Kalamandalam Haridas (15 September 1946 – 17 September 2005) was a renowned Indian Kathakali musician noted for his evocative rendition of the padams, or playback songs for the characters in the classical Kerala dance-drama. A decade later, in 1978, Haridas fulfilled his ambition to get back to his home state for good when he was offered the post of music teacher at Margi in Thiruvananthapuram, where he subsequently worked for three decades. Haridas died of an acute liver problem in a hospital in Thiruvananthapuram.