Anand Kalyanaraman has been initiated into Carnatic music since he was 11 years old. He is trained in playing carnatic violin and plays violin for Thillana, with which he has been associated with for more than one and a half years now. He is learning carnatic music and violin from several talented folks in the Thillana team like Raghavan and Sampathkumar while contributing to the instrumental music and chorus sections of Thillana. He is adept in making conversations out of trifles and thus contributes more than music to thillana !