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7/2/10

Music Director M.G Radhakrishnan Passes away

Posted by Malayalam at 3:51 PM

Senior music director in the South Indian film and music industries, M.G Radhakrishnan(73 years) has passed away. Radhakrishnan had been admitted at a private hospital one week earlier where he succumbed to death today. He has bagged Kerala State Film Award for best music director for the film Achaneyanenikkishtam in 2001 and Ananthabhadram in 2005. His brother M. G. Sreekumar is an Indian playback singer in Malayalam and Tamil cinema.

The man who composed such songs as ‘Varuvaanillarum innorunaalum ee vazhi’ in Manichithrathaazhu, is no more. Radhakrishnan, who has composed over 300 songs, has been ill for a while owing to a liver malfunction.

The first film he composed music for is Thambu released in 1978. Some of his popular songs are ‘Shalabam vazhimaruma mizhi randilum’ (Achaneyanenikkishtam), ‘Naadha nee varum kalocha kelkuvan’ (Chaamaram) and ‘Pinakkamano’ (Ananthabhadram). He is the brother of playback singer MG Sreekumar. He had introduced ‘Nightingale of South India’ KS Chitra to playback singing in Cinema in the movie Attahaasam.

 

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