Pooja Vaidyanath

Pooja Vaidyanath is an Indian playback singer who has worked in the Indian film industry. After appearing on several reality singing shows on Tamil and Telugu television, Pooja has worked on Tamil, Telugu and Hindi language films for musicians including A. R. Rahman, D. Imman and S. Thaman.

Career Pooja was born to doctor Vaidyanath and Gita, a bank employee in Chennai. After becoming interested in Carnatic and Hindustani music as a child, Pooja regularly took part in singing talent shows and first partook and won in the Telugu show Padalani Undi hosted by S. P. Balasubrahmanyam on Maa TV in 2006. She later competed in the Zee Telugu Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Voice of Youth in which she was crowned runner-up in 2008, before also winning the Vaanampadi competition broadcast in 2010 on Tamil language channel Kalaignar TV. In 2011, she finished as a runner up in Airtel Super Singer 3 and the opportunity brought her offers from the film industry. Pooja worked with A. R. Rahman in his Hindi film Raanjhanaa and recorded for the song "Tum Tak", which a critic from Filmfare described as a "winner". Rahman subsequently recorded the song again with her in Tamil as well as the tune "Unnaal Unnaal" for the film's Tamil version, Ambikapathy.

Pooja has subsequently continued to sing popular songs in Tamil films including "Parkadhey" from Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam (2013), "Yeppo Maama Treatu" from Jilla (2014) and "Aalaporan Tamizhan" from A. R. Rahman's Mersal (2017).

Television

Notable discography Year Song title Film Language Music director Notes 2013 "Thalaivaa" Thalaivaa Tamil G. V. Prakash Kumar 2013 "Tum Tak" Raanjhanaa Hindi A. R. Rahman 2013 "Kaanavae""Unnaal" Ambikapathy (Dubbed version) Tamil A. R. Rahman 2013 "Annamae""Naringa Uranga" Annakodi Tamil G. V. Prakash Kumar 2013 "Parkathey Parkathey" Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam Tamil D. Imman Vijay Television Awards for Favourite Singer Female 2014 "Yeppo Maama Treatu" Jilla Tamil D. Imman 2014 "Mosale Mosale" Yennamo Yedho Tamil D. Imman 2014 "Nenjankuzhi" Naveena Saraswathi Sabatham Tamil Prem Kumar 2014 "Manamae Manamae" Vanmam Tamil S. Thaman 2014 "Pesadhe" Thirudan Police Tamil Yuvan Shankar Raja 2014 "Yaen Ingu Vandhaan" Meaghamann Tamil S. Thaman 2015 "Jingilia Jingilia" Puli Tamil Devi Sri Prasad 2016 "Hello Mister" Kotikokkadu Telugu D. Imman 2016 "Elanthaari""Kannadikkala" Maaveeran Kittu Tamil D. Imman 2017 "Aalaporaan Thamizhan" Mersal Tamil A. R. Rahman 2019 "Vera Level U" Ayogya Tamil S. Thaman 2022 "Malle Poovu" The Life of Muthu (Vendhu Thanindhadhu Kaadu) Telugu A. R. Rahman