Ramakrishna Sudarsanam (26 April 1914 – 26 March 1991) was an Indian music composer who had worked in
Tamil
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Hindi
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Kannada
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Malayalam
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Telugu
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and
Sinhala film industry
Career
Ramakrishna Sudarsanam
entered the Tamil film industry with
Thiruneelakandar in 1939. He was a very talented musician who was spotted by Music Director Sharma Brothers and who into their Music troupe. After getting a lot of experience, he started composing music along with T.A Kalyanam. He became full-fledged music composer in Movie
Sakuntalai
''Sakuntalai'' is a 1940 Indian Tamil-language film directed by Ellis R. Dungan and starring M. S. Subbulakshmi and G. N. Balasubramaniam.
Plot
''Sakuntalai'' is the story of the mythological queen Shakuntala, whose tale is told in the ''Ma ...
in 1940. He turned a few songs for this movie but unfortunately, he did not continue with that film due to ill health. Movie producers brought another music composer Rajagopal Sharma for the same film and used already composed Sudarsanam's tunes, but he was not credited.
Later Sudarsanam joined the
AVM Studio's Saraswathi Orchestra Company and started working on dubbing for movies. His name first appeared on the silver screen in the film
Sri Valli in 1945 along with Thuraiyur Rajagopal Sharma. He became a full-fledged Music Composer in the movie
Naam Iruvar in 1947. Later went giving a lot of back to back superhits in films.
He is credited to have composed music for the first movie of stalwart actress and actors like
Dr. Rajkumar
Singanalluru Puttaswamaiah Muthuraj (24 April 1929 – 12 April 2006), better known by his stage name Dr. Rajkumar, was an Indian actor and singer who worked in Kannada cinema. Regarded as one of the greatest actors in the history of Indian ci ...
for Kannada movie
Bedara Kannappa
''Bedara Kannappa'' is a 1954 Indian Kannada-language Hindu mythological film directed by H. L. N. Simha and written by G. V. Iyer. The film stars Rajkumar playing the title character along with Pandari Bai, Kushala Kumari, G. V. Iyer, Sandh ...
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Sivaji Ganesan
Villupuram Chinnaiya Manrayar Ganesamoorthy, better known by his stage name Sivaji Ganesan, (1 October 1928 – 21 July 2001) was an Indian actor and producer. He was active in Tamil cinema during the latter half of the 20th century. Sivaji Ga ...
for
Parasakthi,
Kamal Hasan
Kamal Haasan (born 7 November 1954) is an Indian actor, filmmaker, screenwriter, playback singer, television presenter and politician who works mainly in Tamil cinema and has also appeared in some Telugu, Malayalam, Hindi, Kannada and Bengali f ...
for film
Kalathur Kannamma
''Kalathur Kannamma'' is a 1960 Indian Tamil-language romantic drama film directed by A. Bhimsingh and written by Javar Seetharaman. The film stars Gemini Ganesh, Savitri Ganesh and Kamal Haasan. It revolves around a couple — a wealth ...
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Vaijayanthi Mala for the movie
Vaazhkai.
He has introduced many singers to the South Indian film industry, and who have come became most popular and has reached great heights in film music few include
S. Janaki
Sistla Janaki (born 23 April 1938) is an Indian playback singer and occasional music composer from Andhra Pradesh. She is referred to respectfully as "Janaki Amma" and Nightingale of South India. She is one of the best-known playback singers in ...
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T .M. Soundarajan.
Filmography
References
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Indian musicians
Tamil film score composers
Telugu film score composers
Kannada film score composers
Tamil musicians
1914 births
1991 deaths
20th-century Indian musicians
Malayalam film score composers
Indian male film score composers
20th-century male musicians