Summary:
An engineer by training, Sreekumaran Thampi entered the film scene when Malayali sensibility was at the cusp of great transformations. Although Thampi made his mark in many fields, it is as a lyricist that he is most remembered and revered. Some of the all-time hit Malayalam film songs were penned by him. Thampi made his debut in film as a lyricist in 1966 in P.
Subramaniam’s Kattumallika, and as director in 1974 (Chandrakantham). They are seldom interested in any pyrotechinics of psychologism, but rather focus on the ups and downs of human life, the high and low of society, the lust and despair of human beings..