Shankar Mahadevan is National award winning play back singer in Indian film industry, who works with his team Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy as a composer. Siddharth said he never expected his debut song Zinda from Farhan Akhtar's Bhaag Milkha Bhaag would be this huge a success. Shankar Mahadevan Family Photos, Father, Wife, Son, Age, Biography. "My father always tells me to be original, have my own identity, not try to mimic anyone and stay to the music you believe in and that's what I always try to do," he said. Siddharth said he tries to follow his father's footsteps from creating his own individuality to making the kind of music he believed in.
"My father is a true legend and when you are getting compared with an artist like that it makes you work even harder and better," he added. People will compare but I take all those things in a positive way," Siddharth told PTI during Naropa festival 2016 in Leh. "It's a blessing for me that I'm his son but there is pressure of course, as there will be expectations. Shankar Mahadevan Out in the hills, an hour’s drive away from Mumbai, maestro Shankar Mahadevan’s holiday home is a treat for the soul. He served as a member of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Lingam Video Clip to investigate into an allegation of illegal intervention into the judicial appointment process of Malaysian judges purportedly occurred in 2002. The 23-year-old singer said his father is a true legend and being compared to him is sometimes challenging as people expect similar level of dedication from him. Datuk Mahadev Shankar is a prominent Malaysian lawyer and former Malaysian Court of Appeal Judge. In his three-year-old career, Siddharth Mahadevan has managed to make his own identity thanks to hit songs from Bhaag Milkha Bhaag and Dil Dhadakne Do but the singer says he constantly feels the pressure of being the son of music director Shankar Mahadevan. 'It's a blessing for me that I'm his son,' he says.He says his father Shankar Mahadevan is a 'true legend'.Siddharth debuted as playback singer in Bhaag Mikha Bhaag.