About Kavignar Thamarai Thamarai (Tamil: தாமரை) is a Tamil poet, lyricist, writer and former journalist. She is best known for writing lyrics for Tamil films only in Tamil language, often even in very purest Tamil.Career Thamarai graduated in Mechanical engineering and worked for six years in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India, where she hails from, before she, due to her passion for poetry, decided to move to Chennai, where she worked as a freelance journalist and wrote essays, stories and poems. Through her literary works, she became popular and got noticed, she happened to enter the Tamil film industry and got the opportunity to write lyrics for film songs. Director Seeman assigned her to write lyrics for a song for his Tamil film Iniyavale, the song "Thendral Enthan" for that film were the first film lyrics, she wrote. Subsequently, she became famous by writing lyrics for films like Unnidathil Ennai Koduthen ("Malligai Poove"), Thenali ("Injirango Injirango"), where she even worked together with music director A. R. Rahman and Minnale ("Vaseegara"), which is said to be the turning point and the peak in her career. After Minnale, the trio, comprising of director Gautham Menon and music director Harris Jayaraj teamed up several times again (Kaakha Kaakha, Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu, Pachaikili Muthucharam & Vaaranam Aayiram) and emerged as one the of the successful collaborations in the film field, until the break-up between Menon and Jayaraj happened. Since then, she is teaming up with A. R. Rahman, who replaced Jayaraj. Apart from Rahman, Jayaraj and Menon, Thamarai also worked together with other popular and noted film personalities, including music directors Yuvan Shankar Raja (Nandha, Pudhukottayilirundhu Saravanan, Bose, Perazhagan, Kanda Naal Mudhal & Kannamoochi Yenada), James Vasanthan (Subramaniyapuram & Pasanga) and directors Bala, A. R. Murugadoss, V. Priya and Sasikumar.