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==Early life==
==Early life==


Viswanathan was born on 24 June 1928 to Manayangath Subramanian and Narayanikutty (or Naanikutty) in Elappully village in [[Palakkad]], [[Kerala]], India. He lost his father when he was four. He entered the film world as a child artist starring as the child Kovalan in Kannagi produced by Jupiter Pictures in Tiruppur at a monthly salary of Rupees 3.<ref>http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/ms-viswanathan-msv-music-composer-tamil-film-music-jupiter-films/1/451137.html</ref> As it did not suit him, he was given the role of Bala Murugan.<ref name="Hindu article in MSV"/> He had no family history of music, except that he had the privilege of sitting on the belly of his father Subrmanian and listening to him singing.<ref name="Hindu article in MSV">{{Cite web|url=http://m.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/veteran-music-composer-ms-viswanathan-dead/article7420180.ece.html|accessdate=14 July 2015}}</ref> He was saved by his grandfather when his mother decided to kill him and herself as an escape from abject poverty and lack of support.<ref name="maalaimalar23225210">[https://web.archive.org/web/20131207090918/http://cinema.maalaimalar.com/2013/11/23225210/ms-viswanathan-cinema-history.html எதிர்நீச்சல் போட்டு முன்னேறிய மெல்லிசை மன்னர் எம்.எஸ்.விஸ்வநாதன்], archived version retrieved 27 September 2014 {{ta icon}}</ref> He once told his biographer, Ranimainthan, that when the family was driven to despair by degrading poverty after the death of his father, who worked as a jailor, he wanted to kill himself by jumping into a tank. His mother and sister also decided to end her life,<ref name="Hindu article in MSV"/> but then his grandfather arrived in the nick of time to save him..<ref name="King of Light Music">{{Cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/regional/south-indian-composer-mellisai-mannar-ms-viswanathan-dies/article1-1369033.aspx|accessdate=14 July 2015}}</ref> As a child, he sold refreshments in a movie theatre for a living. He would stand outside the house of Neelakanta Bhagavathar, a local music teacher, and listen to his teaching other students. He also became a student and his music talent was found on a Vijayadasami Day, while playing the harmonium and singing. Neelakanta Bhagavathar, who happened to listen to him singing, was enthralled and organised a full-fledged concert for three hours at the Kannanur town hall.<ref name="Hindu article in MSV"/>He learnt music from 1933-39.He later gave his first stage performance in [[Trivandrum]] when he was only 13 years old.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131207020732/http://cinema.maalaimalar.com/2013/11/24231505/ms-viswanathan-cinema-history.html 'ஜுபிடர்' பட நிறுவனத்தில் 'ஆபீஸ் பாய்' வேலை பார்த்த எம்.எஸ்.விஸ்வநாதன்!], archived version retrieved 27 September 2014 {{ta icon}}</ref>
Viswanathan was born on 24 June 1928 to Manayangath Subramanian and Narayanikutty (or Naanikutty) in Elappully village in [[Palakkad]], [[Kerala]], India. He lost his father when he was four. He entered the film world as a child artist playing the role Kovalan in the film Kannagi produced by Jupiter Pictures He worked in Tiruppur at a monthly salary of Rupees 3 Jupiter Pictures.<ref>http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/ms-viswanathan-msv-music-composer-tamil-film-music-jupiter-films/1/451137.html</ref> As it did not suit him, he was given the role of Bala Murugan.<ref name="Hindu article in MSV"/> He had no family history of music, except that he had the privilege of sitting on the belly of his father Subrmanian and listening to him singing.<ref name="Hindu article in MSV">{{Cite web|url=http://m.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/veteran-music-composer-ms-viswanathan-dead/article7420180.ece.html|accessdate=14 July 2015}}</ref> He was saved by his grandfather when his mother decided to kill him and herself as an escape from abject poverty and lack of support.<ref name="maalaimalar23225210">[https://web.archive.org/web/20131207090918/http://cinema.maalaimalar.com/2013/11/23225210/ms-viswanathan-cinema-history.html எதிர்நீச்சல் போட்டு முன்னேறிய மெல்லிசை மன்னர் எம்.எஸ்.விஸ்வநாதன்], archived version retrieved 27 September 2014 {{ta icon}}</ref> He once told his biographer, Ranimainthan, that when the family was driven to despair by degrading poverty after the death of his father, who worked as a jailor, he wanted to kill himself by jumping into a tank. His mother and sister also decided to end her life,<ref name="Hindu article in MSV"/> but then his grandfather arrived in the nick of time to save him..<ref name="King of Light Music">{{Cite web|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/regional/south-indian-composer-mellisai-mannar-ms-viswanathan-dies/article1-1369033.aspx|accessdate=14 July 2015}}</ref> As a child, he sold refreshments in a movie theatre for a living. He would stand outside the house of Neelakanta Bhagavathar, a local music teacher, and listen to his teaching other students. He also became a student and his music talent was found on a Vijayadasami Day, while playing the harmonium and singing. Neelakanta Bhagavathar, who happened to listen to him singing, was enthralled and organised a full-fledged concert for three hours at the Kannanur town hall.<ref name="Hindu article in MSV"/>He learnt music from 1933-39.He later gave his first stage performance in [[Trivandrum]] when he was only 13 years old.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20131207020732/http://cinema.maalaimalar.com/2013/11/24231505/ms-viswanathan-cinema-history.html 'ஜுபிடர்' பட நிறுவனத்தில் 'ஆபீஸ் பாய்' வேலை பார்த்த எம்.எஸ்.விஸ்வநாதன்!], archived version retrieved 27 September 2014 {{ta icon}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==

Revision as of 17:21, 14 July 2015

This article is about the music composer. For other meanings, see Viswanathan.

M.S.Viswanathan
M. S. Viswanathan
Born
Manayangth Subramanian Viswanathan

(1928-06-24)24 June 1928
Palakkad, Madras Presidency, India
Died14 July 2015(2015-07-14) (aged 87)
Chennai, India
Cause of deathKidney cancer
Other namesM.S.V
Occupation(s)Film score composer; actor; singer music director
Years active1940–2015
SpouseJanaki (1951-2012)
Parents
  • Subramanian
  • Narayani
[1]
Musical career
Instrument(s)Vocals (playback singing), keyboard/harmonium/piano
Websitemsvtimes.com

Manayangath Subramanian Viswanathan (24 June 1928 – 14 July 2015), also known as M.S.V., was a Kollywood music director and composer from South India. He was popularly known as Mellisai Mannar (Tamil for "The King of Light Music"). He composed songs in Tamil, Malayalam, Telugu, Kannada, and Hindi for over 1200 films.[2] He worked primarily in Tamil, Malayalam and Telugu films. He also acted and sung in a few Tamil films.[3][4]The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu J Jayalalithaa conferred the Thirai Isai Chakravarthy (Tamil for "The Emperor of Cine Music") title on him in August 2012[5] and presented him with 60 gold coins and a new car.[6][7]

Viswanathan composed film music together with composer and violinist T. K. Ramamoorthy from the 1950s to 1965, as Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy[8] and from 1965 until 2014 he worked independently as a composer.

Early life

Viswanathan was born on 24 June 1928 to Manayangath Subramanian and Narayanikutty (or Naanikutty) in Elappully village in Palakkad, Kerala, India. He lost his father when he was four. He entered the film world as a child artist playing the role Kovalan in the film Kannagi produced by Jupiter Pictures He worked in Tiruppur at a monthly salary of Rupees 3 Jupiter Pictures.[9] As it did not suit him, he was given the role of Bala Murugan.[10] He had no family history of music, except that he had the privilege of sitting on the belly of his father Subrmanian and listening to him singing.[10] He was saved by his grandfather when his mother decided to kill him and herself as an escape from abject poverty and lack of support.[11] He once told his biographer, Ranimainthan, that when the family was driven to despair by degrading poverty after the death of his father, who worked as a jailor, he wanted to kill himself by jumping into a tank. His mother and sister also decided to end her life,[10] but then his grandfather arrived in the nick of time to save him..[12] As a child, he sold refreshments in a movie theatre for a living. He would stand outside the house of Neelakanta Bhagavathar, a local music teacher, and listen to his teaching other students. He also became a student and his music talent was found on a Vijayadasami Day, while playing the harmonium and singing. Neelakanta Bhagavathar, who happened to listen to him singing, was enthralled and organised a full-fledged concert for three hours at the Kannanur town hall.[10]He learnt music from 1933-39.He later gave his first stage performance in Trivandrum when he was only 13 years old.[13]

Career

Viswanathan had always wanted to be an actor and singer, but was not successful. He had a few small roles in stage dramas in the 1940s. The composer and violinist T. R. Papa met Viswanathan, took a liking to him and arranged a job for him as an errand boy for S. V. Venkatraman's musical troupe in 1942. In that company of musicians, Viswanathan realised that he had the inclination and the potential for composing music. He thereafter joined S. M. Subbaiah Naidu and at times assisted him. He then joined C. R. Subburaman's musical troupe as a harmonium player. Here, he met T. K. Ramamoorthy and T. G. Lingappa, the two leading violinists at that time.[citation needed] T. G. Lingappa also became a renowned music composer on his own in the 1950s.

Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy

Main article: Viswanathan–Ramamoorthy

In 1952, C. R. Subburaman died unexpectedly. Ramamoorthy and Viswanathan joined together and completed the background music for the films Subburaman was working on, including Devadas, Chandirani and Marumagal. N. S. Krishnan knew them both fairly intimately and also their respective talents by then because of his close relationship with C.R.Subburaman, with whom he had worked earlier in several films.[citation needed] Meanwhile Viswanathan also worked as the third composer for the film Genova where the other composers were M.S Gnanamani and T.K.Kalyanam.[14]M.G.Ramachandran, the hero of the film Genova, had reservations about the 'raw, young music director' but the reservations lasted only till he listened to the songs. M.G.Ramachandran instantly recognised the arrival of a genius and the relationship lasted till the end of his career as a hero in 1977.[15]Viswanathan and Ramamoorthy were asked to write the music for Panam, a 1952 film produced by A. L. Seenivasan and directed by N. S. Krishnan. Later the duo was asked to do the background score for the film Ratha Kanneer by its music composer C. S. Jayaraman.[citation needed]

The duo composed for over 100 films from 1952-1965.[16]

On 16 June 1963 at a special function M. S. Viswanathan and T. K. Ramamoorthy were each given the title of Mellisai Mannar(Kings of the Light Music).[17] 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 Gopu.[citation needed]

The duo parted in 1965 after release of Ayirathil Oruvan and since then they composed for films individually. After 29 years, they rejoined in 1995 for the Tamil film Engirundho Vanthan starring Sathyaraj.[18]

They were awarded an honorary doctorate by the Sathyabama Deemed University in September 2006.[19]

J. Jayalalithaa, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, conferred the title Thirai Isai Chakravarthy (Emperors of the Cine Music) on Viswanathan and Ramamoorthy in August 2012[5] and presented them with 60 gold coins and a new car.[6][7]

Independent music director

M. S. Viswanathan began his solo career in 1965.[20] Viswanathan is known for having incorporated various genres of world music into Indian cinema music. He used elements such as humming and whistling in his songs, and blended new trends such as western music and disco with Indian classical tunes. [21] MSV continued to upgrade his music with new trends like western music and disco from the early 1970s till the 1990s and blended them with Indian classical tunes.[20]Post the separation from Ramamoorthy, MSV went on to become more successful.Viswanathan's solo hits include ‘Bama Vijayam’, ‘Galatta Kalyanam’, ‘Deivamagan’, ‘Moondru Dheivangal’, ‘Rickshawkaran’, ‘Bharatha Vilas’ and ‘Ulagam Sutrum Valiban’.[22]


During the 1970s and 80s, Viswanathan worked with younger singers such as S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and Vani Jairam as well as established singers like P. Susheela, L. R. Eswari and T. M. Soundararajan. Viswanathan introduced the Malayalam singer Jayachandran to Tamil films in Manippayal (1973) with the song Thanga-chimizhpol, and wrote songs for him to sing in many other films in the 1970s. He is also considered responsible for making singers like R. Balasaraswathi, S. Janaki, A. L. Raghavan, and Yesudas popular names.

Other playback singers who worked with Viswanathan include R. Balasaraswathi in the early 1960s, S. Janaki, and A. L. Raghavan, and Swarnalatha in the film Neethikku Thandanai in 1987.[23]

Although S.P.Balasubramaniyam shot to fame with the song "Ayiram Nilave Vaa" from Adimai Penn, a K. V. Mahadevan composition in 1969 which S.P.Balasubramanyam got to sing the song the insistence of M. G. Ramachandran, but fact was that it was Viswanathan who booked him first for a Tamil film and gave him his first Tamil song, from Shanthi Nilayam with the song "Iyarkai Ennum" also in 1969, though the latter got released after Adimai Penn. S.P.Balasubramaniyam regards Viswanathan as one of his patrons and Gurus in the Tamil films. K. J. Yesudas was given a big break in the film Kathalikka Neramillai in 1964 by the duo. Then Ramamoorthy used him for the hit song Vasantha Kalam Varumo in the film Marakka Mudiyuma in 1965.But Viswanathan started working with him again only in 1973 after a long gap at the insistence of M. G. Ramachandran in the film 'Ulagam Sutrum Valiban'. Yesudas then continued to be voice of M.G. Ramachandran in many films like in Nalai Namathe, Urmaikural, Sirithu Vazha Vendum in Viswanathan's music. Then Viswanathan used Yesudas as the voice for up-and-coming actors during the late 70s, like Sivakumar, Kamalahasan, and Vijaykumar.[24]

Viswanathan worked with many different film directors, including B. R. Panthulu, S. S. Vasan, B. S. Ranga, and Krishnan-Panju in the 1950s, and in later decades with C. V. Sridhar,A. Bhimsingh, Madhavan, T. R. Ramanna, A. C. Trilogchander, K. Shankar, K. Balachander, Muktha Srinivasan, Chitralaya Gopu, Cho Ramaswamy, and K. S. Gopalakrishnan from the 1960s. From the 1970s directors such as S. P. Muthuraman, Major Sundarrajan, Bhagyaraj, D. Yoganand, C. V. Rajendran, P. Madhavan, K. S. Prakash Rao, Vietnam Veedu Sundaram,N. T. Rama Rao, and I. V. Sasi frequently worked with Vishwanathan; later, in the 1980s and 1990s, new directors such as Visu, Mouli, Major Sundarrajan, Komal Swaminathan, and K. Raghunath collaborated with Viswanathan regularly.[citation needed]

Many of the Tamil movies were also dubbed into Hindi. He did playback singing for 500 songs composed by himself and sang over 200 songs composed by music directors.[25] M. S. Viswanathan also scored music for many non-film albums and for political campaigns.When Cho. Ramaswamy's political satire Muhammad bin Tughlaq was made into a film, MSV rendered the song Allah Allah Nee Illadha Idame Illai.[10] Some of the famous songs sung by him were Sollathan Ninaikiren, Inbathilum Thunbathilun Sirithidu Magaley,Yenakkoru Kaathalai Irukindral and more recently A.R. Rahman’s Sangamam and Vidaikodu Engal Nadey.[26] Viswanathan was considered as the inspiration for music directors like V. Kumar, Sankar Ganesh, Ilaiyaraaja, Gangai Amaran, Deva, Bharathwaj, A. R. Rahman, Yuvan Shankar Raja and others.

M. S. Vishwanathan went on to act in Tamil feature films, notably appearing in Kaadhal Mannan after being convinced to do so by actor Vivek, while he also starred in Kamal Haasan's Kaathala Kaathala and Karthik's Rojavanam. He also made appearances in other films and television series since 1995.[citation needed]

He worked together with the Tamil poet and lyricist Kannadasan in the 1960s and 1970s, and also with Vaali from late 1960's.[citation needed]

Since 1996 Viswanathan focused on composing devotional music and serving as a judge in Malayalam TV reality shows. He collaborated with Illaiyaraja in 'Mella Thiranthathu Kathathavu', 'Senthamizh Paatu' 'Vishwa Thulsi' and 'Senthamizh Selvan' starring Prashanth. He sang the song "Vidai Kodu Engal Naadae" for 2002 Tamil film "Kannathil Muthamittal" composed by A.R.Rahman. Then in 2013 he sang for the film Neelam – the song called 'Alayae o Alayae' and it was recorded in the supervision of music composer Satish Chakravarthy. He in 2013 composed music for the film Thillu Mullu, with Yuvan Shankar Raja[27] While M. S. Viswanathan composed the tunes in the 2013 Thillu Mullu film, Yuvan Shankar Raja orchestrated and recorded them.[28] Including this No. he has Sung a Song,‘Saami Namba saami' which is penned by Snehan for the film "Mannar Valaiguda",Composed by S.Siva Pragasam.[29][30]

Rajnikanth said in an interview about M. S. Viswanathan, "You will rarely find someone like MSV in any industry. He lived life like a selfless saint, free from jealousy and lies. He was behind the success of legends like MGR and Sivaji.If not for MSV, the careers of filmmaker Balachander, lyricists Vaali and Kannadasan wouldn't have tasted huge success."[31]

Death

On June 27th 2015, Viswanathan was admitted to Fortis Malar hospital in Chennai with breathing difficulties.[32] He was undergoing a treatment at the hospital from a very long time.[33] He died at 4:15 a.m. on 14 July 2015 due to kidney disease.[34]

Personal life

Viswanathan was married to Janaki and they have four sons and three daughters. His wife, Janaki, died on 14 May 2012.[35]

He is known to have looked after his original Guru, S.M.Subbaiah Naidu, when the latter fell into financial difficulties and then continued to look after his wife until her death.[citation needed]

Filmography

Main article: M. S. Viswanathan discography

Awards

M. S. Viswanathan has won many awards include the following:

  • PBS Puraskar Award presented by Aruna Nithya Gopal Foundation awarded on 29 September 2013 at Ravindra Bharati[36]
  • Honorary doctorate from Tirunelveli-based Manonmaniam Sundaranar University (MSU) on 3 January 2013[37]
  • Paramacharya Award, meaning 'The Ultimate Guru' in 2006.
  • Life Time Achievement Award by Sangam Kala group in 2004.
  • Isai Sangam honoured him with Isai Peraringnar, meaning "Great Scholar in Music", in 2004.
  • Seventh Kamukura Award – given by Kerala Cultural Ministry.
  • Media gave him title "Mellisai Mannar" along with T.K. Rammoorthy, meaning "King of Light Music" or "King of melodies".
  • 'Sangeetha Saraswathi' by Poojya Sri Guruji Viswanath of Manava Seva Kendra.

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  36. ^ Gudipoodi Srihari (4 October 2013). The Hindu http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/befitting-a-legend/article5198114.ece. {{cite news}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  37. ^ "Honorary doctorate for veteran musician M S Viswanathan". The Times of India. TNN. 10 January 2013.
  38. ^ "Tamil Nadu / Chennai News : Honorary doctorates for seven eminent personalities". The Hindu. 4 September 2006. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
  39. ^ VM Sathish. "Mammotty, Kavya Madhavan bag Asiavision awards". Emirates 24-7.

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