Meevy

It needed an Englishman to make a classic film on Mahatma Gandhi. Fortunately that is not the case with Subramanya Bharathi or barathi, the legendary Tamil poet. ‘Bharathiyar’ is so much a part of the Tamilians’ psyche and soul that to make a film on his life would have been a risky and challenging proposition. Because any discrepancy in the portrayal even inadvertently would have been considered almost blasphemous. May be that was why no one ventured upon this high potential subject so far. But now Gnana Rajasekharan, an IAS Officer and the director of the offbeat Tamil film ‘Mohamul’, after intensive research into the eventful life and the multi-dimensional persona, and the rebellious spirit of Bharathi, has immortalised the Bharathi saga on cellulloid.