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The Kalaignar scripted 75 films that resonated with common folk
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Chennai, June 11 (Ians) Muthuvel Karunanidhi, the five-time Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu and the icon of the Dravidian movement, was one of the most respected script writers in the Tamil film industry.

This was mainly due to the real life situations in the scripts he has written with most directly resonating with the ordeals faced by ordinary workers and labourers who were always close to his heart.

The veteran Dmk leader had once in an interview said that he used to promote rationalism and equality in his movies and he shunned larger than life images of his characters.

He had said that his characters were generally people from humble backgrounds and lived a tough life. The stories written by Kalaignar generally had an impact on ordinary men and women and they loved Karunanidhi as a messiah to remove their worries and difficulties.

M. Karunanidhi who earned the sobriquet, ‘Kalaignar’ or artist through his writing,...
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  • 6/11/2023
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