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Sreenivasan was a fabulous actor. But helium was adjacent much fabulous arsenic a scriptwriter.
When we speech of the top scriptwriters of Malayalam cinema, the names of M.T. Vasudevan Nair, P. Padmarajan and A.K. Lohithadas travel up for discussion. Sreenivasan should besides beryllium portion of that list.
True, helium whitethorn not person written the top of dramas, romances oregon fantasies similar them, helium whitethorn not person dealt with that galore superior issues, his satellite whitethorn not person been arsenic wide and varied, oregon his plots whitethorn not person been ground-breaking, but we person to admit 1 thing: helium was a talented scriptwriter and nary 1 successful Indian cinema astir apt understood the creation of comedic penning arsenic overmuch arsenic helium did. And it was nary slapstick humour helium wrote.
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He was the VKN of scriptwriting. Malayalam connection is fortunate that it got a writer similar VKN, the antheral who made america laughter aloud portion we work aloud a book. Much similar P.G. Wodehouse.
Since not everyone is simply a reader, not each Malayali knows VKN’s genius. But everyone sees movies. So they cognize Sreenivasan, though much arsenic an actor, of course.
As an actor, helium has done outstanding work, nary uncertainty — successful films similar Vadakkunokkiyanthram, Swaroopam, Thakarachenda and Ponmuttayidunna Thattan. But, different actors could person besides done those roles, though whitethorn not beryllium arsenic good arsenic him. The constituent is simply a Swaroopam, oregon a Ponmuttayidunna Thattan would person been made if determination was nary histrion called Sreenivasan.
However, determination would person been nary Vadakkunokkiyanthram. Nobody other could person authored specified a script, which dealt with the intelligence issues of an insecure antheral joined to a astir beauteous woman. That whitethorn not beryllium the astir antithetic of themes, but the publication is.
The beingness communicative of Thalathil Dineshan is told done a bid of incredibly comic scenes and dialogues that person go portion of the fashionable civilization (that is the lawsuit with respective Sreenivasan films). You could spot a maestro craftsman astatine enactment successful the publication of Vadakkunokkiyanthram, close from the opening country successful which the leader writes a missive to the psychiatrist successful a mag astir his anxieties of marrying a beauteous woman.
The movie besides marked his debut arsenic a director. He lone directed 1 much film, Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala, 1 of the finest feminist films successful Malayalam. It was a clever retelling of a movie helium did arsenic an histrion — Swaroopam, a superb but underrated enactment by K.R. Mohanan.
Sreenivasan’s comic genius shown done successful conscionable astir each movie helium wrote, though not each his films whitethorn person been successful the people of Vadakkunokkiyanthram, Chinthavishtayaya Shyamala, Nadodikkattu, Sanmanassullavarkku Samadhanam, Doore Doore Oru Koodu Koottam, Paavam Paavam Rajakumaran, Azhakiya Ravanan, Mithunam, Sandesham or Udayananu Tharam.
And determination is an constituent of the unexpected successful the mode helium wrote a comic scene. For instance, conscionable rewind Azhakiya Ravanan, an antithetic romanticist movie directed by Kamal that failed astatine the container bureau contempt large drama and superb euphony by Vidyasagar who was making his debut successful Malayalam cinema.
There is this country successful which Mammootty corners and makes Sreenivasan look into his handsome look from up close, and asks him, “Do you retrieve this face?” Sreenivasan asks the leader who has conscionable returned to his autochthonal village, “Have you acted successful Hindi cinema?” Mammootty’s look lits up, but not for long, arsenic Sreenivasan’s quality the tailor-turned-Malayalam-novelist, explains, “Acted arsenic a robber?”
Much is mislaid successful the translation here, 1 knows, but if you retrieve the scene, you volition get an thought of what a talented scriptwriter Sreenivasan was. And his ambition was ne'er to write.
He was trained to beryllium an actor, astatine the MGR Film and Television Institute successful Chennai, and helium turned to scriptwriting because, successful his ain words, helium was forced by his bully person Priyadarshan, who told him helium could enactment lone if helium wrote a script. The movie was Odaruthammava Aalariyam.
Sreenivasan has said that helium had besides written a publication agelong before, but helium took nary recognition arsenic the communicative was based connected an outdated, overdramatic communicative suggested by the director. It was the close determination from a antheral would rewrite the creation of scriptwriting successful Malayalam cinema.
