Adithyan, born Titus on April 9, 1954, was an Indian film score composer, singer, and self-taught painter who predominantly worked in Tamil cinema. He began his music career as a sound designer before breaking into film composition with his debut score for the 1992 film Amaran, which produced the highly successful chart-busting singles “Vethala Potta” and “Chandirane Suriyane”. Over the next decade, Adithyan went on to compose music for over thirty films, including Seevalaperi Pandi in 1994, Lucky Man, Asuran, and Maaman Magal in 1995, and Kovilpatti Veeralakshmi in 2003. In addition to scoring, he sang several tracks for his own and other composers' films, and created numerous popular Tamil pop and remix albums released in India and Malaysia. Beyond his musical career, Adithyan hosted the television cooking show Aadithyan's Kitchen on Jaya TV for eight years, and his paintings were exhibited in several homes. Adithyan died of kidney disease at sixty-three years of age in Hyderabad, India, on December 5, 2017.
