Ananta Sriram

Ananta Sriram, also known as Ananta Sriram Chegondi, was born on 8th April 1984 in the Godavari district of Andhra Pradesh. Sriram is an extremely popular song lyricist who prominently works in the Telugu film industry. He has also written the lyrics for various films which were re-made or re-dubbed into Telugu.

Ananta is the nephew of the famous politician -Chegondi Venkata Harirama Jogaiah. From his childhood, Ananta had a determination to do things the way he wanted them to be done. This included his education also. After his higher studies, like most of his classmates, he picked engineering as his future course of study, But by the third year of his engineering education, he realized that engineering was not what he wanted, and decided to quit studying it, and he pursued what he always wanted to do- Write.

Ananta had picked a liking for language, philosophy and literature right from his childhood since he had ardently listened to his father, who used to discuss such matters with him at a very young age itself. The knowledge that he had gained from his father and also his voracious reading skills helped him all the way in his career of writing songs. His first opportunity was for a film named ‘Kaadante Aunanile’, in which he wrote the lyrics of all the songs.

Gradually, his lyrics began to stand out from the mainstream, repetitive word patterns that are widely used in film songs, and he began to get a lot of offers to write song lyrics for Telugu movies. Even though Ananta’s film career began only in 2005, he has till date, written the songs for a total of eighty-seven films including box office hits such as Shankar’s ‘ I Click to look into! >> Read More... ’ and Rajamouli’s epic ‘Bahubali.' Ananta married Swathy Palakollu on November 17, 2010.