Writer Sujatha died on Wednesday
Feb 28th, 2008 | Category:India News, National NewsA popular writer Sujatha Rangarajan died on Wednesday after a brief illness in Chennai, India. Rangarajan, 72 years old was the scribe or co-scribe of several hit films including 2007’s Rajnikant starrer “Sivaji, the Boss,” which was credited with boosting the moribund Tamil film industry & Kamal Hassan comedy “Dasavatharam,” currently in theaters.
Among the award-winning films that he wrote dialogue for were Mani Ratnam pics such as 2002’s “A Peck on the Cheek,” 1998’s “From the Heart” & 2004’s “Ayitha ezhuthu”. Rangarajan was an engineer for Bharat Electronics in Bangalore when he started writing short stories & then novels in Tamil.
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Very great loss for tamil literature and Tamil cinema industry.
No one to replace this legend.
It is really a shock , and great loss to the entire tamil literature
We have missed him.
As a tamilian way, we will feel his loss once after his death. Very sad.
Hi Rangaprasad,
it is very sad to know about the sad demise of your father. I happened to get this news from D R Sudha. Both of us are your classmates in BEL school.
May God give you all the strength.
Do let us know your contact number.
Regards,
Nagarathna
Sujatha was very prompt in responding reader’s queries. IN 1973, in the prologue to the novel Sorga Tivu he had quoted a letter from the TIME magazine. I had a collection of over 1000 issues of Time magazine. But I could not locate the particular letter in question. I wanted Sujatha to tell me the source to enable me to read the letter in full. He promptly replied me (in the same inland letter) giving the reference and thanking me. Iam still preseving the letter with Sujatha’s signature. I feel sorry for not meeting him once. The journalistic world will miss him for his lively ,probing and intellecual mind. May his soul rest in peace.
i dont know any other writers in tamil nadu except sujatha ,
others not possible to fill his place
Then hole Tamil nadu missed him ,
it is an irreplacable loss to the entire tamil world. Literary world is going to miss him so much. it is surely a deeply loss to avid readers of tamil literature.
we have lost a wonderful Thamizh
literate….May God comfort his
family members….
sujatha’s death is very sad., i search the whole world ater his death., here is NO any other person for his place., i have no any other option for to know about everything with the questions of WHY? WHAT? HOW? I REALLY SAD AND I PRAY GOD FOR HIS SOUL IN HEAVEN, GOOD BYE SUJATHA -with tears… SHARFUDEEN
This is a great loss to us. Ofcourse, no one is immortal. But he use to mention in several interviews about the book he thought of wrting with Abdual Kalam, the histroy of flights. We are not fortunate enough to get tat from him.
Even though I work as a telecom engineer now, I can say for sure that… my inital learning of computer/networking/binary system started of with sujatha’s “silicon sillu puratchi”.
Such a great multi-faceted, multi-talented yet simple person.
May his soul rest in peace.
Really very hot news for today, No replacement Sujatha place.
Its really a very shocky news to thamizh literature and flimdom.we have lost a one and only science fiction writer in tamil.no can replace his cute iyengar tamizh.Good bye sujatha………
The Great Man - Sujatha
i was all along reading english novels and non fiction , it was thru my neighbour that i got introduced to Sujatha and his writings in tamil , and i was hooked,Till today i have read most of the books that he had written, a prolific writer , to say that his demise is a loss is the understatement of the tamil century…
his arindhum ariyalmalum was an eye opener in many ways to an absolute new comer to rarified thinking process on many subjects.His attempts at creating new visual imageries ,” u can call it gimmicks ” but it was new at that time … eg …
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he spoke fluently only thru his writings
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My Dad is a great fan of Sujatha.
I got introduced to Sujatha?s writings thru my Dad.. I still remember ?Sreerangathu Devathaigal? and ?Aa?. Such a eminent writer?.. He introduced a new way of writing in Tamil literature. He is a Multi-talented person.
I have read almost all his writings..
It?s a great loss to entire Tamil nadu.
May his soul rest in peace.
WE MISS U SUJATHA???!
A great writer. His novels are noted for his style & power of observation. I read his novel ” KADAVUL” recently . His writings have influenced my way of thinking. Many of friends are his admirers.
His writngs have a permanent place in tamil literature.
T.Srinivasan
What a shock I received on the morning of 28th Feb. in the form of sad demise of all time great Tamil Writer Sri. Sujatha. When I was working in BSNL, I had an happy occasion to meet him,(thus fulfilling my long cherished desire)in BEL some years back.Being an ardent admirer of Sri Sujatha from the days of “NYLON KAYIRU”, I could not express my happiness in meeting him that day and I still cherish this memory even today.Though He is not with us today physically , no power can remove him from us in the form his contribution to Tamil Literature. May The Almighty give enough strength to his family to bear this irrepairable loss.
With tears
V.Rajagopal
(64 Years)
Now, I missed my great Guru. I think God have been lot of doubts in science.So He may be recruited as a Chief Scientist in Heaven.
Senthil Kumar S
A legend who took science to the layman.
His demise irreplacable loss for humanity…
We missed the great genius
We missed a great writer, who induced the reading habbit among the youngs. His stories and novels can be read across the time. My deep homage to him.
BALU
We missed a gread writer in tamil.