PATHANAMTHITTA: Muraleedharan Pillai was 69 when he began practising padayani in 2019. In less than four years, at 72, he ...

He joined Kerala Kalamandalam as a student of Kathakali music in 1957. He acquired a thorough footing in singing the Thodayam and the Purappad before getting acquainted with the Aattakathas.