Sunny Sanour, known professionally as Sunny M.R., is an Indian music composer, music producer, sound engineer, and playback singer. He is best known for his music in the Telugu films Swamy Ra Ra (2013) and Uyyala Jampala (2013). He won Global Indian Music Award, Mirchi Music Award for the Hindi film, Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (2013), as the "Best Music Arranger cum Programmer" and "Song Programmer cum Arranger of the Year" in 2014.
Early life Sanour studied at St. Anne's High School in Patna, Bihar, and then joined as sound engineer to assist his accomplished brother, Shadab Rayeen. After 6 months, Sunny became an independent sound engineer at the age of 15. He mastered mixing, arranging, and composing various tunes primarily for Keerthana Digital Studios, in Hyderabad, Telangana, for 6 years.
Career
In Keerthana Digital studios, Sunny collaborated 350 albums mastering ragas from carnatic Music. In the initial stage, he used to hate composing with carnatic tunes, but realised afterwards, that jazz is a harmonised version of carnatic music. Then he started loving composing albums with carnatic ragas. Sunny moved to Mumbai to meet Sandeep Chowta and joined as a sound engineer. Late Anil Kumar (a music director) and Krishna Chaitanya (a lyricist) inspired Sunny to join as a music director. Sudheer Varma, the director of the Telugu film Swamy Ra Ra selected him to compose its soundtrack.
Sunny was part of an open music community called Blogswara. The Blogswara team expressed appreciation for his involvement as a music director when it shut down in 2013.
Discography
As composer Year Title LanguageNotes2013 Swamy Ra RaTelugu Uyyala Jampala 2014 Rowdy Fellow2015Thanu Nenu Dohchay Bhale Manchi Roju 2017 Keshava 2018 Husharu2021 Super Over 3 Roses2024 Om Bheem Bush Kahan Shuru Kahan Khatam Hindi Appudo Ippudo EppudoTeluguRoti Kapda RomanceOnly background score
As arranger and record producer Year Title Language Music ProgrammerMusic Sound DesignerScore Mixing EngineerSong Mixing EngineerBacking VocalsRecording Supervisor 2015Dohchay Telugu Baahubali: The Beginning Telugu / Tamil 2014Rowdy Fellow Telugu 2013Uyyala Jampala Telugu Swamy Ra Ra Telugu Race 2 Hindi 2012Barfi! Hindi Cocktail Hindi Jannat 2 Hindi Agent Vinod Hindi Players Hindi 2011Desi Boyz Hindi Mausam Hindi Bodyguard Hindi Ready Hindi Dum Maaro Dum Hindi Thank You Hindi 2010Housefull Hindi Kedi Telugu 2008Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic Hindi 2007Om Shanti Om Hindi
As playback singer
"Swamy Ra Ra (Reload)" in Swamy Ra Ra "Mana Bandham" in Uyyala JampalaSwamy Ra Ra "Aanati Devadasu" in Dohchay "Dil Udd Jaare" in Pagglait
Awards Year Award Song Film Category Result Ref. 2013 Mirchi Music Awards "Badtameez Dil" Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani Programmer & Arranger of the Year 2015 "Selfie Le Le Re" Bajrangi Bhaijaan Best Song Producer (Programming & Arranging) rowspan=7 2016 "Dhaakad" Dangal Best Song Producer (Programming & Arranging) Best Song Engineer (Recording & Mixing) "Bulleya" Ae Dil Hai Mushkil Best Song Engineer (Recording & Mixing) 2017 "Ghar" Jab Harry Met Sejal Best Song Producer (Programming & Arranging) "Ullu Ka Pattha" Jagga Jasoos "Radio(Film Version)" Tubelight
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