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{{Infobox person
| name = Sakthi T. K. Krishnasamy
| image = Sakthi krishnasamy.jpg
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| birth_name = T. K. Krishnasamy
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1913|3|11}}
| birth_place = [[Thanjavur]], [[Madras Presidency]], [[British India]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1987|11|8|1913|3|11}}
| death_place = [[Chennai]], [[Tamil Nadu]], India
| othername =
| yearsactive = 1950s–1970s
| website =
| notable role =
| occupation = Screenwriter, lyricist
}}
'''Sakthi T. K. Krishnasamy''' was an Indian screenwriter and lyricist in [[Tamil films]] from the 1950s through the 1970s.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nadigarthilagam.com/filmographyp6.htm |title=filmography p6 |website=www.nadigarthilagam.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Sakthi Krishnasamy|url=http://www.saregama.com/portal/pages/artist?mode=get_details_by_name&artistName=SAKTHI+KRISHNASAMY|website=[[Saregama]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Filmography|url=http://www.nadigarthilagam.com/filmographyp17.htm|website=Nadigar Thilagam}}</ref> He wrote stories, screenplay and dialogue for films starring [[M. G. Ramachandran]] and [[Sivaji Ganesan]].<ref name="dinakaran">{{cite web|title=என்.எஸ்.கே. நாடக சபாவில் நடந்த சிக்கல்!|url=http://www.dinakaran.com/ws/vellimalardetail.aspx?id=203|website=[[Dinakaran]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=A doyen among actors|url=http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl1816/18161130.htm|website=The Hindu}}</ref> He has authored historical, mythological and social Tamil films spanning over 3 decades. He was considered one of the best film script writers of Tamil Cinema, and was hailed as such by noted screenwriters like [[C. N. Annadurai]] and [[M. Karunanidhi]] publicly. His most acclaimed works are [[Veerapandiya Kattabomman (film)|Veerapandiya Kattabomman]] and [[Karnan (1963 film)|Karnan]].<ref>" புராணக் கதைகளைத் திரைப்படமாக்கும் முறையினின்று மாற்றி, சமூகக் கதைகளைக் கொண்டு வந்த பெருமை சக்தி கிருஷ்ணசாமிக்கு உரியது. வீரபாண்டியக் கட்டபொம்மன் திரைப்படத்திற்கு வீரவசனம் எழுதிய பெருமை இவருக்கு உண்டு." translation: The credit for changing the trend of making mythological films to films with social themes belongs to Sakthi Krishnasamy. He is also the one who wrote the blistering dialogues for Veerapandiya Kattabomman. [http://www.tamilvu.org/courses/degree/a051/a0514/html/a051435.htm]</ref>

== Career ==
[[File:Sakthi Krishnasamy Annadurai Sivaji.jpg|thumb|Sakthi TK Krishnasamy with the then [[List of chief ministers of Tamil Nadu|Tamil Nadu CM]] [[C. N. Annadurai|C.N. Annadurai]] and [[Sivaji Ganesan]]]]
Sakthi Krishnasamy began his literary career as a playwright and ran his own drama troupe called ''Sakthi Nataka Sabha''.<ref name=dinakaran /> His first play was staged at the Nagapattinam Baby Theatre and from then on he continued to write a wide variety of plays. Bhayankari was a James-Bond type thriller while Vidhi was a love story. He was one of the earliest to have three different stages set up and when the scene was over in one the action would shift to another stage by the side. One of his most popular plays was Kaviyin Kanavu. Sakthi's plays were so popular that the Railways ran "Sakthi" special trains from Trichy to Nagapattinam and Trichy to Kumbakonam when they were staged.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/The-power-of-the-pen/article12190424.ece |title=The power of the pen |first=Mohan V. |last=Raman |date=8 April 2013 |via=www.thehindu.com}}</ref> Many artistes from his troupe like Sivaji Ganesan, [[V. K. Ramaswamy (actor)|V. K. Ramasamy]], S. V. Subbiah and A. P. Nagarajan went on to become noted actors in the [[Tamil films|Tamil film]] industry. The troupe consisted of about 60 members. Every member of the cast had to learn the lines of all characters in the plays as they played different roles every day. [[M. N. Nambiar]], another member of the troupe also made his breakthrough into films after his performance in one of the plays impressed a producer<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-fridayreview/As-Nambiar-bids-farewell-%E2%80%A6/article15400864.ece |title=As Nambiar bids farewell … |date=21 November 2008 |via=www.thehindu.com}}</ref> [[File:Sivaji Kalingar Sakthi .jpg|thumb|right|Sivaji Ganesan, [[M. Karunanidhi|Kalingar Karunanidhi]], Sakthi TK Krishnasamy (100th day film function)]]

Sakthi Krishnasamy first wrote ''Veerapandiya Kattabomman'' as a stage play in 1957. The play was staged all over [[Tamil Nadu]] and received critical acclaim and commercial success.<ref>{{cite web|date=January 2010|title=Tamil News|url=http://www.maalaimalar.com/2010/01/19105234/sivaji.html|website=[[Maalaimalar]]}}</ref> It was made into a highly successful film two years later, with Sivaji Ganesan in the lead and Sakthi Krishnasamy handling the script and dialogues. Sakthi Krishnasamy's powerful dialogues played a large part in its success.<ref>"..appeared as a movie in 1959, a film which was a box-office hit. This film is still widely available – as script, video, and cassette – and several Tamilians can quote extracts from its dialogue. In brief, today Kattabomman is a household name."[https://books.google.com/books?ei=tJ8JTZy2F8eIrAfuovzUDg&ct=result&id=O51IAAAAYAAJ&dq=kattabomman+dialogue&q=Ramaswamy+#search_anchor Contributions to Indian sociology, Volume 30; p.1256]</ref> The film won awards in the Second Afro-Asian Film Festival at [[Cairo]] (1960) for best acting, music and a special jury award.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iTvjAAAAMAAJ&q=kattabomman+cairo+festival&dq=kattabomman+cairo+festival&hl=en&ei=dp4JTcT-NMimrAeO5ITVDg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAQ |title=The Indian Review |first=G. A. |last=Natesan |date=23 August 1960 |publisher=G.A. Natesan & Company |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.100488 |quote=kattabomman cairo festival. |title=India: A Reference Annual |date=23 August 1961 |publisher=Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> In Tamil movie industry, his Veerapandiya Kattabomman film dialogues are still used as aspiring actors' auditioning test script. Many of the other films for which Sakthi Krishnasamy wrote the story and screenplay, were box office hits.

Apart from writing screenplays for many popular Tamil films, he was also a lyricist for a number of movies in the 60s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Raaga.com – A World Of Music|url=http://www.raaga.com/channels/tamil/moviedetail.asp?mid=T0001537|website=[[Raaga.com]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.hindu.com/fr/2008/10/10/stories/2008101051340100.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013083524/http://www.hindu.com/fr/2008/10/10/stories/2008101051340100.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 October 2008 |location=Chennai, India |work=[[The Hindu]] |title=A conscious shift |date=10 October 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=February 2008|title=Karna - 1964|url=http://www.earlytollywood.com/2008/02/karna-1964.html|access-date=11 April 2013|publisher=earlytollywood.com}}</ref>

He was a Gandhian, who Patron for more than 30 years for the Mahatma Gandhi Library in Saidapet for the economically weak and helped it grow from 20 books to 20,000 books in his lifetime. He died after a brief illness on 8 November 1987.

== Notable Filmography ==
*[[Velaikaran (1952 film)|Velaikaran]] (1952)
* [[Ambikapathy (1957 film)|Ambikapathy]] (1957)
* [[Veerapandiya Kattabomman (film)|Veerapandiya Kattabomman]] (1959)<ref>{{Harvnb|Anandan|2004| pp=28:105}}</ref>
* Thozhan (1960)<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-07-11|title=Thozhan|url=http://www.gallatta.com/entertainment/oldmovies/oldmoviedetails/year/1960/name/Thozhan.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711070415/http://www.gallatta.com/entertainment/oldmovies/oldmoviedetails/year/1960/name/Thozhan.html|archive-date=11 July 2011|access-date=2020-08-29|website=Gallatta}}</ref>
* [[Aalukkoru Veedu]] (1960)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kollywood - Aalukkoru Veedu|url=http://www.jointscene.com/movies/Kollywood/Aalukkoru_Veedu/4107|access-date=2020-08-29|website=Jointscene.com}}</ref>
* [[Karnan (1963 film)|Karnan]] (1963)
* [[Arunagirinathar (film)|Arunagirinathar]] (1964)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.muzigle.com/album/arunagirinathar |title=GuruSwara Home | guruswara.com |publisher=Muzigle |access-date=11 April 2013}}</ref>
* Sangili Devan<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.als.net.in/movies/sangili_devan.html |title=:: ALS Productions :: |publisher=Als.net.in |date=27 May 1960 |access-date=11 April 2013}}</ref>
* [[Periya Idathu Penn]] (1963)<ref>{{Harvnb|Anandan|2004| pp=28:123}}</ref>
* [[Kungumam (film)|Kungumam]] (1963)
* [[Panakkara Kudumbam]] (1964)
* [[Padagotti]] (1964)<ref>{{Harvnb|Anandan|2004| pp=28:125}}</ref>
* [[Nee (film)|Nee]] (1965)
* [[Enga Veettu Pillai]] (1965)<ref>{{Harvnb|Anandan|2004| pp=28:126}}</ref>
* [[Panam Padaithavan]] (1965)<ref>{{Harvnb|Anandan|2004| pp=28:129}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thamizhisai.com/tamil-cinema/tamil-cinema-001/panam-padaiththavan.php |title=The land of Songs Music and performing Arts |publisher=Thamizhisai |access-date=11 April 2013}}</ref>
* [[Parakkum Paavai]] (1966)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thamizhisai.com/tamil-cinema/tamil-cinema-002/parakkum-paavai.php |title=The land of Songs Music and performing Arts |publisher=Thamizhisai |access-date=11 April 2013}}</ref>
* [[Thanga Surangam]] (1969)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Thanga Surangam|url=http://www.jointscene.com/movies/kollywood/Thanga_Surangam/5537|access-date=2020-08-29|website=Jointscene.com}}</ref>
*[[Sorgam]] (1970)
* [[Dharmam Engey]] (1972)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Dharmam Enge|url=http://www.jointscene.com/movies/Kollywood/Dharmam_Enge/6013|access-date=2020-08-29|website=Jointscene.com}}</ref>
* [[Ponnunjal]] (1973)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ponnunjal|url=http://www.jointscene.com/tamil-movies/ponnunjal/websites.html|access-date=2020-08-29|website=Jointscene.com}}</ref>
* [[Ennai Pol Oruvan]] (1978)<ref>{{Cite web|title=Sakthi Krishna Sami|url=http://www.jointscene.com/artists/Kollywood/Sakthi_Krishna_Sami/7850|access-date=2020-08-29|website=Jointscene.com}}</ref>
* [[Punniya Boomi]] (1978)

== Awards ==
* [[Kalaimamani]] Award from Tamil Nadu State Government<ref>{{Harvnb|Anandan|2004| pp=11:6}}</ref>
* Best Tamil Dialogues Writer award given by Government of India for the film Karnan

== Further reading ==
* http://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/the-power-of-the-pen/article4594630.ece

== References ==
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== Bibliography ==
* {{cite book |first="Film News" |last=Anandan |year=2004 |title=Sadhanaigal padaitha Tamil Thiraipada Varalaaru (A history of record making Tamil films) |publisher=Sivagami Publications |location=Chennai |language=ta }}

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