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22nd SEPTEMBER 1930 - 14th APRIL 2013 PRATHIVADI  BHAYANKARA SRINIVAS BORN KAKINADA


P. B. Sreenivas

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P.B. Sreenivas
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Dr. P.B. Sreenivas
Background information
Native nameప్రతివాది భయంకర శ్రీనివాస్ (పి.బి.శ్రీనివాస్)
Birth namePrativadi Bhayankara Sreenivas
Also known asPBS, PB Srinivas, PB Sreenivos
Born22 September 1930
Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh
Died14 April 2013 (aged 82)
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
GenresPlayback singing, Carnatic music, Ghazal
Occupation(s)Singer
InstrumentsVocalist
Years active1951-2013
Prathivadi Bhayankara Sreenivas (22 September 1930 – 14 April 2013), was a veteran playback singer from India. He was born in Kakinada in East Godavri District of Andhra Pradesh. He had sung around 3000 songs in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, Malayalam, Tulu and Konkani films. He was known for his playback singing in the Kannada, Telugu and Tamil film industries. He had sung in all the main languages of the country but it is in Kannada that he has the highest number of songs in his career. He died on 14 April 2013 at the age of 82 in Chennai.

Biography[edit]

Prathivadhi Bhayankara Sreenivas was born to Prathivadhi Bhayankaram Phanindraswamy and Seshagiriamma in Kakinada, East Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh. His father was a civil servant and his mother was a musician. His father wanted him to become a government officer and Sreenivas was awarded a B.Com(Bachelor of Commerce) degree and then passed the Hindi Visharad Exams of the South Indian Hindi Spreading Society (Dakshin Bharat Hindi Prachar Sabha).[citation needed]
In an interview, Sreenivas said that it was through his mother's singing that he knew of Indian classical music. During his educational days, he had a habit of hearing radio. Mohammed Rafi was his favourite singer.[citation needed] His uncle, Kidambi Krishnaswamy, was a drama artist and a singer. When Sreenivas was 12, Krishnaswamy gave him a chance to sing in a drama. When Phanindraswamy asked an astrologer about this, he told that Sreenivas did not have a bright future in music field. But, instead of believing in the astrologer's words, he believed in his son's confidence.[citation needed]
Later, Sreenivas went to Gemini Studios, Madras. Emani Sankara Sastry, a famous veena player, was one of the residing musicians. Sastry was also one of the family friends of Sreenivas. He introduced Sreenivas to S. S. Vasan, the owner of Gemini Studios. There, Sreenivas sang a super hit song sung by Mohammed Rafi, his favourite singer. It was "Huye Hum Jinke Liye Barbad", from Deedar (1951), composed by Naushad Ali.
Sreenivas made his début in 1952 in Gemini's Hindi film Mr. Sampat. Sreenivas sang duets and triplets with Geeta Dutt, Shamshad Begum and Jikki apart from leading a chorus song. His first song "Aji hum Bharat ki naari", a duet with Geeta Dutt, became popular. 'Mr. Sampat' based on the novel in the same name, written by R. K. Narayan. Later, with the help of Jeeva, the sound recordist of 'Mr. Sampat', Sreenivas entered the South Indian Film Industry. R. Nagendra Rao, a well known actor and director of that time in South Indian film industry, made a trilingual film in all the South Indian languages except Malayalam. The movie was titledJathakam in Tamil, Jathakaphalam in Telugu and Jathakaphala in Kannada. In all these languages, Sreenivas sang two songs each.
In Kannada, he achieved great success through Bhakta Kanakadasa starring Super Star Dr.Rajkumar. The song Baagilanu teredu of the film was a very big hit. Later he went on to sing greatest numbers for Super StarDr.Vishnuvardhan, Srinath, Kalyan Kumar, Udaya Kumar and others. His first solo hit came in the movie Prema Pasam in which he also sang a duet with P. Susheela. His first song for Rajkumar was in 1956 film Ohileshwara. Later he sang for the Super Star for a long time and the association was highly appreciated by critics, fans and the industry. In the Tamil industry, his maximum number of songs are for Gemini Ganesan. The most memorable hit of this duo was 'Nilave ennidam nerungathe'. He had sung for other actors as well but incidentally, he had sung very few songs for M. G. Ramachandran and Sivaji Ganesan.He sang the popular duet in Hindi Chanda Se Hoga Wo Pyaara (with Lata Mangeshkar) in the film Main Bhi Ladki Hoon in 1964. In Tamil his voice was more used for actors Gemini Ganeshan, Muthuraman, Ravichandran, Jaishankar.
In Pava Mannippu, Sreenivas sang "Kalangalil Aval Vasantham" written by Kannadasan and set to music by the music duo M. S. Viswanathan - T. K. Ramamoorthy. The film Adutha Veettuppen of Anjali Pictures carried some of his songs. Sreenivas has also sung with P.Susheela, S. Janaki, P. Bhanumathi, K. Jamuna Rani, L. R. Easwari and Lata Mangeshkar for the movie Main Bhi Ladki Hoon and some North Indian Singers. His devotional songs include "Sharadha Bhujanga Stothram", "Sri Venkateswara Suprabhatham", "Mukunda Mala", "Shri Mallikarjuna Stotram" and Purandaradasa compositions. His "home away from home" was the Woodlands Drive-In restaurant in Chennai where one could frequently spot him sit quietly writing poetry.[1] He had headed many music related organizations such as being the president of Iyal Isai Nataka Mandram.
Sreenivas entered Malayalam film industry within two years after entering the other three South Indian film industries. There are confusions that in which film did he first sing in Malayalam. There are two arguments. The first argument is that his first Malayalam song was in Amma (1952), while the other argument it was in Puthradharmam (1954). But, his actual first Malayalam song was in Harischandra (1955), as said by Sreenivas himself in an interview. The song was 'Mahal Thyagame Mahithame Ninte Margam', written byThirunainar Kurichi Madhavan Nair and composed by Brother Lakshmanan. He sang many songs in Malayalam too, even though the number is very less while compared to Tamil, Telugu and Kannada. They include Malar Thorum Mandahasam Viriyunnathenthinakam, Kannum En Kannumay, Innu Kaanum Ponkinakkal, Kanneerenthinu Vanambadi, Kanmoo Njan Ninte, Kaninaal Kaanmathellam, Niranja Kannukalode, Mamalakalkkappurathu Marathakappattuduthu, Padinjare Manathulla, Geethe Hridayasakhi Geethe, Thulasi Thulasi Vilikelkoo, Vanadevathamare Vidanalkoo, Kizhakku Kizhakkorana, etc. Most of his Malayalam songs were composed by M. S. Baburaj and G. Devarajan.
Though Sreenivas had hit numbers in all the languages that he sang, it was in the Kannada Film Industry that he sang the highest number of songs in his career and it was in the Kannada Industry that he delivered the highest number of hit songs. PB Sreenivas ruled the Kannada Industry for over three decades and was the voice for many Super Stars though his combination with Dr.Rajkumar created history.[2] He was instrumental in shaping the Kannada identity like Dr.Rajkumar and Dr.Vishnuvardhan.[3]
Sreenivas was also a poet. He was fluent in eight languages - Telugu (His mothertongue), Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, English, Sanskrit and Urdu, and wrote poems in all these languages. He sang many poems during many programmes. In 1997, when popular Indian singers K. J. Yesudas and S. P. Balasubrahmanyam came with him to the famous musical meet called 'Lakshman Sruthi', he wrote a poem within a few seconds praising both singers. He learnt Urdu from an Urdu scholar. He wrote two Urdu ghazals for the Tamil movie Nandu (1981), directed by J. Mahendran. They were 'Kaise Kahoon Kuch Kehna Sakoon', sung by Bhupendra and S. Janaki and the other was 'Hum Hain Akele', sung by S. Janaki alone. He also wrote and composed two English poems in 1969, praising the landing of man on the Moon. They were titled 'Man To Moon', a solo by himself and the other was 'Moon To God' a duet with S. Janaki. The gramophone records of these songs were sent to the then United States President Richard Nixon and Neil Armstrong, the man who first landed on the moon. Sreenivas was praised by both people.
His biography named `Madhurya Saarvabhowma Dr.P.B. Srinivos' (penned by R. Srinath) was released on 7 May 2013 at the Palace Grounds, Bangalore by the great Singers Dr.S.P. Balasubramanyam, Vani Jairam and Dr.K.J. Jesudos.

Voice Of Dr.Rajkumar[edit]

Sreenivas had sung for almost all the superstars of South India, but it was his combination with Kannada Matinee Idol Rajkumar that struck a chord with the audience. He has sung at least 300 super hit numbers for the star. In 50's, 60's and 70's, if it was Dr.Rajkumar, then there had to be songs sung by Dr.PBS. Rajkumar himself had said that his true identity was Sreenivas and his voice would never die but only grow. The late actor once described Sreenivas as his 'shaareera' (voice in Kannada) while he himself was a mere 'shareera' (body in Kannada), summing up how some of the best-known films of the thespian are unimaginable without Sreenivas lending his voice. When Rajkumar was honoured with Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1995, Sreenivas rejoiced as though he had got an award himself. Sreenivas said he was honoured because his "voice" had won a great honour.[4] Recalling his association with matinee idol, Rajkumar, Sreenivas in his recent interview had mentioned that 'Rajkumar had a golden voice and all his songs are hugely popular. He excelled in singing all types of songs from romantic to heavily classical. But I was his voice for nearly three decades'.[5] PBS was the voice of Rajkumar, and Rajkumar was the face of PBS is how he would describe Rajumar and himself.[6]Sreenivas was hence known as the Voice of Rajkumar in South India.[2][7] Until 1974, Sreenivas was Rajkumar's most frequent singing voice in films. However, once when Sreenivas was not available to sing for the movie Sampattige Sawaal, Composer G K Venkatesh encouraged Rajkumar to sing the song Yaare Koogadali that was supposed to be sung by Sreenivas. With that song, Rajkumar restarted his singing career, which had stopped after the movie Ohileshwara. Thus began his journey as the most famous actor-singer that the Kannada film industry has ever seen.[8]

Awards[edit]

Death[edit]

Sreenivas died at home in Chennai on 14 April 2013 at the age of 82. He suffered a heart attack.[2][7][11][12] He was survived by his wife and children.

Filmography[edit]

YearFilmLanguageSong
1952Mr. SampatHindiAji hum Bharat ki naari (with Geeta Dutt)
1955HarishchandraMalayalam
1955Rani RatnaprabhaTelugu
1956Bhale RamuduTelugu
1959JayabheriTelugu
1960Bhaktha KanakadaasaKannadaBaagilanu Theredu
Eethaneega Vasudevano
Badukideno
Kula Kula
Singara Sheela
1960Bhakta Shabari
1960RunanubandhamTelugu
1960Sahasra Siracheda Apoorva ChinthamaniTelugu
1960ShantinivasamTelugu
1960Mannadhi MannanTamilNilayo Naano Yaar Nilave
1961Vijayanagarada VeeraputhraKannadaApaara Keerthi
1961Iddaru MitruluTelugu
1961Intiki Deepam IllaluTelugu
1961PasamalarTamilYaar Yaar Avar Yaaro
1961Pava MannippuTamilKalangalil Aval
1961Thirudathe
1961Sri Seetha Rama KalyanamTelugu
1962Atma BandhuvuTamil
1962Swarna GowriKannadaBaara Chandrama
Nudi Mana
Baare Nee Cheluve
Beeso Gaali
1962BhishmaTeluguManasuloni Korika Telusu Neeku Premika
1962DakshayagnamTelugu
1962Bale PandiyaTamilAdhi Manithan
Athi Kai Kai
1962Kula GothraluTeluguRave Rave Bala Hello My Dear Leela
1962Raktha SambandhamTelugu
1962Veera ThirumaganTamilPaadatha Paatellam
Roja Malarae
1962PaasamTamilMalaiyum Iravum
Paal Vaanam Paruvam
1963Chaduvukunna AmmayiluTelugu
1963Lava KushaTelugu
1963Paar Magale PaarTamilAval Paranthu Ponale
Madhurai Nagaril
Madura Nagaril
Ninamaninja KalppadukalMalayalamMamalakalkkappurathu
Padinjare Manathulla
1964Main Bhi Ladki HoonHindiChanda Se Hoga Wo Pyaara (with Lata Mangeshkar)
1964Bobbili YudhamTelugu
1964Dr. ChakravarthyTelugu
1964Server SundaramTamilPoga Poga Theriyum
1964Kaadhalikka NeramillaiTamilAnubavam Puthumai
Viswanathan Velai Vendum
Unga Ponnana Kaigal
1965Gudi GantaluTeluguNeeli Kannula Needala Lona
1965Preminchi ChooduTeluguMeda Meeda Meda Katti Kotlu Koodabettinatti Kamandu
Mee Andala Chetulu Kandenu Papam
1965Sri Simhachala Kshetra MahimaTeluguJayahe Mohana Roopa Gaana Kalaapa
1966Manthralaya MahatmeKannadaIndu Enage Govinda
Kaliyirondu Paatavannu
Tunge Theera
Rasika Saalade
Neenu Baralilla
1966Kappu BilupuKannadaIde Roopa
Indina Hindu Deshada
1966Emme ThammannaKannadaBelli Hakki Aguva
Kanneradu Kareyuthide
Kolalanoodi Kuniva
Neenaarigaadeyo Ele Maanava [13]
1966Shri Krishna PandaviyamTeluguYemitaya Nee Leela Krishna
1967Bangaarada HoovuKannadaAaha Mogavu
Do Do Do Basavanna
Oduva Nadi
1967Lagna PatrikeKannadaBramhachaari
Gandu Muthina Chandu
Illi Yaaru Illa
Kanneradu
Nijavo Sullo
1967Belli Moda [14]KannadaBelli Modada
Ideega Nee
Ide Nanna Uthara
Odeyithu
1968Bedi BandavaluKannadaNeera Mele Aleya Ungura
1969Mayor MuthannaKannadaAyyayyayyo Halli Mukha
Haavige
Halliyadarenu Shiva
Onde Naadu
1970Arishina KunkumaKannadaHonnaase Ullavage
Thaavare Hoo Kere
Ilidu Baa Thaaye
1971SharapanjaraKannadaKodagina Kaveri
Uthara Drivadhim
1971Jai Jawan Jai KisanHindiNakhrewali Chaal
1971Kasthuri NivasaKannadaAadisi Nodu Beelisi Nodu
Aadona ninu nanu
1971SeethaKannadaEe Cheluvanu
Barede Neenu Ninna Hesara
1971Sampoorna RamayanamTeluguVedalenu Kodandapani
1971ParopakaariKannadaHodare Hogu
Guttonda Heluve
Kaviya Madhura
1971SakshathkaraKannadaJanma Janmada Anubandha
Olave Jeevana
1972Sipayi RamuKannadaKathe Mugiyithe
Nidireyu Sadaa
1972NaagarahaavuKannadaKannada Naadina Veera
Baare Baare
Sangama Sangama
Kathe Heluve
1972Bangaaradha ManushyaKannadaNagu Nagutha
Aagadu Endu
Aaha Mysooru Mallige
Baala Bangara
Hani Hani Goodidare
1973Doorada BettaKannadaPreethine Aa Dyaavru Thanda
Kaamanna Kathige
1973SangamaKannadaSirivanthanaadaru
1973Gandhada GudiKannadaEllu hogalla
Naavaaduva nudiye Kannada
1974Bhootayyana Maga AyyuKannadaMalenaada Henna
Maariya Gathiyendu
1974Bhakta KumbaraKannadaNaanu Neenu
Hari Naamave
Manava
Lakshmi Sthothram
Vitala Panduranga
Kande Hariya Kande
1974Eradu KanasuKannadaBaadi Hoda
Endendu Ninnanu Marethu
Endu Ninna Noduve
Tamnam Tamnam
1974Jai Jai RamHindiLav Kush
1975Shubha MangalaKannadaShubha Mangala
Hema... Naakondla Naaku
1975Bhakti Mein BhagwanHindiDekha Hari Dekha
1976Premada KanikeKannadaChinna Endu Naguthiru
Putta Putta Hejje
1977Sose Thanda SowbhagyaaKannadaRavi Varmana
Saaku Ennuvane
Eke Avasaravu
1977BabruvahanaKannadaNinna Kanna Notadalli
Yaaru Thiliyaru
1977Thabbali Neenade MaganeKannadaDharani Mandala Madhyadolage
1977Devara DudduKannadaGodhuli
Krishna..Gaaliya Patadanthe
1978Swarna BhoomiKannadaKaanada Devaru
Siri Kannada Naadu
1978Padvaaralli PandavaruKannadaHaadomme Haadabeku
Thookadisi Thookadisi Beeladiru Thamma
1990PurappaduMalayalamDoore Doore Doore
20047G Rainbow ColonyTamilIdhu Enna Maatram
2010Aayirathil OruvanTamilPemmane
  1. Laxmi Pooja (1979)
  2. Gorantha Deepam (1978)
  3. Jeevana Jyothi (1976)
  4. Seeta Kalyanam (1976)
  5. Chelleli Kapuram (1971)
  6. Saptaswarulu (1969)
  7. Ooty Varai Uravu (1967)
  8. Sakshi (1967)
  9. Letha Manasulu (1966)
  10. Tene Manasulu (1965)


P B Srinivas

P B Srinivas

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22 Sep 1930 (Age 85)
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P.B. Sreenivas (Telugu: ప్రతివాది భయంకర శ్రీనివాస్, Kannada: ಪ್ರತಿವಾದಿ ಭಯಂಕರ ಶ್ರೀನೀವಾಸ್, Tamil: பிரதிவாதி பயங்கர ஸ்ரீநிவாஸ், Hindi:प्रतिवादी भयंकर श्रीनिवास, Malayalam is a playback singer from South India. He has sung in Kannada, Tamil, Telugu,Hindi and Malayalam films. He is known for his playback singing in the Kannada film industry for Rajkumar.

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Biography:
Born to the couple Phanindra Swamy and Sesha Giriamma, in Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, he has completed college with a Bachelor of Commerce degree.

He is fluent in eight languages (Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Malayalam, Hindi, Urdu, English and Sanskrit) and has penned several ghazals in Telugu. Sreenivas sang duets and triplets with Geeta Dutt, Shamshad Begum and Jikki apart from leading a chorus song. He was introduced in Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu simultaneously in the movie Jathaka Phala (Jathakam) by R. Nagendra Rao.


His first solo hit came in the movie Prema Pasam in which he also sang a duet with P. Susheela. Later he sung for the Kannada legend Raj Kumar for a long time and the association was highly appreciated by critics, fans and the industry. In the tamil industry, he has sung the maximum number of songs for Gemini Ganesan.He has sung for other actors as well but incidentally, he has sung very few songs for m.g. ramachandran and sivaji ganesan.

In Pava Mannippu, Sreenivas sang Kalangalil Aval Vasantham written by Kannadasan and set to the tune by the music duo Viswanathan - Ramamurthy. The film Adutha Veettuppen of Anjali Pictures carried some of his songs. Sreenivas has also sung with P.Susheela, S. Janaki, Banumathi, and Lata Mangeshkar for the movie Main Bhi Ladki Hoon and some North Indian Singers.

His devotional songs include Sharadha Bhujanga Stothram, Sri Venkateswara Suprabhatham, Mukunda Mala, Shri Mallikarjuna Stotram and Purandaradasa compositions.

His "home away from home" was the Woodlands Drive-In restaurant in Chennai frequently wrote.

He has headed many music related organizations such as being the president of Iyal Isai Nataka Mandram.

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