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Wednesday, June 2, 2021,
Chennai
Kavignar Suradha -- The King of Similes – will people celebrate his Centenary? (Nov 23, 1921-- June 20, 2006). He wrote over 3,000 poems including over 50 songs for Tamil films. His famous songs were Aadi Adangum Vazhkkaiyadaa, Amuthum Thaenum Edharku, Vinnukku Maelaadai, Kannil Vandhu Minnalpol
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Sunday, October 4, 2020,
Chennai
P K Muthusamy died at the age of 100 as a poor man, living all alone at his village near Rasipuram. He wrote about 60 Tamil film songs but also created a sensation by making a plagiarism charge against his former chief minister and film-world colleague M Karunanidhi
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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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Sunday, August 14, 2016,
Chennai
The Tamil film industry was shocked as noted film lyricist Na Muthukumar passed away in Chennai today, following illness. He
was 41, and was reportedly suffering from jaundice.
