The first song of his that was released, was "Batrakali Uttamaseeli" (also composed by Ilaiyaraaja) from the film Kaali, which was released four months before Nizhalgal. The first song he wrote in his career, was "Pon Maalai Pozhuthu", which was composed by "Isaignani" Ilaiyaraaja and sung by S.P. Upon reading his poems, he was signed on as a lyricist by the director Bharathiraja for the film Nizhalgal in the year 1980.
They have two sons, Madhan Karky and Kabilan, who both work as lyricists and dialogue writers for Tamil films.įilm career Debut and early years He is married to Ponmani, a Tamil scholar and former professor at the Meenakshi College for Women. In addition to this, he continued writing poetry, bringing out a second anthology of poems in 1979, titled Thiruthi Ezhuthiya Theerpugal ('Revised and rewritten').
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He completed a 2 year Master's program in Arts in the field of Tamil literature at the Madras University.Īfter his education, he began his professional career at the Tamil Nadu Official Language Commission in the mid-1970s, as a translator of law books and documents from English to Tamil, working under Justice Maharajan. The book was prescribed as part of the curriculum in the Women's Christian College, giving Vairamuthu the distinction of being a writer whose work was part of a syllabus, while he was still a student. In his sophomore year, he published his first anthology of poems, titled Vaigarai Megangal ('Clouds at Dawn'), at the age of nineteen. At the age of fourteen, he wrote a group of venba poems, having been inspired by Thiruvalluvar’s Tirukkuṛaḷ.ĭuring the stint of his under-graduation at Pachaiyappa’s College in Chennai, he was acclaimed as a speaker and poet. He began writing poems from the age of ten and by his early teens, he was noted as a prominent orator and poet in his school. Karunanidhi, Subramania Bharathi, Bharathidasan and Kannadasan. Ramasamy, 'Perarignar' Annadurai, Kalaignar Mu. The Dravidian movement in Tamil Nadu during the 1960s, made a significant impression on his youth and he was inspired by several prominent individuals associated with language, such as Periyar E. In his new surroundings, he also took up agriculture in addition to his academics.įrom a very young age, Vairamuthu was drawn towards the language and literature of Tamil. In 1957, his family was forced to move to Vadugapatti, another village in the Theni district, due to the construction of Vaigai Dam across the river Vaigai, which led to evacuation of 14 villages (including Mettur). Vairamuthu was born on July 13, 1953, to Ramasamy and his wife Angammal, who were agriculturalists based in the village of Mettoor, in the district of Theni, Tamil Nadu.
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