WHAT DID KAMAL DO FOR HIS BIRTHDAY?

Kamal’s affiliation with the learned and his fondness for the littérateurs is well known. He is a voracious reader and does not slot his reading to a particular field. He has also penned the lyrics for songs in films like Manmadhan Ambu, Virumandi and the latest Uttama Villain.

Kamal finds time to be among the scholars and had made it a practice to honor them on his birthday. Following this tradition, for his birthday this year, he visited the senior Tamil writer Ki Rajanarayanan popularly called as Karisalkaattu Kalaignan at his residence in Pondicherry and honored him with rupees one lakh. Ki Ra as he is fondly called as, has won Sahitya Akademy Award and has held position as the Professor of Folklore at Pondicherry University in the 80s. Kamal was accompanied by the dialogue writer of Thoongavanam, Suka, who himself is a prolific writer in Tamil.