Malayalam lyricist Girish Puthenchery is dead

Popular Malayalam film lyricist Girish Puthenchery, who suffered a brain haemorrhage Saturday, died at a private hospital here Wednesday. He was 48.

Puthenchery admitted to the hospital a week back, was on ventilator support and the end came at around 2125 hours on Wednesday. Rated on par with legendary lyricist P Bhaskaran and O N V Kurup, Puthenchery won the state award seven times for his lyrics in about 400 films in a over two decade career. Penning his first lyrics in 1990 for 'Enquiry' he became a household name for Keralites all over the world for his hit songs in blockbuster movies like 'Ravana Prabhu', 'Nandanam', 'Vadakkum Nathan' and 'Ore Kadal'

Girish was presently writing the script of a film called “Raman Police”.

The last rites are expected to take place near here Thursday.

Singer M.G. Sreekumar, who sang many songs written by Girish, said he has no words to describe the loss to the Malayalam film industry.