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Biography of Gemini Ganeshan released
Chennai, Nov 22: At the occasion
of celebrating the artistic achievements of
actor ‘Gemini’ Ganesan, Chief Minister M.
Karunanidhi said that we should also keep in
mind that he had a reformer’s mind and rose
above narrow considerations of caste and
religion. Addressing a celebration on the 90th
birth anniversary of ‘Gemini’ Ganesan, the Chief
Minister pointed that he was a broad-minded
person and had faith in the concept of the Tamil
ideology “ondray kulam oruvanay thevan” which
means God is one. According to Mr. M.Karunanidhi,
the actor was groomed by his aunt Muthulakshmi
Reddy, who was a reformer then, fighting for the
abolition of the Devadasi system which could
have been a cause for the broad minded thinking
of this actor. Mr Karunanidhi said ‘Gemini’
Ganesan was also patriot to Tamil language and
participated in the World Tamil Conference in
Kuala Lumpur. Director K. Balachander claimed
‘Gemini’ Ganesan to be the “director’s delight”
and the advantage of posing him as a hero, was
that he trusted in the capabilities of his
director and would not interfere with the
directors ideas, instead would enhance their
thoughts in to action. Lyricist Vairamuthu said
that Gemini Ganesan was not envious of anyone
and had promoted many actors by recommending
them to producers and directors.
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Lyricist Vaali, who had close
relationship with ‘Gemini’ Ganesan and his
family, said it was the actor who introduced
Kamal Haasan to Director Balachander. He had
also convinced ‘Sivaji’ Ganesan about having
Aroor Das as dialogue writer for the film ‘Paasa
Malar’. He also added that the actor has a
helping tendency and would encourage people to
come up great and help them in needful times.
The Chief Minister released a book containing
‘Gemini’ Ganesan’s biography along with a CD.
Finally the vote of Thanks was given by ‘Gemini’
Ganesan’s daughter Dr.Kamala Selvaraj.
