Director K. Subrahmanyam", as he was always known, was a lawyer turned pioneer of South Indian Cinema, a staunch Congressmen of the Gandhian vintage, a freedom fighter who risked his investment in films by advocating the cause of freedom in his films, a social activist who developed leftist learnings after independence, a "Star maker" and much more. His most renowned Tamil film Thyagabhoomi (1939) has the distinction of being the only Indian film ...
