> > reminds me : KAMAL has written an excellent article on PANDYA > KUDAVARAI - kind of Prelude.. in varalaaru.com > > Seetharaman's Srivillputhur has comeout well.
Hi kotha mangalam subbu was the best ss vasan could manage after he lost kalki. subbu also seems to have been an untiring worker. so many film scripts , novels( under pen name kalaimani- including the mega hit thillana mohanambal) his crowning achievement seems to have been directing avvaiyar. on the movie avvaiyar: kalki and vasan fought a pitched batle over kalki's open letter to mahathma( in his third issue) kalki portrayed vikadan as a rat in a cartoon and vasan reciprocated with kalki as a housefly on the tail of the rat. ( kalk .eeee)
in kalki's last year of his life the two surprisingly became very close. somewhat like an intution. kalki even put vasans photo on the cover of his magazine. kalki spoke rather warmly in the avvaiyar movie function. vasan reciprocated saying 'I am what I am because I met kalki. but still he would not realease the copy right to kalki's works in anandavikadan till ten years after kalki died. always saying he wanted to start a book publishing department for vikadan. its come true now. venketesh
Hi So I remembered right !! I too had read it when it was serialised in Kalki when I was in
school. I remember the pics that Vinu (?) had created which were too good. Should try to
find a copy that is bound from Kalki to enjoy the pics.
BTW, Lavanya the published version of PS will not have many pics. Try to get a set that is bound by collecting from Kalki. You can try with lending libraries, I got mine from Easwari lending library (thanks to Palani) long back Shobha
Your explanation accepted, Mr Venkat. Now some more abt Subbu. Kindly try and read the Thillana Mohambal novel. It certainly drags towards the end but I had been told that it was so populkar at that time that ananda vikatan proprietor Vasan asked him to keep extending it - like a mega serial - if one wants to relate it to modern times. But the way he wrote, his style and the language, were simply superb. Anyone with interest in carnatic music and especially nadaswaram and bharata natyam should read this for the way he's eulogies both these art forms.
And the characterisation! I am sure those who read the novel and saw the film would have been disappointed. Varadan, the mridangam player for Mohanambal, virtually her big brother, did not come out well in the film version. But not many novels can be adopted well to the small or big screeens.
And the character of Savadal Vaithy! It has been developed from Mr Sampath which Gemini produced in Hindi adopted from their own Miss Malini in Tamil, I am told. Can anyone throw deeper insight into this?
Hi I can organise a meet with MR. viswanathan s/o of kothamangalam subbu sometime in chennai. we should do our homework and ask questions to clear up with him.
kothamangalam subbu had 3 wives I know. the third being sundaribai the comedianne. he wrote, acted, directed did all sorts of things. a very talented man.
but then tell me. doesnt r.k narayan come in when Mr. sampath was produced?
Dear Ramasamy I think that is an overstatement We respond to anything interesting in this forum... I totally agree with you ThillanaMohanabal novel was much gripping than the movie ...Though the charectors had evolved in the movie version I think the film maker retained the jist and produced a good movie..
I must state that book didnt entice me read it again and again like Kalki Sandilyan Akilan and Sujathas
The only other bit which I didnt kind of like was the Charector SS keepping on doubting mohana till the end...
The book travells across the seas aswell isnt it goes to Ceylon and even england which was all not in the Movie