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Jun 26, 2012, 8:17:52 PM (12 years ago)

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+'''A. P. Nagarajan'''
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+Tamil director and scenarist. Considered one of
+the pioneering new generation of scenarists in
+the mid-50s in context of the anti-religious
+thrust of the DMK Film. Playwright and actor
+associated with the TKS Brothers; début in
+film adapting the play Nalvar into a script
+(1953; he also acted in the film). Like the DMK
+writers and directors, he tried to go beyond
+what film-maker and critic K. Hariharan calls
+the ‘Therukoothu vaudeville’. A crucial political
+shift, accompanying the forming of the
+Thamizharasu Party, which rejected the DMK’s
+emphasis on atheism, informs his revival of the
+discredited mythological genre with K. Somu’s
+hit Sampoorna Ramayanam (1958) which
+Nagarajan scripted. The film had a major
+impact on Sivaji Ganesan’s political career,
+helping the star to overcome his earlier
+association with the atheist DMK. Also edited
+the Thamizharasu journal Sattai. Started his
+own production company with actor V.K.
+Ramaswamy, scripting and producing Somu’s
+Nalla Idathu Sambandham (1958). His early
+films as director are melodramas often
+bewailing, like the DMK films, the loss of
+‘tradition’ and the ‘decadence’ of modern times.
+e.g. in Navarathri, a woman runs away from
+home and meets nine different men on nine
+consecutive nights, apparently experiencing
+each of the nine rasas of Indian aesthetic
+theory in the process; in Vaa Raja Vaa, a boy
+ekes out a living as a tourist guide in
+Mahabalipuram; Thillana Mohanambal, one
+of his bigger hits, is set in Thanjavur and
+features a dancer and musician. Best known for
+a series of 60s mythologicals: Thiruvillaiyadal,
+Saraswathi Sabatham, Kandan Karunai,
+Thirumal Perumai, etc., reinvoking the stagederived
+conventions he had earlier opposed,
+mobilising their kitschy inventiveness as in
+Saraswathi Sabatham where Shiva is dressed
+as a Greek general, and hiring retired stage
+actors from the 50s. His films often starred
+Ganesan.
+
+
+'''FILMOGRAPHY:''' 1962: Vadivukku Valai
+Kappu; 1963: Kulamagal Radhai; 1964:
+Navarathri; 1965: Thiruvillaiyadal; 1966:
+Saraswathi Sabatham; 1967: Kandan
+Karunai; Seeta; Thiruvarut Selvar; 1968:
+Thillana Mohanambal; Thirumal Perumai;
+1969: Gurudakshinai; Vaa Raja Vaa; 1970:
+Thirumalai Thenkumari; Vilayattu Pillai;
+1971: Kankatchi; 1972: Agathiar; Tirupati
+Kanyakumari Yatra; 1973: Karaikkal
+Ammaiyar; Raja Raja Chozhan; Thirumalai
+Daivam; 1974: Gumastavin Magal; 1975:
+Melnattu Marumagal; 1977: Navarathnam;
+Shri Krishna Leela.
+
+[[Director]]
+
+[[Writer]]