page_title: Sakthi T. K. Krishnasamy
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Sakthi T. K. Krishnasamy / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Sakthi TK Krishnasamy with the then Tamilnadu CM C.N. Annadurai and Sivaji Ganesan
context_page_description: Sakthi T. K. Krishnasamy was an Indian screenwriter and lyricist in Tamil films from the 1950s through the 1970s. He wrote stories, screenplay and dialogue for films starring M. G. Ramachandran and Sivaji Ganesan. He has authored historical, mythological and social Tamil films spanning over 3 decades. He was considered as one of the best film script writers of Tamil Cinema, and was hailed as such by noted screenwriters like C. N. Annadurai and M. Karunanidhi publicly. His most acclaimed works are Veerapandiya Kattabomman and Karnan.
context_section_description: Sakthi Krishnasamy began his literary career as a playwright and ran his own drama troupe called Sakthi Nataka Sabha. His first play 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 while Vidhi was a love story.  He was one of the earliest to have three different stages set up and when the scene was over in one the action would shift to another stage by the side. One of his most popular plays 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 troupe like Sivaji Ganesan, V. K. Ramasamy, S. V. Subbiah and A. P. Nagarajan went on to become noted actors in the Tamil film 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 every day. M. N. Nambiar, another member of the troupe also made his breakthrough into films after his performance in one of the plays impressed a producer 
  Sakthi Krishnasamy first wrote Veerapandiya Kattabomman as a stage play in 1957. The play was staged all over Tamil Nadu 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 the Second Afro-Asian Film Festival at Cairo (1960) for best acting, music and a special jury award. In Tamil movie industry, his Veerapandiya Kattabomman film dialogues are still used as aspiring actors' auditioning test script. Many of the other films for which Sakthi Krishnasamy wrote the story and screenplay, were box office hits.
  Apart from writing screenplays for many popular Tamil films, he was also a lyricist for a number of movies in the 60s.
  He was a Gandhian, who Patron for more than 30 years for the Mahatma Gandhi Library in Saidapet for the economically weak and helped it grow from 20 books to 20,000 books in his lifetime. He died after a brief illness on 8 November 1987.
caption: Sakthi TK Krishnasamy with the then Tamil Nadu CM C.N. Annadurai and Sivaji Ganesan
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