22 Facts About Madhan Karky

Madhan Karky Vairamuthu is an Indian lyricist, screenwriter, research associate, software engineer, and entrepreneur.

Madhan Karky resigned from his teaching profession in early 2013 and began working full-time in the film industry, while launching the Karky Research Foundation, an educational research organization which primarily focuses on language computing and language literacy.

Madhan Karky founded the Mellinam Education, which develops educational games and story books designed to propagate learning among children, and DooPaaDoo, an online music platform which promotes independent music and serves a distributor for film soundtracks.

Madhan Karky is the eldest son of seven-time National Award winning lyricist Vairamuthu and Ponmani, a Tamil scholar and veteran professor at the Meenakshi College for Women.

Madhan Karky has a younger brother, Kabilan, who is a novelist and works as a lyricist and dialogue writer for Tamil films.

Madhan Karky grew up in Chennai and was educated at the Loyala Matriculation School in Kodambakkam.

Madhan Karky began his undergraduate education in the field of Computer engineering in the year 1997.

Madhan Karky conducted class room tutorials and laboratory sessions on subjects such as Relational Database Systems and Programming Languages.

Madhan Karky's thesis is titled "Design considerations for query dissemination in wireless sensor networks".

Madhan Karky was a Senior Research Fellow for the next six months, managing research projects as well as multiple student projects at an undergrad and postgrad levels.

Madhan Karky lectured Computer Science students who were pursuing their Bachelors and master's degrees as well as coordinated the Tamil Computing Lab at the university.

Madhan Karky served as counsellor for NRI and foreign national students, as well as the Staff treasurer of Computer Science Engineering Association.

Madhan Karky's been married to Nandini Eswaramoorthy, a fellow alum at Anna University, since June 22,2008.

Madhan Karky had approached the director in 2008 with some of the songs he had written, and was brought him on board to help with the dialogues of the film, especially assisting with technical terminology.

Madhan Karky stated that there were three sets of dialogues written for almost every scene of the film; one by Shankar, one by Karky, and the other by the late Sujatha, a frequent collaborator with the director who had died during the early stages of the film's pre-production.

Madhan Karky's work is characterized by infusing uncommon Tamil words that aren't normally used in everyday lexicon, as part of lyrics.

Madhan Karky wrote the first palindrome song in Tamil cinema for the film Vinodhan.

Madhan Karky collaborated as a technical advisor with Shankar with 2.0.

Madhan Karky serves as the Research Head for the organization.

In November 2008, Madhan Karky founded the Mellinam Education and serves as its director.

Madhan Karky served as radio jockey for the show Big DooPaaDoo on the radio station Big FM 92.7, which aired on Saturdays between 6 and 9 PM.

Madhan Karky served as co-anchor with pianist Anil Srinivasan on the musical reality talk show Sundays with Anil and Madhan Karky, which aired on Zee Tamil HD for 13 episodes between December 2017 and April 2018.