MM Keeravani to receive Padma Shri, pays respects to parents and mentors

Musician MM Keeravaani will be given the Padma Shri award this year and he has paid respects to his parents, and mentors Kavitapu Seethanna and Kuppala Bulliswamy Naidu.

Musician MM Keeravaani has thanked his parents and mentors after it was announced that the fourth highest civilian award, Padma Shri, will be conferred upon him. Keeraavaani is also on a career-high, after receiving India's first Golden Globe for his song Naatu Naatu that featured in SS Rajamouli's film RRR. ()

RRR's song composer MM Keeravaani. (PTI Photo) (PTI)

The musician tweeted, “Much honoured by the civilian award from the Govt of India Respect for my parents and all of my mentors from Kavitapu Seethanna garu to Kuppala Bulliswamy Naidu garu on this occasion.”

MM Keeravaani's Naatu Naatu has also been nominated for the Oscars in the Best Original Song category.

According to an ANI report, Keeravaani started learning how to play the violin at the age of four. Born to painter, songwriter, and playwright Koduri Siva Shakthi Datta and his wife Bhanumathi, MM Keeravaani traveled with a band and frequently played the famous Ek Pyar Ka Nahgma hai on the violin by the age of ten.

His film journey began in 1987 when he assisted music composers K Chakravarthy and C Rajamani in a film which had his father's brother - V Vijayendra Prasad - as the screenwriter.

Since the release of SS Rajamouli's films Baahubali and RRR, MM Keeravaani's music became popular all across the country. Now with the kind of global attention RRR has received, he is already an international craze.