Innovative and celebrated Indian film composer Yuvan Shankar Raja was born
August 31, 1979 in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The son of composer Ilaiyayaaja, and
brother of playback singer Bhavatharini, Yuvan Shankar Raja joined the family
business in 1996 at the behest of his mother. His initial recordings earned him
a job offer to write music for a trailer to the 1997 movie Aravindhan, and that
work was so impressive that the producers hired him to score the entire movie,
earning him his first filmi credit at the tender age of 16. Though that films
and his next projects failed to garner ...