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Komal Swaminathan (born 27 January 1935 in Karaikudi, Tamil Nadu, India, died 1995) was a congressional activist in his early years, a Tamil theater personality, film director and journalist.

Komal Swaminathan
Born
Komal Swaminathan

(1935-01-27)27 January 1935
Komal, Thanjavur district, Tamilnadu, India
DiedOctober, 1995 (age 60)
Chennai, Tamilnadu, India
Occupation
  • Film director
  • playwright
  • screenwriter
Years active1959–1995
RelativesAnand Shankar (grandson)[1]

Early life


Swaminathan joined the school of S. V. Sahasranamam and learned the art of playwriting and stage techniques. In 1971, he formed Stage Friends.


Career


He was a dramatist on the Tamil stage, his Thanneer Thanneer in 1980 brought him to the limelight. He scripted, directed and staged this play with his drama troupe "Stage Friends", this play was staged more than 250 times. This play, Thanneer Thanneer (Water Water) highlighted the acute water shortage in rural areas due to bureaucracy and the apathetic attitude of politicians and bureaucrats, and was later filmed under the same name by K. Balachander in 1981, which won National Award and international acclaim.[2]

Komal Swaminathan has staged nearly 33 plays. He also directed the film Oru Indhiya Kanavu (An Indian Dream)[3] and received the National Film Award for Best Regional film in 1984.

He was the editor of Subhamangala -a Literary, Socio-Cultural Tamil monthly magazine. He was the recipient of Kalaimaamani and a number of other awards. Komal Swaminathan died in 1995. He had a daughter, Lalitha Dharini.[2]


Filmography


Plays

Komal has scripted and conducted the following plays with his own troupe

Screenwriter
Director

References


  1. Kumar, S. R. Ashok (31 May 2014). "Audio Beat: Arima Nambi - Sivamani belts it out". The Hindu. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  2. Subramanian Shankar (2001). "Water!: A Tamil Play by Komal Swaminathan". Asian Theatre Journal. 18 (2): 123–173. doi:10.1353/atj.2001.0023. S2CID 161919542 via Project MUSE.
  3. Rajagopalan, Sudha (2008). Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas: The Culture of Movie-going After Stalin — Sudha Rajagopalan – Google Books. ISBN 978-0253220998. Retrieved 15 June 2014.





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