The tinsel town was shocked to hear the news that favourite scriptwriter Sujatha is no more. Director Vasanth and lyricist Na Muthukumar were a few of the early birds, who paid homage to the ‘ever youth’ writer.Eminent Tamil Writer Sujatha passed away
previous night at the Apollo Hospital here after brief illness. He was 72. He was survived by his wife and two sons. Sujatha, whose real name was S Rangarajan, was born in Triplicane in Chennai on May three, 1935 but spent his childhood in Srirangam near Tiruchirapalli under the care of his paternal grandmother owing to his father’s frequent transfers in his government job. Mr Rangarajan attended Srirangam Boys High School. He did his Bachelor’s Degree in Physics in St Joseph’s College, Tiruchirapalli where he was the classmate of President Abdul Kalam. Later on, he did his engineering in electronics at the Madras Institute of Technology. After his Engineering degree, he joined the Central Government in Delhi.After 14 years in government service, he joined Bharat Electronics at Bangalore. In Bharat Electronics, he rose to the post of General Manager.
After retirement, he settled down in Chennai.Sujatha received an award from the India’s National Council for Science and Technology in 1993 for making science accessible to the public through popular media. Sujatha’s forte was science fiction writing. He had also written many film scripts notable among which was Kamal Hassan’s Vikram. His writing interests were largely inspired by the short stories and serials published in popular Tamil magazines and literary magazines. Though his early literary fires were perhaps kindled by the rich and rounded Tamil of Divyaprabandams and Thirupavais — something that no one could miss in Srirangam where Sujatha was brought up by his paternal grandma — Sujatha however grew up to be a writer with the essential sensibility of a man moulded by scientific ideals. And in novels too, he spread himself wide, writing historicals, sci-fi, whodunit investigative series (his Ganesh and Vasanth, the two investigators who were a cross between a Peri Mason, Hercule Poirot and occasionally James Bond, will forever remain heroes for a generation of readers),
social and emotional stories and pulsating short stories (his Madhyamar and Thoondil Kathaigal are primers on the genre).Ninaithaley Inikkum, Karaiyellam Senbagpoo (a murder mystery set deliciously amidst the swirls of folksy limericks), Vikram, Roja, Kannathil Muthamittal, Kandukondein Kandukondein, Mudhalvan, Anniyan, down to Sivaji (and he was also working on Dasvatharam, Robot) were some of his popular works that is still set to instore in mind. He also received the VASWIK Award for Electronic Voting Machine and Kalaimamani Award from the Tamil Nadu Government. He is the writer of over 100 novels, 200 short stories; essays stage plays, and popular articles and Q&A on science.
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