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{{infobox person
|name = Madhavan Nair
|birth_name = Thirunainar Kurichi Madhavan Nair
|birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1916|4|16}}
|birth_place = Thirunainar Kurichi, [[Colachel]], [[Travancore]]<br/><small>(now in [[Kanyakumari district]], [[Tamil Nadu]], India)</small>
|parents = Raman Nair, Narayani Pillai
|spouse = Ponnamma
|occupation = Lyricist, poet
|death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1965|4|1|1916|4|16}}
|death_place = [[Trivandrum]], [[Kerala]]
}}
'''Thirunainar Kurichi Madhavan Nair''' was an [[India]]n poet, novelist and lyricist. He was also an employee of Travancore Radio Station in [[Trivandrum]], which later got merged with [[All India Radio]]. He was very active in [[Malayalam film]]s from 1951 to 1965 and has written over 300 film songs of which most were hits.<ref>B. Vijayakumar (3 January 2009). [https://web.archive.org/web/20111008191937/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2009/01/03/stories/2009010353731300.htm "Harishchandra 1955"]. ''The Hindu''. Retrieved 3 May 2014.</ref><ref>{{cite news | first=B. | last=Vijayakumar | date=13 September 2008 | url=http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/09/13/stories/2008091353631300.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121108172832/http://www.hindu.com/mp/2008/09/13/stories/2008091353631300.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=8 November 2012 | work=[[The Hindu]] | title=Bhakta Kuchela 1961 | accessdate=30 November 2018 }}</ref> Thirunainar Kurichi and music director [[Brother Lakshmanan]] were a hit duo during the 1950s and 60s. Thirunainar Kurichi has also written numerous poems dramas and novels in the 1950s and 1960s.

Madhavan Nair was born at Thirunainarkurichi town near Velimala Murugan temple, which is around [[Colachel]] in [[Kanyakumari district]] of the present-day Tamil Nadu.

Born on 16 April 1916 to Raman Nair and Narayani Pillai, he lost his father at a very young age. After education in Trivandrum and at his native place he took up a job as a teacher at a school in [[Colachel]]. He married Ponnamma and has a daughter named Jayashree. The film producer [[P. Subramaniam]] was his close friend and so the poet was the lyricist for the movies made in Subramaniam's [[Merryland Studios]]. His novel Maina was made into a Malayalam film ''Kattumaina''. A writer of good novels like Paricharika, Pension Kunnu, Maina, Grama Seema, Kadamakalkkuvendi, Sarva Sakshi, Cheriya Valiyavan and Mayadevi, he is more famous as a poet. His famous songs include "Athmavidyalayame" from Harishchandra (1955) and "Ishwara Chinthaithonne Manujanu" from Bhakta Kuchela (1961). Most of his songs were tuned by Br. Lakshmanan and sung by [[Kamukara Purushothaman]]. He died aged 49 at [[Trivandrum Medical College]] on 1 April 1965. The cause of his death was [[cancer]].

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