The actor M.G.Ramachandran's insistence on this government servant writing dialogues for his film "Deiva Thaai" in 1964 led to his first foray into films. This man died in Dec 2014, after an acclaimed career on stage and film, but will also be remembered for the number of people he introduced to those worlds.
Who?
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The director K.Balachander.
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