Aaroor Dass

Dass was born on 10 September 1931 to Sathyagu and Arockiya Mary as Yesudas at Thiruvarur, Nagapattinam. He had three younger brothers and three younger sisters. Aaroor Dass attend Thiruvarur Jilla Board Higher Secondary School. Aaroor refers to Thiruvarur. He lives near the Pavithra Manickam in Thiruvarur District.

Dass married Baby, the couple had 4 children; 3 daughters Thara, Aasha and Usha and a son Ravichandran. Now he lives in Nathamuni Street in T. Nagar in Chennai.[4]

Dass started his career as an assistant to Thanjai N. Ramaiah Dass in 1955 and assisted in writing the dialogues for the film called Naattiya Thara.[7] He has said that he named his first child as Arokyamary and also gave a pet name, Thara Devi in remembrance of this film.[8][9] He wrote his debut film as Vaazha Vaitha Deivam (1959) produced by Sandow M. M. A. Chinnappa Thevar. Then, He wrote next film for Sivaji Ganesan's Pasamalar (1961) and continued to write for the thespian in 28 films. When he wrote Pasamalar, Das was 28 years, Sivji Ganesan was 32 and Savitri was 24. He wrote for nearly the same number of M. G. Ramachandran too (including a few that were not released). Dass worked with many top class director of yesteryears, likes A. Bhimsingh, A. C. Tirulokchandar, M. A. Thirumugam and many others. He was associate director under Tirulokchandar and Dever films. He has written stage plays Like Thirisoolam and Jenma Thandanai.