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Nahla Nainar

YOU WONT BELIEVE: The town that made thyagaraja bhagavathar - What They Never Told You

M. K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar’s ‘samadhi’ in Tiruchi. (Source: M. Moorthy)
The Kuzhumiyanantha Swamy Temple played an important role in Thyagaraja Bhagavathar’s life. (Source: M. SRINATH)

Hushed birdsong mingles with the incongruous screeching of power tools at a cabinetry workshop in a yard at Sangliyandapuram, Tiruchi. Functioning both as a cemetery and industrial area for the Viswakarma Maha Jana Sabha, the yard is the final resting place of M.K. Thyagaraja Bhagavathar (MKT), one of Tamil cinema’s earliest and charismatic film stars.

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