‘Fate snatched him away before he could win a third award’

Veteran lyricist Vairamuthu recalls Na. Muthukumar the artist 'who discovered excellence in death.' 

Destiny has grabbed far from us a lyricist who dug profound into writing. The passing of Na. Muthukumar is unforeseen and I can't hold up under the news as his family. 

The Tamil film world has seen just a couple of lyricists who had a graduate degree in Tamil. After artist Na. Kamarasan and me, he was the principal postgraduate in Tamil who entered the film world. In a limited ability to focus, composed numerous melodies. In the life of an author, the forties is a period that witnesses a move from feeling to insightfulness. The demise of Muthukumar at 41 lets us know that imaginative authors don't pay consideration on their wellbeing. This is not an age to bite the dust, but rather a period of accomplishment. He had effectively won two national grants. Destiny has grabbed him from us before he could win a third honor. 

In the most recent couple of years, Muthukumar had composed the most number of melodies in Tamil filmdom. His lyrics overflowed with feel. He composed: "Mazhai mattuma azhagu; Veyil koodathan azhagu (Is it the downpour alone that is lovely? The hot beams of the sun are additionally delightful). However, all things considered, he appears to have demonstrated that 'Vaazhvu mattuma azhagu; Maranam koodathan azhagu' (Is it life alone that is excellent? Demise is likewise excellent). 

It might be my eagerness that I expect the Tamil verse custom to grow like a plantain, yet I am loaded with distress that a youthful sapling has been evacuated. A decent tune needs to reach an end before we can listen to its last lines. 

I once got some information about his local spot. He let me know that he was from Kancheepuram. I let him know that (DMK organizer) Annadurai himself exemplified Kancheepuram. When he took an interest in the verse perusing session at the World Classical Tamil Conference in Coimbatore in 2010, I presented him by saying "Demonstrate that you are from Kancheepuram". 

Today, demise has changed over his hush into verse. His tunes will keep on singing his enormity. I express my sympathy to his family and the film world. I repeat that equity has no spot in the court of death. 

(As advised by the veteran lyricist to B. Kolappan)