Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Kalki

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Jun 23, 2012, 12:28:35 PM (12 years ago)

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Trupti

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+'''Kalki (1899-1954)'''
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+Pen name of the noted Tamil novelist R.
+Krishnamurthy. Left school to join Gandhi’s
+non-co-operation agitations (1921) and was
+jailed several times by the British. Journalist for
+Navashakti, then for the famous Ananda
+Vikatan owned by S.S. Vasan, where he
+published some of his best-known stories.
+Scripted K. Subramanyam’s seminal
+Thyagabhoomi (1939), simultaneously
+publishing a novelised version in Ananda
+Vikatan with stills of the film and a racy text
+about ‘a thwarted woman dishing it back to her
+husband in later years’ (C.S. Lakshmi, 1984).
+His many contributions to the journal and to
+his own periodical, Kalki, are mainly reformist
+stories and Walter Scott-type historicals, largely
+determining the iconography of Gemini’s
+historicals. Apparently, M.S. Subbulakshmi
+used her earnings from Savithri (1941) to
+finance Kalki. Several of his novels were
+filmed, e.g. Kalvanin Kadhali (1955),
+Ponvayal (1954) and Parthiban Kanavu
+(1960). As a popular lyricist, he wrote songs for
+M.S. Subbulakshmi in Duncan’s Meera
+(1945), including the song Katrinile varum
+geetham. Together with writers of the famous
+Manikodi group (e.g. B.S. Ramaiah) and with
+director K. Subramanyam, Kalki is one of the
+pro-Congress film people in the pre-DMK Film
+period to call for a more responsible attitude to
+film and to draw attention to the medium’s
+political potential. His reviews of early Tamil
+films are collected in his book Kalaichelvam
+(1956).
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+[[Writer]]