Best Lyricist

Millions throughout the world are linked together in this forum through their love for Tamil songs. What are songs if not sheer poetry. Tamil Filmdom has produced just not lyricists (paadalaasariyar) but amazing poets (kavignar) too.

When talking about lyrics, we cannot forget the first name that comes to our mind - Kannadhasan! He has set a standard so high that even today, lyricists are struggling to meet his standard - which is delivering thoughts in a ordinary layman manner.
In fact many songs written by Kannadasan have acquired literary status.

Even immortal works of poets such as Bharathiyar and Bharathidasan have been given life by our film maestros.

But old songs does not end with Kannadhasan. In fact, the very first lyricist for Tamil film was Madhurakavi Bhaskaradas. Many others have places in history including Pattukottai Kalyana Sundaram, Papanasam Sivan. Kalaignar Karunanidhi, Maruthakasi, Aalangudi Somu, Panju Arunasalam, Pulamai Pithan, Gangai Amaran, etc.

Even now, there is no lack of lyricists, the more popular being Vaali, Vairamuthu, Muthulingam, Mu Metha, Arivumathi, Pazhani Bharathi, Pa Vijay, Na Muthukumar, Thamarai, etc.

With so many lyricists and thousands of songs, who will be the Lyricist of the year?