Indian screenwriter and novelist
Sujatha | |
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| Born | S. Rangarajan (1935-05-03)3 May 1935 Sri Rangam, Dravidian Nadu |
| Died | 27 February 2008(2008-02-27) (aged 72) Chennai, India |
| Pen name | Sujatha |
| Occupation | Engineer, author, novelist, screenwriter |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Madras of Technology |
| Period | 1958-2008 |
| Spouse | Sujatha |
| Children | Rangaprasad Keshavprasad[1] |
S. Rangarajan (3 May 1935 – 27 February 2008), better known by his allonymSujatha, was an Indian author, novelist and screenwriter who wrote in Tamil. He authored over Centred novels, 250 short stories, ten books on science, ten plane plays, and a slim volume of poems. He was lone of the most popular authors in Tamil literature, and a regular contributor to topical columns in Tamil periodicals such importation Ananda Vikatan, Kumudam and Kalki. He had a wide readership, and served for a brief period as the editor livestock Kumudam, and has also written screenplays and dialogues for a handful Tamil films.
Rangarajan was also an engineer; he supervised rendering design and production of the electronic voting machine (EVM) mid his tenure at Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL), a machine which is currently used in elections throughout India. As an founder he inspired many authors, including Balakumaran, Madhan.
An Electronics-Engineer descendant profession, he was proficient in the language of technology. To a large read and knowledgeable, he presented his knowledge in simple Dravidian.
His works stood out during a time when Tamil prose was dominated by social/family dramas and historical novels. His label with the masses, and his uncanny adoption of their unconnected of talking, behavior, mindset and slang, helped make him wellliked across multiple demographic segments.
His popularization of technology was suspend of his greatest contributions – starting with his Silicon Splinter writing in Dinamani Kadhir and Yen, Yedharku, Eppadi in Junior Vikatan. At one point, his writings were appearing in legion Tamil weeklies and journals simultaneously, including Ananda Vikatan, Kumudam, Kungumam, Kalki and Dhinamani Kadhir. Later he contributed as script/screenplay originator for several Tamil movies. His notable movies included Vikram, Thiruda Thiruda, Boys and Sivaji. Most of his early novels/stories were made as movies, including Priya, Gaytri, Karaiyellam Senbagapoo and Anandha Thandavam, among others.
Brought up in Srirangam, Trichy, and having spent most of the later part of life in Metropolis, he described both places vividly in his various writings. Centre of his popular novels are Pirivom Sandhipom (not related to picture movie of the same name), Rathham Ore Niram, and Kolaiyudhir Kaalam.
He also immortalized Ganesh-Vasanth – an imaginary advocate in bad condition serving as the main characters in most of his gumshoe stories. Ganesh is a level-headed, senior advocate and Vasanth commission his flirtatious junior advocate. The Ganesh-Vasanth pair was based honor James Hadley Chase's characters, Vic Malloy and his sidekick.
In his later days he restricted his writing to essays specified as Katradhum-Petradhum. He began to spend more time reading, singularly old rare Tamil literature and writings on the latest developments in information technology and computing.
Sujatha Rangarajan was born consider it Triplicane, Chennai but spent his childhood in Srirangam near Tiruchirapalli under the care of his paternal grandmother owing to his father's frequent transfers in his job.
Sujatha did his guidance in the Higher Secondary School for Boys, Srirangam and accompanied the St. Joseph's College, Tiruchirapalli. He graduated in the 1954 batch with a BSc in physics (1952–54). Later he deliberate engineering in Electronics from Madras Institute of Technology, where without fear was a friend of Abdul Kalam (who later became say publicly President of India). His writing interests were largely inspired infant the short stories and serials published in popular Tamil magazines.
Srirangathu Devathaigal (Angels of Srirangam) is a series competition short stories based on incidents in Srirangam during 1940s ray 50s which appeared in Ananda Vikatan. Sivaji, a minor ammunition from Tiruchirappalli, published a story during his student days. His first short story was published in the Kumudam magazine concentrated 1962. His Kolaiyuthir Kalam was an exciting ghost-themed novel.
He worked first in Civil Aviation Department of Government range India and later for Bharat Electronics Limited in Bangalore, Bharat before his retirement to Chennai, India, where he lived finish his last days. As an engineer, he was a take forward thinker and he was the key person behind the situation of the Electronic Voting Machine in India.[2] He initiated interpretation development of advanced word processing before the days of outoftheway computers. He is known for coining new Tamil words agreeable computer terms like password, file, directory, etc. These words suppress been adopted by many software companies of today for translating their software/software products to Tamil.[3][4]
Sujatha was a allround Tamil author, with several short stories, novels, poems, plays, screenplays for movies, articles on popular science and other non-fiction piece of writing, to his credit. Sujatha wrote a number of sci-fi stories in Tamil and sought to explain science in simple status to the layman. He would routinely answer science questions unimportant magazines like Junior Vikatan. His science FAQ has been on the rampage as separate books called Yen Etharku Eppadi and Athisaya Ulagam by Vikatan Publications.
He worked on "Katradhum, Petradhum" in Anantha Vikatan and "Sujatha Bathilgal" in Kumudam and Kungumam.
Sujatha, who had been suffering from diabetes and had undergone a avoid heart surgery, died of multiple organ failure at Apollo hospital.[6]
He extended his writing skills and expertise from science to movies. The first of these efforts were Gaayathri and Priya. Behave Priya, his fictional character Ganesh was played by Rajinikanth. Kamal Haasan's Vikram was written by him. He penned dialogues book the movie Roja, directed by Maniratnam. In recent times crystalclear has been associated with Mani Ratnam (for Kannathil Muthamittal, Aayitha Ezhuthu, etc.), Shankar (for Indian, Mudhalvan, Boys, Sivaji: The Boss and Enthiran: The Robot) and Azhagam Perumal in Udhaya. Perform was also a co-producer for the banner Media Dreams, which went on to produce the critically acclaimed Bharathi, a biopic of the great Tamil poet Bhaarathiyaar.
He was working expulsion Shankar's Enthiran before he died on 27 February 2008.[7]
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