Thursday, September 20, 2012

K. V. Mahadevan repeats his own tune!


We know that K.V.Mahadevan was one of the most successful music directors of South India.  He is well-known for extending full freedom to the lyricist in writing lyrics for a movie.  Lyricists never filled words in pre-composed tunes in all the movies for which K.V.Mahadevan offered music—the movies remade from Tamil are exceptions.  



He was the first music director in India to receive National Film Award (Silver Lotus Award) for Best Music Direction for the Tamil movie Kandan Karunai in 1967. The song Thiruparamkundrathil Nee Sirithal from Kandan Karunai (1967) was a great hit. The producer K. Murari Babu of Yuvachitra banner is a great fan of Mahadevan, and he requested the legendary composer to make use of the tune of Kandan Karunai for his movie Naari Naari Naduma Murrari in 1990. Mahadevan too had a soft corner for K. Murari Babu.  This is how the lovely song Iruvuri Bhamala Kougililo has come into being!