The very happening versatile personality of Tamil Nadu writer Sujatha had his soul departed this evening at Apollo Hospital in Chennai. Born on May 3- 1935, he had extended his feat of achievement not just in filmdom, but in the field of software. One of his recent project was to write dialogues for the big-budget film Robot starring superstar Rajnikanth and Director Shankar making it. The entire film industry of Tamil Nadu considers this day as a gloomy one in the history of the state. Sujatha being aged 75 had undergone several heart surgeries and that landed him up in prolonged illness. Today in the presence of his family members, he breathed his last in the hospital. He is survived his by his wife and two sons.
He was one of the most popular writers in Tamil literature, and a regular contributor to topical columns in Tamil periodicals such as Ananda Vikatan, Kumudam and Kalki. He had a wide readership, and served for a brief period as the editor of Kumudam, and has also written screenplays and dialogues for several Tamil movies. An engineer by profession, he supervised the design and production of the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) during his tenure in Bharat Electronics which is currently used in elections throughout India.
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