Velappan Nair, popularly known as Pukazhenthi (1929 September 27 - 2005 February 27) was an India

India

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n music director

Music director

A music director may be the director of an orchestra, the director of music for a film, the director of music at a radio station, the head of the music department in a school, the co-ordinator of the musical ensembles in a university or college , the head bandmaster of a military band, the head...

 of Malayalam, Tamil and Telegu films.

Biography

Pukazhenthi was born on 27 September 1929, in Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram

Thiruvananthapuram , formerly known as Trivandrum, is the capital of the Indian state of Kerala and the headquarters of the Thiruvananthapuram District. It is located on the west coast of India near the extreme south of the mainland...

, to Keshapillai and Janaki Amma. He did his schooling at V. M. School, Chala. He adopted the name of the famous Tamil poet Pukazhenthi on starting his career as a music director. He started his career as a music director scoring music for the songs of the Tamil play Thozhan. His guru M. P. Sivam (M. Parameswaran Nair) introduced him to music director K. V. Mahadevan

K. V. Mahadevan

Krishnankoil Venkatachalam Mahadevan was a South Indian music composer.-Career:K.V.Mahadevan was born in Tamil Iyer family in 1918 in Krishnancoil, Kanyakumari district. A contemporary of M. S. Viswanathan, T. K. Ramamoorthy, KVM has scored music for over 600 films, spanning four decades, after...

, which was a turning point in his career. Pukezhenthi worked as Mahadevan's associate in 250 films in Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. After scoring music for a few Tamil films, Pukazhenthi debuted in Malayalam with Muthalali

Muthalali

Muthalali is a 1965 Malayalam language film directed by M. A. V. Rajendran. It stars Prem Nazir, Adoor Bhasi and Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair...

 (1965). Within a career spanning more than 15 years, he scored just 12 films in Malayalam, but most of them had several evergreen songs. He also scored a few Tamil and Telegu films, and some devotional songs in all the four South Indian languages. His last work came in 1995.

Filmography

Malayalam

• Muthalali
  Muthalali
  Muthalali is a 1965 Malayalam language film directed by M. A. V. Rajendran. It stars Prem Nazir, Adoor Bhasi and Thikkurissy Sukumaran Nair...
  
   (1965)
• Bhagyamudra
  Bhagyamudra
  Bhagyamudra is a 1968 Malayalam language film written by S. L. Puram Sadanandan and directed by M. A. V. Rajendran. It stars Prem Nazeer, Meena Kumari, Adoor Bhasi, Muthukulam Raghavan Pillai, Manavalan Joseph, Kottayam Shantha, Kalavathi, G. K. Pillai, K. R. Vijaya, Sukumari, C. R. Lakshmy, Devaki...
  
   (1967)
• Vilakuranja Manushyar (1969)
• Kochaniyathi (1971)
• Moonnu Pookkal (1971)
• Vithukal
  Vithukal
  Vithukal is a 1971 Malayalam language film directed by P. Bhaskaran. It stars Madhu, Sheela, K. P. Ummer, Sankaradi, Adoor Bhasi and Govindankutty....
  
   (1971)
• Snehadeepame Mizhi Thurakku (1972)
• Rakkuyil (1973)
• Kalyana Sougandhikam (1975)
• Agniparvatham (1979)
• Arayannam (1981)
• Hima Nandini (1995)

Tamil

• Selviyin Selvan (1968)
• Gurudakshinai (1969)