Legendary music composer Thenisai Thendral Deva, who scored over 400 films, dies at 75

• Tamil composer Deva died in Chennai on Saturday after a reported heart attack. He was 75.
Known as Thenisai Thendral, he scored more than 400 films in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada.
His best known work includes the music for Rajinikanth’s Annamalai and Baasha.
He is credited with bringing gaana, north Chennai’s working class street music, into mainstream cinema.

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