'''O. N. V. Kurup (b. 1931)'''


Songwriter. With Vyalar Rama Varma and P.
Bhaskaran, he formed the troika ruling
Malayalam film song since the early 50s. Like
the others, he was rooted in the Kerala Peoples
Arts Club’s radical theatre, for which he wrote
some of its most famous songs:
Balikutterangale, Aa malar poikayil (both
scored by Devarajan) and Madala poopoloru
(scored by Salil Choudhury). Although he
shares the pervasive influence of post-
Changampuzha ‘romantic’ poetry, his bestknown
early work in both his independent
poetry (e.g. the anthologies Samarattinte
Santatikal/Offspring of the Revolution, 1951;
Mattuvin Chattangale/Change the Laws, 1955)
and in his film writing, is more militant than
that of his 2 colleagues.

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