Sujatha's Influence

1986 that was the year Kamal Hassan’s movie Vikram released. So what? There is something to share and remember. Here it goes.

Saw this movie 3 times on a single day at my neighbor’s house when I was nine year old then - never felt shy / hesitant sitting through out the day at some one’s house. After that 6 times on various occasions. That adds ups to total 9 times - too crazy?!

If not wrong, perhaps this was the first Tamil movie to introduce Tamil audiences to events happening outside of their homeland and deviate from the routine. Like this there are more to stand first in this movie.

1. The title score of the movie was first tried in Tamil movie (Jackie Chan style?)
2. The freak-out style of Sugirtharaja’s missile (Agni Putran) hijack,
3. Amjad Khan’s gigantic appearance,
4. Eli Koil,
5. Illayaraja’s back ground score, initial musical note of meendum meendum va song
6. High Tech story line - during 80's
7. Story of this film written by Sujatha (Rangarajan). This was the first story which he wrote for Kamal.
…….the list goes

Every thing was first tried in this movie.

There is a reason to mention the name of Sujatha, Tamil novelist here.

Never had reading as my habit - any novel or article till my 25th year. Till then , I just used to give focus on movie reviews,jokes and related things. Then,it just started with reading articles and novels written by Sujatha. Since then,buying books and collecting his write ups becomes usual things.

I met him thrice personally when I visited Annual Book Exhibition, where he was a regular and most popular guest.
Got some of his novels autographed by him.
Captured his photo when he was relaxingly sitting in front of one of the stalls.

If I just think back refreshing my memory lane,the influence of Sujatha’s must have gripped when I was at 9 ??!!