Music Director · Composer · Producer · Pianist

SURYA
SRINI

Architect of Emotion.
IIT Madras · Chennai · Bangalore · The World

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903K+Streams
30+Films Scored
2Feature Films
3Int'l Festival Selections
2Int'l Festival Wins
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The Road Less Travelled

Not chosen by accident.
Chosen with intent.

— Surya Srini

Selected Works

A decade of deliberate
decisions.

Each project required a different frequency.
Click any work to explore.

01Feature Film

Green Girl

Music Director

Debut as Music Director for a theatrical feature backed by KRG Studios. A hybrid score blending electronic minimalism with orchestral tension — built for atmosphere, restraint, and emotional fracture.

2024Explore
Award
02Award-Winning Short Film

Sura

Music Director

A restrained saxophone-led score built around silence, breath, and internal unrest. Music that doesn't explain the scene — it inhabits it.

2024Explore
Award
03Award-Winning Short Film

The Brothers

Music Director

An industrial-organic sound palette — mechanical percussion layered with raw acoustic textures and orchestral depth. A score that earned two major international recognitions.

2025Explore
04Web Series

Thodu Vaanam

Music Director

5M+ views on YouTube. A web series score that found its audience. 'Yeno Valigal' became a fan-favourite track — the kind of melody that outlives the screen.

2021Explore
05Web Series

Thadayam

Music Director

A ShortFlix web series — emotionally grounded storytelling with an original score built from Tamil musical sensibilities and cinematic restraint.

2022Explore
06Feature Film

Rebel

Associate Music Producer & String Orchestrator

A mainstream Tamil feature demanding full orchestral presence. String arrangement and orchestration across key sequences — translating raw emotion into sweeping, precise musical architecture.

2024Explore
07Short Films

Festival Circuit

Music Director

30+ short films scored across five years for ShortFlix, Chennai Memes, Black Sheep, JumpCuts, Hari Baskar, and LV Prasad Labs. Oscar-qualifying stages, South Asian showcases, international screenings across three continents.

2020 – 2024Explore
08Original Music

Original Releases

Composer, Producer & Artist

903K+ streams across platforms. Featured on Spotify Editorial: Tamil Indie, Radar Tamil, Latest Tamil. 'Nama Chennai Da' — most streamed. 'Yeno Valigal'. 'Timeless Currents'.

2020 – PresentExplore
09Live & Cultural

Saarang Anthem

Official Composer

Official composer of the Saarang Anthem — the cultural festival of IIT Madras, one of Asia's largest. Music heard by tens of thousands. The sound of an institution.

2022 – 2023Explore
010Brand Music

Brand Soundscapes

Music Director & Composer

Sonic identity for brands. Kadak Chai brand sonic identity. Campaign scores and brand anthems — music that makes people stop scrolling.

2021 – 2024Explore
011Feature Film

DD Next Level

Associate Background Score Composer & Producer

A Tamil feature film. Contributed to orchestration and significant portions of the background score production, shaping tonal continuity and thematic weight across the film.

2024Explore
012Feature Film

Arjun Chakravarthy

Associate Composer & Producer

Co-composed and produced a featured track for a Telugu feature film — blending cinematic orchestration with contemporary production textures. Featured track: "Mayam Brahmanchadare".

2024Explore
013Feature Film

International & Regional Cinema

Music Director · Composer

Tamil · Kannada · Telugu Industries. 3 Signed Feature Films (In Production).

2025 – PresentExplore

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Press

Surya Srini's genre-defying music is a fantastic accompaniment to the film's structure, which keeps changing between dreamy and harsh.

The Hollywood Reporter India

Awards & Recognition

Competition Wins

Smita Patil Film Festival

Winner — Sura

2024

Bengaluru International Short Film Festival

Winner — The Brothers

2025

Unmaad

1st Place — IIM Bangalore

2019

Mood Indigo — IIT Bombay

1st Place, Instrumental Competition

2017 & 2018

International Selections

Oscar-Qualifying

St. Louis International Film Festival

St. Louis, USA

Rhodes Island International Film Festival

Providence, USA

Chicago South Asian Film Festival

Chicago, USA

IFFSA Toronto

Toronto, Canada

Official Selection

Tokyo International Short Film Festival

Tokyo, Japan

10+ total festival selections

Credentials

The Pianist — State Level Competition

4th Place · Italy (organised by Casio) · Special mention by Santosh Narayanan, Anil Srinivasan & Shakthisree Gopalan

Trinity College London

Certified — 8 Grades in Music Theory

B.Tech Mechanical Engineering

Indian Institute of Technology Madras

About

Music that holds its ground long after the scene ends.

An IIT Madras alumnus turned composer, music producer, and pianist, Surya Srini is a rising name in the Tamil & Kannada Film Industries. Certified by Trinity College London (8 Grades in Music Theory) and trained in Western classical, Carnatic, and jazz, he has collaborated with GV Prakash, OfRo, Universal Music Group India, Tips Tamil, Black Sheep, Studio Green, Gannet Celluloid, and JumpCuts.

With over 30+ short films (as music director), 2 feature-length web series (Thadayam, Thoduvanam), and Green Girl (as Music Director) to his credit, Surya's works have been showcased at global platforms including Rhodes Island International Film Festival, Chicago South Asian Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival (Oscar-qualifying), and IFFSA Toronto — with wins at Smita Patil Film Festival 2024 and BISFF 2025.

Known for creating emotionally immersive soundscapes, Surya bridges engineering precision with artistic depth — an IIT rebel who chose emotion over certainty.

“This isn’t a portfolio.
This is a deliberate path.

I didn’t arrive here because there was no option.
I chose this road — and walked it with intent.”

Associations

  • TrainingWestern Classical · Carnatic · Jazz
  • CertifiedTrinity College London — 8 Grades in Music Theory
  • IndustriesTamil · Kannada · Telugu Film Industries
  • Associated WithGV Prakash · OfRo · Universal Music Group India · Tips Tamil · Studio Green · Black Sheep · Gannet Celluloid · JumpCuts
  • EducationBachelor of Technology in Mechanical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • IMDbSurya Srini
Selected Collaborations

Music is built in relationship. These are some of the hands and voices this work has moved through.

Universal Music Group India
Tips Tamil
KRG Studios
G.V. Prakash Kumar
Indie A Records
OfRo
Saarang Cultural Festival (IIT Madras)
ShortFlix
Atti Culture
Sarthak Hedge Productions
Parasonic Productions
Lighter Buddha Films
ULFR Records
Services

What I
build.

Every engagement is custom. No templates, no catalog music, no approximations. If the scene demands it, the music is built for that scene—and only that scene.

01

Film Scoring

Feature films, short films, and web series. Stereo & 5.1 stem delivery. Built around the narrative, not convention.

02

Orchestration & Arrangement

String writing, harmonic arrangement, and ensemble scoring. Trinity-certified, IIT-precision. Classical rigor in service of modern storytelling.

03

Sound Design

Textural sound design integrated with score — building worlds from scratch. For films that need music and atmosphere to be indistinguishable.

04

Brand Soundscapes

Sonic identity for brands that understand music carries weight. Campaign scores, product films, brand anthems.

05

Original Songs

Songs written from scratch — melody, lyric, arrangement, production. For artists who need a collaborator who understands the architecture beneath the emotion.

06

Mixing & Production

End-to-end music production and mix supervision. For music that demands sonic clarity without losing emotional weight.

07

Ghost Production

Full production under your name. Your vision, fully realised, with complete confidentiality. Select clients only.

Not sure which applies to your project?

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Let’s make
something inevitable.

If you have a project that demands music with weight, I’m interested in hearing about it.

Or email: surya4music.barani@gmail.com