Kamal Sujatha and Madan

When I was young, I had always thought, "why not I be a police inspector, a military man etc." It was the same case with most of the boy kids then. I am not sure about the kids now and had no idea about the girl kids ever. Its the fetish we possessed then for wearing a uniform. This desire was born from the Uniformed vijaykanth and sarathkumar of those days, added to which were a few english movies which we watched then without the slightest idea of what they spoke.

Personally, I used to watch the fight scenes in the films without a wink and was taken to heights of happiness and emotion with the "Dishyum" effect. Then came the time when we had the same old "dishyum" studded hearts, but liked movies like poove unakkaga,surya vamsam, kathal kotai, kaalamellam kadhal vaazhga,thullatha manamum thullum, kannedhire thondrinal etc.

Sure these movies kind of "nenja nakkified" everybody then(including me). I even had a weeks' crush on devayani, simran et al after seeing the movie then. I have even seen some songs sung in chorus by the audience in theater. S.A.Rajkumar and Deva take the credit for that. That was the time when vikraman and a few others came out of the same room in which, they had cried together for years to come up with a story.


Then my movie habits were restrained to some big movies only, owing to the kind of school I went to. Then through the college days, the interest in english movies developed, thanks to BSNL and my external disk. Now after watching some 500 movies in 2-3 years, I have grown to like the oldies for the richness in content with minimum resources. I have grown to appreciate the logic and the intellectual interjections of the directors. I have grown to like some people and worship some.

As rightly observed by my brother sometime back, I would place three people from the film and related fields in the same class of intellectuals. They are Kamal, Sujatha and Madan.

They have made a lot of difference to the films and literature I follow. So, have they affected many across the world. When I can find Lazygeek writing from the other side of the planet about sujatha, Ram Thiruvengadam (my college super senior) giving poses like Kamalhaasan from USA, and an entire generation relishing the Madan jokes, then I knew my brother spoke no nonsense.

If I had to write about sujatha, then it would take another post. So keep watching this page.