venkateshan : Sir, I read in munnarai of one of your books (think it is "vanam vasapadum"), that there are no real good historical novels.. do you treat "sivakami sabatham","ponniyin selvan" also under such categories?
We are the great fans of Kalki. Infact, I would say, it was only after Kalki , the historical novels gained importance. The authors foreword for many novels indicates Kalki had been there inspiration.
I love Kalki and Sandhilyan. But, unfortunately not Akilan, Balakumaran, nor anyone else. This is not because of the authenticity of the novels but, the way of story telling. Infacrt, there hd been a blunder in Kadal pura, between Abaya Kulothungan and Anabaya kulothungan, but the story had taken a interesting route.
The moment, any artist or a writer, reach beyond a certain stage in thier career, there comes ego and fault finding. I can feel it, as I am also a professional singer. I found faults, with others singing and if someone sings better, there is something, that made me not speaking to them for sometme. I took sometime for me to overcome it. Guess, this is the same here. Or may be this is not the same here...:o)
Who is Prabanchan? nijama..naan kelvi pattathe ella...
whoever he might be, as far as I am concerned, a person who talks high about himself/herself has not achieved anything as he/she thinks. nirai kudam thalumbathu, kurai kudam koothadu. Prabanchans statement shows he is a kurai kudam.
If you (Satish) do not know prabanchan, then it's better not to comment about him or his (so-called) comments. there is no need for you to comment Prabanchan as kurai kudam.
By the way, I am not defending Prabanchan or his statements on PS. But we have to accept the fact that any work (whether it is novel, poem, story etc) is not far from criticism. If Prabanchan says so, then let it be.
Novel writing is an art not science. if it is science u can expect all the people in world to like it in the same way with same perception as u like/have. Art demands good as well as bad critics. Artist & art Lovers should respect/ignore the critics but should not blame.
Natarajan is correct. Prabanchan showed his arrogance. He may have great work done like "Vaanam Vasappadum" or "Mahanadhi" but they are no way near to PS.
Prabanchan's showed lack of professionlism. If he has he would straightly accepted than showing his arrogancy towards few readers. I don't think those readers would have accepted him either.
Millions of readers acknowledged PS is historic novel. So we don't need few Prabanchans acknowledgement. They wouldn't harm anyway mass verdict on PS but unlucky Prabanchan would loose few readers that he become parannoid for not accepting PS as historic novel.
I hope this suffice. We don't need Prabanchan's here. Whoever dragged Prabanchan cued me like "Naarathar" in "Thiruvilayadal". End is solved.
We can discuss lot in PS like historical places around of us.
Dear All One of the reasons why I kept quiet was that I havent read any of Prabanjans novels..But I was taken ababck by his staement not that thats going to alter PSs tall stature in Tamil Literature.
I agree with Sampath,Vijay in that it only shows Prabanjans arrogance... Muruganatham said If you didnt know prabanjan many of our members wont know him few would have read him...unlike kalki
He defended his Vanam Vasapadum but said what is historic novel man chases woman and they are prine and princess and I have written about common men in my book....
I guess he hasnt read PS....PS probably is one of the few novels which talk about the common people as well
I dont recollect any of the hero or heroine running around trees...
Its like a 20th century fiction written claiming Dumas didnt write historic novels I rest my case