Rewind 2025 : Playback singers of Malayalam industry who made it to the music charts

It is clip to bid farewell to 2025 and instrumentality banal of what happened successful the euphony scene. While veterans and established names continued to clasp their sway, respective up-and-coming talents besides made a mark.

Jakes Bejoy emerged the composer of the twelvemonth with a clump of releases — Identity, Officer connected Duty, Thudarum, Narivetta, Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra, Paathirathri and Vilayath Buddha. He had releases besides successful Hindi and Tamil, Deva and Kaantha (background score)respectively. While Justin Varghese added to the amusive with songs successful Ponman, Daveed, Painkili and Odum Kuthira Chadum Kuthira, Electronic Kili impressed with his tracks successful Thalavara and Maine Pyar Kiya. After creating magic with his euphony successful Kishkinda Kaandam in 2024, Mujeeb Majeed proved his mastery yet again with song/background people successful Rekhachithram, Dheeran, Eko and Kalamkaval this year.

Listeners were spoilt for prime erstwhile it came to the voices. Here is simply a tally down connected the singers who were heard connected loop.

Viral voices

Right connected apical is Sid Sriram, who sang the blockbuster opus of the year, ‘Minnalvala’ from Narivetta, with Sithara Krishnakumar, tuned by Jakes. The groovy hook connected with euphony lovers successful nary time. Sid besides sang successful Hridayapoorvam (‘Venmathi’) and Athibheekara Kamukan (‘Premavathi’).

This Onam, 1 opus that was heard each astir was ‘Ethu moodu’ from Sahasam, tuned by Bibin Ashok and sung by rapper Fejo, on with Himna Hilari and Hinitha Hilari. They poured their vigor into this catchy track, which became rather an earworm with its vibe and the lyrics by Vinayak Sasikumar.

The superhero of Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra had the apt dependable to proclaim who she is, Jyoti Nooran of the Nooran Sisters, who crooned ‘Thani lokah murakkari’ with Shillong-based rapper Reble. The high-energy way astir became an anthem, with adjacent governmental parties churning retired parodies of the opus during the predetermination run to section aforesaid authorities bodies.

The sensational instrumentalist Sai Abhyankar, who swept the Tamil indie euphony country with an array of singles, debuted arsenic a movie composer with Balti. ‘Jaalakkari’, his duet with Sublahshini, went viral; helium was besides 1 of the singers successful each different tracks.

Vintage touch

Veteran MG Sreekumar was astatine his melodic champion successful ‘Kanmanipoove’ from Thudarum. The tune and the chorus complemented the narrative. Alongside, helium showed wherefore helium is simply a maestro of accelerated numbers with the track, ‘Kondattam’, a duet with Rajalakshmy, successful the movie.

We besides heard the powered-up dependable of Usha Uthup yet again successful ‘Azrael’ from L2 : Empuraan, composed by Deepak Dev.

Fresh and distinct

Anand Sreeraj, the pb vocalist of Willingdon Island, an alternative-rock band, virtually roared his mode into Malayalam cinema belting retired ‘Empurane’ successful L2: Empuraan.

Thudarum featured a caller voice, Gokul Gopakumar, a world amusement contestant, who was heard alongside seasoned Hariharan successful the way ‘Katha thudarum’. Among the frenetic tracks successful Painkali was ‘Vaazhkai’ sung by Divyaraja Mazan, which takes you to the Tamil movie euphony of the ‘60s. Neeraj Remesh besides impressed successful the movie with 3 songs, the stand-out 1 being ‘Thetti’ that had Vinayak Sasikumar’s quirky lyrics.

Young euphony sensation Sanjith Hegde had a fistful of songs this twelvemonth — ‘Everyday’ from Alappuzha Gymkhana, ‘Dupattavali’ from Odum Kuthira Chadum Kuthira and ‘Nee mayathe’ from Maine Pyar Kiya. Zeba Tommy nailed it with the way ‘Queen of the night’ successful Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra.

The chill ‘Hey penne’ from Haal composed by Nandhagopan V besides recovered a spot connected the charts, acknowledgment to the breezy dependable of Adithya RK.

Hanan Shah and Nihal Sadiq who captivated with their indie track, ‘Chirapunji’ aboriginal this year, had their stock of occurrence successful movie euphony arsenic well. Hanan sang the catchy number, ‘Neeye punchiri’ from Lokah.., while Nihal had ‘Manohari’, a peppy duet successful Maine Pyar Kiya, with Vijay Anand.

Parvathi Meenakshi, who got her introduction into filmdom station her occurrence successful a world show, impressed connected her Malayalam debut successful Vilayath Buddha with the melody, ‘Kattu raasa’, a duet with Vijay Yesudas.

It was the aged satellite charm successful her dependable that saw the satellite autumn successful emotion with the dependable of Sindhu Delson, who sang successful Kalamkaval — ‘Nila kaayum’, ‘Mannanai’ and ‘En vaighai’, the past 1 a duet with Sreerag Bharathan, yet different world amusement find, who sang 2 different tracks arsenic well.

Meanwhile, Bollywood vocalist Ankit Tiwari debuted successful Malayalam with the opus ‘Hijr’, a duet with Shakthisree Gopalan, successful Haal.