High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! V. Dakshinamoorthy (born 22 December 1919) is a veteran carnatic musician and music director of Malayalam, Tamil and Hindi films, predominantly in Malayalam films. He has set scores for the songs in over 125 films. He is now retired from film music direction but is still active in classical music. He has to his credit as many as 859 songs composed over a period of 50 years.