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three different stages set up and when the scene was over in one the action would shift to another stage by the side. He also wrote popular historical dramas such as
Noorjehan, Chanakyan Sabatham and Maveeran Ceasar, which were staged many times as housefull shows. One of his another most popular play was Kaviyin Kanavu. Sakthi's plays were so popular that the Railways ran "Sakthi" special trains from Trichy to Nagapattinam and Trichy to Kumbakonam when they were staged. Many artistes from his drama troupe like Sivaji Ganesan, M. N. Nambiar,
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professional dance masters, music teachers and fight masters to train the actors to be versatile in those artistic skills too. Sivaji
Ganesan was cast as a villain in the play Vidhi. Upon watching his excellent acting skills in that play, as a hero in another drama, and as the lady character lead in Noorjehan drama, Mr. Perumal Mudaliar, who came to watch these plays told Sakthi that he has found the hero for Parasakthi film and got him cast in that highly successful film.
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224:(1960) for best acting, music and a special jury award. Another epic Tamil film Karnan, which he wrote was a classic blockbuster. In Tamil movie industry, his Veerapandiya Kattabomman film dialogues are still used as aspiring actors' auditioning test script. Many of the other M.G.R and Sivaji Ganesan's films for which Sakthi Krishnasamy wrote the story, screenplay and dialogues, were box office hits.
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and received critical acclaim and commercial success. It was made into a highly successful film two years later, with Sivaji
Ganesan in the lead and Sakthi Krishnasamy handling the script and dialogues. Sakthi Krishnasamy's powerful dialogues played a large part in its success. The film won awards in
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between 1940s and 1950s. His first drama was staged at the
Nagapattinam Baby Theatre and from then on he continued to write a wide variety of plays. Bhayankari was a James-Bond type thriller, Thozhan was about friendship and betrayal, while Vidhi was a love story. He was one of the earliest to have
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industry. The troupe consisted of about 60 members. Every member of the cast had to learn the lines of all characters in the plays as they played different roles during different weeks. Though Sakthi himself trained the actors in acting and dialogue delivery skills, his troupe also employed
632:"..appeared as a movie in 1959, a film which was a box-office hit. This film is still widely available – as script, video, and cassette – and several Tamilians can quote extracts from its dialogue. In brief, today Kattabomman is a household name."
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