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Career

Ramanan started his career by assisting his father

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, but later went to work as voice actor for radio and television industries while also directing several documentaries and television serials. He also directed a film called ''

Uruvangal Maralam ''Uruvangal Maralam'' () is a 1983 Indian Tamil-language drama film written, produced and directed by S. V. Ramanan who also composed the film's soundtrack. The film stars Y. G. Mahendran and Suhasini, with stars like Sivaji Ganesan, Kamal Haasa ...

'' (1983), and composed the music for ''Takkar Baby'', an unreleased film, alongside

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. Ramanan produced more than three hundred advertisement films and thousands of radio and television advertisement jingles under his advertisement agency Jayasree Pictures. He worked as a part-time director at the Chennai Film Education Institute when it started, and one of his commercials (True Energy) was honoured as the best production at the Chicago International Film Festival. He directed an interview of

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which aired on

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in 1995.

Personal life

See also: List of South Indian film families#Subramanyam_family Ramanan was married to Bama and had two daughters Lakshmi and Saraswathi. His grandsons

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and

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are a music composer and actor respectively. Ramanan's sister Padma Subrahmanyam is a

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dancer.

Filmography

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ramanan, S. V. 20th-century births 2022 deaths Indian film directors Indian radio personalities Tamil film directors Tamil film score composers Year of birth missing