{"id":38278,"date":"2015-07-14T20:17:49","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T10:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=38278"},"modified":"2015-07-14T20:17:49","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T10:47:49","slug":"vale-m-s-viswanathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2015\/07\/14\/vale-m-s-viswanathan\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; M. S. Viswanathan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38279\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38279\" style=\"width: 392px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38279\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/phojSOahbhcji.jpg\" alt=\"M.S. Viswanathan - 1928-2015\" width=\"392\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/phojSOahbhcji.jpg 392w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/phojSOahbhcji-273x300.jpg 273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38279\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">M.S. Viswanathan &#8211; 1928-2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Legendary Indian composer, Manayangath Subramanian Viswanathan, has passed away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Known as MS Viswanathan, or colloquially as MSV, Mr Viswanathan is a hugely prolific composer and film scorer who worked within the Kollyood film industry (part of the Indian Tamil-speaking culture), as well as with Malay, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi ethnic groups. His filmography lists over <em>1200 films<\/em> that were touched by his remarkable talent, from 1952&#8217;s <em>Panam<\/em> (directed by NS Krishman), to his most recent, 2013&#8217;s <em>Suvadugal<\/em>. Not only did he compose film scores, but also <em>over 200 songs<\/em> for film and radio, and he was an accomplished singer as well as a performer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Viswanathan passed away on July 14th, aged 87.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A more detailed obituary can be read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/tamil-nadu\/veteran-music-composer-ms-viswanathan-dead\/article7420180.ece\">here at The Hindu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legendary Indian composer, Manayangath Subramanian Viswanathan, has passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":38279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/phojSOahbhcji.jpg",392,430,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/phojSOahbhcji-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/phojSOahbhcji-273x300.jpg",273,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/phojSOahbhcji.jpg",392,430,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/phojSOahbhcji.jpg",392,430,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/phojSOahbhcji.jpg",392,430,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/phojSOahbhcji.jpg",392,430,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/phojSOahbhcji.jpg",392,430,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/phojSOahbhcji.jpg",310,340,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/phojSOahbhcji.jpg",22,24,false],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/phojSOahbhcji.jpg",44,48,false],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/phojSOahbhcji.jpg",88,96,false],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/phojSOahbhcji.jpg",137,150,false],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/phojSOahbhcji.jpg",273,300,false],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/phojSOahbhcji.jpg",166,182,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}