Ahammed Khabeer’s ‘Madhuram’ (Joju George, Shruti Ramachandran) is a set of love stories as sweet as the title.There was a mad passion even in the gentlest love lyric like Kaatru veliyidai kannamma, which was picturised as a duet between Gemini Ganesan and Savithri in Kappalottiya Thamizhan (1961). Even in my schooldays, I could make out that this was something different – and not just because the syntax and flow and even the odd word was different from the way a Kannadhasan or Vaali would write a lyric. As with a lot of literary (or non-colloquial) Tamil, my exposure to Bharati’s poetry began with the movies. The book is a fascinatingly researched account of how the state, in 1955, acquired the rights to Bharati’s work and placed it in the public domain – which makes a good segue to the fact that so many of his poems ended up in the movies, before and after. (Maybe Tagore would have been a better reference?) But the point is well taken. Why did the greatest modern Tamil poet die in poverty?” This is not – technically speaking – a valid comparison, for the publishing structures of the two eras are vastly different. Amish Tripathi bagged a million dollar advance for a trilogy he hadn’t yet written. The book comes with a provocative blurb: “Arundhati Roy received a million dollar advance for The God of Small Things. Had this been a literary web site, I would have used this occasion to talk about AR Venkatachalapathy’s Who Owns That Song: The Battle for Subramaniya Bharati’s Copyright. Here are some of his songs that made it to the big screen. The great Tamil poet, activist and social reformer died on September 11, 1921.
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