Tamil poet, lyricist and novelist Kannadasan carved his place within the historical past of Tamil Nadu with the prolific literary work completed in a profession spanning 4 many years. He’s additionally famend for penning the lyrics of Ilaiyaraaja’s first monitor as a composer, titled Kola Kolaya from the movie Paalooti Valartha Kili.
Actor and Kannadasan’s son Annadurai Kannadasan recounted this incident in an interview with a portal. At the moment, Annadurai Kannadasan was working as an assistant director within the manufacturing firm of this movie. As per reviews, the producer of Paalooti Valartha Kili requested him to steer his father to jot down a music for his movie. The Sahitya Akademi award winner requested who’s the composer. When the Nanda Nanditha actor replied that it was Ilaiyaraaja, Kannadasan instantly agreed to curate the monitor.
As per reviews, when Kannadasan urged some lyrics to the veteran composer, he was overjoyed past phrases. Not like the movie Paalooti Valartha Kili, Kola Kolaya grew to become successful with the viewers. S Janaki sang the monitor.
The Kola Kolaya lyricist left behind a legacy of greater than 5,000 songs and 4,000 poems, other than a number of essays and novels. His revealed work totalled 109 volumes together with 21 novels and 10 volumes of essays on Hinduism. The monitor Mayakama Thayakama from Sumaithaangi (1962), one among his stellar hits, was illustrative of the philosophical form of writing he believed in.
After a few years of success, Kannadasan stopped curating songs himself and acquired his assistants to pen the lyrics as he dictated them. Famend administrators, like SP Muthuraman, and Panchu Arunachalam, amongst others, labored as his assistants early of their careers.
Like most Tamil literary stalwarts of his time, Kannadasan additionally made his stint with politics. In his youthful days, he was a staunch supporter of EV Ramaswami’s atheist Dravida Kazhagam (DK) motion. It was throughout this era that he got here beneath the affect of DK chief Salakantapuram Kannan and assumed the pseudonym of Kannadasan (servant of Kannan (Lord Krishna). After the cut up within the DK, he supported CN Annadurai’s Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and in the end in 1964 joined the Congress.
