| 1 | '''Kambadasan''' |
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| 4 | Tamil lyricist; born as C.S. Rajappa in |
| 5 | Villayanur near Pondicherry. Stage actor, |
| 6 | musician and lyric writer introduced to the |
| 7 | theatre by P. Sambandam Mudaliar. Film |
| 8 | début in Fram Sethna’s Vamana Avataram |
| 9 | (1939), and wrote dialogue/lyrics for |
| 10 | Balkrishna Narayan Rao’s Salivahanan |
| 11 | (1944). Became a leading lyricist with the |
| 12 | success of Arul tharum deva mathave in |
| 13 | Nagoor/Taliath’s Gnanasoundari (1948) and |
| 14 | with Jiten Bannerjee’s Mangayar Karasi (1949), |
| 15 | esp. the song Parthal pasi theerum sung by |
| 16 | P.U. Chinappa. These and other songs were |
| 17 | among the early musical hits to achieve an |
| 18 | independent popularity on disc. Also wrote the |
| 19 | hits of Vanaratham (1956), a dubbed Tamil |
| 20 | version of S.U. Sunny’s Udan Khatola (1955) |
| 21 | with Naushad’s music. |
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| 23 | [[Music]] |