A two-time Kerala State Film Award winner, the Malayalm cinema icon had collaborated with many notable cinema stalwarts like V Dakshinamurthy, MS Baburaj, K Raghavan, Ouseppachan, including Tamil film industry musical legends 'Isaignani' Ilaiyaraaja and A. In the period action film Maaveeran (1986), there are two electro funk tracks ‘Hey Maina’ and ‘Nee Koduththatha’ that are also picturised in the film. He made his debut in songwriting in the 1972 film Bhaja Govindam and has penned lyrics for over 5,000 songs. Electro synth-pop was so popular in Tamil cinema of the late 1980s and early 1990s that it was even shoehorned into a narrative that it was ill-suited for. A ll you kids doing the Ajith-versus-Vijay wars on Twitter, let me take you. But here’s a jumble of memories from the preceding phase, the early to mid-1980s, which had just as many misses as hits.
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Thirumala is survived by his wife Prasanna Kumari and son Suman Bichu, a music director in Malayalam cinema.īorn in 1942, Thirumala had gone on to become one of the most celebrated lyricists in the Malayalam film industry. The ‘Great Phase’ of the actor’s career, post ‘Pushpak’ and ‘Nayakan’, is well documented. A series of posts featuring the forgotten Tamil Directors of the 80s. The top Tamil movies are hugely popular and widely loved. He had been put on ventilator support after his health began to deteriorate, and died on the wee hours of Friday, around 3.15 a.m. Tamil cinema, also known as Kollywood, comes from India, featuring the Tamil language. He eventually shifted to playing lead roles in Tamil and Telugu films. He was a popular teen idol in Malayalam cinema during the 1980s, which heightened his stardom in Malayalam film industry. In Tamil and Telugu cinema, he is also known by the screen names Raghuman and Raghu. Thirumala was admitted to the hospital after he began experiencing breathing problems and suffered a heart attack. Rahman was a superstar in Malayalam film industry in the ’80s. Veteran Malayalam lyricist and poet B Sivasankaran Nair, known among fans as Bichu Thirumala, passed away on Friday, November 26, in Thiruvananthapuram.