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Sound Engineer Sridhar dead
Express News Service
First Published : 02 Dec 2008 02:13:00 AM IST
Last Updated : 02 Dec 2008 11:17:10 AM IST
CHENNAI: Four time National Award winner, Sound Engineer H Sridhar passed away
on Tuesday morning. Famous for his 15-year old association with AR Rahman that
dates from Roja to the just released Ghajini, Sridhar was among the best sound
engineers in the trade. He is said to have worked until 3 am with AR Rahman for
the final mixing of Gazini, and died of a cardiac arrest in his sleep. He will
be cremated on Tuesday morning.
Regarded widely as the genius behind AR Rahman’s successful live shows and
musical scores, Sridhar Hariharan won himself the president’s Gold Medal
(National Award for the Best Audiography) four times: 'Mahanadhi', 'Lagaan',
'Dil Se' and 'Kannathil Muthamittaal' - the highest number of times by any
sound engineer (along with SP Ramanathan). Sridhar was revered in musical
circles as the pioneer of the use of digital sound in DTS format in the
country, besides taking up even six-track recording for over 200 songs. The
chief audio engineer at Media Arts, Sridhar had worked for over 200 films, with
the country’s leading musicians, including Ilayaraja, GV Prakash and Shankar
Mahadevan
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