Īagadu in 2014 marked Thaman's 50th film as a music director and Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava in 2018 was Thaman's 100th film as a music director. On the whole he put in fourteen years of rhythm and keyboard programming with the veterans before branching out on his own. Thaman considers Mani Sharma as his guru, he spent eight years under the tutelage of Sharma and worked on 94 films with him. He has also gained experience from composers like Vandemataram Srinivas, Chakri, R. Keeravani and worked with him for three years, completing thirty films. He then joined Raj-Koti team, and worked for three years on sixty films and then joined M. He was compelled to make his hobby into a profession to overcome the crisis in his family. Anand as a rhythm pads player, and discontinued studies when he lost his father at the age of 13. At the age of nine, he joined a music team consisting of S.P. He studied in Don Bosco school at Chennai. Thaman is married to playback singer Sri Vardhini. Chakravarthy, his mother Ghantasala Savitri is a playback singer and his aunt is singer B. His father Ghantasala Siva Kumar was a Drummer, who worked for seven hundred films, under composer, K. Thaman hails from a family of musicians from Pottepalem, Nellore District. He is the grandson of legendary director Ghantasala Balaramayya.
Thaman was born as Ghantasala Sai Srinivas in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh into a Telugu-speaking family. His major success as a music composer was with the album of 2009 Telugu film Kick which established him as a leading composer in Telugu cinema.
He made his acting debut with Boys (2003). His debut films as music director were Sindhanai Sei in Tamil, and Malli Malli in Telugu. Thaman entered the film industry as a supporting musician with the Telugu film Bhairava Dweepam in the year 1994, when he was 11 years old, he later turned into a film music composer and became popular for his work as a music director. Thaman, is an Indian music composer and playback singer who predominantly works in Telugu and Tamil cinema. Ghantasala Sai Srinivas (born 16 November 1983), known professionally as S.