One of his most illustrious contemporaries K.V. Balasubramaniam and the supremely talented female singers like P. Soundararajan, Seerkazhi Govindararajan, P.B.

Viswanathan worked with almost all the major producers and directors of his time and also shaped the careers of a host of playback singers right from T.M. And as superstar Rajanikanth observed in a tribute on his demise, MSV’s music was instrumental in ensuring the success of actors like MGR and Sivaji Ganesan and even highly successful directors like Sridhar and Balachander. Ramamurthy too was not short on talent, it was Viswanathan who emerged more successful after the split and from 1965 to 2014, when he finally bid adieu to films, his compositions continued to rule the roost in Tamil cinema. Ramachandran and a teenaged Jayalalithaa was the last film that they scored music for, and after that they went their separate ways.Īlthough T.K. The sensational music in the film Aayirathil Oruvan starring M.G. The pair had an unblemished record of scoring hits with every single film they signed and faced little competition from their contemporaries. Ramamurthy resulted in their coming together as a duo, christening their partnership as Viswanathan-Ramamurthy.Ī spate of films directed by veteran director Bhimsingh for which the poet laureate Kannadasan penned the lyrics, received a marked fillip thanks to the melodious tunes set by Viswanathan-Ramamurthy with the numbers sung by playback singers T.M. MSV who had by then become an expert at playing the harmonium soon picked up the nuances of music, both light and classical from the masters, and his acquaintance with his orchestra mate and violinist T.K. Subburaman, famous composers of the time, and they soon took him under their wing. His talent and flair for music however caught the attention of veterans like S.M.

A self-taught musician who had a keen ear for music right from birth, MSV gave his first performance on the harmonium at the age of thirteen and due to the strained financial circumstances of his family, later joined music troupes as an errand boy.

He held sway over the world of film music and worked as a composer in over a thousand Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu and Hindi films, though most of his compositions were for Kollywood, as Tamil cinema is often called. Viswanathan or simply by his initials MSV, and was hailed as ‘Mellisai Mannar’ (King of Light Music). Manayangath Subramanian Viswanathan who passed away recently was known to the film industry as M.S.

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