| | 1 | '''O. N. V. Kurup (b. 1931)''' |
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| | 4 | Songwriter. With Vyalar Rama Varma and P. |
| | 5 | Bhaskaran, he formed the troika ruling |
| | 6 | Malayalam film song since the early 50s. Like |
| | 7 | the others, he was rooted in the Kerala Peoples |
| | 8 | Arts Club’s radical theatre, for which he wrote |
| | 9 | some of its most famous songs: |
| | 10 | Balikutterangale, Aa malar poikayil (both |
| | 11 | scored by Devarajan) and Madala poopoloru |
| | 12 | (scored by Salil Choudhury). Although he |
| | 13 | shares the pervasive influence of post- |
| | 14 | Changampuzha ‘romantic’ poetry, his bestknown |
| | 15 | early work in both his independent |
| | 16 | poetry (e.g. the anthologies Samarattinte |
| | 17 | Santatikal/Offspring of the Revolution, 1951; |
| | 18 | Mattuvin Chattangale/Change the Laws, 1955) |
| | 19 | and in his film writing, is more militant than |
| | 20 | that of his 2 colleagues. |
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| | 22 | [[Music]] |