Film Career
Shyam entered film industry as a music director for Tamil film Etrikal Jagrathai in 1968. During these time he also worked as assistant music director for Salil Choudhary, and he continued music direction for various hit Tamil films. It was Malayalam actress Sheela who introduced him in Malayalam for the film Manya Shree Vishwamitran directed by versatile Malayalam actor Madhu. The songs in the film became superhit, "Kettile Kottayathoru Mutha Pullachan" in the movie was an all time hit. Thus he became popular throughout Kerala. Since then he never had to look back and he started composing many films in Malayalam and other south Indian languages. His notable famous works are done in Malayalam films. He is some of the few composers in Mollywood who had worked in both Black&white as well as Colour films. He is considered as one of the best all time music directors in Malayalam film industry. Famous Tamil music director Harris Jayaraj's father S.M Jayakumar worked as his assistant for many years.
His work for the malayalam film Daisy was very well praised, all the songs in the film was all time chartbusters. His another notable works during his last active years are Nadodikattu, Nirakkoottu, New Delhi, Kanamarayathu'. He is also famous for creating film theme music and his theme music are popular even today. The 2009 Malayalam movie Sagar Alias Jacky Reloaded extracted the theme music from his movie Irupatham Noottandu.
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