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Today’s SOTD features a song from ‘poi mugangaL’ (1986/ Preethi Creations) a movie that was based on Sujatha’s novel ‘kaagitha changiligaL’. The story was a heart-rending account of a young woman’s futile search for a kidney donor to save the life of her husband who is suffering from renal failure. Sujatha brought into the narration the plethora of ramifications that surround a kidney transplant and the varied experiences of hospital life. The reactions, misconceptions and reluctance of even kith and kin to donate a kidney to save the life of a young man in their family showed with stark candour how fragile human relationships are.
‘poi mugangaL’ had the Kannada actor Ravichandran in the role of the ailing Raja. Ravichandran, the son of the late film producer N. Veeraswami of “Eswari Productions’, was then an upcoming actor. Soon after ‘poi mugangaL’, he shot to stardom with his ‘prEma lOka’ (‘paruva raagam’ in Tamil). Sulakshana played Indu who wages a lone struggle to save her husband’s life. Y. G. Mahendran, Sivachandran, Arundhati, V.S. Raghavan and V. Gopalakrishnan were part of the cast. The movie was directed by C.V. Rajendran. Interestingly, during the same time, there was another attempt as well to make a movie based on ‘kaagitha changiLigaL’, but it was C.V. Rajendran’s adaptation that finally hit the screens.