A Very great loss to Tamil literature, a very great loss to cine field, great loss to other writers, millions of fans all over the world. I pray to God to make his soul rest in peace. He has lived his life greatly.
Before his recent surgecy, I had a very very small meeting with him, regarding the the complicity of EVM. But the talk went to his novels. So impressive was his reply to my one question about the response to his novels:
The answer was about Barnard Shaw. When Bernard Shaw wanted to know the response about his novel, he sent a post card to his publishers.
The card had only one word like this : "?" Publisher replied like this : "!! "
A smile from "Sujatha" was enough to fill thousand words.
Everyone thinks of changing the name 'Robot'-Rajni's new film by Shankar,because its not a tamil name and may create unnecessary political issues.... Suddenly this idea came to my mind that they can rename it as 'SUJATHA'.....Later shankar can think how to justify the name with the storyline..... Because sujatha was the backbone of shankar in his all films...even for mani ratnam in earlier days..... It will be the right honor for a great writer.... Let us raise our voice for this in the media....
Sujatha wrote dialogues in Hindi also. He wrote Hindi dialogs for Dil Se. Dil Se is also one of his novel. Kannada movie Pallavi Anu Pallavi is his Novel. Kannada Actor cum movie maker Ananth Nag is good friend of sujatha and made few movies out of Sujatha's novels.
sujatha is someone whom people like me touching half a century grew up with. He was a powerful writer who used simple tamil prose and a racy style could easily bring to life his characters whether it is Ganesh the sober lawyer or his flamboyant assistant vasanth in the perry mason type detective stories or the numerous characaters from future he created for his sci fi novels. Kasalavil oru ulagam was truly the first science primer for all bringing the future to the present generation. His social novels dealing with sex, teenage pangs, love triangles, quadrangles etc., area class of their own and there are not many of genre who could for instance describe a plane taking off the way he did or his imagination that the ancient tamil script would be used by future terrorists for secrecy or the stink and serenity of srirangam streets....there is so much he wrote and so much he made us imagine. Great guy, we will sourly miss. The tribute could be to translate his stories in languages to distribute to mores!
He was a genius and an unassuming bloke.. One of the rare talented persons who gave up a lucrative job and took up to writing short stories and serials in tamil magazines. Could write about any subject under the sun. In fact I remember that he had written in one of his science fiction stories about nano technology some 2 decades ago! May his soul rest in peace.
RE:Sujatha
by Hemachandar RS on Feb 28, 2008 03:20 PM Permalink
STORY NAME IS 'KOLAI UDIR KAALAM" optical story talks about OPTICAL WORK. really rare. but that's all . aall over.
Deeply saddened to hear this news.Was all time favourite writer of the younger generation and also to the young at heart.Brings back nostalgic memories of teenage when we used to look forward every week for his stories to appear in the magazines.May god bless his soul and heartfelt condolences to his family and fans.
Its a irreparable loss to tamil literature world. Even a ordinary person can understands his writing and he is an extraordinary simple person. He made enormous contributions to scientific tamil research and never proclaimed for it. His dialogues in the films will reflect problems faced by the society and nation. May his soul rest in peace.
