Vairamuthu (Tamil: வைரமுத்து; born Vairamuthu Ramaswamy on 13
July 1953) is an Indian Tamil poet and lyricist.
Debuting in the film Nizhalgal (1980) with the lyrics for the song "Ponmalai Pozhudhu", he has now about 5800 songs to his credit as of January 2009. His partnership with Academy Award Winning composer A. R. Rahman has resulted in critical praise, awards, and box office hits.
He was awarded the National Film Award six times for Best Lyricist, the most by any Indian lyricist. He is a recipient of Kalaimamani, while also winning awards from the Government of Tamil Nadu for his contribution to Tamil literature.
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The ambience of the village is said to have inspired him to write poems. According to him, Tamil and Rationalist movements of the sixties stimulated his poetic zeal. The speeches of Periyar & Anna, the writings of Karunanidhi and the works of eminent poets like Bharathi, Bharathidasan and Kannadasan and the life in the countryside shaped the young poet's thinking. At the age of fourteen, he was inspired by Thiruvalluvar's Thirukkural to write a venba compilation of poetry, strictly adhering to the yappu grammar rules of Tamil poetry.
He joined Pachaiyappa's college in Chennai where he was acclaimed as the best speaker and poet. While in his second year of B. A. and barely nineteen years of age, Vairamuthu published his maiden anthology Vaigarai Megangal. It was prescribed for study in Women's Christian College. Thus, he achieved the distinction of a student poet whose work was taken into curriculum while he was still a student.
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His second work, Thiruththi Yezhudhiya Theerppugal, in pudhu kavidhai (free verse) form was published in 1979. He made his film debut in the succeeding year when he set lyrics for Bharathiraja's Nizhalgal.
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Debuting in the film Nizhalgal (1980) with the lyrics for the song "Ponmalai Pozhudhu", he has now about 5800 songs to his credit as of January 2009. His partnership with Academy Award Winning composer A. R. Rahman has resulted in critical praise, awards, and box office hits.
He was awarded the National Film Award six times for Best Lyricist, the most by any Indian lyricist. He is a recipient of Kalaimamani, while also winning awards from the Government of Tamil Nadu for his contribution to Tamil literature.
Early life and education
Vairamuthu was born to Ramaswamythevar and Angammal of Mettur in a middle-class family. When he was four, the village gave way to Vaigai Dam and the family moved to Vadugapatti village, community in Theni near Periyakulam.| “ | I loved and enjoyed, growing Tamil movements of the time, the sweet Tamil of Anna, thoughts of Periyar, the poetic Tamil of Karunanidhi, the influence of great poets like Bharathiyar and Bharathidasan encouraged me to write poems even when I was just ten. I was brought up in a lower middle class Tamil family with the usual poverty, hopes and frustrations peculiar to a Tamil youth. One thing I would like to mention about my younger days. I had a conviction that I was born to serve the Tamil language and it would come within my spell. An unknown voice urged me to go wherever my love for Tamil takes me | ” |
The ambience of the village is said to have inspired him to write poems. According to him, Tamil and Rationalist movements of the sixties stimulated his poetic zeal. The speeches of Periyar & Anna, the writings of Karunanidhi and the works of eminent poets like Bharathi, Bharathidasan and Kannadasan and the life in the countryside shaped the young poet's thinking. At the age of fourteen, he was inspired by Thiruvalluvar's Thirukkural to write a venba compilation of poetry, strictly adhering to the yappu grammar rules of Tamil poetry.
He joined Pachaiyappa's college in Chennai where he was acclaimed as the best speaker and poet. While in his second year of B. A. and barely nineteen years of age, Vairamuthu published his maiden anthology Vaigarai Megangal. It was prescribed for study in Women's Christian College. Thus, he achieved the distinction of a student poet whose work was taken into curriculum while he was still a student.
| “ | The one that was first published was the poem that the Editor of the Pachaippan College Students Journal, Then Mazhai, sought from me. Then I was twenty. It was a viruththam type of poem titled iLa nenjin Ekkam (the yearning of a young heart), published in 1970, Poems are molded by times. A poet of Sangam period had no scientific material to present. He had the opportunity to write on nature. Kamban centered his poems on Bhakthi or devotion to God. It was the basis for that period. The struggle for independence provided the material for Bharathi. His works were molded by that period. Poets after Sangam literature, Kamban, Bharathi and Bharathidasan and after the ascendancy of the movement to hold the Tamil flag aloft, you cannot ignore the impact of contemporary education and knowledge, and science in his works. This is the age of science. Hence the poets of the period have necessarily to sound the voice of science. As the air fills a vacuum, I strive to fill my poems appropriately | ” |
His second work, Thiruththi Yezhudhiya Theerppugal, in pudhu kavidhai (free verse) form was published in 1979. He made his film debut in the succeeding year when he set lyrics for Bharathiraja's Nizhalgal.
| “ | Poetry satisfies you always. A movie lyric does that now and then. A
poem is a creation inspired by the feeling that is poetry. The one that affects
me, the one that prompts me to write, the one emotion that I have experienced;
that alone is poetry. A movie song is different. Emotions that are experienced
by a character, which are not real, gets into me and writes with that which is
real within me and comes out as a lyric. Most of the times, it may not be my
real feelings. I write the lyric for a drunkard to sing. In the song, he is
under compulsion to justify drinking. That is the nature of that character. That
view may not be acceptable to me. It is the demand of the character in the
movie. The case of Sita's abduction by Ravanan could not be acceptable to
Kamban. If he hadn't brought out the acceptable fact that Ravanan abducted Sita,
he would have distorted the epic. Likewise, I present emotions not acceptable in
a song. Hence poetry always satisfies me and movie lyric whenever it reflects
emotions, is acceptable to meAwards and recognitionVairamuthu holds the record of winning maximum number of National Film Award for Best Lyrics (six times). He is also a recipient of the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards. The "Tamil Development Society of Madras" conferred on him the title of Kaviyarasu in 1986. His Kaviraajan Kavidhai narrating Subramanya Bharathi's life in Pudhu Kavidhai earned him the Bharathi Literature Prize.
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Partial filmography
- Nizhalgal (1980)
- Raja paarvai (1982)
- Ninaivellam Nithya (1982)
- Mudhal Mariyathai (1985)
- Punnagai Mannan (1986)
- Vedham Pudhithu (1987)
- Shankar Guru (1987)
- Thaai Mel Aanai (1988)
- Sondhakkaran (1989)
- Kodi Parakuthu (1989)
- Sevagan (1992)
- Annamalai (1992)
- Prathap (1993)
- Vedan (1993)
- Kizhakku Cheemayile (1993)
- Gentleman (1993)
- Pudhiya Mugam (1993)
- Pavithra (1994)
- Kadhalan (1994)
- Karuthamma (1994)
- Basha (1995)
- Indira (1995)
- Muthu (1995)
- Indian (1996)
- Iruvar (1997)
- Jeans (1998)
- Mudhalvan (1999)
- Rhythm (2000)
- Vedham (2001)
- Shahjahan (2001)
- Thamizhan (2002)
- Youth) (2002)
- Sivappu Mazhai (2010)
- Enthiran (2010)
- Enthiran (2010)
- Thenmerku Paruvakaatru (2010)
- Yamuna (2012)
- Vishwaroopam (2013)
- Kadal (2013)
- Ambikapathy (2013)
- Jilla (2014)
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