It was a huge success,” he beams.Īs much as he’s known for his crime novels and religious speeches, the author shares that he always liked writing stories based on real people and their emotions. On their first night, when he enters the room, he finds her dressed in white and that is how the story ends. He separates them, kills Mannangatti and marries the woman. Love blooms between the two but the village head has different plans. There is woman who literally turns this mannangatti into gold. One of my lead characters was called Mannangatti (waste), and he is a naive man who is used by goons to transport country brewed arrack. His very fist short novel, Ondrin Niram Irandu (The colour of one is two), won the first prize in Kalaimagal Magazine. The success of his very first stint in writing urged him to take up writing full time. Born in Salem, Indra moved to Madurai when he was 20 years old in the year 1980. Indra Soundar Rajan began writing when he was 18-years-old. Amidst the sounds of wind chimes and surrounded by bookshelves bursting with titles on ‘Olai Chuvadi’ and ‘Sithar’s’ we discuss about his writings and the source of his inspiration. The author has just returned from having given a speech at Pollachi and we sit down at his office above his house in Madurai. What is happening in Aayakudi and who is behind all of it forms the rest of the story. While Aayakudi reels under serial murders, Rajendran has a dagger hanging right above his own head. His brother-in-law Rajamanickam of dubious character and a notorious past, is now the son-in-law-to-be. The story is wound together tightly in typical Indra Soundar Rajan style with characters like the village strongman Govinda Naicker who is worried sick for his unwed daughter Thenmozhi's future. A spirited police officer and Deenadayalan’s old student Rudrapathy joins them. He befriends Deenadayalan, an old Tamil teacher from the village, and together the two try make sense of the mysteries of the village. While Rajendran’s initial hunch was to attribute Chinna Pechi’s father’s death to the criminal on the loose, a series of unexplained events forces him to ponder upon the existence of ghosts. The blow falls on him harder when he finds out that Chinna Pechi is a young girl no older than 8 years of age. The editor sends off journalist Rajendran to Aayakudi and he arrives right in time to witness the funeral of Chinna Pechi’s father. It also mentions an escaped prisoner on the run and the writer, Chinna Pechi, whose father has fallen ill after having seen “things he shouldn’t have seen” near the hills, seeks their help to investigate with discretion. A mysterious letter bearing tales of spirits wandering the deserted foothills in a village called Aayakudi arrives addressed to a Magazine’s editor in Chennai. Very often his short stories and novels have been adapted for drama serials too.A fast-paced mystery novel, Aayakudi Murders is the kind of fiction you can devour during a bus or train journey. A few of his published books are now available online. He also writes based on real life incidents as well as folklore. reincarnation, supernatural powers, fantasy etc are a few more. He is a popular writer of ghost stories, and ghosts and vamps used to be regular in his stories. He wrote the screenplays of Sringaram, Anandha Purathu Veedu etc. Some of his popular fiction works include - Pallavan Pandiyan Baskaran, Nandi Ragasiyam, Kan Simittum Ratthinakkal, Ragaisyamaai Oru Ragasiyam, Mahadeva Ragasiyam, Neelakkal Modiram etc. Television serials, screenplays, short stories and novels – he has tried with different genres of writing and succeeded in all these. He has scripted many TV serials for Tamil television, which include – Athipookal, Rudram, Marmadesam - Edhuvum Nadakkum, Marmadesam-Vidaathu Karuppu, Krishnadasi, Marma Desam, Marmadesam - Sorna Regai, Nagamma, Sivamayam, Puguntha Veedu and Sivaragasyam. Rajan is known for many thrillers as well as TV shows. Indra Soundar Rajan was born on Novemin Salem, Tamil Nadu. He is best known for writing on mystery, ghost stories & folklore, Supernatural Thrillers etc. He publishes crime thrillers frequently in Crime Story and Today Crime News. He has done more than 300 episodes of the show, " Kanchiyin Karunai" aired on Podhigai TV. An expert on South Indian Hindu traditions and mythological lore, he is a full-time writer. He writes screenplays, TV serials, novels, plays, short story collections etc. Indra Soundar Rajan is a prominent writer belonging to Tamil literature known for writing ghost stories and thrillers.
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