Raamamoorththi tamil Biography

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T. K. Ramamurthy, Tiruchirapalli Krishnaswamy Ramamurthy, is a popular South Indian Tamil music composer and violinist. He hails from the from a family of violinists. He is popularly known as Mellisai Mannar (Tamil, for "The King of Light Music"). His major works are in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films. Along with M. S. Viswanathan, as the duo Viswanathan-Ramamoorthy, he dominated film music composing in the South Indian film industry during the 1950s and 1960s and composed scores for over 700 films, revitalising Chennai film music. The duo parted in 1965 and since then he composed for films individually. They rejoined in 1995 after 29 years of separation, for Engirundho Vanthan.
Since young, T. K. Ramamoorthy is a violinist. M. S. Viswanathan had always wanted to become an actor and singer where he had done roles in stage dramas before joining S. M. Subbaiah Naidu. Then he moved to C. R. Subburaman where he met T. K. Ramamoorthy. M. S. Viswanathan was handling the harmonium while T. K. Ramamoorthy was handling the violin for C. R. Subburaman.
In 1952, C. R. Subburaman died unexpectedly while in the midst of completing songs for the films which he was assigned to compose music. M. S. Viswanathan and T. K. Ramamoorthy took the lead to complete the remaining songs for those affected films such as Devadas and Kadhal. At that point of time both M. S. Viswanathan and T. K. Ramamoorthy were not official partners yet but they had just worked together. Then M. S. Viswanathan suggested to T. K. Ramamoorthy an alliance in the south by both of them teaming up such as Shankar and Jaikishen who were known as Shankar Jaikishan in the north. At first, T. K. Ramamoorthy who had been reluctant that he was already contented with the income he was receiving from being a violinist but agreed to pair on the insistence of M. S. Viswanathan.
Their first movie was Panam, a movie by A. L. Seenivasan and directed by N. S. Krishnan. It was the secound film for Sivaji Ganesan and for first time their names appeared as Viswanathan-Ramamurthy. T. K. Ramamoorthy is elder to M. S. Viswanathan by seven years, but the placing of their names as Viswanathan-Ramamurthy was agreed upon by both parties on the advice of N. S. Krishnan. That was the beginning where since then both composed several hundred songs together.
On 16 June 1963, at a special function M. S. Viswanathan and T. K. Ramamoorthy were each given the title of Mellisai Mannar. It was granted by Sivaji Ganesan at the Madras Triplicane Cultural Academy. The function was supported and facilitated by the Hindu Group of Publications, especially Mr. T. M. Ramachandran, Director C. V. Sridhar and Chitralaya Gobu. Collectively they were called Mellisai Mannargal (Kings Of The Light Music).
The end of the partnership between M. S. Viswanathan and T. K. Ramamoorthy was marked by the release of Aayirathil Oruvan on 9 July 1965. They subsequently both composed for films individually. After 29 years, they were reunited in 1995 for the Sathyaraj starrer Tamil film Engirundho Vanthan.
He was awarded a honorary doctorate along with M.S.Viswanathan by the Sathyabama Deemed University in September 2006.[1]

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