Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Pattukotai Kalyanasundaram

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Jun 23, 2012, 12:36:32 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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Pattukotai Kalyanasundaram

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+'''Kalyanasundaram, Pattukotai (1930-59)'''
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+Tamil lyricist, born in Pattukotai, TN. Son of
+folk composer Arunachalam Pillai. Worked as
+farmer and labourer in salt flats, later as
+organiser of the peasantry in the Thanjavur
+delta. One of his early poems was used in a
+play, Kannin Manigal, staged at the Tamil
+Nadu Farmers’ Conference, Dindigul (1954).
+His best-known work was in C.V. Sridhar’s
+Kalyana Parisu (1959). His last film was A.
+Kasilingam’s Kalai Arasi (1963). Wrote 196
+often propagandist songs in over 55 films in a
+brief 9-year career, many of them for MGR’s
+films. Although his lyrics bore the stamp of Pa.
+Jeevanandan’s brand of Marxism, they also
+showed the vitality of the folk idiom and the
+reformist ardour derived from poets like
+Subramanya Bharati and Bharatidasan.
+Published his poetry extensively in journals
+like Janasakthi. His biography is by P.E.
+Balakrishnan (1965).
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+[[Music]]