Vetrimaran to direct Imayam’s Sahitya Akademi-winning novel Sellatha Panam

Author Imayam.
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Author Imayam’s Sahitya Akademi award-winning novel Sellatha Panam, which holds a mirror to the Tamil society’s remedy of a lady, who married a person outdoors of her neighborhood, will likely be made into a movie by acclaimed movie director Vetrimaran.

“The formalities are over and he’ll make the movie after finishing his current undertaking,” stated Imayam, who lately received the Kuvempu award instituted in reminiscence of Kannada poet Kuppali Venkatappa Puttappa, popularly often called Kuvempu in 2013. It carries ₹5 lakh money, a silver medal, and a quotation. Not like Sahitya Akademi award which is being given to writers in all Indian languages yearly, Kuvempu award is given to only one author in a language yearly. It’s like successful the Jnanapith award.

“Why I really feel particular concerning the award is that the standing and respect loved by writers who’ve already received Kuvempu award now have come to Tamil language and to me. Furthermore, it isn’t given by any authorities organisation just like the Sahitya Akademi,” stated Imayam, the primary Tamil author to win the award.

Requested concerning the proposed movie, he stated he was completely satisfied that Vetrimaran, who had efficiently transformed novels into movies in current occasions, had come ahead to adapt Sellatha Panam right into a film.

“The pattern is encouraging. In West Bengal, loads of good movies are literally variations of literary works. It was fairly widespread within the Western international locations. In Tamil Nadu, Mr. Vetrimaran excels within the artwork of changing trendy literary works into movies,” stated Mr. Imayam, who received the Sahitya Akademi award for the novel in 2020.

The heroine of the novel Revathi, an engineering graduate, falls in love with Ravi, a refugee from Burma (Myanmar) and an autorickshaw driver, unpersuaded and marries him as a result of he “tattoos her identify on his physique and lower his hand with a blade to precise his love for her.” She turns down the whole lot when he says, “I’ll die in case you are not with me.”

The wedding fails as Ravi has a wayward life, turns into an alcoholic, and is suspicious of Revathi. The hope of Revathi that her schooling would come in useful in lifting the household of her husband shatters and at some point she is discovered within the burns ward of Jipmer with third-degree burns.

“I agree that Ravi ought to have remained a accountable husband, particularly when a lady like Revathi turns her again on her social standing and household to marry him. However you must also take into account that her household would have handled him in a unique method if he has social standing on a par along with her household,” contended Imayam.

“Marriage is just not decided by love. Caste, faith, schooling, cash, place, energy, and standing. Her household handled Ravi shabbily as a result of he possessed not one of the above. The extra they neglect him, the angrier he has turn into and Revathi turns into the sufferer,” he defined.

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