Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Elangovan

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May 25, 2012, 12:40:39 PM (13 years ago)

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Parth

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+== Elangovan (1913-71) ==
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+Tamil script and dialogue writer in the 40s,
+originally named T.K. Thanikachalam. Début
+with Duncan’s seminal Ambikapathy (1937),
+followed by several story and script credits for
+films which established a new style in film
+melodrama: Raja Chandrasekhar’s Ashok
+Kumar (1941), R.S. Mani’s Kannagi (1942),
+Central Studios’ Sivakavi (1943), R.S. Mani’s
+Mahamaya (1944: some accounts credit him
+with direction as well), K. Subramanyam’s
+Gokula Dasi (1948), S.M. Sreeramulu Naidu’s
+Pavalakkodi (1949), and especially Ramnoth’s
+epic Ezhai Padum Padu (1950). Formerly
+associated with the journal Manikodi whose
+literary idiom he transferred to cinema (cf.
+Kannamba’s monologues in Kannagi). Critic
+and film-maker K. Hariharan writes: ‘ He
+breathed new fire into film dialogues [with] a
+passion quite removed from the standard
+mythologicals’ and quotes popular scenarist
+A.L. Narayanan as saying that Elangovan and P.
+Neelakantan, ‘were the first real screen writers
+in Tamil’. The literary scripting style was
+adopted later by e.g. A.S.A. Samy in Valmiki
+(1946) and S.D. Sundaram in Kanniyin Kathali
+(1949). it was also an important precursor of
+Annadurai’s later declamatory scripts. Wrote
+Raja Sandow’s Thiruneelakantar (1939), Raja
+Chandrasekhar’s Arundhati (1943), S. Nottani’s
+Inbavalli (1949), K.S. Gopalakrishnan’s
+Parijatham (1950) and many others.