ASA Sami

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ASA Sami ( Arul Susai Anthony Sami ; Tamil : ஏ. எஸ். ஏ. சாமி; * 1915 in Colombo , Ceylon ; † 1998 in Tamil Nadu ) was a Tamil screenwriter and film director.

biography

ASA Sami grew up as the son of a theater operator in Colombo. He gave up his work as a university lecturer in Colombo and moved to Madras , where his piece Bilhana , which was actually written for the radio, was performed with great success by MK Thyagaraja Bhagavathar and the TKS Brothers theater group . Sami got a job as a writer at the film company Jupiter Pictures in Coimbatore and wrote Sundarrao Nadkarnis Valmiki (1946) and together with M. Karunanidhi A. Kasilingams Abhimanyu (1948). In 1948, TKS Brothers produced the theatrical hit Bilhana as a film based on Sami's script.

ASA Sami made his directorial debut in 1947 with Rajakumari , in which MG Ramachandran had his first major role as a film hero. His second film Velaikkari (1949), based on the script by CN Annadurai, marks the beginning of the politicization of Tamil film with the ideology of the regional DMK party . Sami's only film in Hindi Maya Sundari (1967) was, apart from a new dance number, sung by Geeta Dutt , a synchronization of his Karpurakarasi , published ten years earlier .

Later, ASA Sami was director of the Tamil Nadu Film & Television Institute in Madras.

Filmography (directorial work)

  • 1947: Rajakumari
  • 1949: Velaikkari
  • 1950: Vijayakumari
  • 1951: Sudarshan
  • 1953: Ponni
  • 1954: Thuli Visham
  • 1955: Neethipathi
  • 1956: Dingiri Menika
  • 1957: Karpurakarasi
  • 1959: Kalyanikku Kalyanam
  • 1959: Thangapathumai
  • 1960: Kaidhi Kanniyiram
  • 1961: Arasilankumari
  • 1962: Meri Bahen
  • 1962: Muthu Mandapam
  • 1963: Ananda Jyoti
  • 1963: Asai Alaigal
  • 1963: Kaduvulai Kandan
  • 1964: Vazhi Piranthadu
  • 1967: Maya Sundari
  • 1971: Thirumagal

Footnotes

  1. ↑ http://www.sangam.org/taraki/articles/2006/01-11_Tamil_Film_History_and_Its_Achievements.php
  2. ↑ One for the masses! in rediff.com on December 10, 1998

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personal data
SURNAME Sami, ASA
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sami, Arul Susai Anthony; சாமி, ஏ. எஸ். ஏ. (tamil)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Tamil screenwriter and film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Colombo , Ceylon
DATE OF DEATH before December 10, 1998
Place of death Tamil Nadu