Girish Puthencherry

Gireesh Puthenchery was a Noted Malayalam lyricist, poet, scriptwriter and screenwriter. He was referred to as the aristocratic Lyricist of Malayalam who had a distinctive writing style of his own.He was the former director of Indian Performance Rights Society Malayalam division (IPRS) and governing council member of the Kerala Kalamandalam and kerala Lalithakala Academy. He won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Lyricist in seven times. he is also popular for writing the highest number of songs in the Malayalam film industry within the briefest period of time. in the past two decades he was worked with almost all major music composers in India. most of his hit songs are with music director Vidyasagar. He died on 10 February 2010 in a private hospital in Kozhikode.