Pattukkottai Prabakar is an Indian

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writer. He is known for his crime and thriller novels. Apart from print media, He is also a screenwriter for movies as well as TV. Pattukkottai Prabakar was born to Shri. V. Radhakrishnan and Smt.R.Chandra on 30 July 1958. He completed his master's in economics in St.Joseph's college,

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. He pursued his career as a writer.

Career

His debut as an author was in 1977, when his work was published in

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. He has penned 250+ short stories, 300+ novels, 85+ serial stories. More than 200 works has been published by several publishers as special edition books. A monthly magazine named A novel time was publishing only his novels. His famous works are Bharath Susila Detective series. His versatility has taken his works to other languages too. He ran ''Ungal junior'' and ''Ullasa Oonjal'' monthly magazines for ten years. He has worked as assistant director and assisted in making scripts for 2 films with director Mr. K. Bhagyaraj in ''

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'' and '' Pavunnu Pavunuthan'' He has contributed towards the script and dialogues for up to 25 Tamil films. He has also worked for ''Paramapadham'', the first Tamil-language "mega-serial" telecasted on

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. He continued to contribute on small screen mega serials.

Notable works

The detective series Bharath and Susila is the most popular novels amongst his fans. He has written more than 15 novels with only dialogues and no narration. His works like Maram and Kanavugal ilavasam are part of literature syllabus in private colleges and three M.Phil scholars have written a thesis on his writings. "Irandu vari kaviyam" is a

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book that explains each kural in two simple lines. 7 of his short stories were telecasted as single episodes in Sun TV, directed by director

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Career

Notable works

Filmography

Television

References

See also