Mani Sharma

 ( 1964 Births ) 

His father was a violinist who played with composer Saluri Rajeswara Rao. Mani Sharma discontinued his studies after the 12th standard.

Sharma was initially signed as a full-fledged music director (songs and background score) for a film produced by Aswini Dutt, starring Chiranjeevi and directed by Ram Gopal Varma. However, the project was later helmed by Gunasekhar. While this film was in development, Super Heroes and Bavagaru Bagunnara? were released earlier, and the Chiranjeevi–Aswini Dutt film was eventually released as Choodalani Vundi.

As music director, he has worked on several films with producer Aswini Dutt, starting with Super Heroes. he has been music director on more than 200 films, for the most part Telugu but also including 25 Tamil productions and several in Kannada. His first hit was Preminchukundam Raa (1997); Choodalani Vundi and Samarasimha Reddy in particular have been highly successful. He has also collaborated on albums with many actors, including Chiranjeevi, Nagarjuna, Mahesh Babu, Pawan Kalyan and Ram Charan.

His works are noted for integrating Indian with Classical music instrumentation. He is sometimes known as Melody Brahma and Swara Bramha.

Composers including S. Thaman, Devi Sri Prasad, Harris Jayaraj, and the playback singer-turned-composer Karthik worked under him in their early days.