Mahathi

Mahathi Biography

Mahathi is a famous vocalist and playback singer of Tamil movies. She is an 'A Grade' artiste (Carnatic Classical Vocal) of All India Radio. She has also sung for many television commercials and serials. A few of her noted Tamil hits include Aiyyayo Aiyyayo Pidichirukku of Samy, Kaadhalikkum of Chellamae, Nenjae Nenjae of Ayan, Mudhal Mazhai of Bhima and Innisai of Varalaru. She has been given top songs by music director Harris Jayaraj and Aiyyayo Aiyyayo Pidichirukku of Samy and Mudhal Mazhai of Bhima needs special mention. Both songs were pictured on Vikram and Trisha and her co-singer being Hariharan.

 
Mahathi was born on February 10, 1985. She started identifying ragas of Carnatic music at the age of 1.5. Her parents noticed her talent and nurtured it by teaching her more ragas. At the age of 2.5, she learnt to identify 75 ragas. When she was just 3 years old, she attended a music concert aside her mother and while Mahathi sitting on her mother’s lap kept identified the Ragas played by the musicians on stage the secretary of the show arranged a live demonstration of the child’s talents. When Mahati identified the ragas, it became big news on newspapers. She received initial training from parents and from Gayathri at Thiruvananthapuram. She later received formal training from Sri O S Thiagarajan, Dr.M. Balamuralikrishna and T. N. Seshagopalan.

 
She received scholarships from Indian government in 1994 and has also done many devotional albums from Thrissur. She started live concerts at the age of 10. As a playback singer, her debut movie was “Enna Maranthalum” of Kathal Jaathai sang for Illayaraja. But the movie was not released. In 2003, she got the big break to the industry with “Aiyyaiyyo Pudichirukku” duet. After that, she didn’t look back and still one among the top singers of Tamil industry. In 2008, she won the Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Female Playback Singer for the song "Naeraa Varattuma" from the movie "Nenjathai Killadhe". Till now, she has sung more than 700 songs in all south Indian languages and Punjabi.

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Updated: May 28, 2018