“Many just ask me
what film I am planning to make in future. But it is paining that there are
hardly anyone, who want to know what book I am going to write next” rued
Thangar Bachan in his address at a meeting on Sunday organized by Naaivaal
Thiraipada Iyakkam, a city-based movement for good cinemas.
Before becoming a
popular cinematographer, film director and actor, Thangar Bachan was an author of
a number of books Vellai Maadu, Kudi
Munthiri and Isaikaatha Isaithattu, which are his short story collections.
He has also written the novels Onbathu
Roobai Nottu and Ammavin Kaipesi,
based on which he made two films on the same titles.
“The popularity of
cheap commercial Tamil movies in the state is all due to the people that have
little sense and taste for good cinema” rued Thangar.
Though the world of
Tamil cinema has completed 100 years now, the film maker worried that people’s
taste for films has not been changed.
“We are still
enjoying the same commercial movies, which are deliberate entertainers with
their songs and dances on the silver screen” he said.
An ardent reader of
books by well-known novelists Ki. Rajanarayanan and Nanjil Nadan, Thangar said
that people, who have little sense for literature, cannot develop a taste for
good cinema.
Introducing the film
director’s latest book ‘Thangar Bachan
Kathaikal’ at the function, Tirupur –based novelist Subrabarathimanian
said:
“Thangar Bachan,
being a writer, has inspired a great number of viewers to by his gripping scene
portrayals in his films Azhagi,
Pallikoodam and Onbathu Roobai Nottu”
Introducing the
history of Tamil fiction literature from the Manikodi movement, named after the Tamil literary magazine Manikodi in the early 1930s to the
contemporary period, writer and literary critic Gowthama Siddharthan pointed
out:
“Thangar Bachan’s
love for visuals can be felt in his writings, as he employs his cinematographic
techniques there too by viewing different events in different angles. His short
story Vellai Maadu can be listed as
one of the best short stories in the world” he averred.
Estimating the film
maker’s short stories, writer, publisher and Tamil Nadu state vice-president of
People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), Gana
Kurinji, said:
“Almost all the short
stories in the book Thangar Bachan Kathaikal
imply death as a messenger to liberate the ailing souls from the pangs of
earthly life. They remind me the famous poem ‘Because I could not stop for
death’ by the American poetess Emily Dickinson”
Well known writer and
columnist Pamaran said:
“Like his films,
Thangar’s writings too reflect the lives of people from the marginal section
very naturally”
Sahitya Akademy award
winning writer Nanjil Nadan, based on whose novel Thalaikeezh Vikithangal, Thangar Bachan made his film Solla Marantha Kathai, pointed out:
“ The vocabulary used
by Thangar Bachan in his short stories and novels, cannot be found even in
Tamil lexicons and thesauruses, as they are from the real lives of his characters”
Link to my article in The New Indian Express: http://epaper.newindianexpress.com/c/2385635
Link to my article in The New Indian Express: http://epaper.newindianexpress.com/c/2385635
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