Shoba Chandrasekhar

Shoba Chandrasekhar is an Indian film playback singer, director, writer and producer. She is best known as the mother of film actor Vijay.

She is married to S. A. Chandrasekhar, who is an Indian film director, producer and writer. Her son Vijay, is one of Tamil Nadu's leading actors and her daughter Vidhya died at the age of 2. Sangeetha is her daughter-in-law. Her siblings are Sunder, Surender and Sheela. Her Mother is Mrs. Lalitha.

Her guru was Shri Meenakshi Sundaram. Later she joined the Tamil Nadu Government Music College and pursued her learning from the great tutors in the college like Vidwan Shri T.M. Thiagarajan. She also had the opportunity to learn Veena from Smt. Kalpakam Swaminathan at the music college. For the past 5 years she has been learning vocal carnatic music from Smt. Brinda Thiagarajan – daughter of Shri Maharajapuram Santhanam.

She has been honoured with the Lifetime Achievement Mrs. Chennai award by the Esthel Hotels and Resorts. Shoba Chandrasekhar, a singer, has been given this award for her philanthropic activities in Chennai as well as for being a good mother and wife.

She has been appointed as the Artistic Heritage Consultant by the order of the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha.

She was a singer in light music troupes. She later graduated to singing in films. She has written several stories that have been made into movies by moviemaker husband S. A. Chandrasekhar. She turned film producer and then became a film director. She has also performed at various classical concerts. She also recently released a devotional album titled 'Anaimuganum Arumuganum', talks about her singing career.

Her first light classical music programme was telecast on Vijay TV in April 2003. The title of the programme was 'Samarpanam'. Her first live concert was for the Maharajapuram Santhanam Trust. Her first film song was 'Maharaja Oru Maharani ... ' from the film Iru Malargal. She has sung in nearly all the films made by her husband.

She has produced 10 films and written stories for more than 50. She also directed two films Nanbargal and Innisai Mazhai. In fact, Mr. Chandrasekhar worked as her associate director in these films. He was assisted by Shankar, now a famous director. The management of the Esthel hotels and resorts said that Shoba is a perfect example of an egoless person. She also sang over 12 movies.