Ennapadam Venkatarama Bhagavatar is a composer of merit. He was born in Ennapadam,Cochin area and he was a great harikatha expert having mastered narration in various languages like Sanskrit, Telugu,Kannada, Marathi etc. He traveled to different royalities of Tiruvnandapuram, Cochin, Mysore, Baroda etc. and showed his skill in Harikatha. He has created several new ragams also.He has composed “Krishna Ashtottara shata nama keerthanas” with 108 kritis in 108 ragas. His two kritis to be highlighted are Guham ashrayami- (ragam-Prakashini) and ‘Matanga mukham’-(ragam-Sumukhi).