Occupation Poet, lyricist Role Poet Nationality Indian Grandchildren Haiku Vairamuthu | Name Vairamuthu Ramaswamy Spouse Ponmani Vairamuthu | |
Native name கவிப்பேரரசு வைரமுத்து ராமசாமி Born Vairamuthu Ramasamy 13 July 1953 (age 70) Vadugapatti, Theni, Tamil Nadu, India ( 1953-07-13 ) Pen name KaviyarasuKaviperarasu Notable works Kallikaattu IthihaasamKaruvaachi Kaaviyam Children Madhan Karky, Kabilan Vairamuthu Similar People Madhan Karky, Kabilan Vairamuthu, A R Rahman, Vaali, Ilayaraja | ||
Parents Ramaswamythevar, Angammal | ||
Vairamuthu speech at veerapandiya kattabomman movie trailer launch video hd
Vairamuthu (Vairamuthu Ramaswamy ) is a Tamil poet, lyricist and author. He is a recipient of various awards including the Padma Bhushan, Padma Shri, and Sahitya Akademi Award for his novel “Kallikattu Ithikasam” as well as a seven-time winner of the National Film Awards.
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- Vairamuthu speech at veerapandiya kattabomman movie trailer launch video hd
- Lyricist and poet vairamuthu paying tributes to the multi faceted personality of past president
- Early life and education
- Entry into Literary arena
- Notable works
- Other languages
- Awards and recognition
- As writer
- References
Lyricist and poet vairamuthu paying tributes to the multi faceted personality of past president
Early life and education
Vairamuthu was born in 1954 in Mettur village, Theni district, Tamil Nadu. He completed his graduation and post-graduation from Pachaiyappa's College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu,India.
Entry into Literary arena
While working at the Tamil Nadu Official Language Commission, he wrote his first anthology of poems. He entered the film industry as a lyricist in 1980 with film director P. Bharathirajain his film Nizhalgal. Vairamuthu has written over 7,500 film lyrics till date.
He has also penned over 37 books in four decades commencing in the year 1972 with ‘Vaikarai Megangal’ (Clouds at Dawn) to ‘Vairamuthu Sirukathaigal ’ (The Short Stories of Vairamuthu) in 2015.
Notable works
Notable works include Kallikkattu Ithikasam, Karuvachi Kaaviym ,Moondram Ulagapor and many others numbering to 37. He has also introduced some foreign poets and their works to Tamil in his Ella Nadhiyilum En Odum. Some of his works are translated into Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam. The trend continues as hundreds of his film lyrics and translated into Hindi.
Kallikkattu Ithikasam depicts the story of people of a village who have turned refugees in the independent India. In 1950s when Vaigai dam was constructed in Madurai District, 14 villages were vacated for creating the water catchment area. This novel narrates the tearful story of those refugees who lost their land under the water. The author is a child who was born to one such family and had lived through the misery in his childhood. The story portrays the tears, blood and pain of the villagers whose families were crushed as a result of modernization. The soul of the novel echoes the truth behind the values of the agrarian India and the virtues of farmers which is eternal.
Karuvachi Kaviyam spins around a vulnerable Indian village woman who has been enslaved by the illiterate male chauvinistic community.
The core of Vairamuthu’s poetry portrays his pleading to the human to appreciate nature, pointing to the incredible truth that fire is fire until it burns, Earth is Earth until it spins and Man is man until he struggles.
The struggle of the Indian agrarian community due to globalization, liberalisation and global warming is depicted in this novel in the farmer’s dialectical language. This novel is a prophecy on the suicides of farmers five years before it had happened. The author was heartbroken when the poverty-stricken farmers who were unable to feed their families due to failure of monsoon, severe drought conditions, debt and despair, committed suicide.
Other languages
An anthology of his poems was translated in English titled ‘A drop in search of the ocean’ and in Hindi titled ‘Bindhu Sindhu Ki Our’ in 2003.
Besides his poems many other works have also been translated into several languages viz., English, Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali, Russian, and Norwegian.
Awards and recognition
Vairamuthu has been awarded the National Film Award for Best Lyrics seven times. He is also a six-time recipient of the Tamil Nadu State Film Awards.