, a vocalist from Bangalore, who runs a folk-rock fusion music band called Swarathma.[6]
Trained both in Carnatic and Hindustani music, Bindumalini was influenced by the poems of saint Kabir and the songs of Kumar Gandharva.[6]
Bindumalini's album ‛Suno Bhai’, a collection of Saint Kabir's poems, was a collaboration with Vedanth Bharadwaj.[6]
Bindumalini scored music for the 2016 Tamil movie Aruvi with Vedanth Bharadwaj.[7] In Kannada, she first collaborated with Ananya Kasaravalli and scored music for the movie ‛Harikatha Prasanga’[4] which won Best Film award at the 9th edition of Bangalore International Film Festival, 2017.[8] In 2018, Bindumalini composed music for the movie Nathicharami which brought her a National award.[2] Incidentally, most of her movies were women-centric.
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In her movies as composer, most of the songs sung by Bindumalini herself.
Year | Film | Singer | Composer(s) | Language(s) |
2016 | Aruvi | ![]() |
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Tamil |
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2017 |
Harikatha Prasanga |
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Kannada |
2018 |
Nathicharami |
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Kannada |
Year | Film | Language | Song | Music director | Co-singer |
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2012 | Cyber Yugadol Navayuva Madhura Premakavyam | Kannada | "Olavemba Nadiyagi" | Vasu Dixit | Harishchandra |
2016 | Aruvi | Tamil | "Kukkoti Kunnati" | Bindhumalini, Vedanth Bharadhwaj | Praneeti, Vedant |
"Asaidam Venkata Kavimayil" | |||||
"Cement Kaadu" | |||||
"Uccham Thodum" | Vasu Dixit | ||||
"Merku Karaiyil" | Vedanth Bharadhwaj | ||||
"Aruvi" (Theme) | |||||
2016 | Harikatha Prasanga | Kannada | Bindumalini | ||
2018 | Nathicharami | Kannada | "Vasundhare" | Bindhumalini | |
"Yariva" | |||||
"Bhavalokada Bhrameya" | Sanchari Vijay | ||||
"Mayavi Manave" | |||||
"Dehavu Nane" | |||||
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