and dialogue writing. His skills in crafting the dialogue for any conceivable character are noteworthy in Kollywood and his dialogues in Nayakan and Baasha are still popular and widely used. Surprisingly, he believed movies ware just a means to lift him from the lower middle-class to the upper middle-class. "For a writer of novels, cinema dialogues come easily because our mind has already been conditioned to think while writing novels." Some of Balakumaran novel names have been used in Tamil cinema as movie titles - Idharkuthane Aasaipattai Balakumara, Irumbu Kuthirai which are samples of Balakumaran's popularity. He directed the 1988 K. Bhagyaraj starrer film 'Idhu Namma Aalu'. List of the films to which Balakumaran contributed: Writer Nayakan (1987) Guna (1991) Shenbagathottam (1991) Gentleman (1993) Kadhalan (1994) Kizhakku Malai (1995) Ragasiya Police (1995) Baasha (1995) Sivasakthi (1996) Ullaasam (1997) Velai (1998) Jeans (1998) Mugavaree (2000) Uyirile Kalanthathu (2000) Citizen (2001) Majnu (2001) Kadhal Sadugudu (2003) Adhu (2004) Jananam (2004) Manmadhan (2004) Vallavan (2006) Pudhupettai (2006) Literary works Epic on Rajendra Cholan Monthly Novels on various themes.. Awards Literary Awards won : Irumbu Kudhiraigal – Raja Sir Annamalai Chettiyar Trust Awards Mercury Pookal – Illakkiya Sindhanai Awards Kadarpalam – State Award (II Prize) (Short Story Collection) Sugajeevanam – State Award (I Prize) (short story collection) Cinema Awards Won : Guna – Cinema Express Award Kaadalan – Tamil Nadu State Film Award for Best Dialogue Writer Other Awards : Honoured with "Sindhanai Chemmal" title (From Lions Club Madras) Kalaimaamani Award from Government of Tamil Nadu See also List of Indian writers References External links Official Site Official Blog Balakumaran Thoughts 1946 births 2018 deaths Tamil-language writers Tamil screenwriters Indian male novelists People from Thanjavur district 20th-century Indian novelists Indian male short story writers Screenwriters from Tamil Nadu 20th-century Indian short story writers Novelists from Tamil Nadu 20th-century Indian male writers