Noted producer and film historian G.Dhananjayan has turned director for the documentary on legendary writer, director and producer Panchu Arunachalam.
The documentary titled as ‘A Creator with Midas Touch’ has been produced by Lalitha Jeyanth and S.Uma Maheshwari for Thiru Arul Productions.
Dhananjayan has conceived the idea and wrote the contents with meticulous research apart from directing the documentary. Sudharshan Srinivasan has handled the cinematography while J.S.Vignesh has done the Editing. Shamanth has given the musical score and has taken care of the audiography.
Panchu Arunachalam or Panchu as he is fondly addressed is a legendary screenwriter, lyric writer and producer, who made actors Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan as mass heroes through his intelligent writing, in addition to introducing maestro Ilaiyaraaja and many other gems of immense talent to the Tamil film industry.
Panchu has written original story for 45 films, screenplay and dialogue for 90 films, written over 300 film songs in 150 films, produced 45 films, directed 4 films and distributed over 400 films in a career spanning 47 years, which began in the year 1958 as an assistant to legendary lyric writer ‘Kaviyarasu’ Kannadasan. Out of the 90 films he wrote, 70 were successful and in that 50 films ran for over 100 days is his significant achievement in Tamil cinema. He re-started writing screenplay and lyrics in 2016 after a gap of few years and Tamil cinema will witness more creations from him soon. He has penned all the songs in the upcoming film ‘Muthuramalingam’ with the musical score of Ilaiyaraja.
This documentary on Panchu pays tribute to his creativity, versatility, and command over various fields of filmmaking, whose contribution to Indian cinema was not recognized nationally and sufficiently so far. This 135 minutes documentary captures the life of Panchu from childhood to present status.
Like his film career, this documentary also has an enviable ensemble of over 35 top artistes, filmmakers and producers sharing their experiences of working with Panchu in many films over the years. The making of this documentary was significantly enhanced with the active participation of Super Star Rajinikanth, Bharathirajaa, Mahendran, Ilaiyaraaja, Sivakumar, AVM. Saravanan, V.C. Guhanathan, SP. Muthuraman, R. Selvaraj, K. Bhagyaraj, G.N. Rangarajan, SingeetamSrinivasa Rao, B. Lenin, GangaiAmaran, AbiramiRamanathan, K.R., Kalaignanam, ‘Mukta’ V. Srinivasan, R. Sundarrajan, Sundar C., A. Venkatesh, AnnaduraiKannadasan, C.V. Rajendran, ‘Chitra’ Lakshmanan, Suresh Krissna, Sathyaraj, Prabhu, KhushbuSundar, RadhikaSarathukumar, Cinematographer Babu and many others.
The documentary with full interviews of these top personalities will be screened as a television series, in a popular TV channel soon. A shorter version of this documentary running to 135 minutes has been already censored and will be screened at a grand event for the film industry and media in April/May 2016. This will also be released as a DVD/Blu-Ray disc after the television telecast.
The censor board has appreciated the documentary and stated that, it is engaging, entertaining and enlightening on his life and is a fitting tribute to the legend.
This pioneering effort to capture the life of a legend through the people whom he associated with is expected to set a trend to document through films, more such legends of Tamil cinema, for the benefit of future generation to learn from.
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