Thirunainar Kurichi Madhavan Nair

Thirunainar Kurichi Madhavan Nair was an Indian poet novelist and lyricist. A Travancore radio station artist and then AIR employee conducting the popular Shankaraammavan talk, an agriculture related 1960s radio program . He was very active in Malayalam films from 1951 to 1965 and has written over 300 film songs of which most were hits. Thirunainar Kurichi and music director Brother Lakshmanan were the hit duo of the 1950s and 60s. Thirunainar Kurichi has also written numerous poems dramas and novels in the 1950s and 1960s.

He, Madhavan Nair was born at Tirunainar kurichi town near Velimala Murugan temple, Mondaimarket which is around Colachel in the Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu. Born on April 16, 1916, to Raman Nair and Narayani Pillai, had lost his father at a very young age. After education in Trivandrum and at his native place he took up a job as a teacher at a school in Colachel. He married Ponnamma and has a daughter. The film producer P Subramaniam was his close friend and so the poet was the lyricist for movies made in Trivandrum Merryland studio . His novel Maina was made into a Malayalam film Kattumaina. A writer of good novels like Paricharika, Pension Kunnu, Maina, Grama Seema, Kadamakalkkuvendi, Sarva Sakshi, Cheriya Valiyavan and Mayadevi, he is more famous as a poet. His famous songs include "Athmavidyalayame" from Harishchandra (1955) and "Ishwara Chinthaithonne Manujanu" from Bhakta Kuchela (1961). He died in his late 40s at Trivandrum on April 1st 1965.