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Viswanathan Ramamoorthy was the name of a South Indian music director duo, comprising of M. S. Viswanathan and T. K. Ramamoorthy. The duo had worked together for over 700 films, before splitting with the release of Ayirathil Oruvan in 1965.
Career
Since young, T. K. Ramamoorthy is a violinist. M. S. Viswanathan had always wanted to become an actor and singer where he had done roles in stage dramas before joining S. M. Subbaiah Naidu. Then he moved to C. R. Subburaman where he met T. K. Ramamoorthy. M. S. Viswanathan was handling the harmonium while T. K. Ramamoorthy was handling the violin for C. R. Subburaman.
In 1952, C. R. Subburaman passed away unexpectedly while in the midst of completing songs for the films which he was assigned to compose music. M. S. Viswanathan and T. K. Ramamoorthy took the lead to complete the remaining songs for those affected films such as Devadas and Kadhal. At that point of time both M. S. Viswanathan and T. K. Ramamoorthy were not official partners yet but they had just worked together. Then M. S. Viswanathan suggested to T. K. Ramamoorthy an alliance in the south by both of them teaming up such as Shankar and Jaikishen who were known as Shankar Jaikishan in the north. At first, T. K. Ramamoorthy who had been reluctant that he was already contented with the income he was receiving from being a violinist but agreed to pair on the insistence of M. S. Viswanathan.
Their first movie was Panam, a movie by A. L. Seenivasan and directed by N. S. Krishnan. It was the second film for Sivaji Ganesan and for first time their names appeared as Viswanathan-Ramamurthy. T. K. Ramamoorthy is elder to M. S. Viswanathan by seven years, but the placing of their names as Viswanathan-Ramamurthy was agreed upon by both parties on the advice of N. S. Krishnan. That was the beginning where since then both composed several hundred songs together.
On 16 June 1963, at a special function M. S. Viswanathan and T. K. Ramamoorthy were each given the title of Mellisai Mannar. It was granted by Sivaji Ganesan at the Madras Triplicane Cultural Academy. The function was supported and facilitated by the Hindu Group of Publications, especially Mr. T. M. Ramachandran, Director C. V. Sridhar and Chitralaya Gobu. Collectively they were called Mellisai Mannargal (Kings Of The Light Music).[1]
References
- ^ "Why did Viswanathan and Ramamurthy break-up their". Tfmpage.com. Retrieved 2012-02-27.