Much like Bollywood's triumvirate of Dev Anand, Dilip Kumar and Raj Kapoor, Tamil cinema had Krishnaswamy Bhagyaraj, K. Balachander and Mahendran to rub shoulders with one another. Bhagyaraj, who passed away on June 27 in Chennai after a cardiac arrest, was often described as the king of screenplay, although he directed and acted with equal consummate ease. Charming, with handsome good looks and an infectious smile, he was iconic, having stepped behind the camera 25 times and in front of it 75. Born on January 7, 1953, in Vellangkoil in interior Tamil Nadu, he was not one to rush into being a commander. Rather, he gradually learnt the ropes of motion and movement by........

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