In the foreword, Padmarajan speaks quite candidly about Screenplays place in the Great Big Order of the Literary World and says with a chuckle, its after all, a screenplay, not a literary work. P Padmarajan’s Screenplays – I THIS IS NOT A PDF BUNDLE ! I wish that would be included next edition around. The index of each also miss the actual list of actors who played the part. It is written in his usual dispassionate and wry style, with minimal interference of the creator rubbing off on the characters.

It is breath-taking in its entirety and you pat yourself when you can find the subtle differences in the screenplay and the actual film ( the opening of Kuttyedathi is an example). It has Nirmalayam(1973), Iruttinte Aathmavu (1967), Olavum Theeravum ( 1970), Kanyakumari (1974), Kuttyedathi ( 1971) and Murappennu (1965). Though DC Books had brought out each screenplay as a separate book a couple of years back, its only recently they have bundled it as a single tome.

Maybe this would serve as an example of bringing out the scripts of the Hindi Classics too – what a delightful experience would that be! It is also poignant that all the three are brought out, courtesy of DC Books, perhaps a venture very unique to the publishing industry in India. Had the rest of them (read Bharathan, P Bhaskaran and the likes of them Maestros) had effected the same at some point in their career, to have their screenplays kept together for future generations, this would have been a better place. I consider all three of them close to my heart and would recommend these to anyone who truly appreciates the works of the masters. Though it took three years for all the three to come around, it just didn’t matter. MT Vasudevan Nair’s Screenplays THIS IS NOT A PDF BUNDLE !

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