B. Ajaneesh Loknath

Ajaneesh was born in Bhadravati, Karnataka in a family of musicians. His father B. Loknath and mother Veena Loknath, both are singers and his grandmother is a Veena exponent.^[3] He took interest in music at a very young age and got professional training in Carnatic and Hindustani classical music. Starting in 2003, he initially worked as a keyboard player in Kannada cinema.

Ajaneesh worked as a session musician for various composers, including K. Kalyan, V. Manohar, and Benny Johnson, during his initial years (2003–2004) in Bengaluru. He later moved on to composing jingles for advertisements and television serials before getting his break as an independent film music director in the Kannada film Shishira in 2009.

Later he has composed music for Ulidavaru Kandanthe, Kirik Party, Avane Srimannarayana and background score for Rangitaranga. He has sung for Ulidavaru Kandanthe, Ishtakamya, Kirik Party and has also sung songs for his own films. He has done movies for Ramesh Aravind, Dr.Shivrajkumar, Golden Star Ganesh, Bharathiraja, Nivin Pauly, Udhayanidhi Stalin, Duniya Vijay and many others.

He got his film Ulidavaru Kandanthe assigned for eight fields in the Radio Mirchi Music Awards South 2015.^[4] His background score for the film Rangitaranga was short-listed for an Oscar but ultimately was not nominated.^[5] Till date, he has worked for more than 25 films in many languages.

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