A second motion to defer the scheme and refer it to a committee of experts was moved by K.R Viswanatham.
Viswanathan Anand | M. S. Viswanathan | Radha Viswanathan | K. R. Viswanathan | G. Viswanathan |
When N. S. Krishnan offered an opportunity to M. S. Viswanathan and T. K. Ramamoorthy to compose music for Panam (1952) for Madras Pictures, GKV became a part of their troupe.
Other films had music by other well-known composers – Devarajan, A. T. Ummer, Salil Chowdhury, Shyam, Johnson and M. S. Viswanathan.
He has done playback singing for 500 songs composed by himself and has sung over 200 songs of composed by music directors like V. Kumar, Sankar Ganesh, Ilaiyaraaja, Gangai Amaran, Deva, Bharathwaj, A. R. Rahman, Yuvan Shankar Raja.
G. Viswanathan (born 1938), founder and chancellor of VIT University in India