His songs gave primary importance to lyrics, an important attribute that made the songs stand out time. He is known as one of the very few to bring the purity of classical music into the masses. He also composed music for actress Hema Malini's tv serial Noopur along with composers K. He is clearly the director with the most number of musical chart busters in more than 60 years of Telugu music and most of his movies went on to create box-office records as he was a part of the best technical teams of highly successful directors as Adurthi Subba Rao, K. Viswanath including the multiple national award winning Sankaraabharanam. He produced many hit songs collaborating with legendary directors K. His most famous compositions in Telugu were in the movies directed by K Viswanath like Sankarabharanam, Saptapadi, Sirivennela, Chelleli Kapuram, Jeevana Jyothi, Swathi Kiranam. That one song is enough to know about KV Mahadevan's musical talent. His one of the best compositions is ' Mannavan vanthaanadi' song from the film Thiruvarutselvar. Some of the famous Tamil movies for which he composed include Thiruvarutselvar, Adimai Penn, Thiruvilayadal, Vaanampadi, Thillaana Moganambal, Kandhan Karunai, Muthalali. The special features of his compositions were: giving primary importance to lyrics and composing music that is perfectly suited to lyrics always keeping a base in the Carnatic music systems and giving independence to singers and other assistants to freely contribute ideas for improving his compositions. During this period he scored music for about 250 Tamil, Telugu films. His last film was Swathi Kiranam in 1992. Health reasons hastened the end of his career in the mid- nineties. Ramamoorthy, KVM has scored music for over 600 films, spanning four decades, after starting his career in the 1950s with Avan Amaran.

Krishnankoil Venkatachalam Mahadevan was a South Indian music composer.Ī contemporary of MS. Many music directors have gone internationally. Here are the music directors who made an important mark in this industry from its early stage till now. Many music directors come and go in this industry from its early stage till now some music directors make a mark in tamil film industry. Even today there are many upcoming music directors in this industry. There have been many music directors in tamil cinema from its early stage till date.

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