Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of K Balachander

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Apr 2, 2013, 2:25:06 AM (12 years ago)

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UshaR

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K Balachander

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 Adapted his own play for his directorial début, Neer Kumizhi. Was employed by the Kalakendra Films unit for some years, before becoming an independent producer with his own company Kavithalaya. Known as the most consistent manufacturer of morality tales usually reinforcing middle-class conservatism, e.g. the joint-family structure ([[Bhale Kodalu]]/[[Bhama Vijayam]]), widow remarriage (Aval Oru Thodarkathai), the plight of divorced women ([[Avargal]]), the dowry problem (Kalyana Agathigal), Gandhian values (Punnagai), miscarriages of justice (Major Chandrakant). His emphasis on the middle class, his sentimentalism and his practice of remaking his hits in other languages recall the [[L.V. Prasad]] style. Prasad produced his major Hindi hit, Ek Duuje Ke Liye, remaking his earlier Telugu success [[Maro Charithra]], both starring [[Kamalahasan]]. 
 
-Like Prasad, he created several Tamil stars, e.g. Kamalahasan, [[Rajnikant]], Sujata and S.V. Sekhar. Changed his idiom to make the political dramas [[Thanneer]] [[Thanneer]], based on [[Komal Swaminathan]]’s play, and his own story [[Achamillai]] [[Achamillai]]. These films, with Arangetram, telling the story of a girl from a Brahmin family who becomes a prostitute, constitute the closest that Tamil cinema came to contributing to the State-sponsored New Indian Cinema idiom. Arangetram was used by the TN government for its family-planning campaigns. His production company Kavithalaya also produced [[Mani Rathnam]]’s [[Roja]] and the [[Rajnikant]] solos Annamalai (1994) and Muthu (1995). Produced the TV series Rayil Sneham.
+Like Prasad, he created several Tamil stars, e.g. Kamalahasan, [[Rajnikant]], Sujata and S.V. Sekhar. Changed his idiom to make the political dramas [[Thanneer Thanneer]], based on [[Komal Swaminathan]]’s play, and his own story [[Achamillai]] [[Achamillai]]. These films, with Arangetram, telling the story of a girl from a Brahmin family who becomes a prostitute, constitute the closest that Tamil cinema came to contributing to the State-sponsored New Indian Cinema idiom. Arangetram was used by the TN government for its family-planning campaigns. His production company Kavithalaya also produced [[Mani Rathnam]]’s [[Roja]] and the [[Rajnikant]] solos Annamalai (1994) and Muthu (1995). Produced the TV series Rayil Sneham.