Chidambaram Sundaram Jayaraman or C. S. Jayaraman (

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: சி. எஸ். ஜெயராமன்) (January 6, 1917 – January 29, 1995) was a noted actor, music director and a successful playback singer, whose numerous songs were featured in many

films between the 1940s and 1970s.

Early life

Jayaraman hailed from the temple town

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and his father was the noted traditional Tamil music vocalist Sundaram Pillai. Jayaraman was a brother in law of M. Karunanidhi, then the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, India. It was through the courtesy of Jayaraman, who had solicited a movie-industry career to Karunanidhi as a good script writer to the senior script writer-cum-director Arul Soosai Arokiya Sami, popularly known as

A. S. A. Sami Arul Soosai Anthony Sami (1915–1998) also written as A. S. A. Samy, was an Indian director and screenwriter who worked in Tamil cinema, Tamil films. Early life Born in 1915, A. S. A. Samy was from a devout Catholic family. His father had ...

. M. Karunanidhi entered the Tamil movie world in 1947 in the A. S. A. Sami directed movie '' Rajakumari'', which starred

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in the hero role.

Career life

Jayaraman was born on 6 January 1917. He had begun acting in Tamil movies in 1934. The names of movies he had starred in include ''Krishna Leela'' (1934), ''Bhakta Duruvan'' (1935), ''Nalla Thangaal'' (1935), ''Leelavathi Sulochana'' (1936), ''Izhantha Kaadhal'' (1941), ''

Poompaavai ''Poompavai'' () is a 1944 Indian Tamil language, Tamil-language film directed by T. Balaji Singh and the duo Krishnan–Panju in the latter's directorial debut. Produced under the banner of Leo Films, it features K. R. Ramasamy (actor), K. R. R ...

'' (1944) and '' Krishna Bakthi'' (1948). In addition, he was the sole music director for the Tamil movies ''Udayanan Vaasavathatha'' (1946) and ''

Ratha Kanneer ''Ratha Kanneer'' () is a 1954 Indian Tamil-language drama film directed by Krishnan–Panju, and written by Tiruvarur K. Thangaraj. Based on Thangaraj's play of the same name, the film stars M. R. Radha, Sriranjani and S. S. Rajendran, with ...

'' (1954). For two movies, ''

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'' (1950) and ''

Krishna Vijayam ''Krishna Vijayam'' () is a 1950 Indian Tamil language film written and directed by Sundar Rao Nadkarni. The film featured Carnatic music singer N. C. Vasanthakokilam in the role of Narada. The film, based on the Epic story of Krishna avatar, fe ...

'' (1950), he functioned as a co-music director as well. Jayaraman's gifted tremolo voice and his enunciation of Tamil words had a mystic charm and grace, to the point that he had the title "Tamil Isai Chittar" (

: தமிழ் இசை சித்தர்), which reads as Tamil Music Mystic. Jayaraman also had sung a number of songs in Kannada. One of his Kannada songs, , from ''Bedara Kannappa'' starring ''Rajkumar'', became a huge hit and is played even today. Jayaraman is one of those singers who have performed full-fledged

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concerts. Jayaraman died on 29 January 1995.

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