Suchitra Ramadurai, known

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as Suchitra, is an Indian radio jockey, popular playback singer, songwriter, composer, voice artist, dubbing artist and film actress. She has sung in multiple languages including

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, and

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Early life

Suchitra was born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, as the daughter of Ramadurai and Padmaja. She has a sister named, Sunitha. Suchitra is a BSc graduate from

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(Trivandrum). Later on, she moved to Coimbatore for her MBA from PSG Institute of Management. She was part of a music band at PSG.

Career

Suchitra joined

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for a year, after graduating. She responded to an ad for the post of an RJ in

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. She became as Rj Suchi, with her popular morning show ''Hello Chennai''. Her distinct and bold voice made her very popular with the younger crowd. She still does a radio show called ''Flight983'' on Radio Mirchi, on Sunday evenings (7–9 pm). The show deals with interesting international happenings. She started singing after a few years as RJ. She also worked as a dubbing artist for popular heroines like

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and

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. Her career as a playback singer now spans Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam films, and she has several hits in all these languages to her credit. She sang her first song for the movie,

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under the composition of

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and her co-singer was the legendary, K. S. Chitra. Suchitra is a sought-after performer at corporate and other such stage shows. She has also been appreciated for her honest and positive-humour-filled judging at reality shows like Vijay TV's Airtel Super Singer, Sun TV's Sun Singer, Asianet's Music India, and Bol Baby Bol on Gemini TV and Surya TV. 'Music I Like', an album of Suchitra's renditions of Mahakavi Bharatiyaar's poetry, set to contemporary tunes and music, released by Universal Music, was a turning point in her career. Suchitra is now a singer and songwriter as well, composing music on her own and in collaboration with Singer Ranjith. Her YouTube channel 'Suchislife' has all her updated work. She wrote a short story, a graphic illustration of an episode in the life of a black peppercorn called Kuru-Milaku, called "The Runaway Peppercorn". After her Twitter page was hacked in 2016, and the pictures and videos released by the hacker went viral under #suchileaks, following a spate of bad press since she released a statement on Sun News saying she was focused on shutting the page down, Suchitra left for London to pursue culinary arts at

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. In 2020, Suchitra took part in the fourth season of the Tamil reality television show, ''

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'' hosted by

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. She entered the show on day 28 as a new contestant and was evicted on day 49.

Personal life

Suchitra was married to actor

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between 2005 and 2017.

Filmography

Actress

Dubbing artist

Discography

Studio album

Tamil songs

Other Languages

Television

Awards

;

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(ITFA) *2011 - Best Female Playback Singer – ''

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'' ; ;BIG Telugu Music Awards *2012 - Best Singer of the Year – ''

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'' ; ;

Filmfare Awards South The Filmfare Awards South are annual awards that honour artistic and technical excellence in the Telugu cinema, Tamil cinema, Malayalam cinema and Kannada cinema. They are presented by ''Filmfare'' magazine of The Times Group. When it was intr ...

*2012 -

Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Telugu The Filmfare Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Telugu is given by the ''Filmfare'' magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for Telugu films. The first award in Telugu was given in 2004. During the period of 1997–2004, a co ...

for the song 'Sir Osthara' from ''

'' *2010 - Nominated:

for the song 'Nijamena' from ''Brindavanam'' ; ;

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*2012 - Nominated:

SIIMA Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Telugu SIIMA Award for Best Female Playback Singer – Telugu is presented by Vibri media group as part of its annual South Indian International Movie Awards, for the best singing by a female playback singer/vocalist of a Telugu-language song. The awa ...

for the song 'Sir Osthara' from ''Businessman''

References

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