He was born into a Tamil family.
 Karthik developed an interest in music, early in his life.
 He is a trained Carnatic music vocalist and has been training since his school days.
 He was part of a college band and regularly participated in IIT Madras Fest "Saarang".
 An ardent fan of A. R. Rahman, Karthik's dream was to meet Rahman and sing for him.
 Playback singer Srinivas, who collaborated often with Rahman was Karthik's close friend's cousin.
 Srinivas encouraged Karthik to look at singing as a career, which prompted Karthik to resume his singing lessons.
 One year later, Srinivas recommended Karthik's name to Rahman, who needed fresh voices for backing vocalists for a song from "Pukar".
 Karthik eventually got the opportunity and recorded for the song.
 Having spent over a year being a backing vocalist, Karthik got his break during the re-recording of "One 2 Ka 4".
 For the background score, A. R. Rahman wanted a high-pitched alap and he eventually chose Karthik to sing the alap.
 Soon after, Rahman asked him to sing the song "Nendhukittaen" from the film "Star.
Jodi (English: "Couple" ) is a 1999 Tamil romantic musical film directed by Praveen Gandhi and produced by Murali Manohar.
 The film features Prashanth and Simran in the lead roles, with Vijayakumar, Nassar and Srividya playing other pivotal roles.
 The film's soundtrack is composed by A.R. Rahman, mostly featuring music re-used from his own earlier soundtrack for the Hindi film "Doli Saja Ke Rakhna".
 Due to Rahman's unavailability, Praveen Gandhi signed Sabesh-Murali to quickly compose the background score of the film.
 The film opened in September 1999 to positive reviews and became a commercially successful venture.
I (also known as "Shankar's I ") is a 2015 Indian Tamil-language romantic thriller film written and directed by Shankar and co-written by Subha.
 Produced and distributed by V. Ravichandran under his production company, Aascar Films, the film features Vikram, Amy Jackson and Suresh Gopi in lead roles while Upen Patel, Santhanam and Ramkumar Ganesan portray pivotal roles.
 The soundtrack and film score were composed by A. R. Rahman.
 Production design was handled by T. Muthuraj.
 P. C. Sreeram was the film's cinematographer and editing was done by Anthony.
Aarambham is a 1982 Indian Malayalam film, directed by Joshiy and produced by Thiruppathi Chettiyar.
 Aarambham was another multi star movie from director Joshiy with stars Prem Nazir, Madhu, Sukumaran, MG Soman, Jose Prakash, KP Ummer, Srividya,Sumalatha and Rajalakshmi in lead roles.
 The film had musical score by unusually using four music directors, namely Shyam, A. T. Ummer, KJ Joy and Shankar Ganesh, each of whom directed one song each.
 Aarambham was released in Onam festival along with Padayottam.
 Aarambham was the top grosser Malayalam movie in 1982 surpassing padayottam.
 Aaramabham was later remade in Hindi by Joshiy himself in 1984 called Dharm Aur Qanoon with an ensemble cast and in Tamil too Ezhuthatha Sattangal.
 The Tamil version was directed by veteran director K Shankar with Sivaji Ganesan in lead role.
 Both movies became huge hits in respective markets.
Around the Bend is a 2004 road movie written and directed by Jordan Roberts.
 The film is inspired by the relationship between Roberts and the absentee, criminally insane, substance-abusing father he barely knew, Robert Stone Jordan (born: Robert Samuel Jordan), a self-styled indie film director/producer in his later years.
 In the 1970s Bob Jordan toured with Leon Russell for a film project that he thoroughly bungled due to his drug-induced manic behavior.
 In the 1990s he produced and directed one of the first digitally captured film experiments based on the characters in Alice in Wonderland, often known as "Through the Looking Glass".
 His last known film project, "Meth" filmed in and around Palmdale/Lancaster CA involved a film "completion fund" scam where he ran off with the Sony Camera equipment loaned to him and the money he had collected from several investors.
 Upon returning to CA, he would die in 2001 awaiting a liver transplant, without ever contacting his sons.
 Christopher Walken bore an uncanny resemblance to Robert Jordan both in the physical and in his ability to appear menacing and unpredictable.
Polam Pol features songs sung by Farhad Bhiwandiwala, Nakash Aziz, Palak Muchhal, Shree Dayal, Ash King.
 Music and Background Score for the film is composed by Paresh-Bhavesh.
 The soundtrack was launched on 19 January.
"Jai Ho" is a song composed by A. R. Rahman for the 2008 film, "Slumdog Millionaire".
 When Danny Boyle, the director of "Slumdog Millionaire", approached Rahman to compose its soundtrack, he included the song.
 "Jai Ho" accompanies a choreographed dance sequence at the end credits of "Slumdog Millionaire".
 The song features vocals from Sukhvinder Singh, Mahalaxmi Iyer and Vijay Prakash in Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi.
 Indian singer Tanvi Shah wrote and provided vocals for a Spanish section of the song.
 "Jai Ho" is a Hindi phrase which can be roughly translated as "Let [the] victory prevail", "Let there be victory", or "May there always be victory".
Nakash Aziz (born February 24, 1985), also known as Nakash, is an Indian playback singer and music composer.
 He has assisted the legendary composer A. R. Rahman on films like "Highway", "Raanjhanaa", "Rockstar", "Delhi 6" and "I" in Hindi.
 He is popularly known for playback of songs like "Jabra Fan" from "Fan",<ref name="http://www.deccanchronicle.com/ 2016"> </ref> "Sari Ke Fall Sa" and "Gandi Baat" from the film "R..
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 Rajkumar" (2013) and "Dhating Nach" from film "Phata Poster Nikhla Hero" (2013); the latter two films of which were picturized on Shahid Kapoor.
Srimathumitha is an Indian playback and Carnatic singer who sings mainly in Tamil.
 She has also sung in Telugu, Hindi and Kannada songs.
 Some of her hit songs are “Azhage Azhage” from the Movie Oru Kal Oru Kannadi, “Valayapatti Thavile” from the movie Azhagiya Tamil Magan, “Kanaa Kaanum Kalangal” from the movie 7G Rainbow Colony, and “Rathathin Rathame” from the movie Velayudham.
 She is one of the leading playback singers in today’s film music scenario.
 She has sung for leading music directors like Ilayaraja, Harris Jayaraj, Yuvan Shankar Raja, A. R. Rahman, Bharathwaj, Deva, S. A. Rajkumar, and Bharani.
 She emerged as the “Best Voice of 2002” in the TV Reality Show Rajageetham conducted by RAJ TV.
 She is the first playback singer to win the Vikadan Awards started in 2004, which was juried by late Sujatha Sir.
 A. R. Rahman has featured her in 2 songs in the soundtrack of Oscar-winning movie "Slumdog Millionaire".
Ye Maaya Chesave is the soundtrack album of the 2010 Telugu romantic drama film of the same name, directed by Gautham Menon.
 The original score and songs were composed by A. R. Rahman; this was his first time collaborating with Gautham Menon.
 Lyrics are penned by Anantha Sreeram, along with Kalyani Menon and Kaithapram, the latter penning the Malayalam lyrics in the album.
 This is the sixth time that A. R. Rahman composed music for a direct Telugu film and the fourth time that he composed the entire soundtrack for a Telugu film.
 This also marked Rahman's comeback into Telugu cinema after six years.
 Ye Maaya Chesave was one of the most anticipated soundtracks of Rahman.

Question: who directed one of  the movie that Nakash Aziz helped  A. R. Rahman to compose ?
Answer: Shankar