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Indian dance choreographer (1949-2013)

Not to be confused with Raghu Ram or Raghuram Rajan.

Raghuram (1 May 1949^{[citation needed]} – 30 November 2013) was an Indian dance choreographer, who choreographed more than a thousand songs in Indian films across various languages.^[1] He was born into a Tamil BrahminIyer family and is the grandson of actor Krishnaswami Subrahmanyam.

Career

Raghuram began learning Kathakali, aged five from prominent dance expert Guru Gopinath, and then in 1956, he switched to learning Bharata Natyam under dancer K. J. Sarasa. He learned dance along with J Jayalalithaa, with the pair both having their arangetram (debut) in 1960.^[2] He debut in movies as a child actor in a movie Padikkadha Medhai (1960).^[3] It was during a duet performance with Jayalalithaa that Raghuram was asked to assist dance director A.

K. Chopra for an M. G. Ramachandran movie. He then started out on his own in 1974 and went on