Vijaya Naarasimha
Birth date16 January 1927
Birth placeHalebeedu, Pandavapura taluk, Mysore district, Kingdom of Mysore, British India (now Mandya district, Karnataka, India)
Death date31 October 2001 (aged 74)
Death placeBengaluru, India
OccupationLyricist
SpouseSaraswati
FamilyH. R. Shastry (brother)
Anu Prabhakar (great granddaughter)[1]

Vijaya Naarasimha (16 January 1927 – 31 October 2001) was an Indian lyricist who worked in Kannada cinema.

Career

Naarasimha's first Kannada film song was "Yee Dehadinda Dooranaade" (Oh soul, why did you depart this body) for the 1956 film Ohileshwara.[2] He worked with filmmaker Puttanna Kanagal and music director Vijaya Bhaskar.

He worked with major singers and music directors throughout the 1960s, 70s, and 80s, including on some Kannada films with Tamil actor Rajinikanth. His last film wasOdahuttidavaru. He wrote a Kannada song for a Tamil movie in M. G. Ramachandran's Nadodi Mannan (1958). He was always writing, despite having bad eyesight. According to his family, three days before his death, he was still writing devotional songs on Rama for a cassette. Other than nearly 4,000 film songs, he wrote three novels: Badukina Bairagi, Srimanchakrayana, and Sanjegempu, as well as Puttanna Kanagal's biography and lyrics for many devotional cassettes. His cassette Bhadrapada shuklada chauti sold a record number of copies.

Filmography

Select discography

References

  1. ^ ""ಗೆಜ್ಜೆ ಪೂಜೆ", "ಶರಪಂಜರ"ದಂಥ ಹಿಟ್ ಸಿನೆಮಾ ಮಾಡಿಯೂ ನಾಪತ್ತೆಯಾದ ಗಂಗಾಧರ್..| Cinema Swarasyagalu Part 57". Total Kannada. 3 September 2021. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
  2. ^ Mehu, Sowmya Aji (31 October 2001). "Lyricist Vijaya Narasimha is no more". The Times of India. Archived 4 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 27 November 2023.