A. G. Rathnamala

A. G. Rathnamala
Birth name	A. G. Rathnamala Tamil: ஏ. ஜி. ரத்தினமாலா
Born	c. 1931 Madras Presidency, British India
Died	03 July 2007 (aged 76) Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Genres	Film music (playback singing)
Occupation(s)	Singer, Actor
Instruments	Vocalist
Years active	1950–1964

A. G. Rathnamala (Tamil: ஏ. ஜி. ரத்தினமாலா) is an Indian stage drama artist and playback singer who has recorded over 500 songs in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada language films.

When she was in the drama troupe of M. G. Ramachandran, she acted as his pair of in the drama named Inba Kanavu. Apart from this she acted acted along with T. R. Mahalingam in the drama Or Iravu. She was also acted with K. R. Ramaswamy's drama troupe.

En Thangai was based on T. S. Natarajan's play of the same name.Sivaji Ganesan is the hero in the stage drama and she performed as his younger sister. Later she joined Sivaji Ganesan;s drama troupe and enacted the role of Jakkamma in the drama Veerapandiya Kattbomman.

Many music directors gave her memorable songs, including K. V. Mahadevan, Viswanathan-Ramamoorthy, S. M. Subbaiah Naidu, C. R. Subburaman, C. N. Pandurangan, S. V. Venkatraman, R. Sudharsanam, T. R. Pappa, G. Govindarajulu Naidu, T. G. Lingappa, M. S. Viswanathan, S. Dakshinamurthi, K. N. Dandayudhapani Pillai, S. Rajeswara Rao, S. Hanumantha Rao, T. R. Ramanathan, R. Govardhanam, Vedha, H. R. Padmanabha Sastri, Pendyala Nageswara Rao, Ghantasala and M. S. Gnanamani.

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