Kavignar vairamuthu biography examples

Indian film rhymester, poet, topmost novelist

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Early life

Vairamuthu was hatched on 13 July 1953, to Ramasamy and his wife Angammal, who were agriculturalists family unit in depiction village pale Mettoor, collective the sector of Theni, Tamil Nadu. In 1957, his lineage was calculated to hurl to Vadugapatti, another the people in description Theni section, due disrespect the expression of Vaigai Dam get across the river Vaigai, which led break into evacuation push 14 villages (including Mettur). In his new venue, he besides took smash into agriculture gratify addition become

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Lyricist Maruthakasi’s Autobiographical Notes

An English translation

by Sachi Sri Kantha, September 15, 2020

Front Note by Sachi

Lyricist A. Maruthakasi

Last year, I contributed a short memorial item on Aiyamperumal Maruthakasi (1920-1989), famed Tamil lyricist. on his 30^th death anniversary. I had provided my English translations to three of his immortal movie lyrics.

https://sangam.org/remembering-aiyamperumal-maruthakasi-1920-1989/

This year marks Maruthakasi’s birth centenary. He was born in February 13, 1920 at a small village, Melakudi kaadu in Tiruchi district, to Aiyamperumal Udaiyar and Mizhahayee Ammal. Though from a family background in traditional farming, Maruthakasi’s interests in Tamil literature was kindled by his contact with fine teachers he had during his schooling days. He was lucky to sharpen his linguistic skills under the tutelage of Papanasam Rajagopal Iyer, the elder sibling of ranking Tamil composer and first generation Tamil movie lyricist Papanasam Sivan (1890-1973). It deserves mention that this Rajagopal Iyer was the father of V.N. Janaki, who later became the 3^rd wife of MGR.

As a front note for the compendium of his film lyrics, published in July 1986 [Thirai Kavi Thilagam Kavignar A. Maruthakasi songs, Parani Pathippagam, Ch

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Though the media has painted this as a Chinmayi-vs-Vairamuthu, he-says-she-says battle of sorts, Chinmayi was not the only woman to accuse Vairamuthu of sexual harassment. Nor was she the first. As #MeToo took over our timelines on Twitter, on October 8, 2019, journalist Sandhya Menon, posted a screenshot. It was the account of an anonymous woman who wrote about her experience from when she was all of 18.

“I was 18. I had to work with him for a project and he seemed nice. I respected him as he is a legend, a famous poet, national award winner. In the pretext of explaining lyrics, he came to me, hugged me and kissed me. I did not know what to do. I said OK sir, thank you and ran from his house. His house and office were the same in Kodambakkam. People were asked to meet him there if I remember right. I have shuddered being alone in a room with him though my work gave me more instances where I had to work with him. I made sure I was in a group. That Vairamuthu is a predator is an open secret in the film industry but no one will expose him because of his political connections, which he uses to silence his victims. It happened to me. And this is the truth…” This was the first accusation to come out against Vairamuthu. It set into motion a chain of events that continue to play ou