L. Vaidhiyanathan Passes Away

**raagadevan** · 19th May 2007, 11:10 PM

Music director L. Vaidhiyanathan passes away

Chennai, May 19 (PTI): L Vaidhiyanathan, renowned music director of yesteryears, passed away after a prolonged illness at his residence at suburban Porur this morning, family sources said.

He was 65 and is survived by his wife and two sons.

Vaidhiyanathan had composed music for over 170 films in Tamil, Kannada, Telugu and Malayalam.

He was honoured by the Tamil Nadu government with the 'Kalaimamani' award. He was also a member of the national committee to select the best feature films.

Prior to his death, he was busy composing music for the Hindi animation movie "Lava Kusa'.

His body was cremated in the evening, the sources added.

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**crajkumar_be** · 19th May 2007, 11:45 PM

He composed for Pesum Padam

rest in peace.

**ajithfederer** · 19th May 2007, 11:46 PM

RIP

**Wibha** · 19th May 2007, 11:59 PM

Rest In peace

**maithree** · 20th May 2007, 12:21 AM

RIP

Can someone name a couple of his movies?

**Wibha** · 20th May 2007, 01:02 AM

ezhavudhu manidhan

**maithree** · 20th May 2007, 01:44 AM

Can Someone name a couple actors in that movie?

**Wibha** · 20th May 2007, 01:56 AM

it's raghuvaran's first movie........ 1980's la vandadhu

**maithree** · 20th May 2007, 01:59 AM

Ohhh...ok.

**raagadevan** · 20th May 2007, 01:59 AM

Music director L. Vaidyanathan dead

Elder brother of the violin duo, L. Shankar and L. Subramaniam

CHENNAI: L. Vaidyanathan, music director of yesteryear and Kalaimamani awardee, died on Saturday morning. He was 65.

The elder brother of the renowned violin duo, L. Shankar and L. Subramaniam, he apprenticed under music director G.K. Venkatesh during his early years. He studied music under the tutelage of his father V. Lakshminarayana Iyer, as did his other two violinist brothers. He composed music for over 150 movies in different languages.

He went on to score the music for movies, including the Kamal Hassan starrer, Pesum Padam, a silent movie in which the background score played an important role. Among his other famous films include director Hariharan's `Ezhavathu Manithan,' which introduced actor Raghuvaran. This award-winning movie's music set the lyrics of Bharatiyar's songs to much appreciated tunes. He also composed music for `Marupakkam,' a film starring Sivakumar that went on to win four national awards. His lesser-known work is probably the popular, haunting title track of R.K. Narayan's `Malgudi Days' directed by Shanker Nag and serialised on Doordarshan. Later, he experimented with fusion, striding Western and traditional Indian genres, even dabbling with far-Eastern melodies to create albums that were popular across the world. He has also performed as a violin trio with his brothers. The Tamil Nadu Government recognised his contributions to the field of films and music by bestowing him its award for artistes — the Kalaimamani Award — in 2003.

In addition to family and friends, personalities from the field of film music, among them Ilayaraja, S.P. Balasubramaniam and Chitra, condoled his death. He is survived by his wife Chenjulakshmi and two sons L.V. Ganesan and L.V. Muthukumarasamy. The cremation was performed on Saturday.

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