malayalam film music

Music is an integral part of malayalam films. The songs are usually composed or set to music by film music directors (devarajan, dakshinamurthy, raveendran, m b sreenivasan, m k arjunan, baburaj, ilayaraja, deva, m jayachandran, m g radhakrishnan, r k sekhar, johnson, bombay ravi, rex vijayan, alphose, deepak dev, m g sreekumar, johnson,).

The songs are written by lyricists (sreekumaran thampi, kaithapuram damodaran nampoothiri, girish puthencherry, poovachal khader, bichu tirumala, vayalar sarath chandra varma) or poets ( Vayalar, O N V kurup, P Bhaskaran, kavalam narayana panicker) and
sung by male play back singers ( Yesudas, jayachandran, kamukara purushothaman, Manna dey, baburaj, Vineeth sreenivasan, G venugopal, Unnimenon, vijay yesudas, hariharan, ).
or female playback singers like ( s janaki | p susheela | vani jayaram | p leela | k s chitra , sujatha , sreya groshal, rimi tomy, manjeri, jyotsna)
Ocassionally some movie stars have given a shot at singing malayalam film songs ( prithviraj, mohanlal, manoj K jayan, balachandra menon, vineth srinivasan)

A music band called avial has scored music for some films in malayalam like salt and pepper

Yesudas- vayalar - devarajan songs