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Deva, veteran music composer, passes away | Funeral live updates
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Thenisai Thendral Deva was 75 and breathed his last at a private hospital here, sources said.

Updated - October 17, 2026 12:53 pm IST

MADURAI, TAMIL NADU, 19/07/2017: Music director Deva during the interview with The Hindu Metroplus
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MADURAI, TAMIL NADU, 19/07/2017: Music director Deva during the interview with The Hindu Metroplus | Photo Credit: The Hindu

Tamil film music composer Deva, who brought gaana music into mainstream cinema and whose songs and background scores for Rajinikanth-starrers such as Annamalai, Arunachalam and Baashha became hugely popular, died on Saturday (October 17, 2026), aged 75. Hospital sources said he had no pulse when he arrived and that efforts to revive him remained futile.

Also Read : Composer Deva: the monarch of Gaana music

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