Sujatha rangarajan biography template

(This is my version of Sujatha for Dummies. Some of the information here is borrowed from various sources – online and offline)

If you are a Tamilian and you are ignorant of Sujatha’s works – my sincerest condolences.

For starters, he is THE most versatile writer who ever lived. (Language irrelevant)

His life falsified the famous saying “Jack of all trades – King of none”. He was the King of all trades and genres. Writing is only a part of his life. He was also a leading scientist (which was his day job), the inventor of electronic voting machines, a self-taught musician, a rulle producer, screenplay/dialogue writer, a talented painter and a voracious reader who must have read more than 5,000 books in his lifetime. He was the Leonardo Da Vinci of Tamil Nadu known mainly for his unparalleled writing skills.

His writing talent knew no boundaries and he rocked all forms of writing – essays, novels, short stories, plays, novellas, poems, sh

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Sujatha Interview

This interview appeared in India on the Net (INET) 
Sujatha is the nom de plume of Rangarajan, a computer engineer by profession and a writer by 
vocation. He is the Tamil novelist with the largest number of stories converted into films. He has 
worked with topdirectors K Balachandar in 'Ninaithale Inikkum,' Mani Ratnam in 'Roja,' Shankar in 
'Indian' and Bharathi Raaja in 'Nadodi Thendral.' 
He has been closely associated with Kamal Hassan right from Raj Kamal International's maiden 
venture 'Vikram.' And it was he who ignited the spark in Kamal for 'Marudha Naayagam.' He is now 
working with Mani Ratnam for 'Dil Se,' starring Shah Rukh Khan and Manisha Koirala. 

Q: Are you happy with the way your stories have been filmed? 
To be frank, no. Not only I, no writer has ever been happy with the way his/her stories have been 
converted into films. Asked to give his reaction after his novels were filmed, 

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Sujatha (writer)

Indian screenwriter and novelist

Sujatha
Born	S. Rangarajan (1935-05-03)3 May 1935 Sri Rangam, Tamil Nadu
Died	27 February 2008(2008-02-27) (aged 72) Chennai, India
Pen name	Sujatha
Occupation	Engineer, author, novelist, screenwriter
Nationality	Indian
Alma mater	Madras Institute of Technology
Period	1958-2008
Spouse	Sujatha
Children	Rangaprasad Keshavprasad[1]

S. Rangarajan (3 May 1935 – 27 February 2008), better known by his allonymSujatha, was an Indian author, novelist and screenwriter who wrote in Tamil. He authored over 100 novels, 250 short stories, ten books on science, ten stage plays, and a slim volume of poems. He was one of the most popular authors in Tamil literature, and a regular contributor to topical columns in Tamil periodicals such as Ananda Vikatan, Kumudam and Kalki. He had a wide readership, and served for a brief period as the editor of Kumudam, and has also written scree