Sabareesh Ponnusamy

Japanese director Akira Kurosawa is famously known for his "parallel narration" story telling techniques in almost all his movies that even our dear director Mani Ratnam has tried in his venture "Ayutha Ezhuthu". The kind of story telling technique involves narrating multiple stories and converging them to a gripping climax, almost like multiple single threads weaving into one bind in the end. Indeed it is not an easy task. Kalki almost 70yrs ago has mastered this very technique and had not, even for a moment, rendered complexity for an ordinary reader both from the setting of characters and backdrop perspective. Flawlessly segemented into hundreds of mini-episodes, his utterly simple usage of language has the reader hooked from the beginning to end and wanting to read again and again. Unbelivably the best one can read in Tamil!