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Monday, August 24, 2020,
Chennai
Ku Ma Ba, as he was later known, was actually proficient in writing chaste and classical Tamil and went on write over 600 film songs for leading music directors like G Ramanathan, KV Mahadevan, TG Lingappa, Sudarsanam, Salil Chowdhury and so on, in films starring MGR, Sivaji Ganesan, Gemini Ganesan, SS Rajendran, Vijayakanth among others. Born on May 13, 1920, at Velukkudi village in undivided Thanjavur district, in an agricultural family, his centenary too has been ignored
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Friday, October 24, 2014,
Chennai
Veteran actor S S Rajendran, popularly known as SSR, died here this morning at a private hospital. He was 86 and is survived by two wives including actress Vijayakumari and seven children. SSR, who belonged to the same era as Sivaji Ganesan and M G Ramachandran, was admitted to a city hospital on October 23 and was being treated for a lung infection.
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Monday, November 25, 2013,
Chennai
The fourth generation of the AVM group, a leading film production company in the country, is taking a different route -- production of movies for the Internet. Aruna Guhan and Aparna Guhan, daughters of M S Guhan, and grand-daughters of M Saravanan, have produced a feature film for the Internet market
